local61man
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if you are already a watkins employee that works dock and city, will he have to be recertified if this fedex thing happens..?
local61man said:background check,mvr,i guess what i meant was requalified as to drive.
Not to be negative but to answer your question I like being on the Watkins side of the conversation just fine. I know many of your drivers in the west very well and am aware of all your bennies from ins to vacation time to acess to upper management including the b-day cards and we have all those things as well at Watkins , some of them being better like 3 weeks vaction after 5 yrs instead of 8, or from paid ins in full up to $55 a month for med. dental and vision, mileage is 3 cents lower but drop n hooks are higher as well as full scale pay after 12 hours instead of half pay, our 401 match is the same as yours. I say all this to inform those that don't no Watkins is a very well run, profitable company that treats it people very well and that while this rumored buy out will be great for Fed-ex when it comes to drivers at Watkins if the 2 companies are mereged together and Watkin drives are put at the bottom of the bid board then we stand to lose a lot in this deal.Personally i would go from a 2800 mile a week meet and turn , home every night and off weekends to the extra board doing lay down runs ect ect been there done that so I'm not to excited about the whole ideal. Before you say so i know we have no control and we will just have to wait and see ect. This is just 1 Watkins drivers point of view, I hope i haven't offended anyone i just wanted to offer the other side. Thanksnobody said:Look, I wouldn't freak out too much. Maybe some other fellas can help me out on this one, but I don't remember a single person being shown the door for past indiscretions when FedEx bought us. Also, I wouldn't worry about insurance and the like. If memory serves, the whole thing from payroll to insurance was seamless. You'll probably keep what you've got until the open enrollment at the end of the year. Same goes for your 401k. It took them about 3 years to move ours to Vanguard, a real swell move by the way. Bennies and wages are still not the same east / west, but they're slowly but surely rolling them together to achieve parity.
Probably the first thing you'll get is new uniforms.
If FedEx did buy you guys, congratulations! This is a top notch outfit to work for and the name carries a certain amount of respectibility in social groups. "Hey, I work for Watkins Trucking, how 'bout you?"
"I work for FedEx."
Which side of that conversation would you like to be on?
Again, congratulations and welcome aboard the Good Ship FedEx!!
Lou
ls57racer said:Not to be negative but to answer your question I like being on the Watkins side of the conversation just fine. I know many of your drivers in the west very well and am aware of all your bennies from ins to vacation time to acess to upper management including the b-day cards and we have all those things as well at Watkins , some of them being better like 3 weeks vaction after 5 yrs instead of 8, or from paid ins in full up to $55 a month for med. dental and vision, mileage is 3 cents lower but drop n hooks are higher as well as full scale pay after 12 hours instead of half pay, our 401 match is the same as yours. I say all this to inform those that don't no Watkins is a very well run, profitable company that treats it people very well and that while this rumored buy out will be great for Fed-ex when it comes to drivers at Watkins if the 2 companies are mereged together and Watkin drives are put at the bottom of the bid board then we stand to lose a lot in this deal.Personally i would go from a 2800 mile a week meet and turn , home every night and off weekends to the extra board doing lay down runs ect ect been there done that so I'm not to excited about the whole ideal. Before you say so i know we have no control and we will just have to wait and see ect. This is just 1 Watkins drivers point of view, I hope i haven't offended anyone i just wanted to offer the other side. Thanks
When you are on a lay down bid you have a set cut time( time to depart) usually about 12 hrs after you arrived, if you are not dispatched by that time you go on the clock at your full hourly rate not at 1/2 rate like FDX (in the west anyway) does. This keeps the dock and dispatcher responsible to keep you on schedule or pay for it.PINBALL said:What does that mean full pay after 12 hours instead of half pay??
80% of FXF in boise are lay down bids which is about 35 to 38 bids that do lay down.:rolleyes:PINBALL said:oh, i gotcha... i may be wrong but i don't think we have many left laying down in hotels.... mayby like .001 percent of our drivers lay down...