Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Thanks guys... @road_runner I am going to have my hazmat on my license before actually kicking in any applications that mention it. @FlaSwampRat , ABF does run around here as well, but the only ad I could find from them was a part time P&D thing. I'll toss them an app as well, most likely. Put an app in with UPS too, found a local position that strangely did not mention hazmat (package side perhaps?).

We'll see what happens!

 

Shoot me a pm, I'll walk you through any questions you have.

 

Must be the new trend for the 4 wheelers that drive 50 in a 70 to have their brights on while impeding traffic. Been pretty popular the past few nights.

 

That's because it helps to have your brights on when you're driving drunk with one eye open for safety.

 

They used to read us statistics at UPS about how cell phone use while driving was actually worse than drunk driving. How true that is I don't know but it sounds believable and before anyone calls me a retard I understand there are different levels of drunk and that will affect things.

 

So last week, Buster Brown Freight decided they were gonna try to jack one of our big accounts up here. Offered them a rate 45% less than ours. Bear in mind, we're already giving this customer the Economy rate because they give us so much business. (We all know they're doing a loss leader on this--they can't be making a profit, but they're hoping to pull them in and then start raising the price.) The customer was all like "Cool! We'll start shipping with you and FXF can take the leftovers." So BBF started scooping up this customer's freight, as in, they got 13 skids to our 3.

Today, we shipped out over 40 skids from this customer. They called us in abject desperation 'cause BBF couldn't hang, and it only took 'em one week to figure it out.

I'll help out any driver from any company, I don't take any of this kind of thing personally. We're all working men out here, doing the same job and trying to survive, so all you BBF guys, please take this in the spirit that it's meant:

NEENER NEENER.