I think that their golden plan is to do away with any runs that don't include dock work in them. That way the shuttle drivers can all work the dock and it will save them tons of money. Any runs over a set amount they will farm out to 3rd parties like they did back before truck deregulation days and claim they are still making a profit since they don't have to pay one of their own drivers to cover the runs. No pay checks, no insurance to deal with, more bang for their buck.That's what I said about 11 months ago when this sleigh ride began. The rails will cause most of us to be shuttle to shorthaul, which means dockwork. The no dockwork jobs will be drop terminals like Holbrook. I'm suprised it hasn't happened already, but if the FMCSA goes ahead with their plans of returning us to 10hrs driving and the lawsuits go nowhere, which they never do, a lot of us will be doing dock work.
i agree with you. FXF is a benevolent dictatorship. although i do believe that SCM's should be given a little room to maneuver all final decisions should lie at the feet of hooterville. Hooterville needs to accept the fact that the scm's are on the ground locally and know the circumstances and people involved. But when the rubber meets the road it's Central that makes the decisions, as it should be.
Remember it well hillbilly, and no matter how hard you tried to explain, you finally had to take a picture of the trailer and send to them as proof. Now, in defense of CD, several docks would say the box was full so they did not have to re-work the trailer. If all hubs would enforce the 4 8"s on the manifest, where CD would no longer think we were all liars and slackers, it would be a lot smoother. Don't know how many times IND had to pull thru trailers to the dockl that the manifest said was full only to find out it was floored out.
