What do you like about ABF/ What do you hate abou ABF?

[Muler]

This should generate some great post. Let's hear what you like and don't like about working at ABF. YOUR CAN"T WAIT TO HEAR BROTHER ALWAYS!

[abfempm]

my union steward!!!! thnx again bro

[grovercxl]

my union steward!!!! thnx again bro

I hope that's a like and not a hate...

[Mud Hen]

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The Cleveland City Drivers

[mud]

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[mud]

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The Cleveland City Drivers

Go Mud Hens!

[drumhead]

6 posts and we are already off topic. I like the pay and benefits. I hate the dispatch procedure. Worst dispatch i have ever know. HOG board most horrible way to work.

[ABFer]

I like the location of the air tank drain valve on the converter gears. It's easy to get at, unlike those that were on the units we inherited from Carolina Carriers.

[vongrimmenstein]

I like. ABF is the best Trucking Company I have ever worked for. The relationship in Indy between Labor & Management is ok. My check is on time, & it is a rare occasion when it is not right. 1. When you are absent from work, some get paper, some don't. Not a level playing field on this subject. It is & can be a problem for ABF when you don't show up. But issue paperwork on a fair & consistent basis. 2. It is the little things that can & will change the attitude of an employee. Someone @ 050 last year called Maury Babs & told him of a constant & serious sanitation problem in our bathrooms. This is after 2 previous grievances were filed on it & God only knows what happened to that paperwork. Maury promised on Tuesday he would take care of it. He asked for a few days to solve the problem & we said yes. We even e-mailed him a complete Photo Album of the problem. By the following Monday nothing had happened. That day somebody called the Marion County Board of Health. The very next day the phone lines between 050 & Fort Smith started to melt. Our new terminal Manager was out of town & complained about the chain of command not being followed. The old Tm & the new one had been informed of this problem. The bathroom was cleaned & they now have a good cleaning crew that keeps it fairly clean. 3. It took 13 years to have the employees parking lot graded & good stone installed. 4. Lighting in the past for the yard was so bad @ one time somebody called OSHA, & they came out @ 4 in the morning with a light meter. Some lights, not all were fixed & we came in to compliance with OSHA. ABF just repaired the outer yard lights & you can see very well. Why did it take 14 years to take care of this problem? Our workmen’s comp cost I think had a 35% increase over last year. Does the lack of taking care of the little things have any effect on that increase? You know it does but how much? And @ what cost? In Indy, in the last 5 years, 2 LTL workers (not ABF) were killed when walking in the yard after being hit by a yard horse or a tractor. Both yards had poor lighting. Our job duties can be dangerous. I believe taking care of the little things can & do have positive effect on your attitude & how well you perform @ work.

[Muler]

I hope that's a like and not a hate...

Me to because I am his steward. lol