How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

Maybe you were one of the good ones, and that’s respectable. To be fair I actually did have a couple good ones.

Maybe you and Gentleroger live in parts of the country where these kind of people don’t exist, but I’ve seen entirely too much funny #### over the years to just naively assume that everything was above board at all times.

Here’s what’s probably the most brazen example of crooked #### I ever seen here. The names will be changed of course to protect the lowlifes who may not actually deserve it. Office critter can’t raise his kids right, so he gets stuck with grandson. Driver A gets wind of this and informs office critter that Mrs driver A runs daycare out of their house. Office critter agrees and pays Driver A back with special treatment, one example of being driver B gets sent 30 miles out of the way to whatever pickups driver A doesn’t feel like doing.

To continue, here’s another good one that I personally witnessed. Driver B gets sent a full load pickup on the back end of his run so he rearranges the last few stops to empty out right next door to the place, only to have it pulled off at the last minute and replaced with 3 or 4 pickups 30 miles out of the way in Driver A’s area, that actually are on his way home. Driver B gets out on the highway to head to the other ones, and here comes driver A who just came way the hell out of his territory to get the full load.

Smells awful fishy to me, not to mention a blatant conflict of interest for those who know what that term means.

I have no problem helping out if needed, and can actually give the benefit of the doubt when things do go sideways. #### happens…. but not every day. When that goes on every day either somebody is getting catered to, or somebody else is getting deliberately ####ed with.

Granted, I’m not crazy about the way union companies operate, particularly with things like incessant rebids and job class seniority, but if management were honest union talk would be non-existent, since keeping management honest is supposed to be a union’s primary purpose.