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I wouldn't expect the company to add many FT drivers in the future
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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1031339" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>Hulk, when they cut a route and parcel it out to 5 other drivers, not all five will end up with excessive OT. Often times its the runners who get that work, and they will save some money. Once heard of a driver who did an 18 hr dispatch in 11 hrs. In my center-a bonus center-the sheet is filled with guys blowing their routes out of the water-and these aren't rookies. In my center at least, we get by. My sup pointed out to me the other day that in the year since he joined our center we've lost 10 drivers who haven't been replaced, but my center is no where close to melt down, and I.suspect it is like that in tue majority of centers in the majority of buildings, otherwise business would really suffer and the stock would take a hit. Oh, and our injuries are not spiking up, and we may have a couple injuries this year, and one of them involved someone blacking out behind their will and runnning into our driver.</p><p></p><p>As far as trucks, it is common knowledge that once a truck is up and running it burns fuel more efficiently. IOW, that extra truck you just put on the road will probably burn more gas in its first hour than two trucks doing their extra two hours of OT (if, again, it even amounts to that much OT). Not to mention the liability costs and so on and so forth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1031339, member: 32753"] Hulk, when they cut a route and parcel it out to 5 other drivers, not all five will end up with excessive OT. Often times its the runners who get that work, and they will save some money. Once heard of a driver who did an 18 hr dispatch in 11 hrs. In my center-a bonus center-the sheet is filled with guys blowing their routes out of the water-and these aren't rookies. In my center at least, we get by. My sup pointed out to me the other day that in the year since he joined our center we've lost 10 drivers who haven't been replaced, but my center is no where close to melt down, and I.suspect it is like that in tue majority of centers in the majority of buildings, otherwise business would really suffer and the stock would take a hit. Oh, and our injuries are not spiking up, and we may have a couple injuries this year, and one of them involved someone blacking out behind their will and runnning into our driver. As far as trucks, it is common knowledge that once a truck is up and running it burns fuel more efficiently. IOW, that extra truck you just put on the road will probably burn more gas in its first hour than two trucks doing their extra two hours of OT (if, again, it even amounts to that much OT). Not to mention the liability costs and so on and so forth. [/QUOTE]
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