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<blockquote data-quote="retiredTxfeeder" data-source="post: 3457795" data-attributes="member: 52978"><p>Feeders is just like package car in one way, and to me, one way only. You start at the bottom, and get the worst jobs, worst hours initially. It just gets better and better as you go along. After a few years, if you want a day job, you can get a day job. If you want 60 hours, at least in my department, they would let you get 60. We were perpetually short handed. When I got into feeders, it was all nights for me, and on call and coverage in the very beginning. There was one job that started at 1300. ALL the drivers ahead of me passed on it. It was a full time yard shifter, with the exception of, after going to meal around 1700, I jumped in a tractor and made a CPU. Came back in and got back into the shifter, worked till the midnight lineup got put in. During peak, I got a job going to Louisiana and back. Anytime there was an overflow, I went on the road. It was a hot job in the summer and wet when it rained. I did that job for 2 years. I'm a backing fool now, tho. lol. The worst day in feeders is still better than a good day in pkg, imho.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="retiredTxfeeder, post: 3457795, member: 52978"] Feeders is just like package car in one way, and to me, one way only. You start at the bottom, and get the worst jobs, worst hours initially. It just gets better and better as you go along. After a few years, if you want a day job, you can get a day job. If you want 60 hours, at least in my department, they would let you get 60. We were perpetually short handed. When I got into feeders, it was all nights for me, and on call and coverage in the very beginning. There was one job that started at 1300. ALL the drivers ahead of me passed on it. It was a full time yard shifter, with the exception of, after going to meal around 1700, I jumped in a tractor and made a CPU. Came back in and got back into the shifter, worked till the midnight lineup got put in. During peak, I got a job going to Louisiana and back. Anytime there was an overflow, I went on the road. It was a hot job in the summer and wet when it rained. I did that job for 2 years. I'm a backing fool now, tho. lol. The worst day in feeders is still better than a good day in pkg, imho. [/QUOTE]
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