Experience with your LTL company

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by ACH1130, Sep 23, 2012.

  1. bullhaulerswife

    bullhaulerswife Forum Leader/Admin Staff Member Administrator

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    There is a specific reason that the union forum was moved / merged into politics. The arguments became a constant job for our moderating team, and we needed to focus our attention to the rest of the forum, because there is more going on in the trucking world than just union jobs. We need to spread the mod teams efforts around the forum instead of having them focus on one specific area, thus the reason that we moved the union talk into the political forum where everyone could let loose and feel free to express themselves.
     
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  3. cool35

    cool35 Heavy Load Member

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    Some companies in Cali are like that too. Seems a lot of gas hauling jobs do it and the big OTR outfits that have local. All the ltl I know of pay ot after 8 hours and double after 12.
     
  4. Marksteven

    Marksteven Road Train Member

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    It may have been that way 10 years ago. The days of seeing a union driver sleeping with a newspaper over his head are over. They deliver the same crap us non union drivers do to the same customers.
     
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  5. cool35

    cool35 Heavy Load Member

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    Well Reddaway doesn't make us work very hard in line haul. It's about on par with Yellow when I worked there minus the high pay.
     
  6. db2681

    db2681 Medium Load Member

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    Anyone have any exp. with Dayton Freight at all? Local P/D or Linehaul and Pay, plus overall how the company is.
     
  7. Mastertech

    Mastertech Staff Leader / Admin Staff Member Administrator

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    The owner of the forum deleted it and this was the reason he noted...."Pro-union / Anti-union discussion goes in the Politics forum, please".

    Now, I personally couldn't careless weather you or anyone else on this forum is Pro or Anti Union......what it all boils down to is that EVERY thread turned nasty and creates way to much work for the staff, just like politics did, and we have better things to do than babysit people that are supposed to adults. Jealousy and stuff like that NEVER played into our decision, believe me or not your choice, doesn't matter to me.

    I will close with this....IF pro and anti union talk gets to be an issue in this forum and my staff is having to spend a ton of time moderating this one forum, we will pull the plug on this forum....that's not a threat, so don't take it that way....we don't have the man power to police this all the time, nor do we have the desire to police it.
    It's up to you folks whether this works or it doesn't.

     
  8. Marksteven

    Marksteven Road Train Member

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    My buddy peddles local for them in the same area that i peddle. they are an Excellent outfit, never heard a bad word about them.
     
  9. dirtyjerz

    dirtyjerz glowing beard pouty kid

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    Thank you mastertech. This subforum is a great idea for those of us who do ltl work. Regardless of whether we are union or nonunion drivers we do the same job. We do p&d or linehaul. (Or both) This area should not be about your union is better than mine or you need one. It should be about dealing with shippers, how you run your routes, hooking and hauling sets.

    So drivers lets keep the politics or union debates (and i use the term debates loosely) in the politics section and keep this area of the forum for what its here for.
     
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  10. midianlord

    midianlord Light Load Member

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    I rarely work less than 10-11 hours, often more in fact. The same is true for almost any P&D/LTL driver I know.

    But then I at least get paid from clock-in to clock-out, and the Labour Code applies to my company -- IE, I actually get paid overtime for working OT. Good Heavens, imagine that!

    But...The wages are all the same, have been for years, and so is the (total junk) equipment, and you go to the same places regardless of which company you work for, and have to deal with the unending traffic nightmare that is (insert any North American city here), idiot shipper/receivers --many, in rapid succession, often the same issues every ###### time because of aforesaid stupidity...(I want to work evenings/graves again --The hours may be a bit light sometimes, but infinitely less aggro, you can get #### done at night, and generally seem to deal with smarter people.)

    It's in some ways better in LTL, but it's certainly not the promised land a lot of OTR types seem to think it is. (You actually have to learn how to reverse in city P&D driving, too :biggrin_25525:)
     
  11. ACH1130

    ACH1130 Road Train Member

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    Only CWF seems to be the only LTL that has city p/d done in 8 hours. They know how to load up the truck for that and even call customers if taking to long. Sometimes they call you back before your times up or pick you up and have someone else finish your run
     
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