This is a PIPE Dream that is not gonna happen anytime soon they cannot find quality help that will even stay and weather condintions and no eniroment controled atmosphere play a role in this just as much as they lack of pay why work a cold as **** ass dock with no heat when you can go down the road make 6 dollars an hr more in a heated and cooled envoroment this is just not gonna happen !
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Everyone else (with a few exceptions) has figured out how to get line drivers off the dock, XPO will as well. It's not like the driver will be losing anything, he'll be in the truck driving more miles. When OD eliminated drivers working the dock (no doubt on a smaller scale) it happened almost overnight. Care to guess who the executive was that made that policy?
Ya have to live in the South to really understand ..
Now we're talking.
lmfao how we gonna get more miles our runs are set from terminal to terminal what they gonna magically move them out a little further ?
No but you'll go on to the next terminal further, or pick trailers up and run a short haul from wherever you used to work the dock. L your FA off all you want, this is how freight gets moved in the modern world. Con-way no longer exists.
Correct, big changes in the works
A few years ago I ran into a OD LH driver and ask what his run was. He ran from OD in Carlisle, Pa to the OD in Allentown, PA. twice a night. That's 103 miles one way, per google, for a 412 mile night plus drop and hooks and fuel and NO dock work.
Buying these terminals is going to have big changes to many XPO employees. Many will have to relocate (if they choose) layoff's, furloughs ect. The curse of Yellow will continue on with making life's miserable through change of operation(s)....
So are you saying that businesses should never change and adapt and just stay the way they are because any changes might inconvenience or upset some workers?
How well did it work for yrc -yellow? How much money was wasted on each change, and everyone of them failed miserably. I'm not saying change isn't needed in some cases but 28 facilities and probably more to follow is going to disrupt a lot of lifes. Im sure some terminals are over capacity & need a bigger place, but if do all 28+ your going to have a lot of unhappy workers and will result in performance and it will effect the bottom line. Watch this board because it's going to be very busy in the coming months....
Companies adapt to changing conditions or else they become irrelevant. Good companies always try to have a contented, happy workforce but that's not the primary reason for their existence. I understand that and have adapted to changing conditions more times than most. Too many seem to feel that nothing should ever disturb their comfortable situation.
What’s the distance between both terminals?
I agree . It’s a race to the bottom. How low can we go and still operate.
5.6 miles according to Google.
could happen
