Yup, Chuck W treats his region like he owns them. I have tried to think of better ways to explain it, but i cannot. Make no mistake, I am not a lazy driver, I was hired after Saia bought Connection. But this place works you to death.
I'll briefly describe what i saw just a few days ago. City driver from another terminal spent the week at a different terminal helping out. Friday on his way home, linehaul had him stop by this terminal on his way home to drop and pick up his terminals freight. Dispatcher told him he needed him to work the dock before he went home. This was 9pm at night and the city driver told him he already spent the day doing P&D at the other terminal, and still had to goto his terminal through really bad weather(he was right) and if he left in 15min, when he got home it would be 14 hours. Our dispatcher told him to hold on a sec, went and talked to Chuck, Chuck told him to use his 16 hour rule and to work the dock for 2 hours.
This is coming from the Reg Manager.
Its crazy here, no doubt.