UPS Overnite

i think south holland runs alot of sleepers out of there so you might get stuck on one of those with some nutcase like i did

but go in to a ups freight terminal and listen to the linehaul drivers who make $90k a year complain the whole day because of something extremely petty......bunch of babies, its pathetic....no wonder people like at unions the way they do

 

Yeah I know. Those Teamsters get whinier the longer they spend in the union. They seem to think they're entitled to something they ain't.

When I was at Roadway I once heard a guy say:

"I shouldn't have to get in that truck, it's hot in there! They oughta hire somebody just to start the trucks up and get the A/C going before we get in them. I just took a shower before I left the house! I don't wanta get all sweaty"

 

getting sweaty at work??? who would of thought???

if you dont want to get sweaty at work go be a ******* accountant

theres this one old joe union on our dock, hes a part timer with about 5 years in....this guy honestly told me he thinks the company should provide him transportation to and from work, and ON THE CLOCK, every day.......he was just bitter because he rode a bicycle to work


im not gonna sit there and bash the union.....it has its ups and downs, but SOME of the people at the union shops ive worked at are the laziest people ive ever met (with jobs)

 

It's almost like they think the company committed some terrible crime against them by giving them a job.

 

ill tell you one line that gets me everytime

"im a truck driver im not a dock worker"

alot of linehaul drivers will go to south holland....their trailers arent ready so they will sit in the break room, on the clock, for literally 4-5 hours while the dock gets the trailers loaded

gee youre only making $25 an hour, go and do something

i dont like working the dock either, but when im on the clock if thats what they want me to do then thats what i do

 

It might be in their contract. At Roadway we linehaul drivers were not allowed to even set foot on the docks. Union policy. We also weren't allowed to break down or string together a set of trailers at any breakbulk terminals that employed "switchers". We were not allowed to put fuel in the trucks. They had "fuelers" to do that. (On the road, if we needed fuel we stopped at certain truck stops and a truck stop employee had to come out and pump the fuel. We weren't allowed to do it. We didn't even carry fuel cards, it was all "on account". We were not allowed to do ANY repairs on the truck. If something was wrong, we had to go back inside the break room and clock back in, write it up and wait til it's fixed. There was some debate over whether we were even allowed to open the hood to check the oil. It was a gray area, because we're supposed to do a pre-trip. How can we check tie-rod ends and stuff without opening the hood or getting down on the dirty ground?

 

i hope youre joking.......

and nah theres nothing in the contract about it...contract clearly says WORK AS DIRECTED,meaning if they want you on the dock, tough ****....if they want you in the yard, tough ****

we fuel our own trucks and do minor repairs

 

I was NOT joking. I'm 100% serious. Although there was something I got in the mail about a year ago, the IBT still thinks I'm a union member cuz I never got a withdrawal card. It was something about a contract re-negotiation in which they were trying to sweeten the deal for YRC and have line-haul drivers perform more duties than previously. I didn't vote on the ballot because I'm not working there any more. And I don't know if that deal ever went through.

 

i dont get it.....why is it OK to sit in the break room and get paid when you are capable of working the dock or hostling trailers??? that just sounds too much like all the "people" (you know who i mean) that sit at home on welfare and food stamps

 

I don't know. But I was REQUIRED to just sit there on the clock doing nothing.

Some guys would even spot something wrong with the truck during their pre-trip like not enough fuel in the tanks to make it to their destination and instead of stopping by the fuel shack and tapping the horn, they'd just go and purposely let it run out of fuel so they could get paid by the hour waiting for the repair truck to bring them fuel. And if it took long enough to get fixed and they couldn't complete the trip on their 14, they'd sit in a motel somewhere, on the clock, for a 10 hour break. (If you run out of hours on the road and you're a solo driver in a day cab, and you had to get a motel, you were paid hourly for those 10 hours. Not sure how that's legal with the log book in "off duty" status but that's the way it was.) They used to do that all the time on the solo trip between Kansas City and Denver, because it was such a hard push. I don't remember the exact distance but I remember that with a 61 mph truck, you'd barely make it.