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

New record...2 pick up stops, 7 delivery stops....but I get to keep my conestoga...Park City that finals out in Rancho Dominguez and the other pick up is in Henderson, NV...and I get to go thru Vail....wooo-f'g-hooo

 

Yeah for our 680’s with a stepdeck we are 32,400 lbs with full gear and fuel, we have a few small sleeper lightweight trucks for the 49K loaded, but we can do 47-48K now with our lighter trucks.

 

Well I loaded and headed east over snoqualmie. Had to chain up at the 47 until the 71. Nothing serious just snow pack. Bunch of ######### chaining at the 35 not only in the chain up are, the snow lane, and even some real brain dead morons chaining in the middle lane of the interstate. 12 miles before they were required to and on wet roads to boot. Made it to post falls, chains are required on 4th of July and I only have 18k on my drives. I’ll deal with that tomorrow.

I’m getting rerouted to Wichita to do “tarped load stuff”, against my half hearted protests.

It’s hard to believe but I’m about 90 percent sure this is the truck that was ordered for me before Wylie took over. We were leapfrogging most of the day and he’s parked where I am. Funny how things work out.

 

Ran into another SPD driver at my shipper who is bailing on OTR and moving to one of our local gigs. He said he has had it with the Wylie OTR ########. And he is one of about a dozen SPD drivers I have bumped into who claim to have spoken with Wylie drivers who are claiming they're being told that SPD is being entirely merged into Wylie, and eventually there won't be any more SPD. Hopefully I won't be around here if/when that happens. And he also said that Rancho's local drivers have had all overtime stopped, so there won't be any more helping us lowly OTR drivers with their tarping and securing. I have a better idea, how about we get rid of some upper management redundancy and the rest take a 5% pay cut instead of screwing over the pack mules moving the freight that pays all our paychecks...oh, that's right, we're expendable.

 

You knew this was coming. Feel for ya man.

 

Wasn't a dig at you, we all knew what was going to happen. It was good while it lasted.

 

I think the day that Daseke went from a privately owned company to a publicly traded company was the day it started to decline from an employee standpoint. When they have to put profit and shareholder's needs above the needs of the people who work hard to keep the business going, that's when a company is on a road to failure.

 

I’d rather not advocate for firing anymore of our management team. I don’t think either of us liked when they fired the last three people.

Have you talked to any of the Wylie drivers? I talk quite a bit with a person who works with both spd driver and Wylie drivers. He has said multiple times that Wylie drivers are consistently happier with their company when compared to spd driver.

 

Having been thru a Wylie assimilation once already, there's a difference between a Wylie driver (one who was hired by Wylie) and an assimilated Wylie driver (a driver who worked for a company that became part of Wylie by a Daseke blending). They treat those drivers differently. You've heard of the phrase "red headed step child"? A red headed step child is treated better than the assimilated Wylie driver....and if you like being lied to and micromanaged, then you'll love working for Wylie...that is unless the Wylie tiger has changed it's stripes.

As for firing of management, that's the Wylie way. Their Sanford, NC office staff(their own people, not an assimilated office staff) were fired (before the Moore assimilation) all because the terminal manager wasn't doing his job to Wylie's expectations. One day a van load of suits showed up out of the blue and took over, just like they did at Moore's office. They record ALL landline phone calls into and out of their office (and review the conversations, not just the ones where any kind of possible liability or threat took place, but general chitchat)...what kind of paranoid company does that? When Moore's glass division safety manager had something to say that he didn't want recorded, he would call from his cell phone outside the office because they saved all inter office CCTV camera recordings (and would review them)...Moore's safety guy compared Wylie management to the leadership of N. Korea. N Koreans are happy, aren't they?

 

I just run the loads assigned to me and don’t worry what others are doing. I don’t feel like the red headed step child as long as I’m working. I can’t haul everything.