Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

@road_runner -

If you were to get hurt doing dock work off the clock, they'd fire you in a heartbeat and worker's comp wouldn't cover medical expenses. It would be all on you.

Go ahead and work after your run if they insist, but stay on the clock as long as they need you. Then come back to work in 10 hours. That's legal and fair. So when you come in "late" the next morning, it's on them. Something has got to give. Don't let it be you.

Aren't they a union shop? Isn't this kind of abuse the things unions are supposed to protect against? Aren't you already making substandard wages compared to other LTLs due to contractual concessions? Don't volunteer to give them any additional concessions directly out of your pocket. Man, your situation has got me heated!

 

Games over bro, time to cya and seeya in the funny papers..

 

Rule I had to learn the hard way: Never do the company a favor. It always backfires and never gets thanked or acknowledged.

I'm the kind of person that will pitch in, it's how I was raised, but in the corporate world it's like showing your belly.

 

Aside from the illegal log issues, you don't get paid properly doing that.

I'm sure most people in here know, but have you named this company? I'm looking to get into ltl in the near future and I need to know who to avoid.

 

this this this a 1000 times this

And doing the favor? nah, they don't care, what have you done for me lately?

this should be tattooed on everyone's forehead.

 

I don't know personally what they are like at the terminals, but around here the equipment is junk and the drivers are worse, at least in line haul. They are probably constantly under the gun, but I'm constantly seeing them speeding far faster than what is reasonable, and I always see them trying to get away with ignoring chain laws pulling doubles with the single axles. Lots of broken down trucks too.

 

Reddaway is part of the YRC mess. It sounds like they are apparently the worst part. In my neck of the woods there's YRC and the regional carrier is Holland. There are plenty of horror stories at both, but this takes the cake. They also have bad equipment, a shortage of drivers, and lower pay. Morale is low, but I have never heard of anyone working off the clock there. That'd never fly.

It sounds like you're on a sinking ship. The late bills for repairs are a canary in the coal mine. Save yourself!