The day to day ramblings of the LTL business.

@Mike2633, it happened, and it will happen again. And again, and so on.
To make it in this business, you have to be flexible. All kinds of things happen, all the time. In fact, if you take the big view of the transportation industry, you'll be amazed that things EVER go right!
Late line haul is the bain of existence to LTL. It's always going to be more of a likelihood, than a possibility.
Time is money, so company management tries to run as tight a schedule as possible. They are looking at the overall bottom line, and aren't the ones who get screwed when the schedule doesn't work out.
It leaves the dispatchers to figure out how to get the job done, and on time. One of many reasons why LTL dispatchers and local low level managers have ulcers, and many other physical problems.

 

And yet they aren't advertising for any drivers in Montana.

The new jobs site had its own listings the other day, with Reddaway listings included and marked as such, now it points to the old YRC listings page with no Reddaway jobs. Which makes me think they're going to put everything under YRC pretty soon, but not quite yet.

 

It's quite difficult for us to hire anyone on. Our terminal is located 30 minutes outside the key town we deliver to. Our barn is in the middle of rural Montana. Our start pay is 25%-30% lower than the other carriers that sit in town.

Trying to convince people to make a one hour round trip commute to make crap pay is ....quite a challenge. What else adds to the shortage is most drivers that live near the terminal work agriculture and thus are not required to hold a CDL. So yeah... We are screwed. I think they gave up on ads a year and a half ago. We just make due with less.

 

With the money they saved from not doing the ads anymore, were they able to give you a raise?

 

So I know we talk a lot about bulky loads and hardto unload pallets and stuff. Well today I had this goofy case of Mahi Mahi the box was all falling apart.

Any how never saw a case like that before. It was some long fish.

 

No, but it was raining on and off pretty much all day today around here. My neighbor and I were out in the rain inspecting a house I was interested in purchasing.

 

We do that to during the holidays which are right around the corner!