Conway Freight help please!!

I know. Being new it would suck because dockwork usually makes up about half of my check.

 

Yea so does my night. I hope we one day operate like YRC, ABF, Holland and etc with no more dock work... Heck I would even do layovers

 

I'm in Western NY area.

 

Thank you everyone for the insight, looks like I am just going to have to toss Conway, it really sucks I was looking forward to that job. Now I recently found a job that pays considerably less then I've made the last 5 yrs but at least the hours are there and it will pay the bills. Back to the drawing board I guess. Anyone happen to know of any company's that may need dock work from say 5pm on for extra income?

 

Most LTL companies outbound starts around 4-5..maybe a little earlier to get a jump. But most will have you on a flex type schedule where hours and start times aren't guaranteed. Today its light, you may come in for 3 hours or not at all. Tomorrow they are slammed and need you in at 3. Just the nature of the business.. Some can put their life on hold for that schedule, no thanks. Did it for 2.5yrs and im over it. Haha

 

DSR (Former Employee), LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA
Pros: pay, weekends off, home daily(though only long enough to sleep)
Cons: horrible treatment, cameras in cabs, no breaks


Long days without breaks, they call all their employes DSR's (Driver Sales Representative) do to a loophole in the labor laws that state labor laws do not apply to sales reps, if you work the dock all day and decide to take a break after 12 hours they can and WILL fire you for stealing company time!

Aside from being treated horribly this is a great place to make money if you cant find a driving job elsewhere, they start at $20hr (or $0.42mi for LH) and work you 60-70hrs a week whether you like it or not, If you work on linehaul plan on sitting on the side of the road for a few hours every Saturday morning because they WILL run you out of hours every Friday night.

They will hire people fresh out of driving school so this is a good place to get the 1-2 years driving experience that other companies require! –

 

My Con-way experience. I was hired right out of "cdl school" lol for 6 and a half years i worked about 55-60 hrs a week. I made all the mistakes a new driver can make,from scraping a building to jacking in the snow,not hard to do when your in a 53' and only have 3000 lb all in the nose,but no damage. In the beginning you go along to get along,being told you have 15 min to pretrip,hookup, check your bills load your jack and handtruck and secure your load. Did the flex board for about 6 months running city and linehaule in the same week . I am a company motivated guy, I always give the extra mile when I would see con-way drivers posting about hand unloading 5 grand of plywood and looking for a atta boy I would chuckle. I hit maby 2 docks all day on my route and more often than not no forklifts,comming from a roofing backround hard work is a way of life for me. In all my time driving for con-way I never had a close call dropping a trailer,till jan 26 2014, 26 days after they made dropping a trailer in the street a catastrophic event, the day before they called us in after 6 hrs cause it was snowing so hard. I hooked as i always had,got the nick name last to leave , the trailer dropped half in the driveway the tractor on the road ,no one was injured,nothing was damaged,the air and electrical line didnt come abart, and no one inside knew i dropped the trailer. I rehooked, pulled in the yard and was asked what did you forget? I always told my SCM everything that happened to me , never lied and I did the same here.......almost 7 years and no dot accdents,no tickets, and running 150-200 miles a day and they let me go. Im the living proof you can be the guy that dose everything for your co. and coworkers,"who are a great bunch of guys" and still lose. And in a footnote 14 other drivers dropped trailers that same day. not all were fired including the state driving champion. Con-way is going corporate,if you choose to go there watch your six,thanks for listening.

 

Ouch, I feel your pain man. But that is the con-way. Life goes on. Sucks you cant get back your years of dedicated service

 

Conway is one LTL I would never work for. Too many horror stories to be coincidence. I walked into the their Seattle terminal one time before I got on with OD and they were a bunch of captain jacka**es behind the counter who acted like they were doing me a favor by even talking to me for 15 seconds.