USF Reddaway Hiring Frenzy

The way i read that translates as the job can be done in five hours but if we let you come in 2 hours early you will take seven hours.

 

It is not uncommon for corporate to replace safety managers. Usually when there is a new sheriff in town, the first thing they do is try to make a name for themselves. They do this by making an example out of someone. Not saying this is what happened in your case about the guy on the phone, but it is something new safety guys would gladly use.

It used to be that if you got a preventable accident, and the damage didn't meet or exceed $500, they would not even use it against you. Hell, they would even let you keep your monthly safety bonus. Guys would sideswipe handrails all the time there located near one of our docks. They'd just have a welder out on Monday to make it straight again. No big deal.

Along comes YRC and they change everything. They changed it to any accident that generates any damage for any dollar amount will be on your record. And that my friend is how lost half a dozen drivers that had 18+ years with the company from our barn alone.

One guy got written up for hitting a overhead door that came down on his forklift. Wasn't even his fault, the spring gave out and it just flopped down on him. Then another snapped an airline, he was fired. Then another dude sideswiped a utility pole. He could have gotten away with it cause there was only minor damage. His convictions made him fess up.... Guess what, also GONE.

This all happened about four years ago and we kinda laxed down a bit since we can't find anyone to drive for us anymore. But you get the idea.

Driver facing cameras is just a matter of time where they will be inside of more trucks than not. Then after some point (unless self driving trucks replace us all together) will the FMCSA probably make them mandatory across the board anyway.

Keep looking around. There are really good LTL companies out there. But usually the really good ones rarely hire.

 

Few months ago our TM came in and said that he expects us to average 4+ stops per hour due to our driver shortage. Corporate standard is 2.75 stops an hour. It's a bit of crap sandwich, but unless everyone tightens there belt, we would fall further and further behind.

On a good route, I can get almost five stops done per hour. That last Tuesday I had to average just over six stops and hour just to get done. I did have a return that I was cut off from.

Either way, it was stressful as hell. But as usual, do more with less in less time. Looks good when profits are going up each year.

One more reason why I miss linehaul. Those guys always sit fat and happy. You can only fit so much freight into a trailer, and you can only pull so many trailers. There really isn't the stress of peddling freight. You just hook and go. Nobody calls or messes with you.

 

Now this i agree with. Slackers should be fired.

 

And I am just speculating with the cameras. They are just becoming more and more common since I got into the industry. I've been wrong before though.

 

UPSF driver here, If I was you I would put that app in at OD if their hiring. I wouldn't let that story of the Fontana driver discourage me.