Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

ABF would likely have similar bennies but will have DFC's soon. UPS will be hiring temps soon and might lead to a chance to get into parcel trucks, since they have Amazon they'd be a good bet.

DOT Foods is dock to dock only and mostly pallets like P&D, they have home every night work in some markets. Or Martin Brower is food service on wheels.

With your work history maybe look at fuel tanker. It's obvious from your posts that you're skilled and careful.

Economy is getting closer to another recession, Fuel, US Mail contractors and food likely won't suffer as much, depending on what happens. LTL's will empty out and lay people off.

 

Over on that other trucking board, there was sarcasm over how long it took YRC to figure out that they had two terminals in a lot of places instead of one. I doubt any customers are going to go look where their Reddaway truck goes when it goes home, so if it goes to a YRC dock few will care.

Since you're in, check out the local YRC terminal and think about which one they will keep if they close one. I think they will learn (not much tho) from the New Penn experiment and realise that they can close the YRC barn in a given area and keep the regional one if it's in worse shape or would bring more from a sale and not hurt their freight flow (cough).

 

Southeastern partners with Dayton Freight and from what I understand they are a decent place to work that pays well. As far as Averitt is concerned, I have heard that they aren't on par with any of the other LTL companies because they don't do the exact same thing. I don't know if that is only true for the mileage rate or if the hourly guys are also similarly underpaid compared to most LTL P&D drivers.

I'm pretty sure SEFL would be a step up from Holland, but I think Averitt may be more of a sideways move, at least in terms of pay. Averitt definitely has better equipment, but I didn't think that was a very big consideration for you. I may be wrong on that though.

 

This was a real fancy private country club probably the most professional place I think I go to period. Very clean they chefs are real chefs who actually have gone to real culinary school, now that's not to say there isn't riff raff, the country club my mom worked at part time from 1997-2002 would bus in help from the county work house jail.

It is a little tight there, though and they were having a member member tournament. The corner there though was a little harder then usual there was a black Buick right on the edge of the corner and I have been able to back down there in one shot, however yesterday was not that day and it did take me a pull up to get it right, I was trying to be careful, because it was tighter then usual.

It's just funny in real life the orange cone is replaced by a Porsche or Lexus it's true!

 

One crappy thing about working nights is I have Friday and Saturday off so I'm up tonight after the wife and daughter are in bed and have to get some sleep tomorrow during the day so I am good to go tomorrow night. Love my job so I'm not #####ing too hard but if I had to pick a downside this would be it.

 

Take your time and look at all of the potential jobs, not just the ones that are currently hiring. When I started to consider leaving US Foods, I looked at lot of different places and also considered their distance from my house. I decided that FXF ticked all the boxes, so I put my head down and kept working until they posted the job I wanted.

Don’t try and settle for less, because you could end up in the same position after a few months at the next job, and then potential employers will start questioning why you change jobs so often.

 

Our night shift runs the same Sunday through Thursday shift and as a person who’s temporarily been there and done that, the weekend is a bit of an awkward time. I couldn’t agree more. It’s not such a big deal on the weekdays, and I didn’t really mind it I actually liked it better then I thought, but I agree the weekends are a bit strange.

My favorite part though is heading home Monday morning and watching all the cars driving to work and clocking in!

 

@road_runner I definitely get it, I’m just saying don’t rush into something else unless you think there is an imminent risk to your job. Find a place you think can be your forever home, and if they aren’t hiring right now, wait it out until they are. Don’t just pick the best of whatever companies are currently hiring today.