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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 2520077" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>I was a 23 year Day1 contractor going back to the early days of Roadway Package System. I operated out of a small terminal in a depressed rural area that was designated for closing twice in it's first 3 years of operation. We went through 3 ownership changes at least that many rebrandings 10 terminal managers each with his own idea of how things should be done. Not to mention having to reorganize as subchapter S or C corporations. And I got out just ahead of the ISP introduction . I had no desire to go through the manpower misery's the contractors remaining are going through. Failed drug tests during certification. Failed random drug tests. DUI's after work or over the weekend. Guys thrown in jail for beating up their old ladies not showing up for work the next day and not calling in. Guy's thrown in jail for missing divorce master or domestic relations hearings. Guy's in accidents with property damage while on duty not reporting it. Wrecks deer strikes and breakdowns out in the middle of nowhere.And worst of all a contract with language that is by design so vague and ambiguous to the point that it's not worth the paper it's written on. And just two weeks ago at age 63 with one hip joint already replaced and the other to be replaced next week a desperate contractor called me up and asked if I could help him out of the mess he was in due to the fact that the terminal paid hourly temps had been eliminated leaving it up to the contractor despite settlement reductions to find his own machines and manpower .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 2520077, member: 58386"] I was a 23 year Day1 contractor going back to the early days of Roadway Package System. I operated out of a small terminal in a depressed rural area that was designated for closing twice in it's first 3 years of operation. We went through 3 ownership changes at least that many rebrandings 10 terminal managers each with his own idea of how things should be done. Not to mention having to reorganize as subchapter S or C corporations. And I got out just ahead of the ISP introduction . I had no desire to go through the manpower misery's the contractors remaining are going through. Failed drug tests during certification. Failed random drug tests. DUI's after work or over the weekend. Guys thrown in jail for beating up their old ladies not showing up for work the next day and not calling in. Guy's thrown in jail for missing divorce master or domestic relations hearings. Guy's in accidents with property damage while on duty not reporting it. Wrecks deer strikes and breakdowns out in the middle of nowhere.And worst of all a contract with language that is by design so vague and ambiguous to the point that it's not worth the paper it's written on. And just two weeks ago at age 63 with one hip joint already replaced and the other to be replaced next week a desperate contractor called me up and asked if I could help him out of the mess he was in due to the fact that the terminal paid hourly temps had been eliminated leaving it up to the contractor despite settlement reductions to find his own machines and manpower . [/QUOTE]
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