Now, why in the world would I not want to get out on time? I, as a supervisor, dont get overtime. So, why should I be expected to work it? So your darned right I plan to get out. But we also get things done, on time and generally everyone is pretty happy despite the b.s. lately. Those that generally want the o/t get it and those that dont, usually ***** about the ones that do. On the bright side, my days are numbered here one way or another so perhaps I'll end up somewhere that pays me overtime or thats just so damned fun to work at that I cant bring myself to leave on time. Or maybe I can just collect my severance for 6 weeks while most of you keep working to pay me while I sit at home and scratch my arse. Now theres something worth *****ing about. That is unless YRC folds before my 6 weeks is up.

Customer service is now known as phone sex. Just tell the f***ing idiots what they want to hear and get them off the phone so you can do the same to the next caller. Stalling pick ups til the next day is a money saver for companies. I still maintain that you can not make money by saving money. If that be the case, we all would not have to work for a living. Put the drivers in the trucks and the trucks on the street doing P&D. P&D is what they do. In between the P and the D is an A and an I . PICKUP. ASSURE. INTEGRATE. DELIVERY. This spells PAID. This also means the bank account grows. THIS!!! THIS is what keeps the company going. MONEY IN THE BANK. Not crunched numbers that can never happen in the real world. Hell if comapnies want to save moey, fire all the drivers except one, have one dispatcher, and make all you can. RIGHT??? WRONG!!! That is why every trucking company has more than one driver, more than one truck, more than one anything. When you take the trucks and drivers off the street, you lose money because the freight WILL go to someone else. I tried for years to drive this into the idiots at Saia and you all see how bad they are hurting. Just as bad if not worse than YRC. What I can not fathom is WHY management can not comprehind the simple logic. There is and has been an abundunce of freight to be hauled. Freight did not stop. It just slowed down. If they directed the sales force to seek new accounts as well as SERVICING old accounts, things would turn around. It's not always the price, that draws a customer. Service is still sought after. TRB Flooring in Holly Ridge NC was begging Saia to deliver their products to Washington state, California, Nevada and othe west side states. But because Saia thought it cost extra money for me to be there by 4:00 pm, they dropped TRB from their pick up list. R&L got the same deal Saia did, they just made sure to have a truck there 3 to 5 days per weeks. The bundles of flooring weigh between 2 and 5 thousand pounds per bundle with at least two bundles per shipment. Most days there were at least two shipments. TRB never asked for huge discounts. Just a good deal. But Saia is saving money by NOY getting the pick ups. I wonder how much money R&L has made hauling flooring in the last three years?

I don't blame you a bit for not wanting to work any unpaid overtime. I wouldn't either. My point is that customer service should not be sacrificed, at any cost. Without customers, we have nothing. Period. I think that we can agree that most service failures could have been prevented if everyone had done their part throughout the whole process.

Also, I thought that ya'll agreed to do whatever was needed to support the companies core values when you signed on the dotted line? (just messin' with ya.)

I was dispatched into Birmingham with empties and told to hooked to a nash. load and bring it to atl. If this wasn't bad enough 150 to atl and 245 to nash. instead of 190 to nash direct. This is were it gets interesting, the terminal was dark, the tally sheet showed 21k on a long box and no hazmat. As I located the the trailer I noticed a large hole in the top left corner and a medium size hole in the lower corner. After hook I found lights out and called atl shop for a vender. The vender fixed the lights and was about to fire up the torch so he could heat up the trailer to get the trailer repair tape (bear bond)to stick when we decided to just look through the paperwork to make sure there was no hazmat. OOOPPS!!! There was over 1,100lbs of flam and poison gas and acid in the noise. Wouldn't it have been something if it blew up?? No placards on the trailer, no hazmat reported on the stack/ tally sheet and no information given to me by atl dispatch about the need for placards. New slogan at YRC stupidity first, safety last.

AAAH quit your damn And if you want ot ya can have all mine. And the ONLY time I personaly ***** about people on OT is when that OT is taking from someone sitting to home waiting an a call. And tell the truth now...you secretly love this job otherwise you would'nt waste Saterday argueing with us dumbass truckdrivers.

Makes you wonder if their getting OT for that.