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CEO Mr. Jacobs......Brad. May I call you Brad? Thank you. So....Brad it's time to sell XPO to the mutual benefit of all of us. It's obvious that you hate owning an LTL since it appears you're investing little to no money in maintaining the equipment. The fleet is going to hell Brad while you fiddle. You must hate owning an LTL because of the hateful person you have put in charge of running it, the infamous, X-YRC boss, Tony Brooks. May I call you Tony, sir? Thank you. Tony, I'm hearing from the sales people that you aren't paying damage claims. Is that anyway to run a business, sir? And claims continue to mount. Speaking for my barn, I've not seen our OSD area this full....ever, for as long as I've worked here.....nearly 15 years. Conway wasn't perfect, but they didn't screw over customers the way you allow this company to. Oh, and Brad you're not without blame either as you apparently condone the behavior of Tony, I mean you did hire him back for a second stint after you fired him the first time. Isn't that like taking back an x-wife? Let's talk about the Teamsters for a minute.....two barns have a contract now and you know more is coming. I'm confident that you want nothing to do with the Teamsters and certainly you've been pondering the idea of selling off LTL more than you ever had in the past. So do it! Do it now, do it quickly, do it while there is still some semblance left of a trucking company so the new owners don't go bankrupt repairing all the equipment you've let go to hell. And for God's sake for once in your life Brad, please have a heart. Please understand that us poor little hourly and lower management types depend on our jobs with this company for our lively hoods, we don't have the same options at are our fingertips that you do to control our fate. Thanks for reading this Brad and please enjoy this song as there's a message in it I want you to hear.
 
You were doing fine until you got to have a heart part.

If Brad was a addict he will hollow the company out until there is nothing left to liquidate into pleasure for whatever Brad likes to do in his own time away from all the employees prying into his ::shit::.

It is my experience that some company bosses do not have a heart. They will eliminate 10 drivers to stop bleeding money on a few cut trailer tires. Try to get them to spend a dollar to improve anything and you will understand why they are so difficult and impossible.

If the drivers leave, move on to other greener pastures leaving Brad and company to contemplate a rusting yard full of rotting buildings, falling down trucks and a potholed pavement that is unusesable then maybe they will understand that they have control of a failed company. A complete and utter failure in every way

Because they cannot have a heart or be bothered to spend a dollar outside of their personal vices.

On the other side of the coin, you can blame the collective board or powers that be for paying all the Brads a stupid amount of money for the chance to desiccate and dehydrate a working company until it is dead and of no value.

And if the Drivers know that things are downhill and getting worse? Why are you still with them?
 
Part two.

Some people in life cannot stop. We have a particular set of individuals who owned a trucking company that was ultimately forced out of existence by FMCSA, DOT, State of PA on down. Their authority was nuked, the property invalidated and so on. Poof no more company or anything.

Fast forward 15 years. Just when you think most people have forgotten, these same individuals go to a nearby state and reestablish a trucking company with a minor change in it's name and authority etc Only it failed utterly when that state checked each of the petitioners and discovered that they already have been down that road until they were completely and without recourse removed from the Trucking Industry.

So that state denied everything, nuked the new authority and started proceedings to prosecute on a variety of charges.

If this was Soviet Russia, People who do not do anything different than what they have done over and over again usually get a bullet. And that is that. However this is America. If you don't like your company, you can always form a Coop, pool all of your monies and buy it outright via hostile takeover or any manner of legal routes to ownership.

When you own the place lock stock and barrel, your first duty at 8:01 am is to call Brad into your office and fire his ass.
 
ScotchNeat said:
CEO Mr. Jacobs......Brad. May I call you Brad? Thank you. So....Brad it's time to sell XPO to the mutual benefit of all of us. It's obvious that you hate owning an LTL since it appears you're investing little to no money in maintaining the equipment. The fleet is going to hell Brad while you fiddle. You must hate owning an LTL because of the hateful person you have put in charge of running it, the infamous, X-YRC boss, Tony Brooks. May I call you Tony, sir? Thank you. Tony, I'm hearing from the sales people that you aren't paying damage claims. Is that anyway to run a business, sir? And claims continue to mount. Speaking for my barn, I've not seen our OSD area this full....ever, for as long as I've worked here.....nearly 15 years. Conway wasn't perfect, but they didn't screw over customers the way you allow this company to. Oh, and Brad you're not without blame either as you apparently condone the behavior of Tony, I mean you did hire him back for a second stint after you fired him the first time. Isn't that like taking back an x-wife? Let's talk about the Teamsters for a minute.....two barns have a contract now and you know more is coming. I'm confident that you want nothing to do with the Teamsters and certainly you've been pondering the idea of selling off LTL more than you ever had in the past. So do it! Do it now, do it quickly, do it while there is still some semblance left of a trucking company so the new owners don't go bankrupt repairing all the equipment you've let go to hell. And for God's sake for once in your life Brad, please have a heart. Please understand that us poor little hourly and lower management types depend on our jobs with this company for our lively hoods, we don't have the same options at are our fingertips that you do to control our fate. Thanks for reading this Brad and please enjoy this song as there's a message in it I want you to hear.
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vanilla fudge's version is better in my mind or what's left of it
 
ScotchNeat said:
while there is still some semblance left of a trucking company so the new owners don't go bankrupt repairing
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I have been saying this for a while . At some point of time someone will have to rebuild what he’s destroyed. Who will be asked to pay for that ? I give you one guess. ( 2 terminals will be insulated from those give backs) Everyone is looking at the gains when it come to contracts . Maybe their just protecting what they have . Ahhh.
 
OV-10 said:
They left you out because they already got your hook line and sinker. They don’t need to convince you of anything. Lol
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Wow coming from someone who bought there BS for 31yrs...Last I heard you XPH driver were to chicken sh1t to fill out the last survey...Went crying to the union because you had to enter your badge number....
 
Fly-by-night said:
Wow coming from someone who bought there BS for 31yrs...Last I heard you XPH driver were to chicken sh1t to fill out the last survey...Went crying to the union because you had to enter your badge number....
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We haven’t seen a survey since we went Union. If Xpo is making you put your employe number on a survey it’s more to gauge the temperature for unionization then anything else. Gives them a head start of who to focus on if it becomes a problem at your barn. Other than that if you think Jacobs gives a rats ass what you think your a bigger fool than I thought.
 
They did give us the results of the last one and was believable, pretty much 50’s or below across the board. And there’s the rub, not one change! The only effort or consistency is damages and messaging that the company and employees communicate and make positive changes without a third party lmfao!
 
1984Sideways said:
If the drivers leave, move on to other greener pastures leaving Brad and company to contemplate a rusting yard full of rotting buildings, falling down trucks and a potholed pavement that is unusesable then maybe they will understand that they have control of a failed company. A complete and utter failure in every way
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Funny you mention that. Our facility has to be the most run down pile of crap I've ever seen. Mgmt always says they're going to do stuff and it's "approved" and then nothing happens. At this point all you can do is shake your head and say wow.

Out of curiosity are there any nice barns in the system?
 
DaBears6 said:
Funny you mention that. Our facility has to be the most run down pile of crap I've ever seen. Mgmt always says they're going to do stuff and it's "approved" and then nothing happens. At this point all you can do is shake your head and say wow.

Out of curiosity are there any nice barns in the system?
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Listen to some here and they will tell you their equipment and buildings are a well maintained things of beauty to behold,
 
DaBears6 said:
Funny you mention that. Our facility has to be the most run down pile of crap I've ever seen. Mgmt always says they're going to do stuff and it's "approved" and then nothing happens. At this point all you can do is shake your head and say wow.

Out of curiosity are there any nice barns in the system?
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Those are gone.

I come from a time decades ago when we had transloading, breakbulk (Blue Diamond etc0 and Preston, CF and others.

All the good barns are gone. I did examine a few places of memory the other day on google maps and found it pretty much paved over and redeveloped into god only knows what.

I tried to stay out of LTL but it followed me and my big 18 wheeler on various occasions with loads that will never be forgotten. I was given one sunday a 45 foot trailer crammed with 32 pallets stacked and all over itself. Sent into the NE with 40 stops to be done by Friday. Door to door delivery of this and that and a dozen of those.


I had a harpy in ******* Atlantic City screech about her precious dozen of shoes. To this day I made sure that my wife can buy whatever shoes or any female stuff she fancies. Just leave me out of it.

Harpys parting words to me as I drove off. I paid 2000 dollars for this ::shit:: from that little runt for this kind of crappy delivery. WTF am I doing?

WTF indeed. You can get your own shoes Harpy.

There was one tiny bit of fun going into that City. Casino Buses at 90+ My little two stroke detriot stayed with them touching 100 at times. But ******* those buses were fast. Probably because they grossed half what I did.

I got it done. After that weekend of sleep, I resolved to go west and get away from all that.
 
OV-10 said:
We haven’t seen a survey since we went Union. If Xpo is making you put your employe number on a survey it’s more to gauge the temperature for unionization then anything else. Gives them a head start of who to focus on if it becomes a problem at your barn. Other than that if you think Jacobs gives a rats ass what you think your a bigger fool than I thought.
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There's a cheat sheet that tells management what to do in the case of an inspection of the terminal for safety violations and/or records that are supposed to be kept on file for a certain period of time ( like DVIR copies , copies of driver's license )

It basically tells management to do as little as possible to cooperate. Find a driver that can be "trusted" and have them lead the inspector to the records or safety issue. Never take them across the dock. Keep them away from other drivers and only answer a question when asked ( don't point out any problems or volunteer ANY information )

There are drivers that management officially have marked as compliant? "Trusted"? "Reliable"?

I KNOW a lot of secret record keeping goes on in regards to employees ( not sure about anonymous surveys )

Former drivers have seen these "files" that management keeps due to the legal discovery process.

So , Hollywoodz , OV-10 ( or anyone else that can answer ) Has being unionized helped gain access to these "files" and/or put an end to this type of record keeping?
 
GO40 said:
Well wouldn’t that be not so anonymous?
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I'm not an XPO driver, but I think y'all might find this story illuminating:

I used to work for a non-union regional in their main office. We had an "anonymous" suggestion form on our company computer system.

One morning I came to work in a torrential downpour and noticed the sprinklers were running on every patch of grass around the office. I wrote a suggestion about it. I noted that every morning, I had to clock in next to a poster that asked "What's eating your profit sharing?" I dunno, maybe things like running the damn sprinklers during a downpour?!

Well, I happened to sit at a desk next to the guy who managed the backend of the suggestion program. The property maintenance guy got my suggestion and came over, wanting to know "What little punk wrote that?" He was big mad about it. My coworker didn't give up that info to him, but a couple days later I was called into a meeting by our department supervisor and told I needed to watch my tone, particularly in suggestions and emails.

I said the same thing you said above: If I'm getting called out for the "tone" of my suggestion, it would appear the "anonymous" part of the suggestion program is "BS."

They didn't like me much. :funky:
 
longhaullounger said:
I'm not an XPO driver, but I think y'all might find this story illuminating:

I used to work for a non-union regional in their main office. We had an "anonymous" suggestion form on our company computer system.

One morning I came to work in a torrential downpour and noticed the sprinklers were running on every patch of grass around the office. I wrote a suggestion about it. I noted that every morning, I had to clock in next to a poster that asked "What's eating your profit sharing?" I dunno, maybe things like running the damn sprinklers during a downpour?!

Well, I happened to sit at a desk next to the guy who managed the backend of the suggestion program. The property maintenance guy got my suggestion and came over, wanting to know "What little punk wrote that?" He was big mad about it. My coworker didn't give up that info to him, but a couple days later I was called into a meeting by our department supervisor and told I needed to watch my tone, particularly in suggestions and emails.

I said the same thing you said above: If I'm getting called out for the "tone" of my suggestion, it would appear the "anonymous" part of the suggestion program is "BS."

They didn't like me much. :funky:
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Did he really say punk? Or little bastard? I have been hearing the second one a lot lately when I walk in the office.
 
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