You don't take into account that only 25% of truck drivers have a CDL-A, HAZ-MAT, Doubles, Triples, Tanker,....which is what you need to do LTL. You also don't take into account that the average age of an LTL truck driver is 10 years older than the rest of the workforce average age. We are a subset within a subset,....occupation-wise, and a rapidly aging one, at that. This contract was designed to keep aging drivers around a little longer, while the company gradually bleeds away the work load to contractors. The primary place where non-union LTL carriers hire are refugees from entry-level Truckload carriers,....drivers that have the rudimentary skills, and can't stand being away from home most of their life, and don't like being treated as part of the machinery. The primary place that the Union carriers got their employees, was refugees from the non-Union LTL carriers,....the guys that couldn't take the snitches, the spying, lack of seniority, favoritism, lack of overtime pay,...and a host of other things that don't exist at Union carriers. With this contract,...that "employment" chain has been broken. There is no reason to go to a Union carrier,...the wages are less, they've established a "No corroboration" clause in the contract,...there will never be enough work for people on the bottom, because there's no incentive to hire if you can farm out local cartage work on a daily basis. Of course they'll be profitable,....at our expense. How much less profitable would Estes and Old Dominion be if they were forced to abide by the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and pay their employees overtime, like almost every other occupation in the U.S.? Profitability means lowering the labor costs, nowadays.....at the expense of the employees and their families.