A lot of guys will go for this. Me personally I’m thinking real hard about it. It would be nice to save 15 hours a week. Much rather have the time than the money.
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XPO line driver 13 years 90% there loaded or real close so I don't have to work the dock
WiggleWagondrvr
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Pay them to sit in their tractor and sleep? LOL. What a maroon.
Can they leave and return to their home terminal without a load if a load is not ready ?
The magician
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Out in xlf fac if xsy freight isn't there and unloading by 330 am drivers are told to hook mts and leave
The question is can they force you to work the dock if you opt out and they need you ? Ahhhhh
They can’t force you to work.
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Not right away, but if it becomes enough of a problem they can vaporize your bid(s) until you (or everyone) drops back down into a suitable slot, and/or scrap the whole program at any time.
But I doubt that. Regardless of how big the headache and no matter how many kinks, they’re going to save a fortune on payroll.
Fly-by-night
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I guess that was written with the same writing device that the company paid healthcare and pension plan were written with
Fly-by-night
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Just like the one time I bid LH and during that year I was forced to work city for 6 weeks. Never say can't at XPO
Not familiar with your healthcare, so I’ll defer to you.
They can’t force you off your bid. Did you call hr?
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and tell then what???? I got pulled off LH to work city. It's happened more then once not to just me but others.
Exactly that. They cannot pull you off your bid.
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Really? They did it at my place too, opposite of what Fly-By-Night said. If not enough L/H bids to cover the runs, the bottom of the board city guy gets forced to cover those L/H bids. And this happened a few months after the end of JSP.
I can’t tell you what your hr said, but ours said they can’t force you to come off your bid. Even lh, they can’t force you onto another lh bid. It could be a Canadian labour law thing, as ours are quite a bit different than yours.
It used to be management makes changes to bids based on business needs. As long as they follow seniority, they can move you between city and linehaul. we don’t do that anymore at my place. They don’t make you split a weeks half days, half nights like they did when I started.