I must agree with what you say, but in retrospect, there's no drivers i know here at Yellow, Roadway or USF that wants to see YRC fail. As can you read here, the drivers are trying to keep YRC ecomically healthy, otherwise a subpar contract like the NMFA would not have passed. I personally voted NO on this contract, but it is what it is & it is passed & we now have to live by it. We can't stay in competition with other LTL companies when management NOT the drivers make the most ignorant decisions & then get compensated multi-million dollar bonuses. When we as drivers were polled on what we wanted in this NMFA contract, H&W was top, followed by a sured up pension, job security & then wage increases. YRC wants to run this company similiar to the way FedEx, UPS & Conway run their's, but don't have the know how, nor do they want to put the right personnel in place to do this. This company brass REFUSE to listen to good logic & keep throwing ideas out that don't work, & its not because of the Union. I have seen the Union bend over backwords to help this company (sometimes i think to much) & yet the company continues to lunge towards stupid decisions. YRC "WILL" eventually move into the 21st century & get it right, they have to or it will be to late. Whether it means making a change at the top or bringing in the right people. I honestly believe the drivers are not the problem & neither is the Union, the problem lies solely on the people at the top. Besides, whether your Union or not, YRC needs to stay as a leader in this business, if our H&W, pension, & wages decrease, so will the non-unions. Whether non-union drivers want to believe it or not, the reason non-union drivers at the FedEx's, Conway's, etc... are making the wages they are, are because of the Union. If this Union company fails, unfortunately the quality of life the big non-union drivers have now, will also diminish & we will all become "Concrete Slaves" attached to a whipping post.