Good, Bad, and the Ugly about LTL (or your company)

Yeah, but I only pay $50 a month for my health care. Considering everthing else that is covered, I am sure Reddaway (YRC) picks up some of it. I just found out that they don't pay us the extra 2 hours of holiday dispatch pay anymore if they send you out on a holiday. Can't wait for things to pick up again.

 

I read your post before I left for work this morning. You gave a fair argument and quite a bit for me to think of. I definitively see both sides of the coin. My position is this: I work out of a terminal with less than 15 people. We are far isolated from corporate politics and we do not come into this "cost-cutting" scrutiny that the rest of this (or any other industry) is vulnerable to. While my benefits are not superb, I get paid enough to come to work happy, leave work happy, and have enough to pay my bills and set some money aside. All my coworkers are great, and the guy that supervises all of us takes good care of us to make sure we have a positive work environment.

On the flip side of the coin, I also worked at a larger company that was staffed with over 600 people, and cost cutting was enforced at all levels. Even if it was at the expense of their prized workers that made everything happen. So yeah, I would have loved go be part of a group that protected my interest and kept my job environment safe, fair, and non-hostile.

One thing I would see as an outsider is that unions tend to take control away from the private owner of a company. Seeing how most companies are publicly traded, I guess I don't feel so bad. It is where you are based out of. Like I said, I am lucky to have my job.

Good insight though.

 

All of our trucks are antiquated.. we don't have nice trucks. Just nicer pieces of crap. The downside is that they all run like crap and at the same slow speed. 15mph up hill pushing a rocky set?!?! I will sacrifice my heater and radio just to have a truck that can go 70 mph to keep up with the flow of traffic. If I were in your position, I also would take the truck that does 75. You made a good choice.