Need 8 hour work schedule

ABF also advertised that the job is combo dock work and driving. So do I have to manually load boxes or use pallet jacks etc???

 

i work as about as close to that as you are going to find. i start at 6am and am usually done by 3pm. even if you can find something that's approx average 8 hours, you will never have a structured 8 hour shift. it just wont happen. i do local milk tanker farm pickup. i dont visit plants unless i do extra loads. i do 4 of these loads optionally every week. i do 7 days optionally this, have worked everyday since may 10th.

a normal day for me without extra loads is around 8 hours....... i will repeated NOT a structured 8 hour shift. it depends on what time my farms are done milking. if i get to my last farm at 1:30 and they aren't done milk until 2:30, i dont get back to the yard untl 3:30...... it comes with the territory, its trucking after-all, when i worked in dairy plants before i had my CDL it was pretty much the same way. i work until its done. the idea of punching a time clock and punching that time clock out exactly 8 hours later is not the reality of ANY trucking job....... im not complaining though.

its only june and i have already exceeded 34K and home daily, haven't slept in a truck in a long time. can i complain? NOPE i average $1425 GROSS. i should be at 65K+ by years end.

 

Not quite sure about ABF, but UPS Freight is also Teamsters.

Dockworkers and Drivers have seperate seniority lists...so whether you're listed as a dock worker or driver is important, as both sides tend to have combo drivers. Whenever driving is involved, you get paid more...and vice versa when you do dockwork. Yard jockeying is considered part of dockwork.

As a dockworker, you use a forklift to unload and reload trailers. Forklifts will have all types of different attachments...like drum clamps, carpet pole, granite slab attachments, etc....since freight can vary. There isn't really too much manual loading, other than maybe rebuilding pallets that might of tipped over. Majority of the work will be just using the forklift. You'll also have to deal with the elements as well, as open air docks means it'll be cold during the winter and hot during the summer.

This is how it is at UPSF. I would imagine ABF would be similar.

 

ABF are Teamsters

 

My bad. After rereading my post...it did sound like I was questioning whether they were union or not

What I meant was, I wasn't quite sure how ABF operates in comparison to UPSF....lol.