How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

Cement is pretty much Teamster in my area
Front discharge mixers and class A also.

 

I pissed in management's cheerio's by making a fuss about coming off of ######## dock work and P&D runs everyone refused and being on call all day and night by trying to force myself into a linehaul run they kept promising.

At the end of the day my dock and P&D performance were boosting managements numbers too much. Too valuable in my position to get put on linehaul. Being the yesman for the company gets you all the ########. When things slow down you get crumbs. When things are running wide open you get the crap runs nobody else will do.

Meanwhile 400lb tub of lard guy gets a linehaul spot off the street while you've been in a ######## position from day one. Or a random guy off the street gets put into a regular P&D bid with a fixed schedule and not on call because he can't run a forklift.

I'm still ####ing bitter about it all. 20hrs a week emptying trash cans in the winter. Go stay in a hotel for month straight in some random state in the summer. Here is 3 48' liftgates that need to be delivered in 8 hours that are stacked to the door so tight you can't pull the pallets out. Also, 8 hours of dockwork when you get back. No lunch breaks either btw. We'll call you with a start time for tomorrow 5 hours into your 10.

 

So no I don't give a rat's ### about dispatchers or management. #### em all. Always asking for favors but when it comes time for your turn you get told to eat #### and be thankful they allow you to work for them.

 

Wow. What company was that?

 

OD combo

 

You're the first guy I've ever heard say anything bad about OD.

 

Don't get me wrong, P&D if that is your thing is great. Kinda. Lower seniority can be crap but I hate any and all P&D.

Linehaul is godly though. No dock work, easy turns, reliable gate times, good equipment, amazing pay, etc.

OD is a fantastic company to work for and I'll tell everyone that. With one caveat. Combo ####ing sucks. The combo spot is the ####### child spot. It also depends on your terminal. I've worked OD terminals that were awesome. My home terminal had a lot of ladder climbers looking to move into corporate. I tried transferring to another terminal and that put me on the #### list. Got strung along about being moved to linehaul and it never happened everytime a new "we'll switch you by this date" came to pass.

Happened to quite a few Combo guys before me. One guy was strung along for like 7 years before giving up.

Final straw was when rando's off the street got dedicated start times when I would be called in half a dozen times to have my start time changed repeatedly. Drive into work 7 times was my record before working 2 hours. Absolute bull ####.

All the line and dock guys said to tank my numbers to get switched. A combo guy did that and he got put on extra board. If I were smart I'd have done the same but I can't bring myself to do crap like that. I run wide open at work. Always have. Even when it is causing me issues. Can't help it and I hate it honestly.

But yeah, OD is the best LTL for drivers. Assuming you are Line or P&D. Never sign onto a combo spot I say.

 

only thing I’ve heard bad about them locally, and it’s probably not exclusive to them - is that you live there.

they run you all day, and make sure you never qualify for overtime by manipulating your clockin and clock out times.

make you clock out at 6 hours on Thursday so you can work 16 on Friday giving you exactly 54.9 hours so you get no overtime.

 

Sounds illegal to me. But yeah, I'd have to come in for 2 hours before OT only for Friday to be a 16. Never had them shift around hours though. And yes, you live and breathe that place on Combo or Line. P&D guy usually stayed around 40 hours. Under or over a little.