Go to New England Motor Freight on this site and read the thread about company news.Apostolic said:So would you do me the knidness of reposting this 2631 post?
Thanks
2631 said:Apostolic, I still look back to the time before deregulation as the good old days. In the nyc metro area there were plenty of good paying union jobs & only 1 pay scale for all drivers.
I got my 1st union job in jan. 1969.
I think it only took 8 days to make the list & the union book cost $100
I can only speak from what I have seen & heard in this area. The mob had its hooks into most all forms of transportation. Air freight, ground freight & especially ocean freight.
The Sopranos & movies like Goodfellas are only examples of how the mob controlled this area.
But thats mostly all in the past. They have cleaned up the piers & air freight terminals, & we don't hear much about organized crime anymore.
Do you remember back around 1978 after the lockout ? The word on the street was that down the road there would only be 3 or 4 big trucking companys left controlling everything. It looks like they were right.
Times have changed, only now its greedy corperations & ceo's that are corrupting the system instead of crooked union officials & mobsters.
I have been very fortunate . I'm a high school grad & was honorably discharged from USAF on 1/10/69. I started driving a truck on a union job 2 days later on 1/12/69 & have been in the Teamsters for 37 years. I have been thru 2 closings & am now at 90% at ABF.Apostolic said:I mostly do my posting on the UPS Freight trucking board.
I see you pretty much stay with USF,and ABF.
I also see by one of your posts that you got your start in 1969.
Are you still a Teamster union driver,or are you retired now?
My wife says I'm to nosy,but I'm just interested in people.
It may be the same thing?
But being interested sounds a lot better.
I've got some irony for you.
I quit school with just bearly a 7th grade education.
I was 17 at the time,and just couldn't retain very much facts the the teachers were trying to teach me.
The rest of the story is very long and sad,not worth posting.
I had some hard knocks up till I was 20 years old.
I had a few non-union driving jobs, I went to UPS around the time I got my first Teamster trucking job.
They told me to come back when I had my high school diploma.
Well here I am grand fathered into UPS from Overnite,with no more further education,other than my knowledge of the LTL trucking industry,and my very good God inspired work ethic.
I myself think thats far better than a piece of paper that says you completed 8 years in any school.
Anyway its worked for me all these many years I've been a trucker.
I tried to pm you but your box is fullUnionTrucka said:corporate gangsters are what they're called now. Wall St. has every kind too.
MIKEEEEE said:yo....
as far as preston goes, YELLOW gave them 5 years to turn a profit, they didn't.......
why should they keep a competing carrier whose operating ratio is higher than YELLOW's is and can't provide the level of service YELLOW can???????
the goldust twins, s**** and e***** even after stealing all the chicago-east coast freight from YELLOW couldn't turn a profit......
with faster trucks and longer lanes they couldn't do it........
with assigned tractors, they couldn't do it......
with schnieder pulling their pups between the northeast and atlanta they couldn't do it.......
mikeeeeeeeeeeee
ps; the only things YELLOW salvaged from the whole thing was about 600 pups that had to be set up to YELLOW specs and a 180 door terminal now called RFO, that's it.......
pps; if you were a stockholder like i was you'd know what i know too.........
Apostolic said:Companies owned road rites.
For you youngins,they paid for their trucking routes so to say.
Every aspect of the industry was regulated in that everyones freight rates where the same.
It was also a good time the be a Teamster worker,as everyone received the same wage.
It only took 30 days to get put on their books fultime.
Their were a lot of LTL companies all working,and sharing in their rite to use trucking routes across the country.
After deregulation everything became a free for all.
In the past union routes were closed to non-union LTL trucking companies.
After dereg. anyone could purchase a truck,and drive it anywhere.
The big three trucking companies started discounting to gain LTL customers.
Smaller LTL's started dropping out of buisness.
After awhile when the discounts got so low,like now,the big trucking companies started buying and merging remaining LTL companies that were struggling to operate.
Than with Yellows case ,and Conway,they bleed the good customers from the struggling companies,than let them go.
Now I'm sure the more brilliant Teamster posters will be able to straighten me out if I'm not completely correct in this post.
But thats about whats happened to LTL trucking over the years,the rich,get richer,the serviving companies could care less about their competition,if they can't compete with their rates,they'll just buy out their stock,bleed them dry,and throw them away.
sheath said:Anyone know what the status is on Preston's annual Indy reunion? It's usually around this time of year.