Experience with your LTL company

ACH1130,
I agree with you that the hard workers and the ones who do everything right have higher expectations of them. It is like that at my yard. People call in sick and at the last minute. They mess up their log books, have placards when they have no hazmat. I just watch these guys in disbelief. Nothing ever happens to them. The guys like me are expected to do the unbelievable. One guy got put out of service for having a cracked rim and they just told him to be more careful next time. I should have know when they road tested me. I was driving the right way and the safety guy was so impressed. I was like doesn't everyone here drive right?

 

If you want to talk about "They're all the same, man." you have to stand in awe of the many junk OTR companies that litter this site. Junk pay, junk benefits, time away from home, working for free, road expenses etc. And the list goes on.

Talk about different colors and logos. The OTR companies seem to be one in the same. Minus the subtle differences that don't add up to much for most of the drivers.

 

And by the way, this is a good sub forum. Please leave out the references to the Unions. If not, it will be buried into the politics forum only to be lost forever. Somehow, the moderators found that there were way to many heated arguments to allow the Union forum to continue. Shame. Most wanted to provide information to drivers that there are better companies to work for. It wreaked of jealousy from the non Union side. Maybe that's why they had to step in.

Keep up this sub forum to help others.

 

Wow I didn't realize it go so nasty with the union and the forums.

 

Yupp, your right driver, they are all the same. Every LTL driver i know from every company is living the dream that most guys stuck in a dead end job living out of a nasty suitcase sleeping in a truck and eating crap road food wish they had. yea, it sucks to punch in at 8:00AM and return to the terminal at 4:00PM and on your way home.

 

I didn't think it got nasty at all. It was pro union vs anti union and it was a passionate good debate. We all know, for the most part, union drivers make more and have better benefits than their non union counterparts. Not all though. I have a few friends that work for good non union companies that meet or exceed what union companies have to offer.

Debates are good. It allows everyone to make up their own mind and come to their own conclusion.

The Moderators saw it differently than I did.

 

More like 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM. With (maybe) 1/2 hour lunch break, but probably not. I've NEVER seen an 8-4 local trucking job, unless it was delivering for some private company such as plumbing or HVAC supply, or the like.