Comments By Banks

Just for the record it’s not my unreliability it’s the insurances that requires it.

Incorrect. If what you posted is accurate, you have the experience to satisfy the insurance requirements. See my first response to you. You have a whole bunch of other issues that make nobody want to touch you.

I'm curious as to how you have 20 years experience when you posted This 7.75 years ago.

You also failed to mention here that you have a DUI. That's not a minor detail.

Another question

From 2015-2021 I bounced around every 3to 6months cause the pay wasn’t sustainable.

This was one of the busiest times in recent history. If you couldn't make it work in that window, what makes you think you'll make it work in this economy?

Let’s say I don’t meet the prerequisite

What does that mean? We're not mind readers here. If you want real advice drop the whole story. Don't pick and choose the parts you want to tell.

From 2015-2021 I bounced around every 3to 6months

There you go. You're not reliable and companies don't have time for that. It's a corporations market. They're not desperate for drivers right now. Truckers are getting laid off, people are trying their hand in this field out of desperation and freight levels are low.

You're going to have a hard finding a company to gamble on you. Just keep applying and see what happens.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe these lights have anything to do with safety?

The lights let other drivers aware of the height, width and length of the vehicle. They're required to be operational by federal law.

They wrote him up with some type of ticket or warning, not sure.

This would go on his MVR and effect his CSA score.

But can this be put on his DAC?

Yes, but it probably won't. I'd be more concerned with the CSA score and the MVR.

The prerequisite is typically

1 year experience in 3 years

3 years experience in 5 years

5 years experience in 10 years

You meet those requirements, so I'm guessing there's more to this story.

In my adult life, I've learned that everybody wants to complain, but nobody wants to do anything.

That's kind of a scary statement. In other words, if I'm in a position to take advantage of you, then that's your fault, so you get to suffer the consequences and I get to blame you.

Their not looking at employees as people, they're looking at them as dollar signs. If McDonald's is your only option, you take what they give you. Why don't you or I work at McDonald's, Brett? Because we have options.

In the early 20th century, death rates were extremely high, with estimates ranging from 20-30 deaths per 100,000 workers annually in the US.

But it's no longer the 20th century. All the alphabet government agencies and lawyers have made work places as safe as they can be. I know FedEx doesn't care about my safety, they just don't want me to do something that will get them sued or workers comp claims and God forbid negative press. I'm safe because I care about my safety and getting home the same way I left.

You can't just sit back and watch them take advantage of people and then blame the people they're abusing for it.

I disagree. How many posts do we see here where people need weed to sleep? How dare the corp not hire them!!

That DWI was 20 years ago, why do they care?

I only have 4 speeding tickets... That's not a lot.

You just limited your options. Circumstances have a direct correlation with decisions and actions.

I didn't want to learn a trade or get a degree, but Dunkin donuts should pay me a living wage so I can buy a house!

When does the line get drawn?

But being financially responsible in your everyday life is not the issue we're discussing. The issue is unfair pay practices.

It's an important part. What you tolerate is the base line for how people treat you. When you put yourself in a position of desperation and limited options, you're willing to tolerate a lot more. If employees are tolerating less, employees will have to offer more.

So it isn't going to be you, and that's ok. You don't have to be the guy to do it. Maybe you're in a position where your earnings and treatment are fair.

Fair point, but it was me at first. FedEx makes it easy to contact the executives. I had a lengthy conversation with the Senior Vice President of Operations of FedEx freight. I wanted them to stop using purchased transportation for truckload shipments while employees were on furlough and sitting at home. It was a productive conversation. I learned more about how FedEx determines what to send truck load and the discrepancies in costs. My argument was with record profits, they should be willing to eat the cost but I'm only one person. When I tried to get others to speak up and reach out to him.... Crickets. So fudge it then. Anytime I hear somebody complaining about contracted transportation I tell them, did you reach out to Jeff First? No? Then stfu.

Nobody wants to make waves, so I stopped wasting my energy and focus on it. I'm in a fortunate position where I don't need FedEx. I'm good, financially. I'm at FedEx because I like what I do, but I'm not taking up arms by myself.

In fact, why does FedEx pay their drivers so much better than most places would?

FedEx pays about the same as ever other LTL company. There's not really a lot of difference.

He used his influence to convince many corporations to keep their workers here and even move some production back to this country. This has to continue.

But it won't as long as they have to answer to big government and unions. It's too much bureaucracy red tape. In an ideal world, it's one or the other.

Most people are not leaders. I just don't like to hear people say, "There's nothing I can do about it" and at the same time denounce unions. You can't change it on your own, but you don't want to join forces with people to make change, either?

They can't make it change. Corporations have already learned how to push back on this and just like my example above, nobody is willing to make those waves. The teamsters have also pooped the bed with Yellow. Anybody paying attention to that fiasco knows they were just as responsible for that shutdown as the execs. It turned into a ****ing match that cost 30k people their jobs and in the aftermath those faithful teamsters are looking to their locals for help and getting no answers.

Why would anybody put their faith and livelihood in the hands of the union with the way that played out? Because UPS got a good contact? That's not good enough.

We have a lot of anti-union people here, and I welcome all opinions

I'm not antiunion... I'm indifferent. I don't care either way. I look at things through a nuanced lens and try to remove all bias. In this case, I have no bias. I know people that work for ABF and I know people that worked for Yellow. They're good people just trying to make it like everybody else.

I just don't think the union deserves praise because UPS deflated their management payroll. They got rid of salary employees and they're cutting hours of hourly employees as they move towards automation. Instead of having (for example) 100 people in a warehouse, it's now 75.

Fast food spots are doing it too. No more people at the counter, there's a kiosk. Better yet, use the app and get a free drink. The drink is cheaper than the employee, but people don't care because they got a free drink.

I don't say "that's just how it is" because I have no fight. I say it because everybody is out for themselves. This country is too divided for people to stand together. You'll never get 10 people on the same page, let alone thousands or millions. Unions are just another divisive topic.

XPO had a union in one of their Florida buildings, Albany and a NJ building. XPO would make negotiating impossible. Those employees saw their counterparts getting raises and making more money. Eventually, they decertified and got put on the pay scale. They lost out on the raises before that.

Estes had a building vote in the teamsters. They shut that building down and then reopened it 18 months later with a whole new staff.

FedEx freight had 1 building that was union in Stockton. Same as XPO, FedEx wouldn't play ball. That went on for about 8 years and then FedEx shut the building down. Imagine losing out on 8 years of raises, just to get shutdown.

And the worst part is the Yellow employees. Those guys are struggling to find work because nobody wants to hire a teamster. Of course, they won't say that but that's what it is. The union they paid dues to for 10,20, 30 years is no where to be found to provide help with placement.

If things are to get better people have to want to be better. McDonald's doesn't pay 15 an hour out of the kindness of their hearts. That's the least they can pay to get people to walk in the door. Why should they pay more? They take advantage of those with no other options, but those with no options are in that position by their own doing.