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

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  1. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    a lot of things need overhauled …
     
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  3. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    Is that tfi’s fault or did BCBS make that change? I can’t see a company being able to dictate what brands their insurance will pay for. Maybe I’m way off base?
     
  4. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Not sure. It might be a different package with TFI's insurance. But it's an inconvenient coincidence if BCBS changed their coverage of certain brands around the same time we switched owner companies. I mean, we had BCBS with Moore and at Shaffer, but Moore's package covered some of my wife's med's that Shaffer's wouldn't, but other med's that Shaffer's insurance covered for monthly pharmacy pickup, Moore's insurance insisted that we use the 90 day mail-script service.
     
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  5. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    Fair enough.

    Did you ever hear back on the sick pay rate change?
     
  6. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Not a peep from anyone in either HR department. I will be in Arlington by the end of the week, so I'll see them in person.
     
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  7. Spardo

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    Here in France I pay around € 1400 a year (dollar rate is about equal now I think) and then everything else is covered partly by that and partly by the state. My wife had what they call medical long duration and paid nothing at all, apart from €20 a day if she was in hospital.

    In UK everything is free at the point of delivery (paid for by tax and wage earners contributions) but the system is suffering under cost at the moment and the waiting times for everything except an emergency are horrendous, years in some cases

    I am not a socialist by any means, but France works for me. :)
     
  8. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I take one med that is expensive, @$550 a month. Last time I saw the doc he gave me a new script for this med and some paperwork to get me set up to get the meds from a pharmacy in Canada. I now pay $57 a month for the same pills that I was getting before.
     
  9. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    In DFW, they don't need to get that much to get paralyzed. Every one of those tall flyover ramps will end up closed with trucks stuck on them. I lived in the area for 15 years and it was the same thing every time.
     
  10. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    She has some meds that are a narcotic that she has to get blood work done every 90 days (to prove she is taking them). Those used to be available thru the mail, but the government passed some sort of regulation that they have to be filled at a brick-n-mortor pharmacy. Those were the most expensive because they had to be name brand. All the other scripts are cheap because they can be generic. Then she was put on the Libre 2, and got them at CVS for $75/mo. Then they started giving bogus readings after the 1st 7-8 days. (Each unit works for 2 weeks). So they switched her to the Libre 3. Which, we found out, aren't covered anymore...on the new insurance they're $500/month They worked fine for 6 months (each unit still only last 2 weeks), then in the last month, they started only working right the 1st week and giving bad readings the 2nd week. So now our insurance gave her the other brands she has to get a new script for. But they're only $70/mo, and are covered.
     
  11. supersnackbar

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    I guess we're sharing freight with more former Daseke companies than Lonestar and Wylie. Called the shipper's number on my load info to see if I was at the right place (there is nothing but roll stock at the address I was sent to) and I get the voicemail for COTC's brokerage department.
     
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