The 3 road men and the 4 city men are all back from lay off. We are covered up and I hope it stays this busy for a long, long time. They are saying that we are starting a major account around the 1st.
The wave is history in IN starting next week.
I heard somewhere here on this board that ME did it and also got rid of it.
I didn't know LO was doing it too. Here they actually got a committee together made up of drivers and dockmen to give suggestions on the new bids. Now there are very few combination bids and those that are are dock/area or dock/customer. They usually hang the bids for a week then bid for a week then maybe even have a week before the new bids start. Now it's 3 days of bidding starting today and the new bids start Monday.
I haven't heard any complaining, the current bids aren't working.
RUMOR: I was told that Friday is going to be bad for people with little time at Holland. Many, many line haul bids were going away and some city too. I hope everybody can tell me how wrong my info was next week.
I HEAR THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE THAT DHL IS BUYING THE BIG THREE HOLLAND ROADWAY AND YELLOW
The problem with the bids here is that they want to work people 12-14 hours a day and by Thursday and Friday people run out of hours to drive. They leave on Friday on 8 hours since thats all they have left on their 60 for the week so they can drive Monday. The sad part is I don't think they understand what they are trying to do either! Things will change after April 1st, 2007.
Benny, April 1 has already come and gone, so I'm not sure what that means, but I'll tell you how we do it out west. Unfortunately, we work where the corp HQ is, better known as the crystal palace The palace has a set bph(bills per hour), that a driver should do. Last time I checked it was around 2.8 They see how many bills they have to deliver that day, and tell dispatch they can only use a certain amount of drivers. Since they stopped caring about the amount of undelivered freight, so did I. I have seen more customers go elsewhere than I ever thought possible. The only thing I worry about now is if my retirement time clock can beat their USF destruction time clock. Currently they are winning.
I have heard the stories from back east and it feels like we are the next "Preston" on their agenda.
I can't spel, reed or rite very much well either, lol.
Wow for some reason I thought you were right on the year, this year flew by. Apparently I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer either.
we had record setting day friday at ay .end of month and quater