Experience with YRC ( includes YRC, New Penn, USF Reddaway and Holland

Haha, Ok I got ya. Do you just do Line haul? I too like my time away from home and don't get enough of it at Reddaway.

 

Squonk I have under both wheel and a hog board and both are just fine. The reason some terminals have a hog board is because they want you to take your allotted breaks. When you have a wheel board you have so many guys that will run 500-600 miles without taking a break and trying to hurry back to the terminal and beat someone else there. The hog board allows you to take your breaks and not have to run like a raped ape. As far as staying out, I understand. When I first hired on I lived 60 miles away and the cost of gas was killing me on my 1975 gmc pickup so I used to try to stay out to keep my costs down. There's a lot of guys that do that. As far as sleepers go, I run them outta Chicago and there not bad as long as you get a good partner. I make more money on the sleepers than I ever did on the solo runs but I'm also gone all week instead of being home every other day like I was on solo runs. The only difference is I make a lot more money on team runs. I plan to make around $110,000 on teams. Hope hat helps


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Yeah that's why I liked the team runs at CF. I was making good money but gone for a week. A week is really no big deal to me. The yard was 55 miles from my house, so making the trip twice a week was better than every day. True, it does help to get a good co-driver though. Some just don't wanna run or have an attitude problem. Or they even think they are your boss.

 

Yeah YRC is still backwards when it comes to priorities. They haven't put any of that junk on our trucks yet at Reddaway but I have heard it's coming. I must say that they fix my truck right away as soon as I write it up. If not I'm using another truck till mine is fixed. Same with the trailers. At Reddaway the equipment isn't that bad but when I worked at Yellow it was pretty bad and even worse at Roadway! In 1997 Roadway would paint their trucks and call them new. No power steering or A/C so it had to be old.

 

Sounds like Estes is closing some yards

 

You sure did dodge a bullet! Knowing me, I would have went there. It is a shame when companies put people out of work. Hopefully they were able to transfer or find another gig.