Wow. I'm happy that you got that rant off your chest. Just one problem with it, you are really painting the city drivers with a pretty broad brush when your comments seem to include ALL city drivers as douche bags. Ok. I'll own up to the fact that I was somewhat stereotyping city drivers, and for that I'll apologize. I've met some great guys and have several friends that are/were city drivers. However, I will not totally withdraw my statement because it was written about personal experiences. But you're right. To a good hand, it would be offensive. It also was in response to the way linehaul drivers leave their assigned tractors for the city drivers, lumping all linehaul drivers together. I keep my truck clean on the inside and it has a nice stereo and CB for the city drivers to use if they wish. It also has a trash bag that I prefer to be used, rather than fast food bags and water bottles everywhere. As for the division between linehaul/city causing weakness of the union - the union selling us out time and time again and not standing up for us when we really need them. These MOUs have been a joke, especially the last one. We voted it down. No means no! But that's a whol different can of worms.
But you posted a rant like the one above that divides the city away from line haul? WTF?
When I read these divisive posts, it makes it perfectly clear why the Union has zero power nowadays. Strength is in numbers, not being divided against each other. And from what I read, there is no strength within the union anymore because the freight employees can't even agree that the sky is blue.
Go ahead.......stay divided.......and continue to sink into irrelevance.
Don't think for a second that the non-union drivers don't see and hear this kind of divisiveness that comes from the union members. Who would want to be part of that?
Just sayin'.....