How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

Its slow here in midwest i get about 30-40 hours a week P&D, some P&D and Linehaul drivers only drive 1-2 times a week and some go weeks w/o driving. Over hiring during the peak of covid knowing freight volumes would eventually come down. Now i think they are secretly hoping guys quit so they dont have to fire them, idk if the bottom guys will get back to a point of driving 5 days a week anytime soon

 

Man that's tragic for those guys. Everyone with a brain knew the freight wouldn't hold.

 

Yea its crazy because they just started hiring drivers in at top rate last spring because they needed them so bad and thats right when we started really feeling the volume drop. 33 an HR drivers were flying over here, now you got 12-13 P&D guys being told to come in and work the dock everyday for 5-6 hours or stay home and not get paid. They dont need them on the dock either just taking hours from part timers its all a mess.

 

I called out Monday and I still worked 48 hours…

I’m 9-9 or 7-9 on rare occasions since new years….

 

It's union over there right?

 

No....

 

That's a tough spot for you guys over there

 

I had a pretty productive week. My bid was only cancelled once and we were short drivers that night so I had to take something else off the extra board. Ended the week with a little over 2500 miles and just under 48 hours logged on my ELD.

 

U must run out of MDW or JOT ? We are never short on road side, and the run short on city on purpose to save cost 45 routes 42 drivers or something but over 70 city drivers and we never run 50 anymore

 

I don’t care to post where exactly I run out of, but it’s nowhere near Chicago.