The story we were given on this is....New Penn is still considered a next day service and YRC wants to get it back to what it was before they screwed it up. New Penn can’t provide the on time next day service it used toSeriously, though. I am a little slow. As I understand it now, a road man would never work the dock at a destination, now being reclassified as UE means they could be forced to work the dock like XPO? I'm trying to figure out the advantage to New Penn of reclassifying these guys as UE.
UE was never a thing during my time as a Teamster
Because linehaul isn’t running on time switching to the UE guys will give terminals the flexibility of getting their linehaul in earlier by getting the Utility driver out earlier. It makes sense but weather or not they will run it effectively remains to be seen.
I’m thinking these utility drivers are not going to be seeing a lot of dock work because moving the load in a timely manor is going to be more of a priority. I think their calculating the savings on the drop and hooks that the utility men will be doing without waiting on switchers or yard men.