UPSF Quarterly report:

I run linehaul out of Carlisle Pa.

 

Oak Harbor was o.k. - then the kids took over and their lawyer friend gutted the union (Teamsters). Haven't renewed their contract in about a decade. Scrapped the health plan and the retirement. The courts said it was legal to scrap the retirement but not the health plan. OH asked for an extension to appeal to the Supreme Court, District Court hasn't ruled on the extension so everything is in limbo.

Pay is o.k. there BUT you will be asked to pull trailers without weighing them first (they have several yards and drop lots without scales). OH will reimburse you for the overweight/overweight on axle tickets if you can't scale BUT you'll have the tickets on your MVR. It could be problem finding another employer with >6 overweight tickets if you decide to leave.

 

So... you refuse to pull the trailer, they excrement-can you and you'd have a legitimate Coercion case, right?

 

Peninsula Truck Lines is a better choice.

 

Oak Harbor wasn't that bad, the only reason I left was because they don't have terminals in Arizona or else I would have tried to do a transfer, they interline with a company called Central Arizona Freight Lines to handle their Arizona freight , its been discussed for years even when I worked for them, that eventually they do want to expand into Arizona and Utah, but nothing as of yet, and that was 5 years ago, if you are P&D they pay overtime after 8 hours, on the linehaul side they pay mileage, but also pay drop and hooks, pretrip,fuel and 15 minute breaks as well, they are still a little lower on pay than others, I think they may be around the low to mid 60s on CPM right now, I would have to ask some of the guys that still work there to find out, when I was there they did install cameras in the trucks and ran them for one year, the company decided they didn't like them and were removing the cameras around the time I left the company, overall I liked working for them, they were pretty cool, they were not perfect but it certainly wasn't hell either, for the most part they were good about buying new trucks and keeping the fleet newer, they were also investing in new trailers but still had alot of old former CF trailers they were using, alot of the dollies were old also and heavy.

 

Oak Harbor is a decent outfit. I’d go here over Central or possibly Reddaway. They are union where I’m at. A portion of the LTL carriers in this part of the NW are. Oak Harbor, Peninsula, Reddaway/YRC, ABF...

 

That "LAF" pay rate is a dreamboat compared to working 3-4 weeks out on foodgrade where I'm at right now. Those poor fools stuck on grocery warehouse reefer you would think would seemingly jump ship immediately at their injustice. That said, better pay is always out there for one's goals on the LTL/Linehaul side of things.

But in my case, am I ready to relocate to an area where the jobs are as plentiful as brain dead, 20 somethings? Guess I may have to bite that bullet and take a dive into the unknown.