Once again..

we have nothing but problems with out Covenant and CRST contractors.......last week a Covenant driver dropped a trailer leaving the yard, in the employee parking lot.....Nobody could get through until they got 5 forklifts out there to pick it back up


you get what you pay for...

 

For one-way freight where they can cut down on running empties going the other way, they'll probably continue to sub-out to the lowest bidder.
It's just too expensive to pay company-drivers to pull empties around.

What's really scary is that there's a company called Roadrunner Transportation...they're like FedEx Ground of LTL...100% O/O.
You see these guys peddling around town in junk...lousy health bennies, no overtime, maybe make $35k/yr if they're employees working for a contractor.
It's sad...but that's the way the industry seems to be headed.

 

thats funny you say that, I just pulled a load for them (roadrunner) from Commerce, CA to Romulus, MI the other day lol



American Trucker

 

Heck, saw Fed/Ex pulling doubles today, 3 different locations, ALL MEXICANS. We need to have ALL the Mexicans to start contributing to the US. Put in, not just take out.

 

I vote we build a wall that makes the so called great wall of china look small along the US/MEXICAN border....




American Trucker

 

Come on now, were they Mexicans or Americans of Mexican decent? Can you tell? Were they well tanned Italians? Lebanese? Greek? Does Fed-Ex hire illegals?

I'm all for a fence (manned by armed personnel), and illegals ought to be deported, no amnesty, if you broke the law coming here, you should get cuffs and a boot back to where you came from. There is a legal process for immigration in place and it must be followed.

Maybe I'm not as perceptive as you, but I've always had a hard time guessing someone's immigration status by looking into their cab.

In the 1800's there were signs that read "No Irish" in many storefronts. They were later taken down and their memory apparently forgotten. Similar story with Germans, Poles, Scandinavians, Russians, so on and so forth with each european ethnic grouping. This is without even getting into the whole slavery issue or Jim Crow laws.

Have we learned nothing from history?

 

It does not matter if they are mexicans( NO mexican or whatever it is here needs to be here illegally) or whatever,fed ex is ALWAYS in the truck hammer lane holding a truck up along with cars,pick up trucks,motorcycles,buses, and whatever else is unlucky enough to run up on a fed ex. I risk that big ticket getting around that hot fed ex stuff but get around i do. I will now assume that if it is a foreign or other that they just can't read our English road signs and drive accordingly. One would think that fed ex would only hire legal and English speaking drivers but if they are inundated w/that hot freight(someone has got to pull it as it seems as if the true fed ex'ers are not getting the job done) they must hire whomever to haul said hot freight.

Is fed ex freight that hot?
Turn your trucks up and cease holding a working man up. After all,it is your truck, right? And that fed ex freight is that hot,right?

i am assuming it is after reading your rant regarding the late "scabs" or whatever they may be that haul fed ex. Apparently fed ex just needs that hot freight hauled,as in the fed ex'ers ain't cutting it alone, or they would not sub it out.