An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

What’s that saying? “If it wasn’t for bad luck, you’d have no luck”

 

I should have that tattooed across my forehead. Or fivehead.

 

I may be wrong, but your previous Wylie experience is totally different than what is happening now isn't it? Moore was sinking and Wylie absorbed them and you were forced to join or leave. SPD isn't going anywhere, they're simply aligning sister companies under the corporate banner. I think you're comparing apples to footballs when you mention your past experience.

 

Ask those of us who worked for Gordon during the Heartland Express transition......they cashed the big checks and were gone in a flash.

 

Woke up this morning and for the first time in a very very long time I did not care what day it was or did not count how many days off I had left before I had to leave again. It was a good feeling.

 

That is my opinion as well. We just went through this with roadmaster group. Almost nothing changed for the drivers. A decent amount change for the office staff but everything I’ve heard is it been an improvement. We upgraded our 15 year old dispatching software To the newest version, changed our shop software to a much more user-friendly version, and updated our maintenance program. We also sold off a bunch of old trailers that were just sitting around not even being used.

 

This is all speculation from an experience at a sinking company. I’ve been through something just like this here at SPD, that by every metric we have access to is not struggling. We just went through this with RMG, and as far as I know my door still says SPD.

As for the 25million for new trailers, who knows what all the reasons behind that is. You may not know this, with the exception of the 80 new roll tarp trailer we bought last year, we haven’t had new trailers in 6 plus years. Most of our specialized trailers are 8+ years old. We did buy a few 48’ trailers for elevators, and a handful of 53’ flats with sliding tandems as a test,but nothing on a large scale. This is all moot, if we do get rolled into Wiley, they would assume all of our debts anyway.

What I do know for a fact is that a few weeks ago they ordered me a brand new truck, and just today they announced they basically doubled the OD pay. I’ll have to put pen to paper tonight but I believe that’s close to a $10k raise for me.

every thing else is just speculation.

Not bad for 2 out of 4 states limiting me to less then the speed limit.