That's the secret...use your employees as your bank! Management will retire millionaires with pension and 401, and the rest of us will retire with bad backs, knees and shoulders with a $hit retirement, while they're playing 18 holes 2x or 3x a week at the country club. The terminals are disgusting, the yards are disgusting, and yes they are investing in equipment but that is only because they found out how much it really costs to maintain old rusty wore out junk equipment.
The help they hire is, for the most part, pathetic. Truck driver school? What a joke. Kids and 35 year olds. At 35 y.o. you think you might want to be a truck driver?
How about "I need a truck, but It has to be a AUTO SHIFTER"! And then theres the trucking lobby trying to get the politicians to change the laws so 18 year olds can drive truck. Why? Again so they can pay less and offer even worse benefits (how many 18 year olds give a crap about benefits). I've said it before, THERE ISN'T ANY TRUCK DRIVER SHORTAGE, ONLY A SHORTAGE OF COMPANIES WILLING TO OFFER A GOOD COMPENSATION PACKAGE FOR BEATING UP YOUR BODY FOR 40 YEARS! And that includes a PENSION and QUALITY HEALTHCARE. Then, and only then, will you have a waiting list of EXPERIENCED, QUALITY DRIVERS. FDNM