Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Back at my old barn, when we still had drivers; you would lose your seniority for changing positions. It all stemmed from one incident that caused a massive change.

Senior line guy with 15 years takes over the #2 P&D bid from a driver that held that bid for 10+ years. Not only was that route not good enough for him, but he also kicked the #2 guy out of his city truck.

Then the #2 guy dropped down one spot and this caused a chain reaction bumping people off their bids that that they held for some time. The bottom guy got it the worst since he was now just a casual driver and now put back on the dock that he fought hard for to get away from.

All kind of hell was raised and at least one person quit. From that point on only your compensation and earned vacation time followed. So if you ran linehaul for 5 years, you would be paid the equivalent of running P&D for the same period of time. If that makes sense

 

Yeah, they squelched that in our barn. You must work a minimum of 18 months within a position before they allow you to transfer. And they only allowed a transfer if the position was open.

In my case, I was 2/2 linedriver when I switched departments. Life would have been cool and groovy but they eliminated one linehaul spot and I was stuck on P&D

 

When this happened, we had 8 routes being covered by 9 drivers. The bottom man worked the dock and ran a short overflow route when available.

I am guessing you work at a much larger barn where they have more flexibility but we were just too small.

Either way, after that incident, they yanked the transfer of driver based seniority when transferring departments.

 

Spokane Reddaway barn works like that . Every year all bids went up for grabs. Top guys kept what they wanted and there were only a few changes in the middle.