Gentelman, I have a question , with a story, and I would like to ask all what you would think. ALL THE ONITE PEOPLE THAT IS, UNION OR NOT.
I am a city driver, I had until last year worked in a city that believe it or not nobody wanted for a run( it was an equivelent of a slum). I as well as many others were of coarse being pushed by mgnt. to deliver all of our freight on the trucks, NOT A PROBLEM I SAY , and it was'nt. well when there was a big push to get freight into the system it was getting to a point when mgnt at our terminal was putting more and more freight on our trucks, while this was happening some of us did fine with it, as we all know ,you can go out with 25 stops and whip through them and sometimes 7 stops could take you all day.
Now for the most part my #'s in the city was around a 2.5 SPH.TO A 3.5 SPH. in the city pending on what I had onboard ( I had 2 malls on my run and always had 2-3 stops for the mall on a regular basis)
as time passed on my stops increased and so did the mall deliveries, it was getting to the point where I could not be productive and wanted to try something else aside from the run I was doing or get help.
I was getting burnt out, when the stops were getting to be more and more, we were getting out later and later to the point where we were getting out at 11:30 am - 12:30 pm and most of my stops in the city I was doing were closing at 3:00 not allowing me to get the job done. I had 7 years in this city. Now 3 managers later I finally get out of this city. We had a city bid something mht had never done before. in this terminals history. This was nice I am being told that when BB+B would go out at 6 in t6he am , (5 runs to be exact) with other freight for the areas we were in, and then when we were done with this we would start doing pickups, and those who started early in the morning would leave around 4-5 in the afternoon,
Well we had the bid, and I got my new run, well after BB+B first thing in the morning, we did exactly what we were told was going to happen which is described above. Then the shat hit the fan, we were coming in around 11:30-12:30 in the afternoon and would get my old run back making me non productive again, AND WE WERE ALSO TOLD UPS WANTS US TO BE IN AT 6:00 AT NIGHT. well as you could imagine because of this act of superior intelligance, we were getting in sometimes around 8:00 at night. and smart ass remarkes were being made by 2 people who came to manage our terminal from the west coast never stepping foot in NH ever, until now. Now in this time frame we were also told that when a person quits, a run changes, gets cancelled,or a person gets fired, this proposes a new bid on runs, we were also being told that when you have an early start you cannot have a peddle run( regardless of seniority). a bit contradictive considering WHAT we were infact doing after BB+B. Now during this time frame 3 people had quit, 2 runs were cancelled, 4 runs were infact split, since january. and every month we wsked if a bid was in our favor and we were being told, next week , in a couple of week's, next month, anything just to keep our mouths shut, Our bid was infact fictitious. What we were told was going to happen and what happened are 2 different thing's.
so we ask for a bid. mgnt. never followed the policy book on this bid in the city, and has no intention to do it now that we have a new policy book that essentially mimicks what we had.
Now there are five drivers ,good P&D DRIVERS. That now do nothing more than volume essentially falling asleep behind the wheel, because we are being paced to death. by a geographically ignorent dispatcher, who makes big mistakes and does'nt learn from them, and certainlt does'nt follow the policy book. And also could not quote anything in it even if thier live's depended on it.
Now in the midst of frustration and not knowing what we are doing from one day to the next, and being jerked around by this dispatcher ( literally) , what the union has to offer look's pretty good.
Now considering what is going on with benefit's, and what I just explained above, as well as not playing by the rulebook ( and I can give alot of examples pertaining to that as well if you want them) I am sick and tired of being "A JERK" AND BEING "JERKED OFF". and I am currently looking for a new job.
I am sick of the lip service from mgnt. ignoring what ales us and I am talking legitamate complaints, nothing unjustifialble. and this has been the path of this terminal scince it's inception, why? you tell me .I do not know.
So what do you people think, we have addressed mgnt locally even took our problem to corparate and it continues to happen. We are going out of our way to cause problems is what we are being quoted. The drivers are F***ing the company",
Now i ask you does this sound like a mgnt. team that does'nt want the union?
My new jobclass is "Freight Redundancy Specialist".
This Person will have the ability
to tolerate mentally challenged dispatchers
who excell in the art of ignorance redundancy,
and can withstand driving 18 wheelers at
top end speeds in circles.