Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Broken record.

No brakes on trailer (can actually drive it around with brakes applied)

Broken front ladder (again) no way to get 200 pieces out)

Tired of this crap it's obviously never going to change.

Time to start looking at ltl.

Why do line haul make more than p&d?

 

Employer and Locations vary. At my barn. OBL Road driver is making high Cpm ..Home base ( hourly waiting for sets getting ready for OBL.... etc) and then on the clock ( hourly ) at the destination ( waiting or dock work ) then flip back to home terminal ( cpm ). That's the way understood it, Not interested in road driver and done it exactly twice because i had too in 2 years. Please excuse exact definition of 2 trips lol

P&D / Dock ( city work ) my barn is only hourly.
Road drivers more then likely to be at top rate ( seniority ) and combine Cpm / Hourly.
Lot's of different ways to define the money earned and mileage and hours on duty and home time to define "Line haul"s makes more

 

My theory is cause city is a M-F, day shift home nightly. its what most drivers want. So they pay cheap cause there's no problem filling the position. Line haul is nights, 5-7 days a week, work weekends, layovers. Not desirable position so must be compensated to get drivers to do it. Harder to fill linehaul positions. You can go on CL and see q bunch of day shift jobs paying 14-15hr starting and I'm talking the ones that are 7am-6pm
Shifts.

 

Yeah we have a Line run that's short 8 hrs a night weekends off. Done by thurs night, Fri & Sat off, done by Fri night the next week off sat & sun. It's gravy, gets back to the yard at 10pm-11pm-12pm every other night and it's a early out like 9pm the next day, 20hrs off til next run. It has more time off and a great social schedule and pays 60k topped out. It has layovers vs p&d. Nobody wants it either cause of the pay. Less work then p&d. Our p&d guys are working 13-14hrs a day thanks to our low pay and lack of drivers. Hope that runs around in the next year or two might jump on it and live the easy life.

 

So first time this ever happened and I liked it. Lonecowboy would probably be jealous (yeah right) ha-ha!
Last Friday they really really really miss loaded our trailers to the point of where they were unworkable. Mine pretty much was ended up making my day way way way long. Probably really would have been justified bringing the truck back to the warehouse having them unload the truck and then reload it, that's how bad it was. Well anyhow this Friday comes and night and day difference I mean a case here or there out of sequence you know what ever, I'm not going to complain about that.

Anyhow this Friday comes trailer is loaded way better, way better there were though about a dozen cases of pizza dough flour that were packed out of sequence that I had to move, but I looked the warehouse left me a little note. They did never had that happen before taped to the wall of the trailer they left me a note telling me they were sorry about the pizza dough being packed out of sequence and that some stuff came late. Seriously there was this hand written note from them saying the pizza dough came off the belt later then it should have and we had no option were sorry.

 

Haha I did that before and the response I got was "is their a rock nearby" I kid you not, had to bust out the smaller window on the door. All our keys our universal so i have about 5 spares

 

Our keys are universal as well. We have 4 different keys Older Volvo, Newer Volvo, International and maybe Sterling, but we don't have any Sterlings at our yard anymore so that one's out.

 

my food service company kinda sucks until your fully vested for their profit sharing program since we're employee owned. 6 long years to be fully vested and on average they contribute about 15-18% of your yearly salary pre tax and they have a decent 401k also. I cant complain i still make bank for a 21 year old. A lot of the lifers there have around a mil in company stock w/o putting a single penny out of pocket into it. plus if you have a 401k you'll be living real fat during retirement

 

The beer company I worked for lift gates going bad was almost a daily occurrence. They were starting to get on us about pre trip and post trip lift gate inspections.