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<blockquote data-quote="Rarefish383" data-source="post: 4716203" data-attributes="member: 86785"><p>Thread is getting kind of old, but just to have it for folks that stumble upon it later. Our feeder dept bids their runs twice a year. So, if you have a desirable day run now, next bid, you won't. I had 23 years in when I bid into feeders. I loved shifting in the yard, most feeders didn't, so I got one of the few all shifting runs. The thing I liked about shifting is you are not on the road, so DOT rules don't apply to you, if you don't go on the road later in the week. Several of us were working over 60 hours for years, made a lot of money. The pendulum swings in two directions. I had two friends that had 30 in but were still young enough that their health insurance, if they retired, would be very expensive. So, they planned on riding the gravy train. Within two years of retiring, I was already old, they both retired. New management cut shifters to zero OT.</p><p></p><p>Oh, as far as night work with 2 years being BS. Most training runs are during the day, because most training sups don't like working and driving in the dark any more than anyone else. The local center that delivers to my house has two bays and two Feeder drivers, maybe that could happen there. The building I worked out of had 168 bays and 400 Feeder drivers, often 20 years wouldn't even get you on the bid list. I thought I was lucky with 23 years. The only reason I made the list when I did was it was in the middle of Snowmageddon, and nobody wanted to train in 3 feet of snow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rarefish383, post: 4716203, member: 86785"] Thread is getting kind of old, but just to have it for folks that stumble upon it later. Our feeder dept bids their runs twice a year. So, if you have a desirable day run now, next bid, you won't. I had 23 years in when I bid into feeders. I loved shifting in the yard, most feeders didn't, so I got one of the few all shifting runs. The thing I liked about shifting is you are not on the road, so DOT rules don't apply to you, if you don't go on the road later in the week. Several of us were working over 60 hours for years, made a lot of money. The pendulum swings in two directions. I had two friends that had 30 in but were still young enough that their health insurance, if they retired, would be very expensive. So, they planned on riding the gravy train. Within two years of retiring, I was already old, they both retired. New management cut shifters to zero OT. Oh, as far as night work with 2 years being BS. Most training runs are during the day, because most training sups don't like working and driving in the dark any more than anyone else. The local center that delivers to my house has two bays and two Feeder drivers, maybe that could happen there. The building I worked out of had 168 bays and 400 Feeder drivers, often 20 years wouldn't even get you on the bid list. I thought I was lucky with 23 years. The only reason I made the list when I did was it was in the middle of Snowmageddon, and nobody wanted to train in 3 feet of snow. [/QUOTE]
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