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

haha well im lucky the gf isnt high maintence or that expensive. Then again she lived in Croatia half her life until she met her father here and decided to live in the states (long long story). Friday night is our night, usually every other friday is date night, then the others we hang out with other friends but have to be together. Into all the sme stuff I am like 4 wheelers, boats, jumping on the bike, cars, heck she even helps work on my car which normally is me teaching her everything LOL. Im glad my friend who is a complete flaming you know what set us up lol... deff paid off still being friends with him when he finally came out, others stopped because of it. whatever though, your gay, a different race, religion etc, doesnt matter to me, friends are friends

Although Im on bid my runs change every day. My bid consists of 19 terminals, all fairly close. Either I will turn one of then and go back to terminal 123, or they will send me out on combos to others making a day out of it. 75% of the time when I do those 350-500 mile combos I usually get a fairly good truck. We have 3 bids though that have guys do a 145, 187, and a 104 run every night for the first half, then go back and do whatever 2nd half they can get. Then we got the long turns which means going out far like 200+ miles and turning that. There are a few runs they have that do the same run every night. Same with the layovers. I dont think I could every do the same run every day. the 19 I run is good for me, about 8 of them know me by first name as well so thats good, I like my bid because I can normally plan things on my set days off which works out good.

On the extra board I have to run 6 trips before I can take time off, and some times I would work every other day. Only good thing was we can book off 24-60 hours off after that 6th trip. If we chose too we can even end our break early and return to work early. I never did though lol. Also with my bid and the extra board, we can take 1-4 hours extended on our breaks. They way my bid works is 7am start time every sunday, and I am supposed to be called on break every day until finished but they always make me sit all day monday until 8pm normally. Yes I know the shop steward is trying to fix it, they like to hold for the time start guys but in the end it screws us because the night sunday guys have more senority and then get called before us on mondays. then the rest of the week we go on break...

I will say I have seen a lot of new guys come and go here as well because a lot of these guys come in, realize they have to drive at night and freak out and quit. I know the only OTR guy I knew there was Bucky, and hes still here with us, just very happy to have the job nd doesnt care what time or where they send him. There another new guy who worked delivering to Mcdonalds, all at night as well so it doesnt bother him the least bit. Dont know why these OTR guys all call it a night at sundown, heck you cant find a spot at any rest stop or truck stop, theres guys out in the street and sides of the highwau

4 days out and 3 off isnt too bad, money aint bad either but what about all the benefits though. Yea dont get me wrong, I like YRC, ove what I do but cant stand our management we have, all clueless and rats. HEck I have had to file 2 grievances already. UPSF uses sub-contractors? Surprised the teamsters allow them too. I know with us, they refuse to let the sub-contractors pull our freight, although we do use the rail yard A LOT, the teamsters dont mind as Norfolk Southern is union as well... It is nice if we are waiting for trailers to be unloaded, and theres tons of trucks, they will always no matter what come to us first and get us off, my shop steward said its because we are union as well, and the other companies they arent in a rush.

78mph pulling doubles just sounds a lil crazy to me, when I get a truck that does 70 with them I feel a lil uneasy, now 75 with a van is no problem to me

 

then again he does have a lot more experiece than us as well... just something with a set kinda makes me feel uneasy

Oh yea forgot to mention, my check this week... lets just say the most money I EVER made, even more than I was bartending!!!! lets keep this up

 

Yea I do the same, also the northeast is famous for pot-holes, I had one trailer leaning to the side last week and was scared for my life lol, thankfully it made it. The other day I had a 20k lead and 19k kite, a truck with no eng brake, and a single screw. a 1.5 hour drive took me over 2 hours through the mountains, but the guy who came after me had a 11k lead and 5k rear... now that was stupid, the couldve mixed the trailers, up. When I got off the highway the brakes were smoking like crazy, I mean BADDDDD. They stunk up the whole yard

 

I would like to leave NY. Go to either PA, or NC. Only problem is if i do marry this girl I know she would never ever want to move away from her family so I would be SOL. I wouldnt mind moving into my dads house though, its fairly cheap in NY and would only be 10 miles from the terminal there. Im waiting for them to get another road position before I make the move, this way at least for now I would just stay at my dads, and if I get married I get the house lol.

Tennessee? Must be cheap there, with your money youd be able to get a nice big place! We do have a distribution terminal in NAshville so at least theres an option for you. im sure yur daughters wouldnt be too happy though...

UPSF im surprised they use outside carriers, I know they dont with us or ABF. With ABF they are trying to make it so they can sub out. I dont agree with subbing out as it makes your own not working. Look at CWF and Fedex, majority of their freight is subbed out, i remember at the bihs at CWF it looked like a CRST, Werner, Multi-Group logistics yard over a CW yard