Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Not trying to compete. But during the height of my last summer with Reddaway, we were doing 110 bills with four drivers. We were supposed to have seven, but after our TM saw how much more money we were making they eliminated two spots and just left the fifth spot unfilled.

 

You're FxF?

 

My old barn near Bozeman used to have 20+ people working there. 8-9 P&D, several line drivers, a TM, sales guy, dispatchers, and secretary. They are down to 4 P&D, one line, and one sales guy that now also covers the Billings barn.

Now our Billings barn was just as big as ours. Except they had way more line drivers. They are down to 6-7 P&D and some office staff. No linedrivers now.

FXF moved in ten or fifteen years ago and decimated Reddaway. They are the sole reason we lost so much business and driver slots. I don't have any hard feelings cause this was before my time. Aside from that, this is a capitalist system and FXF just runs smarter.

Tack on the YRC acquisition of the USF branches and you got a complete clusterfudge of poor corporate management to add fuel to the fire.

 

We ran 220+ bills a day back then from what I was told. But they also made more and had a better work environment. I could not imagine going from making $24/hour in 2004 to making $22/hour in 2018.