We've been using rentals off and on since May. Our geniuses at district office decided that our fleet was getting too expensive to maintain so they started scrapping the old P5s, p6s and p8s. However they forgot one little thing, to get replacements for them...FIRST. Now, when new trucks come into the district they stay at the hub in the same city as the district office and we get their handmedowns, meaning their crap cars.
Our biggest problem isn't having cars to load into, it's having people to deliver out of them. Part of that problem is our current manager evidently thinks we can hire someone for seasonal driving, inside or helpers and work them just one day or two shifts out of a two week time and have them hang around. They claim that 3 of 5 hired for seasonal driving have quit and one of them fell out of his truck and dislocated his shoulder. Then there is the people out on workers comp, eight with various injuries some for as long as 3 months out and at least two out on disability.