More negative financial news

[Vwaggs]

This is a very truthfull statement.

If you want to help the company and protect your job....

Shut the TRUCK OFF when you aren't rolling down the road.

Shut the yard horses off when you aren't moving trailers. Those 2 things will save millions. If you see someone leave their unit on, Say Something, usually people just don't think.

[Teamcujo]

This is a very truthfull statement.

If you want to help the company and protect your job....

Shut the TRUCK OFF when you aren't rolling down the road.

Shut the yard horses off when you aren't moving trailers. Those 2 things will save millions. If you see someone leave their unit on, Say Something, usually people just don't think.

Don't forget #1, get rid of Zollars, you know the next thing they'll want is a give back, I'd like to pledge .50 per hour if they replace Zollars and bring back Myers.

[mud]

This is a very truthfull statement.

If you want to help the company and protect your job....

Shut the TRUCK OFF when you aren't rolling down the road.

Shut the yard horses off when you aren't moving trailers. Those 2 things will save millions. If you see someone leave their unit on, Say Something, usually people just don't think.

This advise could start a whole new thread. And vwaggs, nice avitar.

[nightowl]

Transport Topics Online | YRC Interest Payments May Rise to $8 Million

[jimmy g]

Now all we need to know is how our current president or next president will fix this economy.

Bad News-- the next one won't. There is already talk of a rise in taxation. If gasoline price hikes slow the economy by taking money out of people's pockets-- raising taxes does exactly the same (That's why it's Trickle-Down). Only scrapping the Income Tax and going with the Fair Tax would solve this thing, and there are too many lobbyists for that to pass.....

And as long as The Middle East Fiasco exists (and it always will-- Ezekial Chapter 38 tells us the nations that invade Israel are Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Libya) the price of Oil will be high. Until we drill ANWAR and our own Gulfs, or develop Hydrogen Cars (the technology already exists) we're in trouble since the World's Economy is an Oil-Based one.......

(The USA isn't here or strong when that happens, anyway. We lose power somehow during a War on the Euphrates........ooops! Where are we now????)


Sorry to throw a political answer into a trucking thread-- but the question was asked, and it's all related....

[Vwaggs]

We've also reached the point where its cost effective to redirect the oil from Alaska down to the other 48 instead of selling overseas I believe. We could also start aggressively pulling oil out of the G of M. Why let Mexico use it all. It would be interesting if the next President and Congress could initiate those. I don't know if its in the Leasing/Licensing agreements for Alaska or not. That would help to lower gas and diesel and thus company profitability.

[jimmy g]

We've also reached the point where its cost effective to redirect the oil from Alaska down to the other 48 instead of selling overseas I believe. We could also start aggressively pulling oil out of the G of M. Why let Mexico use it all. It would be interesting if the next President and Congress could initiate those. I don't know if its in the Leasing/Licensing agreements for Alaska or not. That would help to lower gas and diesel and thus company profitability.

Ain't gonna happen from any of the three tree-huggers running for Prez......not this current one (Bush has bought into False Man-Made Global Climate Change as well) either....

[larry retired]

Myers hired Zollars. Zollars isn't the problem. Corpoffice just told you, they are hunkering down for the recession. They've been through much worse than this. Some of you are going to pay the price for the changes necessary in the new contract, but the vast majority will not. YRC is not some backwater, two bit outfit. Some of you love to talk about what a lousy run company this is and how it has never done anything right.

CF, Graves, Hyman, Briggs, Admiral Merchants, Jones, Transcon, Eastern, IMFS, NW, All-American, ICX, IML, PIE, Ringsby, Red Ball, Garrett, Navaho, Ephraim, Harp, Rio Grande, Salt Creek, DLB, BDT, ONC, Crouch, McLean, Milne, Time-DC, Bethke, ANR, Barber, Churchill, Holmes, Ideal, Leeway, Ryder.

These are just the companies I can remember off the top of my head that were here in Denver competing against Yellow not that many years ago. Yellow is still standing. So don't tell me what a sh**ty run company it is. It has survived against tough non-union competition for damn near 30 years now. Do your job, and maybe it will be around for another 30 years. Maybe you all do your job, but I knew a bunch of crybabies where I worked that didn't and blamed all their problems on the company. And I get the feeling I recognize that same attitude here.

[Cab Lizzard]

I just believe that the managers on a local level are so caught up in their numbers that they have lost sight of how to pick up and deliver freight.
Everyone here is running around looking for a way to push the cost on to someone else.
We have 2 yard tractors here that if you shut them down the will not start again. I don't mind the wait time for the shop to come out and jump them. After 2 weeks of this you would think that they would fix the dam thing. They did go out and buy 2 cheap Battery chargers. Now they can charge 2 at a time after they push them near a outlet
Saving money and getting to a number

[Triplex]

Sector Snap: Less-than-truckload carriers fall on downgrade: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance