FIRE IN THE WIRE
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O.k ladies & gents on the linehaul board i've pretty much seen it all as far as linehaul is concerned but here we go again getting slapped in freaking face again. I've been seeing sleeper contractors pull our pups & dollies like crazy across the i-80 lane. From p.a to iowa. Has anyone else caught eye of this? I seen hill bros this morning pulling a set. Some company called linehaul something or whatever too! I mean first it was the purchase cantractors with their own trailers pulling our freight but now this! Wtf! They'll always preach & use that excuse that there's a imbalance in that lane that they're using them in but in my opinion there should'nt be as many imbalanced lanes now like b4 due to the merger. I understand more customers are now shipping using the economy service more than priority unless u run out of a satellite terminal then most would be priority. From what i heard the ceo of our fedex freight division comes from either ground or express & that's all they've used or use in those div are contractors. So i guess they carry our vir booklet too for pre & post trip write ups!? Nice! So we have drivers on the low end of the board sitting at home struggling for work too! This company is getting too big that's why the union is after us. All i'm saying is that if the company keep on treating it's workers like crap you'll have a un-educated crowd that knows nothing about the union or the history of the union start firing up & raising eyebrows. I don't root for that organization but i don't want to get pulled in just because of a majority vote. We're the #1 non-union ltl company out.....those corporate geeks that've never drove a 5 axle in their life see #'s.....i see work being taken from us. Hell our mileage scale should be atleast be somewhere close up with ups's linehaul mileage drivers. This a multi-billion dollar company there's no union sucking us dry...so what's the excuse!? Hell if we got these sleeper trucks from national then why don't we use em for what their for. I'm just lost for words right now guys & a lil disappointed but it's not the first...........bleak future.