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Originally Posted by racecat  Who cares what the other guy says ? We are giving away freight by stupid dispatching and playing silly little number games in management instead of just doing our jobs. At our barn they run us drivers over each other the coustomers see this and just shake their heads. We have no set runs so we don't get to know our coustomers like we used to on bid runs we don't know lunch times or breaktimes so waste a lot of time waiting.They switch us from run to run on a day to day basis and depending on which one of us has pi$$ed them off yesterday. It's these kind of silly little child games that cost us money and costomers.Other truck lines send the same driver to the same customers every day they get to know each other very well and in walks a different yellow driver and looks like a bastard child at a family reunion cause he don't go there every day.. 35 years in this business and we have the worst local mngmt I have ever seen , no wonder we can't keep customers, they watch us and see how badly things are run at our barn and wonder what the rest of the system is like this .I've had many coustomers ask ;WHO IN THE HELL IS RUNNING THINGS THERE ? I just laugh and say ROCKET SCIENTIST. We could make YRC some money if they would make us a dark terminal |
Point well said as it was a problem at our barn cause we got supervisors that were never in the industry making decisions.
Got so bad I got discharged for insorbination and failure to follow instruction. Was reduced to a 1 day suspension as I made my point that the
instructions I were to follow were doomed for failure as I made a right judgement call. . Got the task done and made service on the time critical.
My point is that we have to take back our docks, runs and freight cause we are closest to the task. No disrespect to management but if you don't what the heck you are doing
get out of my way and let me work so I can do my job. If I do mess up I am big enough to man up for my mistake. I deliver what freight is put on my peddle and take care of our customers needs. If we as freight people are held accountable for our actions so should management cause we teamster undo more mistakes by management than make ourselves
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Sorry about that had to get it off me, FedEx games here are that their drivers are following me on my run writing down the customers I p&d to. Know for a fact as one followed me to a customer that was on a dead end street that ended up in a car dealership lot. I knew he was tailing me cause I knew he would catch hell trying to turn around there which he did cause there was no pick up for them.
