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XPO | Washing Equipment And Taking Pride

drivin4truthnow said:
Finally seeing fresh paint on wheels when tires are changed out. Good job XPO! Now if we can just see chassis on trailers with a fresh coat of paint to make equipment look more appealing instead of weathered, rusty, and worn out would be nice. Image sells! Think Brown (washed and painted) or OD (impeccable TV ads).
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I don’t know where your out of but our equipment never gets washed , mixed wheels ( aluminum & steel ) , holes in floors of trailers grease all over everything including hoods of tractors , frame rails totally rusted no paint . Equipment looks like sh*t !! Oh and Buster brown washed their equipment rarely compared to the old days when they washed daily.
 
BabyJ5525 said:
I don’t know where your out of but our equipment never gets washed , mixed wheels ( aluminum & steel ) , holes in floors of trailers grease all over everything including hoods of tractors , frame rails totally rusted no paint . Equipment looks like sh*t !! Oh and Buster brown washed their equipment rarely compared to the old days when they washed daily.
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Same at our place but let’s not forget equipment out of inspection, broken doors , dangerous falling load racks ...ect. Good news is we may beet QE2 expectations by cutting cost.
 
We still have a vendor wash our equipment monthly. Truck wash attached to the shop was a waste of money as it is rarely open. Some of us linehaul drivers wash our tractors when they get bad. Facilities need work, but that has been a process since Con-Way day’s. We had our own full time maintenance guy in the CCX day’s.
 
Just so we all understand the situation, can we start to post pictures of the dirtiest or rustiest wheel on a tractor, trailer or dollie that is currently in service. Now remember back in the beginning of our XPO adventure Mr. Jacobs stated he wanted the "XPO Brand" as recognizable as UPS. Let's show the real image this company posses. Just be prepared for the usual statements, like "we're in business to make money" and "we need to show a profit for the quarter for our shareholders" which are certainly correct. To be sure, other publicly held ltl companies are still in business with CLEAN, PAINTED, and WELL MAINTAINED equipment. Pictures of rust and the like to follow over the coming days. Feel free to participate. I trust many have seen what has been mentioned.
 
Fly-by-night said:
This thread is such a laugh. Someone please tell me the last time a customer stuck there head out the door and bitched about how dirty the truck and trailer was?????? Now tell me the last time that same customer bitch about his freight being fu@ked up every which way from Sunday?
Taking pride yea right. Well taking pride starts with yourself. Do you look professional? Are you on the phone while making a delivery/pickup? Do you say thank you when making a pickup? Do you give a :::shit:::? Do you care about the customers freight? I would love to go to some of these lazy ass dockworks house and handle their personal stuff the same way the handle freight because they are to damm lazy to get there fat ass of the lift. Do you know what "DO NOT STACK" means? Do you know what those red thing in the trailers are? Do you know how to write-up equipment? Do you know how to clean up after yourself ie: take you tash out of the truck?
I could go on.
In my years I seen some really clean and shinny trucks and then the door opens. What steps out looks like a bum that slept in box during a rain storm in the mud. So yes clean trucks looks nice, but to the customer what comes out of the trailer is all they care about and who holds control of that?????
So yea this thread is a joke.. WAAAAAAA my trucks dirty but yet you look like :::shit:::, out of uniform, and talking to someone of the phone while at a customer.
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Do not stack is a joke to this company. Supervisor and terminal managers alike will straight up tell you to do whatever you have to do to make it fit. Even if that means stacking ::shit:: that says not to
 
Chronicoffender said:
Do not stack is a joke to this company. Supervisor and terminal managers alike will straight up tell you to do whatever you have to do to make it fit. Even if that means stacking :::shit::: that says not to
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Yup, I remember watching company videos saying make sure everything is loaded nice and neat without damaging or stacking top heavy etc. Then our I/b or o/b super telling us “Just get it in there, give it the Conway crunch if you have to as long as you can get the overhead latched”.
 
I’ve sent some loads down the road that I’m not proud of, but it’s pretty rare. When a supervisor suggests I stack on “do not stack” freight, I simply say no. That being said, I’ll stack on drums, bags, gaylords etc as long as done correctly. Dunnage, if you can find it, safestack, if it’s not busted, and straps are your friends! If the tools aren’t available, well, I guess it’s not going today!
 
dalesr said:
I’ve sent some loads down the road that I’m not proud of, but it’s pretty rare. When a supervisor suggests I stack on “do not stack” freight, I simply say no. That being said, I’ll stack on drums, bags, gaylords etc as long as done correctly. Dunnage, if you can find it, safestack, if it’s not busted, and straps are your friends! If the tools aren’t available, well, I guess it’s not going today!
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Yep. Refuse to load it if it’s unsafe or could damage the freight. Place a call to the safety supervisor. They will back off real quick.
 
sucker666 said:
Same at our place but let’s not forget equipment out of inspection, broken doors , dangerous falling load racks ...ect. Good news is we may beet QE2 expectations by cutting cost.
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Yup, bottom line profit number goal is really the only thing that truly matters in the top brass’s thinking.
 
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