Driving Apprentice Seniority

Your bid/board seniority date would start when you become a driver..

 

That's what I was told too. I also am the first to start out of 4 other apprentices and thought I would have more seniority than them...no its whoever gets their road test and receives their cdl first. Sucks because I already started and the last guy to start isn't til march...

 

Got clarification on this last night from one of our drivers that went through the program a few years back - the senior driver will be the first one hired as a driver. Might piss you off a little but once you've been here for a little while you'll understand it's the correct way..

Say there's a dockworker that's been here for a while and four years down the line he becomes a driver - would you want him to bump you because he's worked for Con-way two years longer than you have even though he's a new driver? The driver board is completely separate from anything else here as an employee..

 

It is what it is....im just glad i got on with con-way. every driver ive talked to has 14+ years so that says something about the company in itself. i already found out that grocery warehouses suck, but i was still gettin paid hourly no matter how long it took.

 

Im the most senoir apprentice at my con-way station. Ive been here for two weeks and they just hired two more apprentices(although ive only seen one so far) Its nice because ill have more of a chance for getting a run on the flex board over them and not the lowest man on the totem pole, but sucks because i have too wait an additional month now for the stupid class to begin when i was suppose to start this week because of the new hires