As far as us making money, yes we make money. I am sorry but no company can stand up to years of no cash coming in and still maintain open doors. All the money we have been making simply goes into paying of the debt and hiring new VP's. Since they just put the majority of the earnings into paying off debt it shows, on paper, that we are in the red. This gives them a great excuse on why they cannot do things but also helps them pay less taxes.
With this new system of part-time dockworkers they are creating a revolving door system. Their pay rate is quite low when compared to other trucking companies for PT, roughly eleven dollars and change by me and no chance of getting a raise. Plus you have limited hours, only 25 or 30. Not to mention there is currently no way of ever becoming full time. So once they find all this out how long do you thing people will stay or what incentive do they have to care? They will come to work for us, get their six month or year experience and move on to better prospects. So in effect, you will have to keep training new people, OSD numbers will not go down, on-time and productivity will not improve.
The same mentality exists, save a dime here but pay a dollar later.
And as far as all of these new upper management folks, I thought some of the original positions we have filled were cut to trim them fat years ago. Now we seem to just be adding it back on and for what? I am quite sure that Vitran had to offer them something good to get them to leave the security of FE. You just don't leave a cruise ship to get on a dingy without some pretty damn good incentive.