Layoffs

was talking to 2 PAM drivers a few weeks ago on CB one had sat for 6 DAYS waiting for a load the other was about to sit all weekend for one (we were in FL.)

 

DH (Decker driver) heard a rumor that something like 70 PAM drivers have been laid off in the last week or so.. A PAM driver who'd brought him home after training called him and told him he was "laid off" (with layover pay) until further notice. The guy's still home since Christmas and he's been a PAM driver for over a year..

 

I have been driving for decker for about 9 months and I too have heard the rumours about layoff's.150 or so drivers cut loose.I know all about sitting around waiting for loads as I sat all last weekend,got sent to pick up loads that had already been picked up bla,bla,bla.I think pam,decker ect.. are hanging on by a thread although they did pick up a new customer in budwiser/busch beer but having GM shut down so long hurt them pretty bad.My miles have been crappy at best lately but the way things are right now with the rotton job market,I'm lucky to have this job.I just hope things pick up by spring.

 

According to the info I received, which who knows how accurate it is, but there were 150 drivers and about 50 personnel within PAM itself and not its subsidiaries that were laid off or let go. AFS, Decker, CEX and TTX weren't affected from what I've read and heard. Also these layoffs occurred between Thanksgiving and the New Year. I've also heard rumours circulating that another, but yet lesser, round of layoffs may be happening if freight doesn't pick up by the end of February.

 

I got an email today stating that PAM was hiring drivers... :smt102

 

Yep...I saw the same thing posted on a web site just today:

That is just one of several, all posted within the last week.

 

sounds like a lot of out with the old and in with the new [at a lower pay of course]

the trucking companies are seeing this as the time to get rid of the drivers that know what truckers should be making and putting in their place new drivers that don't know any better and therefore think they are making good money.