My Experience as a Line Haul Driver

The point that you're missing is that while freight rates have increased overall, along with carrier costs, and carrier profits, driver pay and benefits have DECREASED. Even despite increased educational and driver fitness requirements. Why? Because there are drivers willing to work cheap or even for free, thinking that they have no other options. A good driver's union would give carriers a choice between paying a decent wage, or going under.

Unfortunately, union greed is what will keep that from becoming a reality.

 

yea your are a weirdo lol. I dont miss those toyota forklifts at all, with the supervisors counting your motor moves as well lol(at least at the old XCV). Also XBY was only like 20 miles away from both XNJ and XCV, for me at XEM was 30 or 40.

Unions do benefit the carriers. I work for a union company now and most likely could never go back to a non-union company, thats just my 2 cents. But like others said if you have a strong union like we do there isnt any problems. LAst problems I had from other jobs ive had, do not happen here.

Good luck AT though... Not sure how far your hub is your will be going to but safe trip. And Century is right, you will spend more time on the forklift then grinding gears...

 

Large non union side of UPS? GO ahead, enlighten me. What are you talking about? UPS Cartage?

 

Where do you get your information?

UPS Freight has been union since 2007.

I should know, I work there.

By the way, it was Overnite, not Overnight.

 

I have a pretty good idea of where you are starting, and the 4 anti union video's are because of your fellow drivers wanting a union at a lot of barns. 2 years ago you would not have gotten them, however, with cuts in benefits and retirement, there has been a lot of the "dirty U word" around Conway barns.....


You should work for a Union Shop before you make broad generalizations about them. I work for US Foods right now, and get paid better, with better benefits, vacation, and retirement, than our Non Union shops. And my dues are only 50 bucks a month. And they can't fire me at will. There are plenty of people who have been fired at non union shops for having the wrong opinion in the eyes of the boss.

 

i dont know, where i work-not driving, dock side of things-the unions are a joke. these guys loading trucks make wayyyy too much money. we are talking like 25 bucks an hour, more on weekends, like triple time on holidays...i would guess that type of nonsense is putting a dent in drivers paychecks somewhere down the line. i know my company which is a contractor to the warehouse sure doesnt pay us that much. and we are there to support and fix the stuff these overpaid wackos cant figure out.