How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

Good chance, here I'm hearing a solid round of layoffs are coming this winter at a couple different LTLs. My old barn just cut 5ish more line bids. Couple new guys at my fuel job just jumped ship from LTL carriers. I saw the writing on the wall last winter and cleaned house financially to safeguard myself.

We shall see. We've always been the canary in the coal mine for the economy.

 

A couple of our barns are talking lay-off’s up here, my home barn and satellite barn I run to every morning are ok for now. The satellite one has been thinking about cutting drivers to a 4 day week though.

Lucky for me I don’t have to worry about that, I’ll be able to run freight up to them for sure.

 

Not sure how your barn handled non-cdl dock workers but after the change of operation we figured all the non-cdl dock would be laid off and the lowest 5-10 cdl guys, but the Yellow terminal was only 20 doors vs the 90 door holland terminal. The larger ones weren't figuring any cdl layoffs to start, but there would have been a lot of guys on close out with years in before they saw a city driving bid again.

 

I'm on pace to make $126K if I don't work anymore 6th days the rest of the year. I'll probably hit about $130K, which is $18K more than I made last year. Hoping freight picks up soon though. Gonna be a rough winter in Wyoming battling the wind and ice with 6K and 7K trailers all winter. Ugh.