Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

The treasurer in our local was a package car driver before getting voted in and when that happens you stay on your company seniority list. His seniority date was some time in 1976 lol.

 

Usually the uniform gets you treated better. Sometimes it is those jealous of what you got and they show their a@@. I was sitting in a Loves Arby’s one night years ago eating my meal and minding my own business. A fellow trucker who I had never seen prior, with an axe to grind came right up to me and said “I work twice as hard as you and make half as much”. I said “who’s F@@@ing fault is that, yours or mine”. He thought about it for a minute and left without saying a word. I have always strived to be one of the best at what ever it is I do and I expect to be payed the best. Some people do not feel they are worthy of top pay and probably won’t do what it takes to get it. This may sound arrogant to some, but you usually only get what you demand and often deserve.

 

Exactly! If it was so easy everyone would have done it. It's really easy for people so sit there and ##### but then do nothing because they wanna wear their flip flops pulling a reefer. My biggest argument for the uniform is I tell people you are stuck in the cage at the receiver while they let me in the office to use the bathroom lol. That says a lot right there. I work for Coke now so I wear uniform pants, boots, nice red polo shirt and I shower and shave. I'm running linehaul all over Florida now and when I wanna take a break I can pull into a parking lot anywhere I want like a Walmart without getting hassled because I'm clean and they know I'm not gonna #### in their parking lot lol. Outward appearance has a lot to do with how people treat you yet these otr still say #### that I ain't dressing up yet cry when they can't use the bathroom at a shipper or can't park here or people just look down on them in general.

 

That's true for the most part, when I pick up loads and stuff I mean I still have to play by there rules, but they seem to treat me different, I'll say. We have to wear uniforms, but are trucks are usually pretty clean and shiny and usually I don't get much if any trouble from any shippers.

 

Years ago the trucks used to get washed every day, image was everything. Then it got to the point the center managers would have to cut a trip a day if they wanted to wash the trucks to make the numbers work......that the kind of #### right there that's the reason why they can't hold on to guys anymore.

 

I would feel bad for a guy like that, but then again I have been grooming myself for an elite job since I got into the industry. By the time I came to UPS, I had 12 years experience with zero accidents, zero incidents, and zero tickets. Fly past me in a blizzard. Make some snide comments on the CB. I'll still be here at the end of the winter. You might be, too, but I like my odds a lot better. I'll survive because of myself. You'll survive in spite of yourself.

 

My slipseat partner complained to the linehaul supervisor on Friday that I haven't been cleaning the truck. The floor is filthy with grit and gravel, the windows and mirrors are crusty and mostly useless, and the windshield has
an impressive bug collection. He's completely correct, the truck is filthy and I haven't even shown it a paper towel.

I've been driving extra trucks for the past two weeks. I was having to switch trucks in the middle of my shift every day, so I just quit driving my assigned truck and take an extra instead. Which means the dirty, filthy driver he complained to the boss about was...himself. I wish I could have been there for that conversation to savor the irony.

 

He can, I left my cleaning stuff in there. He just won't because I usually take care of it. It just took him that long to notice, I guess.