The new podcast is out now. It put our new top scale at 71.5 cents per mile and $29.41 per hour effective now. Also, beginning next January those with seniority dates in 2016 and earlier will be receiving 3 weeks of vacation. They cut three years off of the progression from two to three weeks of vacation. They also got rid of the 6 month pay raise and are starting drivers out at that part of the previous progression, so starting pay is higher now as well.
I never trust those rumors. 4% would have been way more likely, bringing us to 72.5cpm, but this raise is an even 3%. City got 3.3%.
Do you have a start date yet?
I was hired Mike W. Sent e email told me i was passed up. Sheez. Wish at least tell me why. Might be able to fix the problem if i knew what is was.
Sorry to hear that. I know the frustration because I've been in that same position. Good luck with your search.
Are you now or were you previously with a union company? Just curious, often is the issue.
That not always the case, although I understand why people think that. At my barn alone I can think of two road drivers and one city guy who came from Holland, for example. One of those guys also worked for a union tanker company, as well.
We had the first vote on that policy right after I started here. The choices were to have their seniority start at their full-time dockworker status, their Class B CDL driver status, or their Class A status. The overwhelming number voted to have their bidding seniority set at the time they hit class A status. As I understand it their vacation bidding seniority goes back to their original full-time dock status though.
Yeah I have been here for ten years, so I was around for the last one also. If I remember correctly only around 200 drivers voted in favor of it. But why are we voting on it again? The idea of it pisses me off.
I don't think we are voting on it again. I think something like seven or eight out of 10 of the driver reps in my region voted against having another vote. Unless other regions voted the opposite way, we won't have another vote.
I listened to the last Dayton freight podcast again last night. Brian said that we took a vote between all the city and linehaul reps. And it's going up for vote again later this year. And that we would talk about it more in the upcoming Driver Rep meeting Oct 9th.
Gotcha. I missed that, sorry. I can only speak for my region's linehaul driver rep vote. Maybe city driver reps were hearing complaints from their D2D guys so they voted the other way, who knows.
No need to make it into a conspiracy theory. The bigwigs don't care about dock-to-driver bidding seniority dates one way or the other.
