I was in MI this morning and there was a slip posted that do to current freight situation they were cancelling two of the bids to velocity centers, Tomah and Joliet. I was wondering if anyone else had spotted anything like this at other terminals?
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I wonder if I read it wrong, maybe they were just getting rid of the extra open turn on Saturday? I bet I did if that is what they did in Toledo, I am pretty sure they added that open turn to both of those bids in Milwaukee....I bet that is it, they are just getting rid of the extra open turn. That makes a lot more sense! Sorry if I got anyone excited by reading that wrong!
Thats what they did. They abolished the old bids with the extra turn and then posted that they were adding the velocity runs without the extra day
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2 separate memos in Milwaukee. You just didnt read the one posted off to the side
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It was around midnight on a Saturday night and I was doing those lazy dock workers job breaking a trailer instead of going home so it is probably pretty impressive that I even saw one of the memos through the steam that was coming out of my ears. I love my job!
(yes that lazy dock worker part was for you yrc-atm)
(yes that lazy dock worker part was for you yrc-atm)
#1 I'm a driver and work the dock. #2 how can it be a dock worker's job when the terminal is dark. #3 you got paid to make the drop #4 if you broke a trailer that was not your own and was not just making a drop, then I want to know about it so I can take the proper action
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You are looking at it from the wrong angle, I was picking up the trailer that was put to the dock in the morning and no one took the Milwaukee freight off of it. So I had to break the seal and climb in with my flashlight to find the Milwaukee freight, than I had to sit on the phone while dispatch read off thirteen pro numbers, consignees and what the freight was, then I had to back the trailer into a dock, turn the lights on, get the long forks out to pick long skids off the top, etc etc etc. So no I did not break the trailer I brought in, I broke the one that you guys had in the dock all day and didn't get around to and then hid the bills in the back somewhere that the security guard could not even find. I rest my case!
You say it was in the dock all day but then you say you had to back it into the dock. If you backed a trailer to the dock and then broke it, thats city work and I would like trailer numbers, times, etc so I can put a halt to that. Second, We had approx 1600 bills on Monday so the 6 "lazy dock workers" couldnt get it all broke on Saturday morning, sorry. And if the bills were "hidden in the back" thats the supervisor who worked Saturday (shannon) that did that. I'm surprised you could wake the security guard up long enough to even ask about bills. Next time tell central "This is city work, give me a different load or I will find an empty to take home"
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Drivers have to kick freight all the time when some other terminals freight is on the back and the rest is going to another terminal. I am talking all the time probably hundreds of times every night and more on the weekend. I hope this doesn't shock you, but that is the Holland way. I would be fine never sitting on a forklift again for the rest of my life, so if you figure out some way to get the company to say that drivers no longer have to break trailers, please let me know, I will be very happy!
I was just giving you a hard time about being lazy you know?
By the way that trailer was in the dock all day, the night guy Steve in Michigan looked it up and it was dropped by a Cincinnati driver during the night, when I got there it was down in like dock door 84. I had not been told anything about it needing to be broke, so I backed under it, walked to the back saw the door down and a seal on it and pulled it out and drove down by the east end of lot. I figured I would punch out and go home, surprise, you are going to play on the fork lifts in the middle of the night, what a pain in the butt!
I was just giving you a hard time about being lazy you know?
By the way that trailer was in the dock all day, the night guy Steve in Michigan looked it up and it was dropped by a Cincinnati driver during the night, when I got there it was down in like dock door 84. I had not been told anything about it needing to be broke, so I backed under it, walked to the back saw the door down and a seal on it and pulled it out and drove down by the east end of lot. I figured I would punch out and go home, surprise, you are going to play on the fork lifts in the middle of the night, what a pain in the butt!
You think someone would figure that out wouldn't you, not enough drivers, can't get all the loads hauled, so let's burn up their hours working the dock.
Kicking freight off YOUR trailer is fine. But breaking a trailer that you did not pull is another story. Its been filed on and won. At least here it has.
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What about pulling a trailer back to home dom, on a sat morning (bid driver) and being told to pull a few bills off and load them on their outbound trls before you go home?
I would be informing the city steward about central telling you to do city work.
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That would be a easy paid for time plus 4 free hours under working out of classification grievance,plus free grievance money to city man for premium Saturday work he was not offered.everybody wins on them stupid management calls.