big daddie
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Are they gonna cut the recruiters too? Since we are over drivers we could save some more money there too.
i just wish the ole pres of the company would be man enough to do us all a favor and shut the doors.
Lame. Exercise your right as an American and find other employment.
we dont need a recruiting dep. weve gave so much freight to jc or some one that we dont have none for us!!! j8 does nonthing to get or keep drivers moving "bad drugs". been layed over for two weekends in less than a month there are trucks all over the place up here. it still amazes me that they run trucks 500 750 1000 miles empty to help these people out, but are to sorry to run one emty 500 miles to keep a driver happy and spend the weekend with his family. i just wish the ole pres of the company would be man enough to do us all a favor and shut the doors.
I'm with you there gab!
thats exactly the attitude that needs to be
weeded out here!
if someone wants the door to shut ,why
would they still be here????.
ill be up all night now trying to figure that one
out!
I got a great idea, combine J3 and J5 down around Greenville/Spartanburg area, combine J8 and J7 somewhere in the middle, get rid of all of our customers that have been loyal for years, and get crap freight that "pays really good" but our routers will still try to build 45,000 lbs. loads that have no chance in hell of fitting. Hey instead of building shuttles why don't we just drop all our freight at Benton, so we can have enough empty trailers to load our outbound loads on. One of the reasons we drop freight at Benton that we easily could deliver, is to boost the dispatchers bills per hour in the local area. I know this for a fact, they are giving freight away and we DO lose money by dropping this freight another carrier. Keep running of our sales people, they will take their accounts with them, and we won't get crap. But don't worry, when our hours drop and drivers get rotating days off, our "wonderful" prez and vp will still be pulling in six figures a year. Hey for all we know Sun Capitol told them to milk this cow and then shut the doors. Where are our NEW TRAILERS at??? They said we were buying them, well where are they?? Keep thinking everything is fine, but with the economy the way it is, only the big trucking companys will survive, and I hate to tell ya'll we ain't big enough.
sorry guys, did not mean to step on nobodys toes but have been involed in two companys that shut down, and jevic is done 98% of the same things that they did. im not looking for another job nor do i intend two. ive never griped about having to much freight but it does get up setting when they won't send you toward the house for time off but then lay you around with nonthing to do 4 the weekend. do the math lay over $100 or $200 est 40 hrs idol @ 1 gal per hour 3.75 gal=$150 driver not being home or at least moving freight priceless. at that rate if you had more than one driver trying to get home say j1 to j3 rent a van or car run them home on fri then come back on sun or mon. this is just an idea we use to do it where i worked and it worked out great very little turn over. as far as cutting cost if we would take care of the drivers weve already got then we would save bundle in recruiting.
This is just the sort of Morale Issue that the D/S dept is supposed to handle. any job can suck once in a while ,sometimes you need someone to listen to you vent .If a driver is on the road away from home and gets the blues if he vents on the wife she'll say why do you work there?
In the meantime he knows why he works there ,to make the best living he can .so the result is he doesen't tell his wife the problems at work and stews in his own jucies . Maybe he blows up at a dispatcher or another driver or worse a customer.
Driver Support helped a lot of people get through some very dificult times and probably saved some familys in the process and some good drivers got talked off the ledge, and they helped weed out the LOOSERS too!
I hope nothing but the best for all that remain at JEVIC and to the ones that fell to the AX.
Still a Fan!