Annual Bids

Bid runs for us is once a year. Senior drivers tend to take all the day work while junior drivers work at night. Everybody pretty much stay's the same except when there's drivers who wind up retiring and they're runs go up for bid.

Only bid runs that we have that is permanent is the Letter Carriers. Once they bid on a run, it's there's until they retire. Same goes UPS package delivery drivers. They can have the same run for 35 years if they want it.

 

Where I am your bid is permanent unless you want a run a junior has. Not seen one I would want. I have had my run 22 years, there's guys chomping at the bit for my run but that's how driver retention works.

 

LTL's don't have bumps?

 

Mine does. Got bumped today in our current bid process. I wanted out of that route though, so I wasn't going to bid for it.

 

I work food service and we bid twice a year and we can either bid shuttles (linehaul) or routes and our seniority dove tails for both

 

What's a "bump"?

 

Seniority bumps can be used any time you have one to bump a less senior man off his slot. He then gets a bump to do rhe same, if he can. Always good to complain about what a PITA your run is when you're a junior man.