Dayton Freight - Milwaukee is hiring Linehaul drivers. Starting at .565 CPM Home Daily

Son of a gun, I thought they were union. Were they ever union? I suppose it was silly to think any union freight haulers still exist.

 

I've heard stories of barns that might have been union or were attempted to be unionized in the past, but I don't really know enough elaborate. The whole company is non-union now, though.

Dayton seems to be able to avoid any need for a union by emphasizing respect between drivers and management and accepting driver input when making certain policies that affect us. For instance, many of our bidding and seniority rules were established by driver votes. Shortly after I started, I participated in one regarding how seniority was to be handled when a dockworker became a driver or when a "B" driver got their Class A.

Union LTLs certainly still exist. The big ones being YRC, UPS Freight, ABF, and the YRC regionals like Holland and New Penn. Unfortunately, the Great Recession forced many of those drivers to accept wage and benefit concessions to try and keep those companies afloat. YRC was most affected, so those jobs in particular are not what they used to be in the heyday of Yellow, Roadway, and Holland. One union company I can think of, Alvan, shut down during that time. The union is definitely weaker than it was in the past, but not gone by any means.

 

Thanks, yeah, I was thinking of Holland. I was a union driver for Brownberry bread in Oconomowoc ( then Best Foods, then Arnold's, and now Bimbo ,,,chuckle, Bimbo, glad that wasn't on my trucks door) in the mid 90's. We had about 10 union drivers, and maybe 2 non-union outside carriers for longer hauls. I'm pretty sure all those union drivers are gone now and it's all outside carriers. I just remember, those Dayton Cornbinder trucks must have been "turned up", as they always past me at 70 mph, and there were always 2 or 3 running together. I seem to remember , a Dayton driver was killed by the Milwaukee airport a few years back.
Hey Misfitrucker, I like the Diamond Reo in your Avavtar. Yours?

 

I forgot about the bread haulers. I think there's still plenty of union bread guys, too.

 

I picked up a load from Bimbo last week. Had to laugh at the name. I figured it was a foreign company because of the name. I noticed when I went in the office that it was union.

 

I worked for an asphalt company in Lake Mills, and they had a Diamond Reo day cab, like that as the low boy tractor, it was pretty tired, but even still, you could tell it was a nice truck at one time. Fake wood dash, and overhead console with radio and switches, and that was a big hood.

 

Hmm, you're right. I had to look that up. Apparently, Bimbo (how the heck anyone can name their company Bimbo is beyond me) is the American division of a Mexican company, called Grupo Bimbo. It's the largest bakery in the US. In the time I worked there, my checks changed names 3 times.

 

yrc, and, holland, ups are union and they hiring in illinois