LTL Linehaul Dock Work Companies

FXF PM bid runs less than 399 miles total dock work is mandatory. 400-439 total miles you have choice to work dock or sit unpaid. 440+ you get paid to sit waiting to be dispatched. All dock work is at hub, get paid delay at gate time till dispatched at start of day.

AM bid runs dock work is voluntary at home center, you get paid delay from gate time till dispatched. Some centers have AM bids with dock work. I know RKI has AM run that goes to DSM and they work dock at DSM.

This is just my center DSM other centers may be different.

 

Linehaul won't work dock but they do have Utility Positions that require dock work at the home or delivering terminal they are going to.

 

It just depends on the location and how far away they are from hubs (breakbulks, FACs, etc). There are some terminals where every run involves dock work and some where none of them do.

East coast and into the Midwest most of them are going to have dock work or at least enough that you’d have to have 15+ years of seniority to get a run without it. As you go further west, everything is more spread out and you’re more likely to find longer runs with no dock work required.

 

Oak Harbor, to the best of my knowledge, would be a 'mostly no'. The only time I've ever heard of it happening would be Friday nights into Saturday morning when there aren't any dock personnel there. I had to swing a trailer one night that had a flat because of that. One of the bids at our terminal also involved some dock work on Saturday morning, but the driver's complained enough about it to where they started bringing in a dock guy to help them out. My experience here and conversations with guys from other terminals suggest that line guys having to do dock work is very rare, but not quite non-existant.

 

At XPO most drivers are expected to work the dock, whenever required by management. The policy for linehaul is, if you are more than 480 mi. round trip to a dock facility, you may opt out of dock work. This has to be selected each year when a driver bids the run. If a driver does opt out, and is required to wait for loads, that time is unpaid. This does not exempt the driver from dock work at his home domicile, before or after the run.