ESTES, #1 LTL Company

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Originally Posted by thebeerboy

ya so are the guys that i talk to every night. ..... IDIOTS.... right. i will put it this way.. why are union companies havin a harder time now than most non union companies ???? are the drivers suckin the profits right out the door. why do teamsters really make more than estes drivers. how about the end of the week ??? some of my checks are bigger than my buddy that drives for yellow frieght. and of course he kicks my butt some other weeks. he don't really drop and hook and neither did i. if he does have to drop and hook he can't do it cause he will be takin a job from someone if he does... so an hour later he is on the road. as for me i get in and 15/ 20 minutes later i'm on the road. last week everywhere i went i didn't have over 12 hours at the hotel. of course i didn't care where i went. what does it cost the company to run a union driver down the road. a non union driver it costs what 1.60 or so to run him down the road. do you see what i'm sayin ??? sure gettin paid all that cash to make the same run i make in about the same time to go 600 miles and teamsters go 450 or 500 miles in the same amount of time all and all. and it all comes out close to the same at the end of the week. 80 grand a year is very do-able at a non union company. and the same at a union company. how many headaches are with a union company ??? i see alot more than what i have to deal with.

and elvis you will not tell me something i don't know. you will not make me think that milkin a company to get the same money i get at the end of the week a good idea. i get paid for what i work. i make great money. really. i know many drivers that i run with say the same. yes i do slow down and run with the fellas every now and again. i dont have to slip seat. i don't have to worry about stock prices. i don't have to worry about if i'm steppin on someones toes. i just show up and drive the same truck down the road.
sure its not all perfect all the time but i do have alot more good days than alot of my friends. soo that is the truth in my life.

also do you think that nowadays that these non union companies would really be payin 10 dollars an hour ??? wouldn't the pay come up just because. wouldn't companies want to pay more for better drivers??? i know that the teamsters did bring pay up in the 1940's and 1950's so that will never be desputied. but what are they doin now was my first question ???

All I have to say is this. If you compare my weekly salary including benefits,"O"nite paid me a hell of alot more then Estes pay's thier employees currently.

It's not only the cash man, not only the cash. Besides, I will bet your buddy works less hours per week to accumulate the same monies as you.

If he worked the same hours, he would blow you away.

[greezy trucker]

What...I should be working for Estes....And give up my money....Shyte!!!! Give me an ap.....NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mr.breeze]

Originally Posted by thebeerboy

ya so are the guys that i talk to every night. ..... IDIOTS.... right. i will put it this way.. why are union companies havin a harder time now than most non union companies ???? are the drivers suckin the profits right out the door. why do teamsters really make more than estes drivers. how about the end of the week ??? some of my checks are bigger than my buddy that drives for yellow frieght. and of course he kicks my butt some other weeks. he don't really drop and hook and neither did i. if he does have to drop and hook he can't do it cause he will be takin a job from someone if he does... so an hour later he is on the road. as for me i get in and 15/ 20 minutes later i'm on the road. last week everywhere i went i didn't have over 12 hours at the hotel. of course i didn't care where i went. what does it cost the company to run a union driver down the road. a non union driver it costs what 1.60 or so to run him down the road. do you see what i'm sayin ??? sure gettin paid all that cash to make the same run i make in about the same time to go 600 miles and teamsters go 450 or 500 miles in the same amount of time all and all. and it all comes out close to the same at the end of the week. 80 grand a year is very do-able at a non union company. and the same at a union company. how many headaches are with a union company ??? i see alot more than what i have to deal with.

and elvis you will not tell me something i don't know. you will not make me think that milkin a company to get the same money i get at the end of the week a good idea. i get paid for what i work. i make great money. really. i know many drivers that i run with say the same. yes i do slow down and run with the fellas every now and again. i dont have to slip seat. i don't have to worry about stock prices. i don't have to worry about if i'm steppin on someones toes. i just show up and drive the same truck down the road.
sure its not all perfect all the time but i do have alot more good days than alot of my friends. soo that is the truth in my life.

also do you think that nowadays that these non union companies would really be payin 10 dollars an hour ??? wouldn't the pay come up just because. wouldn't companies want to pay more for better drivers??? i know that the teamsters did bring pay up in the 1940's and 1950's so that will never be desputied. but what are they doin now was my first question ???

That is why they want Mexican workers crossing the border,dummy ! Cheap Labor. You have been drinking the Rush kool aid way too long. As for YRC...they are having a rough time because they got greedy buying Roadway and USF. They have no plan to streamline that operation either. That's ok. In ten years UPS will have the largest ltl operation in the world. They will grow it and streamline it with the best,highest paid union workforce ever ! This message brought to you by the same folks that brought you the weekend.THE UNION.Here's 3 to the nutz from us teamsters.Thank us for your raises for the next five years,douchebag !

[thebeerboy]

didn't the teamsters sell ya'll out with the more contractors pullin yellow pups. k.c. put what 50 glen moore drivers on to team yellow frieght ??? who's really gettin sold out ???? what is anyone doin about the nafta stealin all the american jobs dummy. drink the brotherhood koolaide some more....

[mr.breeze]

Yep,and without the Union you boys will be working for 18 cents per mile ! Enjoy beer ba buoy.

[Frtgy89]

Working union is the only way to work. If you ever have a chance to have a union job
take it! Stick it out! It will be the best it gets!! Period.

When the EFCA is law you will have the chance to unionize your workplace.

All 4/10 jobs I know of are UNION jobs!!

By the way WE ARE NOT STRIKING FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 5 YEARS!!! So you and your sales force will have to
actually COMPETE with proud TEAMSTERS!!!! Yes I turn a wheel, and I turn it with a keen eye and calloused hands!!!