The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

Think i would have asked how much is it worth to ya...

 

Why would he think if he let that truck out of the yard, that it would ever return...

 

Actually... He ran the whole route. Even stuck around to do pickups. He ended up stopping at rival barns between deliveries with our company truck, wearing our company uniform and applying for jobs.

The way we found out was ODFL and FxF both called us and asked us not to send anymore drivers to them looking for work. One of their managers was pissed that our company truck was jamming up their yard.

The guy never got picked up by any of the places he applied for that day... Turns out it is frowned upon to apply for employment while operating your old companies equipment.

 

Yeah, bad move for sure. Those companies are going to figure he might do the same in their truck someday.

 

That's exactly it. Everyone was in fact hiring and the guy thought he would get one over on us by riding the clock and applying at places. It severely backfired on him. It says alot about your character when you do something like that.

Anyway, I actually wrote about this guy in a different thread. He was the one that did 18 years of line haul then switched to P&D. He used his line seniority to kick an actual 17 year P&D driver out of his bid. He even demanded the other guy's truck cause it was newer. There was so much outrage that corporate revised the policy to where your seniority does not shift over when you make a swap.... Only your pay and earned vacation time moves with you.

The guy was a piece of work. He was 5'8 and weighed close to 400 lbs. Because of his seniority and him being so disgustingly overweight, he required special routing. He could not do anything like kicking tires or moving a nose load of cabinets.

Customers hated him cause they had to forklift him up and down into his trailer. Not even kidding on that one. One customer was so pissed about it, he called us and said "have your driver call me when he is inside his trailer, I am not forklifting his fat *** up anymore."

Then there was the hospital incident. Our city hospital paid for an inside delivery on a 500 lbs pallet of mixed boxes. This guy made the nurses and CNAs unload and carry his freight for him. He guilt tripped them into it by flashing his 5 bottles of prescription meds that he is required to take. Told them he could die of a heart attack if he had to unload it.

Nobody liked him and our terminal didn't even skip a beat when he was done. For any drivers that read this rant to this point... Here is some advice. Your reputation precedes you. Other companies will find out about you through the same customers you may serve. If you jump ship, leave on a positive note and reputation.

 

Wouldn't the security at the other terminals or whoever runs the gate be like "Excuse me what in the heck are you doing here?" That would be like me trying to pull into the Sysco warehouse so I could turn around.I'm sure that would go over well.

 

I dont know, maybe just whip ####tys in their yard, with the windows down and the music up.. (channeling emmiem) giving the finger to the comp..