Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

What happens is we all have bids. Once freight dips below a certain number, they eliminate so many bids and we now fall under the extra board to handle overflow freight. Right now freight is so low that they boot out the casual dock guys so we have something to do for 8 hours a day. That way we will stick around and not quit before the freight picks back up.

 

I don't know when it happened, but at some point the pallet became so lodged that he couldn't move it either in or out of the trailer. The bottom was completely destroyed so he ended up using the freight as a contact point to try to push everything into the trailer. He poked and prodded several holes into the pallet before all was done. I congratulated Jerry and told him Hellen Keller wanted her forklift back.

We actually talked about last week's events today and we wish we filmed it. We did not hear back about it. I am sure their OS&D wish they would have called in sick when they opened the trailer.

 

Interesting. Not that we had many linehaul runs to begin with at Reddaway, but a few dropped and P&D drivers jumped on them since it was a quick $300 on a Saturday. Usually a turn to a close terminal in Idaho or inside Montana. They never popped up in the winter cause they knew nobody would put up with the roads.

Here is what is interesting. At Holland (which is union) they absolutely will not allow cross working. Like when I worked Reddaway and came back early enough from a linehaul run, they would run me a quick peddle route or trailer swap. At Holland, it would absolutely not fly. Line is line and P&D is P&D. You can't use one pool of drivers to replace the other. It's in our contract. The downside is, that even if we wanted to, I could not do a quick turn to Charlotte on my day off and a linedriver couldn't fill in on extra trailer swaps on a weekend.