What is an Open Board?

Means you don't have to bid for a job

 

You dont have your own route. Basicly you fill in for people who are sick born on vacation. Also handle any overflow that doesn't fit on regular route. Also called extra board

 

Open board, you get all the baloney nobody else wants.

 

Open board = pick your own loads

 

Blue Water is a typical MI auto parts supplier outfit. I work for one also, and while not Blue Water itself all the other auto suppliers here in MI it means what @ajohnson said.
Some call it open board, some call it 10%, some call it casual, but it's all the same. Most lane are assigned (I run to Bowling Green, OH and back to Flint every day) but open board drivers fill in when an assigned lane driver is off (sick, vacation, etc) or the plant adds a run because the normal runs are not keeping up with demand. Most places around here all drivers start that way and after anywhere from a couple weeks to several months a regular lane will open up and you can get it.

-Steven

 

Not in this case. It doesn't refer to a loadboard, like an O/O chooses runs from. It is like extraboard, doing overflow runs and covering vacations as others have said.

The problem is that when it is slow, those drivers stay home. If it lasts, those drivers get laid-off.

 

Could be, I use to drive for a company that let us pick what runs we wanted, of course it went by seniority

 

Interesting. Who knows?

OP should contact the company for clarification.