How is YRC/USF Reddaway?

I got hired for a linehaul job at Reddaway too. I finished a week of paid orientation and they said they'd call me. They did call - on Thursday of the following week. They told me that while I was in orientation a driver with more experience had applied for the linehaul job so they gave it to him. If I wanted to stick around they would give me a P&D job.

Reddaway has some issues. While they’re the best run of the three regional LTL carriers owned by YRC Worldwide (the other 2 are Holland and New Penn) the organization as a whole is treading water financially. July 2020, the US Treasury bought 29.6% of YRC as part of a $700 million bailout. Most of the money was used to catch up with delinquent pension and employee medical contributions.

What that means to you is that you’ll participate in the, “giveback” program. Whatever your total earnings on a given check are 15% of the total is given back to the company. New equipment is rare - expect to drive more 2,000,000 mile trucks than new ones. I’ve personally sat in a traffic jam caused by a Reddaway P&D truck when its driveshaft fell out and rolled down the street while the truck was in the middle of an intersection.

The organization as a whole is unlikely to survive long term. Do you want to invest 5-10 years working for a company only to find out your pension is worthless, your seniority is gone and you need to start over?

 

This was back in the dark ages BEFORE they were training drivers. I had two years OTR experience with no tickets/accidents/incidents at the time.

You'll be on the extra board to start - no regular run, just filling in for other drivers when they get sick or go on vacation mostly. Every once in a while there will be a special run for one reason or another. Hard to say how many miles you will run. It depends on how many miles are on the extra board and how many drivers are above you on the seniority food chain. Just like the rest of the industry you'll be slammed until January then have a lot of time on your hands.