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Anyone else noticed an uptick in freight over the past few weeks? It sure seems like we've got more in the south east.
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1984Sideways
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You can be overflowing in freight but not matters a tinkers damn if none of the Management is willing to pay the necessary man hours to get the trucks loaded and rolling. Or empty and reloaded etc.
I remember one break bulk in baltimore, a little transfer dock. 10 trailers with space in the middle to pile the freight. If it reached the beams in the roof above then we are busy. What we dont get today we get tomorrow.
why?
Management only allowed a certain amount of money to pay just a few people a fixed number of clock hours. Once thats used up for the work week, we are told go home. Come back monday morning.
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: will just sit there in all weather until monday.
I remember one break bulk in baltimore, a little transfer dock. 10 trailers with space in the middle to pile the freight. If it reached the beams in the roof above then we are busy. What we dont get today we get tomorrow.
why?
Management only allowed a certain amount of money to pay just a few people a fixed number of clock hours. Once thats used up for the work week, we are told go home. Come back monday morning.
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: will just sit there in all weather until monday.GaffneyRddriver
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Not in Gaffney.
ED FORCE ONE
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Freight labor pays 50% of what a decent wage should be and these billion dollar companies know it , they could care less about the employee working late for a measly 50 bucks
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Trust me it is. Most if not all of the terminals that feed Gaffney freight are picking up. Your 8 P&d drivers may not be busy but everyone who brings freight into there is
No, Not at all. I see a dying company, But hey, I got 5 hours today!!!! Gave me time to look for the next job.
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A whole 5 hours. Whoo hoo.
Takes that long in the drivers room to get any load worth a damn.
Takes that long in the drivers room to get any load worth a damn.
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You're guaranteed 8 hours when put to work so thats a nice profit
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Ive started seeing ads for sales executives lately
Take a look in the back of the contract at the "zone addendum",............No guarantees out here,.............hoffas goon squad sold us down the river,.......
Article and section if you please.
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Article 18 section 2 i believe
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You'd better stop all that reckless speeding and slow it down. There were days driving locally was safer than the interstate, in my humble opinion.
1984Sideways
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The interstate is not worth the trouble these days. The companies and their nanny trucks casterated down to 59, 62 and so on is a obstruction to traffic that needs to roll at 75 legal speed where I live. Its just not worth the trouble.
Our State did raise the speeds from 55 to 65 on two lane state roads some years back, you could make some time with them. Just mind the curves. Thats where the trouble begins if there was anything wrong mechanically with the vehicle or impairment in driving.
Our State did raise the speeds from 55 to 65 on two lane state roads some years back, you could make some time with them. Just mind the curves. Thats where the trouble begins if there was anything wrong mechanically with the vehicle or impairment in driving.
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We're slow at NPME. But who knows what Yellow is doing with anybody's freight?
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We are slow in my area as well. Management asking drivers if they want to volunteer off so our bottom guy’s can work and not starve out.
Our end of the months have been on the light slide as well.
Excess customer inventories, rate increases, competition targeting us has something to do with our sluggishness.
Our end of the months have been on the light slide as well.
Excess customer inventories, rate increases, competition targeting us has something to do with our sluggishness.
1984Sideways
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Trucking is suppose to be agile.
If you aint got loads to put on a trailer and go from this spot to that spot as usual... drive the truck somewhere else and haul their freight.
High dollar pharmacy comes to mind.
If you aint got loads to put on a trailer and go from this spot to that spot as usual... drive the truck somewhere else and haul their freight.
High dollar pharmacy comes to mind.
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What cracks me up is this.
Customer goes to a company cross dock office and says where is my package?
Dunno.
However a Dispatcher at the crack of dawn 6 am gets a printout by computer, satellite etc of ALL trucks more than 1 minute late to scheduled deliveries. For most of those on that list its their last day of work.
Such precisions. **** on the freight. Fire the drivers for slacking.
Customer goes to a company cross dock office and says where is my package?
Dunno.
However a Dispatcher at the crack of dawn 6 am gets a printout by computer, satellite etc of ALL trucks more than 1 minute late to scheduled deliveries. For most of those on that list its their last day of work.
Such precisions. **** on the freight. Fire the drivers for slacking.