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<blockquote data-quote="Dieselhed" data-source="post: 778844" data-attributes="member: 30068"><p>In my case, I started in the city and was there for 9 years before transfering to the road. At my terminal (Roadway) the road board was around 100 people and they were old so I moved up quick when guys started retiring and we didn't have sleepers. Then P.O.S. Yellow Freight bought us and things were the same for about 5 years. In March of '09 we merged terminals and seniority lists with theirs and a guy with 6 years road seniority got me around number 275 out of 400+ guys. They ran sleepers as well and that's what I was looking at for the next 15-20 years maybe longer since they had alot of old guys who didn't want to retire. The top six guys on their board started there before I was born and I'm 36! I decided that sleepers weren't for me, not to mention we went to their terminal as well and it was a longer drive to work for me, so I started looking. The UPS Freight terminal was right behind my old Roadway terminal so it was my first choice. I also wanted to work for a union company and the UPS reputation was a deciding factor as well. What surprised me was I started at Roadway in '94 and they were so far ahead of UPS Freight technology wise then, than UPS Freight is now, if that makes any sense. My terminal is just now starting to update the P&D route software to a system almost identical to what we had at Roadway in '94. </p><p>On the upside, I see tremendous potential with this company. I just wish UPS would get serious about gaining LTL market share. But on the other hand taking it slow is probably a better approach if your parent company is somewhat new to LTL. There are a few people at my terminal in management/sales that came from Roadway and we talk all the time about the differences in the two companies good and bad but "it is what it is" and we're making the best of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dieselhed, post: 778844, member: 30068"] In my case, I started in the city and was there for 9 years before transfering to the road. At my terminal (Roadway) the road board was around 100 people and they were old so I moved up quick when guys started retiring and we didn't have sleepers. Then P.O.S. Yellow Freight bought us and things were the same for about 5 years. In March of '09 we merged terminals and seniority lists with theirs and a guy with 6 years road seniority got me around number 275 out of 400+ guys. They ran sleepers as well and that's what I was looking at for the next 15-20 years maybe longer since they had alot of old guys who didn't want to retire. The top six guys on their board started there before I was born and I'm 36! I decided that sleepers weren't for me, not to mention we went to their terminal as well and it was a longer drive to work for me, so I started looking. The UPS Freight terminal was right behind my old Roadway terminal so it was my first choice. I also wanted to work for a union company and the UPS reputation was a deciding factor as well. What surprised me was I started at Roadway in '94 and they were so far ahead of UPS Freight technology wise then, than UPS Freight is now, if that makes any sense. My terminal is just now starting to update the P&D route software to a system almost identical to what we had at Roadway in '94. On the upside, I see tremendous potential with this company. I just wish UPS would get serious about gaining LTL market share. But on the other hand taking it slow is probably a better approach if your parent company is somewhat new to LTL. There are a few people at my terminal in management/sales that came from Roadway and we talk all the time about the differences in the two companies good and bad but "it is what it is" and we're making the best of it. [/QUOTE]
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