How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

I really can’t complain about how things are going for me personally at FxF. The company just closed 29 barns last week and there’s another round of furloughs starting in September for some other barns, but everything is going well at mine.

I started on a new bid this week, still running days, and so far it’s been great. Way less traffic and driving a decent tractor with no slipseat.

 

Hah, you said semi-slow

 

I have a buddy that ended up leaving for some reason and is trying to go to SAIA. He's in the Chicago land area. Is it that bad at fxf?

 

Chicagoland area isn’t good right now at FXF. Especially if you work out of a hub. Ready line usually has 8-10 PT vans ready to go. But there’s 10+ road working the dock every night plus 10 or more on furlough.

 

May be a situation where he had to leave then I guess. Last I remember he said a bunch of guys quit and he ended up #13 on the board. He had got a day shift and everything. Isn't fxf Union?

 

FXF isn’t Union....but it seems like they run it like one
Seniority bids...2x yearly bids
Check offs etc

 

I went back and looked at past bids, and my barn has lost one fifth of our runs over the past year. We were just so understaffed to begin with that it never really hit us that hard. It sounds like all of the Chicago yards were staffed up pretty well when things started slowing down, so I can only imagine how hard it hits them to lose so many runs.

 

I just talked to that guy and he said he got bumped to like a double Joliet run. He said he's eating on the run so I was like just try to hold off. Losing seniority and starting over is tough but it didn't seem like a dire situation. Hopefully it blows over and those drivers can be straight.

Estes had a really bad year where they cut a ton of runs and them guys were in a super panic. It all blew over tho. I was on the board at the time so I was bothered by it.