ABF Checker/Driver + Dock/P&D vs ABF over the road??? What's better?

You also have a #### good rate of pay and retirement which 90% don't have.

 

What's the scoop on hourly pay for P&D with the new contract?

 

2 years for a week's vacation. No thank you!

 

Could be worse. Doing this crap with zero OT after 8, Paid medical cost, Horrible equipment, Stupid coworkers, Sleeping in the truck. Work the weekends, $14hr , sub contractors.

Sure, Vacation is nice, Crap happens, Thankful have none of the above. Next contract we should vote in 20 weeks vacation, Just so someone complains about excessive.

 

Welcome to my world! I've got an app under review at ABF. (Fingers crossed.)

Don't really even care about the vacation. I'd just take an unpaid week off I guess.

 

Keep us updated.



PS- Not in your world, If HR allows, welcome to our world

 

All very very interesting...

 

You can only take time off when you accrue it. When you go home you'd better get some sleep cause chances are you'll be back in off your ten. Starting out you're going to do mostly nights. Sometimes you go to customers along a route and swap out trailers and then continue on to a terminal. The hardest part was trying to get used to sleeping (or not) at all times of the day or night. Never drove so tired. Also if you like to listen to a radio or use a cb you have to bring your own and remove it out of each truck you drive.

 

I actually just started at ABF as a checker/driver. I'm not sure about other terminals but at my terminal (duncansville, PA) you have to work 4 months casual, meaning on call, at $20/hr. Then go on the union pay scale full time which is $26/hr the first year and $27/hr after that. I'm still casual and have been called in every day. Working the dock isn't too bad. I'm slow with the fork lifts so when things get crazy one of the other guys loads and I fill air pillows, put up load bars, etc. What I really like is the hourly pay and I'm home every night and the terminal isn't open on weekends so no weekend work ever (unless I need work then I can go do a carlisle, PA run on a saturday).

The hardest thing for me to get used to is learning my hometown in a truck. I have been driving 4 wheelers and motorcycles here all my life. Now doing local delivery in a truck I have to learn the truck routes to places I have gone to all my life in personal vehicles.