Experience with YRC ( includes YRC, New Penn, USF Reddaway and Holland

Haha maybe. I wonder why our equipment says Reddaway on it still? All the Roadway and Yellow trucks and trailers say YRC out here. Slow for me again and my yard is hiring! I'm getting really sick of waiting by the phone to see if I'm gonna work. It is keeping me on edge. Not looking good for a bid run in January. That means It will be another year of extra board! I am doing LTL so I can be home more, not to feel like a prisoner in my home. Always trying to sleep or waiting for the phone to ring is driving me crazy. Can't really make any plans. Don't know if i have another year of this in me. I don't feel healthy (another reason I gave up OTR) and still feel like a zombie all the time. Maybe I should just get out of trucking all together, haha actually been saying that since 1999! All right I'm done wining, gonna go sit by the phone.

 

Well darn, we're slow again this week. Had a good week last week, but, looks like I'll only get one day in this week. The terminal is practically empty. Maybe I'll get lucky & it will pick back up by the end of the week, but, I doubt it. Looks like I'll be sitting till next Wednesday. Good thing I quit drinkin. lol

 

Squonk, do you work out of Indianapolis? That's a pretty good sized city. I would think you would have quite a bit of freight over there. I guess it's probably gonna be like this till the recession or depression is over, if that ever happens. I still have a hard time understanding how one week we are so busy and the next is dead. Good thing you don't drink lol. Hope it gets steady for you soon.

ACH1130, There was the Yellow terminal in San Bernardino, CA, the one I used to work out of. They closed that yard and now they are all out of the old Roadway yard in Bloomington, CA. There are several yards out here for YRC being in the Los Angeles area. However, I don't see any Roadway/Yellow anymore. Every time I see them it says YRC. Reddaway says USF Reddaway. I'm sure they are still out there but I've yet to see one. In fact I rarely ever see YRC anywhere. I wonder why I only pull Reddaway trailers? We never pull YRC, Yellow or Roadway. I understand New Penn is still New Penn also. Whatever!

All the union drivers are in this click where they say how long it should take to do a certain run or whatever. It was that way when I worked at Yellow. A bunch of drivers came up to me and explained how things worked. I am a hard worker too and always finish my work fast but I felt I had to get with the program or they would not accept me which would have been the case. So I milked it too. It was hard for me to do and I never got used to it. It made me bored. Being an OTR driver for many years, running teams and going to Carlstadt, NJ from Los Angeles every week made me really efficient at my job. We used to do it in 44 hrs each way every week. I should mention the truck did 78mph. I understand being local you want to go home, get ready and go out. I wouldn't want to milk a local job if I were you either. Now me I would milk it cause I don't have anything going on anyway. Line haul is different. I just high tail it to my destination and go to sleep. Since it's mileage it doesn't really matter. At Yellow they had the line drivers running the rail yard and shuttling trailers to other yards. That paid hourly so that's why I was schooled on that. Line runs didn't really matter to much.

 

False alarm. I got the call about an hour after I posted. lol :smt023 Now that I think about it, the employee parking lot is a better indicator than the ready lines. Those can fill up rather quickly, but, if the employee parking lot is nearly empty, that's a bad thang. The employee parking lot was nearly full when I got back Tuesday eve, that's why I got back out. Still, it's not just slow at our company/companies, it's slow everywhere from what I've been told. Hell, I even make good money when I only run 3 days. I thought my take-home for today's payday was gonna be like $400.00, but, to my surprise, it was $692.00. I'm not gonna worry about anything anymore. It's all good. Just don't be silly and empty out your bank account & you're good to go. I'm feeling guilty & retarded right now because I stopped at Olive Garden & did the 'all you can eat spaghetti'. I can't freakin move.

 

I probably average 500 take home a week. I think it's a joke! Can't really say for sure cause I'm to lazy to figure it out, might be lower. Not a good wage for living in this overpriced, tax loving, dump of a state California. I was so happy to get this job, but as time has gone on I feel like I made a mistake. I thought of it as the old USF Reddaway and not YRC. Back in the day everyone wanted a job at Reddaway and now they have a hard time keeping guys or getting good drivers. It's hard making so little money. I'm used to grossing between 1100 and 1400 a week when I was OTR. I keep saying I'm waiting for that bid run but that's not a sure thing either. I saw Estes cut a bid run and the lower guy on seniority got put back on the extra board. They cut my bid run to Reno, which was the highest paying run and gave me these short Santa Maria turns. Nobody wanted the Reno run because of the snow but then they started doing turns to Bishop instead and a lot of the higher seniority guys snatched them up. So I'm not sure what to do.

 

Hey Cool, that isn't bad money once you get there. 52 cents a mile for a solo guy is good money! As you know I've been looking into Reddaway and if I can stick it out to top pay I think I'll be fine. You're right about sleeping in a truck, it's getting old. Not to mention some of the co drivers I get

 

500 take home! That might be tough to swallow.

 

Fattboy, Take what I say lightly. I'm a bit on edge these days. I don't like being on call and I haven't been sleeping much. To be honest I'm not sure what I really average a week. Some weeks are slow and others are busy. I know my average isn't much though. Ok I figured it out to be approx 550 take home a week claiming single 0. I guess that's ok for only working here about 6 months. I'm just worried about the slow season. I know you living in Cali know that it's tough to live unless you're making 70k a year. I'm used to making between 1175 - 1425 a week. My average was probably 1250 a week all year. I was only gone 4.5 days and home 2.5 days. I had it good and should have stayed where I was at.

Reddaway is a good place to work. We have good equipment and they are always on top of it when you write it up. Management is really laid back and the drivers get away with all sorts of stupid things. I watch them screw up all the time. Most guys move at a snails pace and no one says a word. Seems to be almost impossible to get fired. Pay does start out low but they pay for benefits and are really cool to work for. My only gripe, and this is with all ltl companies, is the extra board/being on call. I am one of those overly responsible people, so I wait by the phone or bug them (which I think I need to stop doing). I like to have a schedule and it throws me out of whack mentally. I have always done dedicated work and it's what I'm used to. I always knew when I was coming and going. Now it is all up in the air. They try to give you 3 trips one week and 2 the next but it never seems to work out that way, for me anyway. That's the only thing I can find wrong with Reddaway and the pay is about 5 cpm less per mile than most other places to start. That .25 cpm raise was a typo. It was supposed to be .025