Question for the Linehaul guys

I know, but since he's the only guy I know doing it, Estes is the only company I've gotten the inside scoop on

 

Old Dominion is opening (it may have opened already) a new terminal on Hall St. so they may be hiring agressively compared to the other LTL companies in the area. I work for Saia in the chicago reigon and I would give the Saia STL terminal a thumbs up, it's an old place but they have a good team there. I don't think you could go wrong with any of the major LTL carriers in STL though...

 

clean record helps, getting the experience is the toughest imho.

 

Experience is a two way door. If you apply for one out of ten openings that haven't been filled in 30 days, they will wave it and train you in house. If you apply for a single opening that just came up, it will be competitive.

 

Dayton Freight has a St. Louis terminal as well.

 

i use to do nightime (and may go back for money reasons, not for love of night work) and the way i dealt with weekends was to keep the exact same schedule.

When i switched back to daytime work, the experience was very hard to describe in words---it was like i was taking a shower in light. Very strange.

 

whatever the op does stick to it....It's easier too work on rest, then lose sleep and try too work.

 

so the latest.....we had a driver go to his first stop, (this is the gods honest truth). opens the door, tells the receiver here ya go....M/T 55 gal. drums on top of three pallets of frt...it ALL goes to the cosignee..trouble here is neither the driver nor the receiver will take the barrels off of the three pallets....frt comes back to the terminal and on the next day delivered on pallets......delivered in 10 minutes.unfreaking believable!!

you mean to tell me this guy cant stack M/T freaking barrels?! there were only 20!!! wasn't like a whole trailer load...gives you an idea of the worthless slugs we share employment with...

 

my problem is he did the exact work he would of done at the first stop as he did too off load the frt so he could continue his deliveries....makes no sense, I dunno mebbe it's me..........I get the job done regardless of what needs to be done......