The truth is, the unions usefulness had run its course in history and was a boat anchor rather than a life vest. Yellow is on life support, their debt load and inability to pay it back, their continued quarterly losses, their shedding of 25% of their bill count plus teamster antagonism towards a business plan that will truly cut costs is going to take them down. Their future will be nothing but another sad memory in the union boneyard. TForce Freight appears headed that same direction with the moronic Canadian chuckwagon Bedard not having a clue as to what he is doing. Cutting service coverage across the lower 48 states is going to shed way more than the 18% loss of market share from last year. ABF will likely be the only unionized LTL carrier left in ten or fewer years.. This loss of union jobs will yet again require the feds to give the pension funds another taxpayer funded bailout as they did with the Central States Fund last year.
TForce | Teamsters Committee Exchanges Proposals for New National Agreement
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Doing what, I have no idea! But he sure did seem to enjoy his time at the helm! And how appropriate the guys caring him are dressed like Roman's. I've seen that picture countless times, but it just struck me, Nero, fiddling while so many teamsters lost their jobs.Don't be so tough on Jackie Presser, he was busy at the time...
Yrc has been going out of business for 15 years.
Everything TFI said they were gonna do, they are doing. It is only the old UPS management that are the problem.
They will never change, it is a cancer that can only be removed to save the patient.
From what I am seeing, that process has begun.
Market share isn't worth :
:, if you are losing money. That 18% were money losers. Now some other ltl company is losing on them, until they move to the next one.
Our Carlisle drivers break & hook their sets but when Dayton ran into us we broke them. If they had to do it they were paid triple time….
We used to make and break sets for Dayton too...but they quit running here at least 8 or 9 years ago...
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Same….
" Market share isn't worth :::Yrc has been going out of business for 15 years.
Everything TFI said they were gonna do, they are doing. It is only the old UPS management that are the problem.
They will never change, it is a cancer that can only be removed to save the patient.
From what I am seeing, that process has begun.
Market share isn't worth :::
:::, if you are losing money. That 18% were money losers. Now some other ltl company is losing on them, until they move to the next one." . Tell me what carrier "cut" their way to prosperity? There never has been one. BTW, when TForce shed this business it went to other carriers at higher rates, profitable rates. Fact is, TForce along with Yellow and ABF are the highest cost carriers in the market because of their "boat anchor" benefit packages. Competitors can haul freight at the same rate as these three carriers but their profit margins are far higher because of their lower cost structure. That is exactly why market share for union run trucking companies has gone from 83% to 17% in the past 50 years. Bedard doesn't have a freaking clue how to operate a US based market carrier. If you think the only problem left at TForce is the leftover UPS employee baggage , you don't know jack$hit. I spent my last 5 plus years working for this company before I called it a day after 40 years. They operate an antiquated hub and spoke line haul right out of the 1960's because they are hamstrung with costly union work rules. Bad management, clueless ownership along with a hostile union is what's hurting this company.
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If you hate it so bad, then why do you keep posting here? We all get it “ you hate the union!”" Market share isn't worth :::::
Tell me what carrier "cut" their way to prosperity? There never has been one. BTW, when TForce shed this business it went to other carriers at higher rates, profitable rates. Fact is, TForce along with Yellow and ABF are the highest cost carriers in the market because of their "boat anchor" benefit packages. Competitors can haul freight at the same rate as these three carriers but their profit margins are far higher because of their lower cost structure. That is exactly why market share for union run trucking companies has gone from 83% to 17% in the past 50 years. Bedard doesn't have a freaking clue how to operate a US based market carrier. If you think the only problem left at TForce is the leftover UPS employee baggage , you don't know jack$hit. I spent my last 5 plus years working for this company before I called it a day after 40 years. They operate an antiquated hub and spoke line haul right out of the 1960's because they are hamstrung with costly union work rules. Bad management, clueless ownership along with a hostile union is what's hurting this company.
You posting all the time can’t be good for you!
You should take your own advice and move on from the T-force page! Plenty of other carriers on this website that probably hate the union also! Go make new friends!
Have the day you deserve!
I don't hate the union workers, most of the drivers I got to know over my near 40 years were hard working guys ( few gals) that wanted the best for themselves, their families and their customers. I do dislike the teamster mentality driven by the top down that creates toxic attitudes and class warfare within companies. Early in my career I worked for Transcon, Smiths and ANR and all three of them went to the union boneyard. Then spent 20 years at an inter regional non union company where I got to see real teamwork between dock/drivers and management/ownership. It was a family run company that treated everyone with respect and dignity. When I finished out my remaining years at TForce/UPS Freight it was back into a very dark and dismal work culture which frankly didn't have to be that way. I blame management for that dismal work culture more than the union but it takes two to tango as they say. I always respected and appreciated the drivers and dock workers and made sure to thank them on a regular basis. I wouldn't have had a job if not for them.
Lmao," Market share isn't worth :::::
Tell me what carrier "cut" their way to prosperity? There never has been one. BTW, when TForce shed this business it went to other carriers at higher rates, profitable rates. Fact is, TForce along with Yellow and ABF are the highest cost carriers in the market because of their "boat anchor" benefit packages. Competitors can haul freight at the same rate as these three carriers but their profit margins are far higher because of their lower cost structure. That is exactly why market share for union run trucking companies has gone from 83% to 17% in the past 50 years. Bedard doesn't have a freaking clue how to operate a US based market carrier. If you think the only problem left at TForce is the leftover UPS employee baggage , you don't know jack$hit. I spent my last 5 plus years working for this company before I called it a day after 40 years. They operate an antiquated hub and spoke line haul right out of the 1960's because they are hamstrung with costly union work rules. Bad management, clueless ownership along with a hostile union is what's hurting this company.
Such a bitter little person you are.
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The teamsters will do what Joe Biden tells them to do
Just as the Railroad unions did..
Biden doesn't even know what day it is
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Sounds like you need to start your own business, my guess is you;d be a great employer......
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RTW has nothing to do with organizing, collective bargaining or any provisions of a labor agreement. All those things are protected by federal law, The Labor Relations Act of 1935.
you nailed it. Life long freight guy who never had a pension here. Was never afraid of "right to work" because I busted my @ss and was always a top performer. Worked for three union carriers that went down in flames ( Transcon, Ryder PIE and ANRAdvance). Yellow will be gone in three years unless the teamsters work with them. Quite likely ABF will be the last man standing in the next ten years,but by then, the teamster pension funds will be headed for liquidation and termination.
someone is full of doom and gloom
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How much in bailouts do the feds give to citizens that don't even work, or residents that aren't even citizens? Where does the fed get it's money?
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It prints it. That is why inflation is out of control. Bailing out banks, General Motors, Yellow, pension funds and the Italian company Fiat-Chrysler by printing money raises prices and hurts the poor more than anyone else. That makes people more dependent on government. This is the Democrats game plan.
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My point was that the workers pay taxes, I pay a
load, and the workers should be the last to blame when they get a bailout (which is actually only returning a portion of their paid taxes in many situation.)Daily dose of bitterness. You must be a blast to be around.