Yeah, me and my partner are one of the teams hanging on. We were sopposed to be LAX dedicated. So far it's just been a Joke. We get to Lax and sit there for hours watcing the crst and Spirit and Paramount teams get loaded and get gone. I wish the axe would fall and just 'git er done'! We were told back in feb., that R+L was looking to upgrade the sleeper trucks, but we haven't seen sh%t so far. What I have seen was yesterday when my partner and I were eastbound through New Mexico, there was a CRST tractor wesrbound pulling a set of R+L pups!!
I gotta tell you, I have only been with R+L for 1 year; 4 months of nitetime linehaul and 8 months of teaming. If my team gets cut I will NOTgo back to linehaul. I am an over-the-road driver and that's all I want to do. The economy, be Damned, will still have jobs for men that don't mind OTR driving. Will they pay the same? Most Likely not. Most likely not even close. I will happily climb into my orange or blue or white tractor, or whatever it takes and put the S.O.B. down the freaking road!