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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1035523" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Kind of a unique situation at this station. Two sets of 4X10's go through a pass in the mountains to two neighboring states. No Saturday service in those areas. Stem time is long enough that they are pretty much insured at least 9.5hrs on slower days. But if freight is greatly reduced soon they'll have to restructure back to 5X8's only this time they won't be getting OT and may struggle to get 35hrs. And a big chunk of that will still be stem time. Was told they tried 4X10's awhile back, but due to people leaving, injuries, etc they ended up still working a lot of OT. They've been working 50+hrs a week for years. The problem is there are 5 rts in my loop with one still working 5X8's. He doesn't get a full 40 but is happy with that. But if they all revert back to 5X8's there will now be 6 of us with myself, the cover driver. There may only be enough work for 5, possibly only 4 rts. Haven't heard anything about layoffs but I doubt if my loop is unique. What will they do with the extra people? These are all FTer's in it to make a living and already there's some real concern about losing all the OT going to a 4X10 system. The only way the company can use PTers in these 2 areas would be to go back to domiciled couriers(which they did years ago) with a FTer bringing the freight out to them. And then you'd have a bunch of displaced FTers. Will be interesting to see if anything is said about layoffs next week. If we keep 2 day service probably won't happen, but if Express is eventually just overnight deliveries I don't see how they can avoid laying off people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1035523, member: 24302"] Kind of a unique situation at this station. Two sets of 4X10's go through a pass in the mountains to two neighboring states. No Saturday service in those areas. Stem time is long enough that they are pretty much insured at least 9.5hrs on slower days. But if freight is greatly reduced soon they'll have to restructure back to 5X8's only this time they won't be getting OT and may struggle to get 35hrs. And a big chunk of that will still be stem time. Was told they tried 4X10's awhile back, but due to people leaving, injuries, etc they ended up still working a lot of OT. They've been working 50+hrs a week for years. The problem is there are 5 rts in my loop with one still working 5X8's. He doesn't get a full 40 but is happy with that. But if they all revert back to 5X8's there will now be 6 of us with myself, the cover driver. There may only be enough work for 5, possibly only 4 rts. Haven't heard anything about layoffs but I doubt if my loop is unique. What will they do with the extra people? These are all FTer's in it to make a living and already there's some real concern about losing all the OT going to a 4X10 system. The only way the company can use PTers in these 2 areas would be to go back to domiciled couriers(which they did years ago) with a FTer bringing the freight out to them. And then you'd have a bunch of displaced FTers. Will be interesting to see if anything is said about layoffs next week. If we keep 2 day service probably won't happen, but if Express is eventually just overnight deliveries I don't see how they can avoid laying off people. [/QUOTE]
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