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Where do I find these 80k a year dock jobs?
XPO | How do OD drivers avoid the dock?
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OD ....if u wanna work 70 hrs a week
Yes if we're waiting on guaranteed freight
Lmfao I never touch the dock. I’m a driver not a dock worker.
Right here, as a driver at XPO.
OD part time dock workers make more per hour, from what I see, than XPO. They also don’t operate a nightly demo derby on their docks from 10 pm to 5 am. XPO does a lot of overnight point delivery,which fuels the fire of confusion, and chaos on the dock.
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They also have one thing XPO doesn't.......Trailers just look at there Carlisle Pa yard. Drive past it alot
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By the number: Per their web sites....OD has less service centers but more equipment?????Go figure
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http://www.odfl.com/Landings/companyInfoLanding.faces
"OD Currently operates 247 service centers with approximately 41,000 tractor and trailers."
XPO
"~7,900 tractors, ~25,000 trailers and approximately 12,000 professional drivers, operating out of 291 service centers."
My buddy at Saia says the same thing. Plenty of equipment. He drives a new truck and makes more then me. He drives more miles. That’s the biggest difference. I wish I was a little younger, or older. Change or retire.They also have one thing XPO doesn't.......Trailers just look at there Carlisle Pa yard. Drive past it alot
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We do. It doesn’t happen often. We have to give up a half hour before pay. We do our own yard work too. City p&d work dock and we have some full time dock workers that dock is all they do, or if you’re a road driver with a combo run you have to work freight. Weekends are optional at small terminals, hubs are staggered start days 5 day weeks. Start on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday then work 5 days.
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No we do not unless we sit 2 hours then they pay us starting back at arrival time. but normal night I’m in and out MRT (Morristown TN) in less than an hour. Usually by time I drop out and fuel I’ve received my hook card.
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No pay until 2 hrs
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In Blue Diamond and other Transfer Docks where freight comes off trucks into the tray deck in the middle and then resorted into other trucks on the far side going to specific customers. It was all manual labor.
In the 60's before Pallets and containers, they simply took on high school kids To throw the boxes after school every day. Some of the kids thrived on it and were ready made hires for drivers when they got old enough. Especially if the drivers, company staff etc imprinted them like a pet or a bird of prey or whatever prior to the day to hire them.
As soon you eliminated that cheap labor and started limiting people (Cutting Costs) you see the freight pile up.
Maybe one day they can copy the new Walmart Model being introduced in smaller DC's as I type this. No more minimum wage unskilled box throwers. All gone. Just put a box here there or that one and the computer codes it and automatically sends to to wherever. No one needs to worry about the details anymore. Box gone. Soon truck empty gone. Same with loaded ones.
No problems.
In the 60's before Pallets and containers, they simply took on high school kids To throw the boxes after school every day. Some of the kids thrived on it and were ready made hires for drivers when they got old enough. Especially if the drivers, company staff etc imprinted them like a pet or a bird of prey or whatever prior to the day to hire them.
As soon you eliminated that cheap labor and started limiting people (Cutting Costs) you see the freight pile up.
Maybe one day they can copy the new Walmart Model being introduced in smaller DC's as I type this. No more minimum wage unskilled box throwers. All gone. Just put a box here there or that one and the computer codes it and automatically sends to to wherever. No one needs to worry about the details anymore. Box gone. Soon truck empty gone. Same with loaded ones.
No problems.
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Wish we were payed. Not so if was so I would have a lot of money.
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Taking "avoid the back" to a new level...
We get paid starting at our gate time
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I can speak for my terminal and we do. You're told by dispatch to clock in starting at your gate time. We can also let our LH manager know how long we were delayed and he will pay us.