One other point, Brother Car/ABF Lifer......there really isn't a large pool of drivers who are qualified to get hired. If your idea was implemented,...I would imagine about 80 to 90% of the applicants would come from non-Union LTL carriers,...or our brothers from YRC, looking to get back to full rated pay and pension. Processing this bunch would proceed nowhere near as fast as the attrition rate of drivers leaving ABF under your buyout plan if it was done company-wide and across the board. Don't forget....the average age of a driver with a CDL-A, HAZ-MAT, Doubles-Triples, Tanker...is 55. Mass exodus in many terminals....with no way to quickly replace the departed employees....which, in turn would wreak mass confusion across the entire industry, as non-Union, and YRC, and laid-off guys getting a call-back, will all be "adjusting" their employment at the same time. There has never been an "apprentice"...or training program to provide a steady stream of minimally qualified drivers to the LTL industry. For the past 20 years, every carrier waited for the next LTL carrier to go out of business....and that was their trained new-hire pool to hire out of. That really doesn't exist anymore, and LTL drivers are getting kind of scarce. ABF will offer a contract that will keep ALL of us,...either economically or otherwise...in the industry for as long as they can keep us. They want us to retire one at a time...not in a group. Too hard to replace the group......all at once.