Someone posted that the moral has improved. Not at my yard.
We aren't a big terminal, but about 1/4 or our driver and other staff have applied with FedEx National. 2 drivers are already gone in the last 2 weeks.
-A big factor in this is that they are paying about $3.50 more an hour. R+L needs to put those of us hired in the last year and a half on the same pay scale as everyone else.
-Also Corp has been really pushing stops per hour. We get told about a few drivers with good numbers and asked why cant you do this. They dont take into account the differences in routes. These drivers tend to have a smaller area and dont get stuck with slow or bulk deliveries.
-Out terminal manager also has no people skills. He doesn't know how to talk to people and like to yell at some. We had a driver call him yesterday to put his 2 week notice in. He was hung up on, so the driver called back and said F this and went ahead and quit right then.
I came to R+L with intentions of making this a place of long term employment, but now I really question that and I'm not the only one. They need to realize they are losing good, well experienced drivers and word travels. Future drivers, with good experience will start avoiding applying here. They will be stuck having to use lots of temps and hire Swift drivers.
I really like it here and damn near everyone I work with, but wish they would just fix these couple problems.
We aren't a big terminal, but about 1/4 or our driver and other staff have applied with FedEx National. 2 drivers are already gone in the last 2 weeks.
-A big factor in this is that they are paying about $3.50 more an hour. R+L needs to put those of us hired in the last year and a half on the same pay scale as everyone else.
-Also Corp has been really pushing stops per hour. We get told about a few drivers with good numbers and asked why cant you do this. They dont take into account the differences in routes. These drivers tend to have a smaller area and dont get stuck with slow or bulk deliveries.
-Out terminal manager also has no people skills. He doesn't know how to talk to people and like to yell at some. We had a driver call him yesterday to put his 2 week notice in. He was hung up on, so the driver called back and said F this and went ahead and quit right then.
I came to R+L with intentions of making this a place of long term employment, but now I really question that and I'm not the only one. They need to realize they are losing good, well experienced drivers and word travels. Future drivers, with good experience will start avoiding applying here. They will be stuck having to use lots of temps and hire Swift drivers.
I really like it here and damn near everyone I work with, but wish they would just fix these couple problems.
