Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Were very similar (not employee owned although I would like to work for an employee owned company) however we do have profit sharing where I work as well 5 years 100% invested. Retire by the time you're 50 if you play you're cards right.

 

And if your body holds up right. It's a hard life, particularly knees and back...

 

well, another crisis must have happened (or someone pulled their head out of their ###, but I"m betting on another crisis), I got back to the shop and there were easily 50 guys from both corporate and ryder starting to go thru the trucks. As I backed in I said "I sure hope you are here to fix this crappy equipment"

yes, yes we are.

We shall see.
it's not that it all needs to be brought up to snuff which it does, but it needs a continuing plan for how to keep it there.

still it gives me hope.

 

So, what happened after you woke up? hahahahaha

 

So the new guy took the wrong trailer... and dispatch can not get a hold of him because he has he's pop music so loud he can not hear the cop car or DOT pulling him over last time he drove...
He never pulled reffer before but he got one on the hook now.( It needs fuel)
Poor dispatch is pulling his last bit of hear out of he's head and the superviser has been calling him like a mad hatter and the company CEO is on a visit from corp sitting back in a chair just to see what happens and if they can Handel the pressure.

All most wonder if it was planned.

Ahhhh... I needed a day off anyway.

 

Yeah ours is called the ESOP program employee stock option program. I'm torn whether I want to stay here or not. I wanted to be an o/o like my pops was but not so sure anymore. Since im so young all the older drivers are telling me to stick it out and you will live large later on in life. I have one of their hardest runs atm but if i stick it out down the line I'll have a pretty tit run w/high miles and lower case counts.

You work for GFS right? I see those guys around nyc. Just curious how do they pay you? we get per mile and by the case, on time bonus, perfect truck bonus and on the run i do 150 per diem for the week. Gross around 1200 on average. on time and perfect truck bonus makes a big diff. my bonus this week was $145. we run illegal, basically an outlaw company.

Ok heres my rant for the day is when I get truck # 483-443. its limited to 1550 rpm with a dd15 that has already had its nuts cut off and im loaded with a 1450 case truck running all these hills. Ryder seems to set the rpms wherever they feel like it that day. our trucks are set anywhere from 1550 all the way to 2000. that dd does not like to lug way down. and ###### I hate the straight 10s give me a 13

 

@ Roadrunner and EHB:

Hey, never a dull day in this business. Well, OK, maybe a few dull days I guess. I pulled into our dock one day and noticed a pup that was at one door. It was tilted forward, and the back wheels were off the ground. The fork lift was still inside, although the forklift driver had managed to get out, with some minor head wounds. . .
He didn't realize that this pup was one of the ancient ones with the landing gear set too far back, so he didn't engage the front stabilizer. . .

 

I do work for GFS. We get paid flat rate, case count, millage and stop pay. We also get fuel and safety bonus and accuracy bonus too making sure we scan everything, which I like doing anyhow so it's cool. It's not a bad system. Yesterday was the first Friday that I didn't actually struggle through it. Hit the ball early hit it hard and by 11:00am I was working one stop with one very large stop left and 2 little stops in fact the one was so little i just put it's stuff to the back of the trailer and didn't even pull the ramp out.

I started trucking when I was 25 almost 26 really I don't know it's all water over the bridge now, but Brett I should have started at 21 like you did. You've got a really good opportunity really you do you could I mean I should have started when I was you're age glad I started when I did, but trust me you're a 1,000,000 miles ahead of other 21 year old's, there in debt -70,000 every year and you're +70,000 grand $70,000 a year at Willowrun foods isn't anything to sneeze at you could not really do any better then that anywhere really.

What's funny is like my brother he works for a big investment bank as a trader I don't know how much money he makes, but if I had to guess he doesn't make $1,000-$1,300 dollars a week that I do. Infact he's about ready to look for another job in the financial services market.

There are guys at my yard who started when they were my age about or so at GFS and 20-22 years later there living pretty high on the hog. They don't really worry about money and they have transit jobs and you know one of the transit drivers said to me "Years ago I dated this girl who was a lawyer and I made more money then she did she kept on saying I can't believe what you guys make at GFS."

A lot of people out there out side of our industry don't think about it really. My immediate family mom and dad know what I do, but a lot of other people they don't have any idea. You're doing everything right.

 

no no no
that's crazy talk
this is trucking, survival of the fittest, every man for himself.

training? what's that?
communication? what's that?
writing up instructions and directions for others? what's that?

that's crazy talk, you're going to get banned if you keep it up.