Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Went to the shop yesterday to turn in a truck for maintenance and noticed the Estes yard had some new additions to their equipment. It's kinda bitter sweet to be honest. On one side it cumulates over a decade spent at Reddaway and Holland. On the other hand, I am actually in a far less stressful work environment and things are looking up.

The overall sentiment of many of my former colleagues that are fanned out over the country is that we are all anxiously waiting for our W2's to show up. We are all ready to close this chapter of our lives so we never have to deal with anything related to Yellow again. It is almost like waiting for your divorce papers to come in.

C'est la vie

 

You know, for the past few years when going to work at Holland I always passed this one yard that had an old CF trailer sitting behind their fence that was presumably used for storage. I always thought to myself "what if those trailer walls could talk". You know, the places it has been to? The blood, sweat, and tears that went into loading and unloading the inside. And how it sucked in the mid 2000's or so when they just shut down their doors and just like that thousands of people were without work.

That's going to be a bunch of us for the next few decades when we pass an old Yellow/Holland/Reddaway trailer. Now it's going to be our equipment dotting the back of people's yards and all that blood sweat and tears that we put in will be filled with people's rubbish or winter equipment when it's not snowing.

Circle of LTL life. It's like walking past an abandoned Toys-R-Us that is being converted into a temporary Spirit Halloween. I am glad it is done and over with. I moved on to something better. But I can't help but wonder what happened to my truck. I wish I could have bought it. If was just an old 2006 International with 1.4 million miles on it.