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hooty said:
I feel ya, drivah. If it does, there will be several who will call in to say "I would like to take tonight off to let some of the bottom work."
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Ain't it cool how they get generous when it's snowing or they are scared to drive? :biglaugh:
 
Jeff said:
Ain't it cool how they get generous when it's snowing or they are scared to drive? :biglaugh:
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You know spring is just around the corner and I could use a new club or two and you just convinced me to sign up for extra runs on the week ends till times get better. This might make up taking off for bad weather oh wait staying home pays just as well as working with no stress guess I'll just take the extra money to spend frivolously.
 
train said:
You know spring is just around the corner and I could use a new club or two and you just convinced me to sign up for extra runs on the week ends till times get better. This might make up taking off for bad weather oh wait staying home pays just as well as working with no stress guess I'll just take the extra money to spend frivolously.
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You won't hurt me.... I don't work on weekends
 
Jeff said:
Ain't it cool how they get generous when it's snowing or they are scared to drive? :biglaugh:
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42 on that drivah! I guess I shouldn't look at it that way but I do wish some of these fella would take off when the pavement was dry too. Be sweet to get 3 nights in at least 2 weeks a month.
 
Loose_Canon wrote:

Couldn't you have signed HGR and worked everyday?
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I could have taken the last spot at HGR. But that driver is not working every day. I still make at least the same amount as that driver when I work fewer days a week, because when I do run it is usually further in miles plus dock work. Last week I went to POS twice and YNG once. POS is 126 each way and YNG is 279 each way. Plus I had dock work of about two to three hours at POS each night. Not to mention that in the last spot in HGR, you almost always never get to run a via anywhere. You are simply too far down. We have five drivers that go to HGR. And the miles are only 78 each way. I still like the extra board better.
 
jdk_1600 said:
Loose_Canon wrote:



I could have taken the last spot at HGR. But that driver is not working every day. I still make at least the same amount as that driver when I work fewer days a week, because when I do run it is usually further in miles plus dock work. Last week I went to POS twice and YNG once. POS is 126 each way and YNG is 279 each way. Plus I had dock work of about two to three hours at POS each night. Not to mention that in the last spot in HGR, you almost always never get to run a via anywhere. You are simply too far down. We have five drivers that go to HGR. And the miles are only 78 each way. I still like the extra board better.
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well that was your choice atleast you had one.with all the threads you"ve written you would have thought the sky was falling.you guys go on vias at least 3 to 4 times a week out of hgr and good ones at that.so we now dont have to here you cry anymore about no work because you could have taken a bid and if you were cancled you go to the extraboard any way.:loser::loser:
 
Being on the extra board is better than going to HGR in the last spot in my experience. I tend to get more miles and spend less time on the patio. I never complained. I've always wanted to stay on the extra board. One night to YNG is almost a week of driving to HGR.
 
jdk_1600 said:
Being on the extra board is better than going to HGR in the last spot in my experience. I tend to get more miles and spend less time on the patio. I never complained. I've always wanted to stay on the extra board. One night to YNG is almost a week of driving to HGR.
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I guess you need to go back and reread your own words.You did nothing but cry about the road drivers not feeling the pain yet you are one. And complained about not working but only 2 times a week.You just said that you went for unemployment,what last week.My point being you could of took a solid bid and worked rather than take chance on xtra.It is rather ironic how some people talk on here and then when you find out who they are or what they are all about you see there true colors.Oh yeah buy the way you just missed out on the layoff i see.i hope the guys from yrc dont find that out.:loser:
 
sliver said:
Is that train for real
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Oh yeah I'm for real. Let's look at it this way if I stay home and let you work on a day of bad weather you just might if you are good ( in A bob a looie way) parly that into two days work or just maybe a couple of paid days in a motel. That would be 8hrs out of every 24. So see we are really looking out for you. Reminds me of the story of Bob and Ray, these two guys were put to work digging ditches. Well Ol Bob was just leaning on his shovel (pc) telling Ray, who was digging away at that ditch like a cat with loose bowel sydrome, how "One day I'm going to run this company, yes sir one of these days!" Well about five years later up pulls Ray in his brand new super crew cab truck, unloads three or four guys and commences to direct these guys , dig here, build here and so on. mean while Ol Bob is still leaning on his shovel saying, "You know one of these days....."
 
I'd like to see a few more of the senior road drivers take a day off occationally to allow others to work. We have some out of our hub who take off a couple days a week to help out and then we have those who run 650 miles a day and sign the Saturday list. I try to take a day off once a week or so, man I wish some of the others would. Proudly, we have some drivers that are very vocal on the subject, way to go HOUNDDOG.
 
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