manegment vs. work ethic?? i would say we still operated management wise like npme up untill about a year ago when last npme guy running the show was forced out by new outside president. he brought some number crunching bean counter in and it hasnt been the same since.we now worry about load average more than o/r or makein money and takeing care of customers. we advertise best in northeast at next day, yet hold freight, dont work city loads at night, have cut times, and do everthing that over night carriers dont do. or we never did before. so much for that yrc code of conduct huh..,,tell the world one thing but do another. very dishonest i would say, im not naive but than before when we said were the best at next day in northeast, we really were. as you can see i pretty much hate what yrc and there incometence has done to my company. that being said i have always given 100% and still do.we still have a handfull at every terminal, management and teamsters, that still knows the npme ways and has a next day mind set for the job. and continues to plug away hopeing to retire. now though we are lucky to get 1 out of 10 applicants that turn out to be good employees and hard workers im sure just like holland. they pretty much hire all that pass the **** test and have valid cdl. .and now advertise for full time dock workers at most terminals. and of course 4 hour part time. for 11$ an hr. 25 yrs ago to work at npme you had to have cdl peroid. kind of like the perfect storm, new management clowns telling 20 plus year mangement left at npme how to do it or be fired and they have fired a bunch. so u can imagine that job loyalty,and with the new generation of trucking cdls they try to hire at crap wages , cant totally blame one side or another except we can all blame yrc for the total bloated management bureaucracy we now have to live under or quit.
: sandwiches. I got sick and tired of hearing over and over again "That's not the way we do it Blah Blah Idaho" along time ago. They could care less about moving freight and servicing the customer. It's all about load factor, bills per hour and stops per hour. In almost 30 years I've never seen our freight volumes so low and freight take so long to get to the customer. I actually get excited when I get to deliver freight on time, but it doesn't have very often. The higher ups are so preoccupied with making our company name disappear and change every aspect of the way we did business to model the way they do things in the US that the customers have given up hope and moved their freight to other carriers. We were once admired as one of the best expedite companies to the west, now we're lucky if we can even get enough freight to fill a pup to each terminal out west. All of our previous management team, from the president down to supervisors and dispatchers, some of which had been with the company for 40 years were tossed out and replaced with outside "fresh minds" who had little or no freight experience, but follow orders to the T for fear of losing their jobs. I've heard it many times to management from their bosses "DO IT THE WAY I TOLD YOU OR I'LL FIND SOMEONE WHO WILL" You have to love the rule by intimidation philosophy of these arrogant pricks. We once made a handsome profit when owned by Roadway, now we make a lot less profit because we move about a quarter of what we once did and it's usually late or damaged when it gets to the customer. I guess I should be lucky that I still have a job. It's hard to believe they have destroyed so many companies to feed their egos that they have all the know how about how to run a trucking company. Lord knows that they refuse to listen to the people that do this every day and have the knowledge to make the company profitable again.
