At one time I had a very high opinion of R&L until today when all I was needing was for the dispatcher to relay a message to me from a customer that I called asking them where at on a street they were located on. And I was informed that the dispatch was not there to take messages for us. I could understand it if are dispatch was busy all day with phone calls but ours are not, the morning dispatch tries to stay out on the dock as long as he can and lets the TM do his job and then he comes in and plays with his cell phone , then the TM will go to his office and read the newspaper, and the night dispatch is to busy talking to his girlfriend in TX on the company phone.( I can see they are real busy) I called HR about it and was told that it was the drivers responablity to locate the customer and only to use the dispatch as a last resort even if it means to drive around until we find it. When fuel is around 4.70 a gal. I thought I would try to help the company save some money but they don,t want to do that, Well thats fine with me at 23.47 an hour I,ll drive around all day long and I will try to make it a point to do so, if they don,t mind wasting money then I don,t mind making it while they try to find out where all there money is going. I still have hopes for the company but after today I have to say I,m alittle worried how long they can run like that.

I agree moral is getting really bad at our terminal too. Word is getting out about our militant ways and people are passing us up to work at other companies with lower pay.We have drivers poking around looking for better working conditions. We have such a hard time hiring good people that we are now using lease drivers for peddle runs.I agree this was a great place a few years ago,but I have my doubts too.

We had one to leave last week to goto yellow to start at the bottom of the ladder there and was told he needed to start that week, when he told the TM he got mad and was told that he may not be able to finish the week out since he was going to a competedter and that this was going in his record, the driver said so what and left the next day.When I first started you couldn,t force a driver to leave now its getting hard to get one to stay, drivers with 5 and 10 yrs in the company are looking, I myself with over 5 yrs thinks its time to look also. Its pretty sad when a company will let good drivers like that go and not try to do anything to keep them when the other companys will hire them in a heartbeat. It makes you wonder whats going on with the company.

from what I see the company got too big, too fast. i also noticed that the bigger a company gets, the less the little guy like us is cared about. believe me, the company is in for a rude awakening some day.

I hope for his sake it doesn't go on his "permanate record" moral is low at our barn too, so join the party. in all my years I have NEVER see so many bringbacks and missed pick ups and they don't seem to mind, do more with less and make it happen because Service is what we deliver

That is all I do here in PHI is drive around and look for places that aren't on a map,gps and we have no phone# for.They are so up in arms on saving fuel,my diss will run from one side of the state for one skid.And when I can't find it they try to tell me that I know were it is lol.Well they are going to pay me for driving around all day I think I can do it It is easy money
I think do 180 miles for 9 delivers and 4 pickups they know what they are doing,so they think.One day I hope they open there eyes and see that we need help sometimes.And stop breaking our b%$$#