Containerport??

Lol, i have a few friends at hub group out here in chicago... they've been working 2-3 days out of the week and sitting the rest... yet they are massively advertising.... i think that's the norm for CP & HUB. Advertise as their turn over rate is pretty high..

 

Because it's slow is why there is a high turn over. Happens all the time. When I started back in '97, it was really busy, spring of '98 it got slow, I stuck around because I liked my job, and also because I was told this happens all the time. Now, as senior driver, I know that when the slow season hits, it can be brutally slow, or it can be mildly slow. I've had slow seasons where I worked 4 10 hr days, and I've had slow seasons where I've worked 5 days a week, and barely done 45 hrs. I consider anything less than 50 hrs a week.

Few years back, we hired a couple of new drivers during the fall busy season, it was super busy up till mid-March, then the bottom fell out, all of us were barely getting 40 hrs. The two new guys were whining about how slow it was, both were thinking of quitting, the rest of us told them to stick it out, this might last a month or it might last three months. The one guy quit and went some place else, the other guy stuck it out. By June we were back to normal, and crying that we wanted it to be slow again. The guy the quit, he went to work for one of our competitors that's also a container yard. Few months later I asked him how he liked it, he said he was getting the hours, but was bored. Why was he bored, because 60% of his work was "repos", running empties from the depot to the ramp, bobtail back, and do it again. He might do two regular loads in the morning, then repos for four or five hours.

 

Repos are paying 23.7% less this year.