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

I borrowed it from the hospital scene in Dante's Peak.

 

I am still on the fence about this weeks personell departure, and, on how the live forum leader addressed it..or more like didn't address it. He never even acknowledged any of the positive contributions they were part of, or showed any kind of emotion (he refused to address it for the most part, and only sent out a generic message over the Peoplenet) The people who are no longer with the company were long term employees. Went from drivers to the office, and progressed into management positions. I never really had much interaction with Chubby(the director of Ops), but his wife was the recruiting department manager and a was also involved with working with drivers who were having issues with miles or other personell conflicts. She and I spoke occasionally and I valued her opinion and advice a great deal. She and Chubby seemed to remember what it was like out here unlike some of the other people in that office that have been drivers, but make it seem as though they have forgotten the crap the average truck driver goes thru out here on a regular basis. The part that sticks in my craw...they dismissed these people without it seeming to bother them in the least. They have worked in that same office with them for a long time...been thru the ups and downs of trucking... On the message over the Peoplenet and what little was mentioned on the driver forum, nobody ever acknowledged that they did a great deal to help grow and maintain this company's business. Like @kylefitzy mentioned, they were a major part of the OD development...so these folks invested a lot of blood, sweat and tears in SPD...then they were dismissed...so, as loyal dedicated members of the company...they are just pissed on and discarded... What I am trying to say, if they can do that to someone like that, what keeps them from doing that to us lowly drivers. It makes me wonder why anyone would want to be loyal and dedicated employee and do their very best to take care of the customers if they're just gonna discard you at some point. It's not how things use to be here I'm sure, or else you wouldn't have people staying here for decades and still have a positive opinion of the company. This whole Wylie partnership has made this a totally different company...and the unspoken motto of Wylie, which seems to be 'profit over people' , or 'profit at any cost' is starting to appear here. I might start calling this company SPD 2.0, or Wylie jr...if anyone doubts things are changing, here is the proposed new door logo for the company.(keep in mind they just went thru 2 door sign changes due to a mixup on being legal about part of their name being abbreviated, then changed to LLC from INC)



Notice, it doesn't have any name on it anywhere, just initials. Not sure if they're changing it to just SPD, and dropping the name Smokey Point entirely or just haven't figured out how they want the name and this is a work in process...

 

With all the discussion about lighter equipment, I was expecting midroof's to be on the horizon. The odd thing is, at Moore, our Pinnacles could pull 47k+ on steel trailers, but Wylie's midroof 579's and aluminum trailers couldn't pull much more than that, so I don't see the advantage...and aluminum trailers need to be replaced more often than steel because of metal fatigue because they flex so much more. It was a real pain to pull glass on their equipment.

I truely believe that this will be the last Daseke company I ever work for...after Don Daseke got retired, they turned that corporation into a gong show.