XPO vs Central Transport ??

Both, from what it sounded like, but more P&D I think.

 

Passed the post-offer physical today. It was pretty basic and easy. They take your BP a few times, and have you do about 6 different tasks and take your HR after each task. Tasks were things like keeling down on each knee, squats w/o weight, carrying weight across the room and back, picking up weight from floor to waist, lifting weight from waist to shoulders, and pushing/pulling weight across the room and back.

 

First day is a wrap. It was great. We worked about 10.5 hrs doing P&D. Mostly in town but 2 pick-ups about an hour out. Everyone at my barn is really nice, and some have been doing this for quite a while and know their stuff. The fella training me is great. I think we did about 16-20 deliveries and 5 pick-ups. I feel blessed to be in this game.

 

Lots of stops were very close to each other. But we were all over the place, including a few in a town an hour away. Mostly businesses with a few residentials mixed in.

Tuesday’s numbers were about the same. Made a trek an hour away to drop doubles at a Target DC and pick up empty doubles with a few returns in one.

Today was split with the same trainer as M/T, with a different trainer for 1/2 the day. He’s just as great as the first. Both are kind, helpful, and very knowledgeable. We did about 16 or so deliveries and about 8-10 pick-ups. We did a full trailer of pick-ups. We were all over the place in town and up to about an hour out. I think I was on duty around 11.5 hours. Not lift gates today, just docks and forklifts.

Good stuff.

 

Week one is a wrap. Over 50 hours, with O/T after 8/40. I gotta say, other than a few bonehead mistakes I made, and a few damaged deliveries (not from me/my trainer), this first week was excellent and a lot of fun. Hard/fast work but I really dig it. The equipment is good, my coworkers are great, my manager is great, and there’s plenty of work.

I really kicked myself in the ### at the end of today. After running routes for about 9 hrs, I had to move trailers in the yard for about an hour. After dropping a trailer at a dock door, I pulled out and forgot to raise the bags back up. So when I went to back into the next trailer in the yard, I was way too low. I overshot the kingpin, which landed in front of the skid plate. So I had to get an “old-timer” to hold the skid plat down while I pulled forward. These are the types of mistakes I want to make though, where nothing is broken and no one is hurt.

Hats off to the guys that have been doing this for 30 yrs, help a noob like me, and are extremely helpful and nice about it. Seriously.

9 out of 10 receivers I’ve encountered are great people. I truly feel blessed to be a part of this brotherhood..

 

Anyone know how long you have to work for XPO before you can transfer to a different service center?