raphine has been resurrected just a new name. staunton-647..... thats not staanton its( stan--ton)
True, but not quite as convenient getting in and out as Raphine was and nowhere as nice a facility.
raphine has been resurrected just a new name. staunton-647..... thats not staanton its( stan--ton)
That still leaves Toledo short a truck :)
It's not a solution for every run, nothing in trucking works all the time due to varying freight levels but there are certainly some runs in the system that can be run this way, there are still a lot of local terminals running to breaks every night doesn't 158 still run 211 with 1 driver every night( 1 out and 1 back)?
And I thought I was the only one thinking this has been messed up since the merge.
Sooner or later the supervisor/manager issue has to be handled, right now they seem to be afraid somebody will quit and the lower cost replacement will be worse(usually is).
Sooner or later I think we are going have to police our own if we want to be the best and get paid the most it has to supported by something.
The European trade guild model is not a bad example, we need to raise the bar if we want to treated like the best and the brightest.
Go to work do the best you can each and everyday should be the union motto.
Management needs to learn to listen we have shown them before that we know how to get the job done but it's going to take time for them to relearn.
So they still run both ways every night, if they had started it in the beginning you would 3 guys running half way out and back home every morning instead of laying overnight the other 3 would be running from 211.
The coordination issue is the problem but I don't buy that we as a company can't fix it if we as a company wanted to.
I don't know if Albag can shed a little light on why they have decided to go away from the owner op teams running to Minn,St Paul from Winnipeg to a single man owner op running opposite a company truck and both going to the hotel when they get there. They had 14 to 18 teams turning on schedules with an average 24 hour turnaround and seem to be going backwards by not turning and averaging 34 hour turnaround time now. This not only doubled the number of trucks on that run but added multiple hotel rooms to the mix. I only asked you Albag because I know you run to Minn. and see the owner ops there. I`ve asked the question to some of the guys I see that used to run that lane and they are scratching their heads trying to make sense of it and they haven`t figured it out either.
It's a good thing I have a thick head of hair. Because with all the scratching I've been doing I would be bald. I was told it had something to do with the Fast Pass.
why don't they get some sleepers like this where they know the motel costs are high?
The last time I went to 211 then 218 and laid over YRC was paying $22.28 Per night the slip said in that ballpark at the Days Inn in Richfield,OH. So it is worth it to them. It has been a while but I doubt the rate changed much due to the volume we do at that hotel.
We used to have a bunch of these but some people felt they couldn't control the operation we had so they got rid of them and started using using the American trucks. We used to pay $205 a year to cross the border up to 400 times per year now they are paying $10.75 per trip but they are maximizing equipment use. I don't know, maybe I'm not getting the big picture. The company paid an average of $35000.00 to buy these trucks off lease and we ran them for three years plus the $615 for the customs decals, now they use any truck that they can find and are paying an average of $4200 per year for custom fees per employee. What am I missing here. It's no wonder they are the bosses and I am just a truck driver.why don't they get some sleepers like this where they know the motel costs are high?
We used to have a bunch of these but some people felt they couldn't control the operation we had so they got rid of them and started using using the American trucks. We used to pay $205 a year to cross the border up to 400 times per year now they are paying $10.75 per trip but they are maximizing equipment use. I don't know, maybe I'm not getting the big picture. The company paid an average of $35000.00 to buy these trucks off lease and we ran them for three years plus the $615 for the customs decals, now they use any truck that they can find and are paying an average of $4200 per year for custom fees per employee. What am I missing here. It's no wonder they are the bosses and I am just a truck driver.
I thought they were pretty nice company trucks.
Start by asking why meet and turns didn't work.
why don't they get some sleepers like this where they know the motel costs are high?