Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

For the most part, all the drivers stick together and get along regardless what is printed on the side of their trailer. I missed the old circle jerks with all the other LTL guys when we all waited to get loaded at a customer. I get the occasional giggle when I get to "poach" some freight that was left behind from a different carrier.

Corporate and sales is an entire different animal though. What's fun and game to us is hardball to them. They are obsessed with their Excel spreadsheets and will come down on their drivers for missing a cutthroat rate pickup with a "new" account.

 

Anyone working this Friday? We are supposedly running a skeleton crew. I am not even on the seniority list yet, so I may be forced to stay home or come in.

 

Supposedly we have a volunteer stay at home list since people want to work that Friday. In which case, I am the first to stay home. Unless the rumor mill is running backwards, in which case, I am the first person that has to show up.