3 Month Review of YRC Freight. The Best Driving Job in America. Period.

Some jobs are good jobs, some jobs are sorry jobs, and its the job, and the bosses that can make it a good job or a bad job.

And some bosses are rotten to the bone, and it can never be a good job.

 

In 2008 I was working for a tanker company that paid pretty well. We had a lot of drivers come to work for us that were former YRC (yellow at the time) drivers because they were getting laid off or being sent to work out of state for months at a time because freight slowed down so much. None of them had anything good to say about the company and none of them were very good drivers. I remember when one of them asked me who was going to hook up his trailer for him because he had never done that before. I told him "that would be your job, driver". None of those guys lasted more than 6 months with us, I guess they were too spoiled over there and realized trucking wasn't a cushy job after all.

 

EEEsh, thought I was read up on Central and Matty..They go out of thier way to not let drivers know they were union as he is so anti union...
I was only hip to the 90's and up as far as his dealings go..Im surprised

I did Central from 2011 to 2013, had to sign a paper agreeing to never talk to a union rep..LOL

My experience there was OK...It was Line Haul, line haul pays, and line haul works....I worked, and was paid

The equipment there goes from West to East, if you in cali, your in a new truck, if your in maine, your in a 1940 dodge (just kidding)...likely an old sterling

My terminal manager was foul, my regional was foul, 2 years was all i could bare...My regional has his degree in horticulture, needless to say, he was difficult to talk trucking with...LOL!!!!

Its all about your hourly I guess...If your paid proper for every hour you work, and overtime, for, overtime, well, your in a good seat, the best seat your gonna get

If your paid a set rate, with no OT...Life can suck
Out of Tucson, it paid 90 bucks each way to run to Blythe, or 100 each way to run to elpaso..Usually 1 to 2 hours on dock breakin and buildin trailers...
200 a day was max at my barn

My R&L was short, they didnt have work here

Will never get UPS or YRC or any of the decent hourly jobs here as the waiting list is too long for brown, and YRC still has many laid off drivers yet to be called back..

Actually landed at a bulk hauling company running a live bottom on a copper mining contract..Filling up logbook, runnin nights, bascally a linehaul gig..I can run 2 loads from mine to smelter everynight, hundred bucks a load, 6 days a week
Im maxed out in my market..L/O is the next pay raise I can find

Hauling this copper concentrate stuff is a trip...If you step on it and smash it, you'll push the copper thru the dirt and have copper under your foot when you lift it..Like super brittle copper foil..

Still with you all out there everynight, you just never look now!!! LOL

In a new KW T880 with 100k on it pulling a 2014 live bottom (end dump by convair belt)..digging it

 

I only worked at one place that had union, worked for them about 5 to 6 years.

We drove the same truck daily. One night they changed out a tire, don’t know why, and put a recap on the inside of the left rear axel of the truck. The rest of the tires were very good radials, the recap they put on was an old bias tire that was more than half wore out.

It bounced up and down, vibrate very bad, had a hard time staying in the drivers seat. When I got back from that load I went to the tire shop. They would not do nothing about it. I wrote it up and went home.

The next morning I had another short load, it was still bouncing up and down and vibrating. You could hardly stay in the drivers seat.

The union would not help me the least bit, they would not talk to our boss about this.

They laid me off for two weeks with no pay because I would not drive the truck that bounced up and down, vibrated so bad I had a hard time staying in the drivers seat. When empty it was really bad, about the fastest I would go was about 30 MPH.

When the union refused to help me so I quit. I hate unions, most of the unions are just people who live high off hog of those who really work for a living.

 

My brother drove linehaul for the "new" Central (yellow trucks). Always screwed up, report at 8PM, might leave by 11, but you had to be at the destination on time.
We had "red racers!" All the tractors were red. Mine was an 8 YO Ford 9000 tandem daycab, with about 850,000 on it. Did what it needed to do.

 

Back in the 70’s I was coming down the mountain west of Needles, CA. A Yellow Freight Truck came flying by me, going very fast.

I was going about 50 to 55 MPH, after he passed me I sped up, I got behind him, and he was going over 90 MPH.

I asked him on the CB radio, “I did not know any Yellow Freight Trucks could go that fast.” He replied, “Every time I go off a hill or mountain I kick the truck out of gear letting it go as fast as possible down the hill.”

I wonder if he is still living.

 

There are old drivers, and there are bold drivers, but no old, bold drivers............

 

Too lonesome to know any 'Old Bold Drivers.'