they are laying off, but if your willing, they try to find work at one of there other teminals...not looking good right now...
According to the company's latest 10-K, the downturn in the economy, coupled with increased competition in the LTL sector of the industry are the main contributors to the decrease in profitability at Con-Way Freight. Andrew
Luckily for me, I was just called back to work at Con-Way freight yesterday, after 13 weeks of layoff. Im happy to be back. Hope things pick-up all over so the rest of the country can get back to work as well.
Are lay offs coming again things are slowing down and management is pretty quite?????? Has anyone heard anything?
Has anyone heard anything about possible lay offs again??? Things appear to be slowing down and management is being very quite.
I have applied at Con-Way Truckload....if they were laying off people, why would they still be seeking to hire new drivers?
One thing I've learned while working here is that you can never predict what will happen and how the company will react/over-react to it. Things have slowed down a bit but a lot of that is intentional - we cannot handle the volumes we've had so some freight has been dropped. It's really not a bad thing. I have no idea whether there will be lay-offs but it's the nature of the LTL industry - it's always slow from January through March and most companies lay off during that time.
I am one who was laid off as well. I'm kinda in the know and I think it's a bunch of BS. Not because I was laid off, but for their reasons. Once again it all has to do with "NUMBERS" and what that means, no one really knows. Each DSR is assigned an average weight, say 20,000lbs. So if inbound brings in an average of 200,000lbs daily for several months, the "NUMBERS" state the terminal only needs 10 DSR's. So if there are 13 drivers, three get laid off. Now if there are 2 dock workers, they get an "economical termination". This is con-ways loop-hole for an unwarranted firing. So now 1 or 2 drivers get laid off and 1 or 2 drivers get the option of working the dock. Its all what they want to do because the numbers game is make believe. My opinion is that this is their way of making back the money that was wasted on hand-helds and safe-stacks. Both have not improved business at all and safe stacks have created over 30 million in claims. that's almost the cost of installing the safe-stacks. I also believe this because 2 people from my terminal got laid off but we have daily 40-80 thousand lbs of freight sitting, so in reality we need drivers. I can go on and on. but keep this in mind, people are being basically fired for no reason but TM's, sales people and higher ups get to keep their company cars, gas cards, blackberrys and laptops and much much more.
