Because ABF is so profitable, we can ask for more. Most of it we will not get, but some of it we will. Not to mention that ABF offers sign on bonuses of up to $10,000 in some areas of their own doing. No contract language to force them to do this. In my area, ABF currently pays double time for those that work their 6th or 7th day in the city, dock, hostle supplement. Contract states that 7th day only pays double time. Yet our company agrees to pay us either day or both if you choose to work it at double the hourly rate. And yet, for the first 6 months of 2021, our operating ratio was a 92.5%. And, if a FreightWaves article I read was accurate, For the first 9 months of 2021, ArcBest’s LTL division (ABF) has operated at an 89.6% OR which is a 600-bp (basis points) improvement over the last five years. So, ask me again why the union employees of ABF ask for better pay and benefits come contract time.