YRC

I agree for the most part. Although th yard goats do inspect the city trailers in order to screw over that division of the terminal because they know they have a limited amount they can use.

I want to work local for a small company now. I went to yrc to kinda earn my stripes. Most local companies wanted 2 years of driving.

Dispatch told me YRC stays in business by offering low prices and buying out smaller companies, then driving them into the ground.

I worked for Federal Express in the past. The management used to tell us " if they so much as hear about rumors of a union, they will close the place down ".

I have done this plenty of times. I understand you pick things up here and there. However at YRC it happens too often.

This happened at one of the terminals I visited. They divided the terminal in two. New Penn got the second half. All the entertainment was on the dock as two supervisors spat at each other and were beating the crap out of each other over low numbers.

I tried city as a casual at YRC for three days. One the first day a driver went with me to show me how to handle the paperwork. Second and third day I went out by myself. I thought it would be something like fedex, I was wrong. To my surprise, you don't get a say in how your trailer is loaded before you set out. They loaded two pallets of TV's in the nose, followed by 2 pallets of pillows and bedding. Then they started hammering wooden planks into the floor of the trailer ( which I thought was interesting ). They rolled 6 metal coils onto the trailer and only secured them by hammering planks at the back row and no they were not raised or standing on the planks as a cradle. I wanted to put straps through the coils to somehow secure them to the wall. We were not allowed to do that, apparently that's our terminal's policy. They were put horizontally into two rows and each weighed between 1,500 and 2,000 lbs. 2 pallets of plywood ( home depot delivery ) was in the back of the trailer. At that point I was getting a bit uncomfortable but the city driver tried to reassure me with a few words of wisdom " Don't trip B. I be at this for a year, we good. I feel good about dis howbout you drive ".The delivery went as you would expect, couldnt open the trailer door at the first location since the coils rolled out of place over the pillows and destroyed the TV's. At the back end they rolled over the plywood and bent the folds in the trailer door. The home depot dock workers got the door open by removing the lowest penal of the door. At the second drop we had to push the coils by hand out of the trailer. They would fall out onto a pickups bed which had the nose of the truck tilt upwards each time because that company lacked a forklift. The city driver told me not to worry about the broken TV's because YRC is self insured. For my second day I refused to drive as there were too many items were damaged and I didnt feel safe about it. On the third day the dock workers got smart about and hid some broken items behind some pallets. I was given a contact list for the deliveries. I understand city delivery is not easy but I really didnt like calling people and asking them if they still want the packages that were hidden since they were damaged. I didnt want to drive over for nothing or have customers complain to me as if I destroyed the item. Even though I am not responsible for what happens on the dock. I agree with you on this. The city trucks are pieces of garbage ( they gave me a sterling that would constantly fall out of 7th gear as it had no teeth left ). Never did city again after that.