Memphis Closing??

when will drivers start NOT listening to other drivers? I'm assuming this came from another driver, i guess. I dont listen too much, or lend to much credit to what another driver says. Cause if you listen long enough, i'm sure thats the same driver who says they've been in the shop for 5 days, when they really have only been in the shop since yesterday morning.

Memphis is their 2nd or 3rd biggest terminal, and i dont see it closing. Maybe my email to Richard Stocking helped, cause i sure laid into memphis. =)

 

What are company are you talking about?

 

swift operates an academy out of their memphis terminal. it is one of their main terminals. i was there for two weeks at the beginning of this month for school. i saw nothing that would indicate such nonsense. also, i know two people who are signed up to enter their memphis school the third week in january. i am also unable to find any news of layoffs in such numbers in any local or national news regarding swift or their memphis terminal specifically.
not to be mean, but you could have answered this question yourself with a little hard thought and critical thinking. even if this were actually happening, no one on here would be able to speak a word about it until it had made the news or they would risk retribution.
happy thanksgiving.

 

they may hold orientation out of there, but they dont 'run' the academy out of the terminal. If they do, then i've never seen the skool trucks. Its held in millington, its held offsite.

 

basicly told him it was a dog and pony show. Told him that planners there take care of 'their own' first (take that however you will). Told him how i've been planned on a load, accepted it...then run MT 50 miles to Gary to p/u the load, and they put it on another truck. Or i've run MT to get a t-call, and just because another driver picked up the paperwork before me, they got the load. its happened....i'm not making it up. Or my biggest issue has been waiting an hour for them to verify i have the correct trailer by sending in a VIN/Plate, and then running out of time to get stopped where i wanted to.

I had been lead to believe that i'm planned on weekends out of memphis (DM even told me)....then come to find out from the VP of midwest ops, that i'm planned after hrs and on weekends by my home terminal....Edwardsville. If i'm in the chicago market, Manteno/Edwaks/Memphis can plan me. But i told the guy how dis-jointed it is, for me to send a message or 'call' memphis, and if they have to forward my message to a planner, has to message or call the planner in edwardsville, rather than just letting me message or call the planner.