LTLAnonymous
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In Chicago, we got extra for over 40k and doubles.
We tried for years to get a night dock differential. Company always had to force it on bottom two guys. UE runs got $1.00 extra,...but guys working our platform at night assisting the 15-20 UE runs hitting our dock as a NDXP,....got nothing extra.
Why did they allow it to expire? The whole idea was to make that shift more attractive to higher seniority people,....so that the bottom seniority didn't get it jammed up their hind-ends every bid period.
Precisely the reasoning behind giving the UE an extra dollar. If they hadn't done that,.....the UE would've been flooded with low-seniority, disgruntled, angry, unmotivated guys feeling shafted by the seniority process.
And how well would the Premium Service/UE rollout worked,....if it was jammed on the bottom guys?
Good job posting those, Brother! Facts are always better than speculation...
Can't believe the roads have shrunk so much.
I see Atl to Charl pays 240, we got 262
Well okay, but...I got 239 miles on my map here, so... Maybe they got a new location?
That has since come to bite drivers in the ass. The household mover's guide goes post office to post office, and apparently it's not what it used to be. LolBack in those days, companies used the same mileage scale regardless of their terminal location.
Post office to post office.
That has since come to bite drivers in the ass. The household mover's guide goes post office to post office, and apparently it's not what it used to be. Lol
Are there more post offices now? Lol that sounds like a dumb question, but it's about all I can think of.
I know I had a little bit of a ‘tude when the UE bid was forced onto me. I never really adjusted to the sleep schedule...surviving (barely) on 4-5 hours of sleep per night. Oops....4-5 hours per DAY! I didn’t do it for a super-long time, and would never EVER have bid into it. My ‘best’ night on that shift was my LAST night. We did, however, get the extra $1 per hour.Why did they allow it to expire? The whole idea was to make that shift more attractive to higher seniority people,....so that the bottom seniority didn't get it jammed up their hind-ends every bid period.
Precisely the reasoning behind giving the UE an extra dollar. If they hadn't done that,.....the UE would've been flooded with low-seniority, disgruntled, angry, unmotivated guys feeling shafted by the seniority process.
And how well would the Premium Service/UE rollout worked,....if it was jammed on the bottom guys?
I know I had a little bit of a ‘tude when the UE bid was forced onto me. I never really adjusted to the sleep schedule...surviving (barely) on 4-5 hours of sleep per night. Oops....4-5 hours per DAY! I didn’t do it for a super-long time, and would never EVER have bid into it. My ‘best’ night on that shift was my LAST night. We did, however, get the extra $1 per hour.
Amen, brother! I did it a long time ago in a different line of work...in my 20’s...and not a trucking job.Not many people are good day sleepers. I worked the late shift for 10 years. I will admit my wife was contrary when I did not get my sleep. She never had to work nights so she & others did not understand why I couldn't stay up all day & do home projects. I often wished she & others in the family would have had to work the graveyard shift for just one week.
Many people work shift work, medical , law enforcement & the list goes on. I know a nurse who volunteered to work in NYC with the pending crisis. She has worked several traveling nurse jobs across the country but said she just could not work nights with all of the stress & still get her rest. The hospital allowed her to work days because they need her experience in ER.
The world is different when you work the late shift.
In trucking,.........sleep deprivation is the Enemy. Before they changed the logs,...anyone starting off the month sleeping during the day.....working on a Hot Board, where you got called out on your "8"........would be sleeping during the day by the middle of the month, and back to sleeping at night by the end of the month.......your only hope for a break was running out of hours,...coming up on a couple of "zeros" in your 8 day re-cap....
And, of course.....Those of us who started in the '70's...(..or earlier,...Bro. seabreeze..)..can remember how companies routinely coupled your "manhood"...with your ability to stay awake for 20-30 hours at a stretch.....
And we fell for it.......
Way back in the '80's,....the JAMA had an article that said,....if you didn't get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep,...at NIGHT,...following Circadian Rhythms,...then eventually that lifestyle would drive you Clinically Psychotic......
Overdrive Magazine re-printed the article,..........and then Laughingly asked when our Employers would start paying our Disability Checks...for making us Psychotic.......
It would help, if the ENTIRE trucking industry was under the Fair Labor Standards Act,.....No more mileage/tonnage/trip pay.....