silent trucker
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I worked at a union barn for a long time and watched the yard guys drop inbound sets, fuel the tractors, and then retook out bound sets usually in 30-45 minutes. Fred pays us 1.25 hours for doing this. And those road drivers standing around where not getting paid a dime unless they were past their "gate" time, kinda just like us!!!!
The whole hostler point you made is ridiculous, we have three at my barn in the AM. One helps the road guys break their sets, one talks on his phone and the other plays Candy Crush. At smaller union barns like your talking about the hostler runs out of work, he goes up on the dock and moves freight. At Fedex they spend just as much time screwing off as Union barns.
PT, why don't you come clean...you hate hooking and breaking your own sets don't you? Some of our road drivers in the west just bristle about that issue....