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<blockquote data-quote="raceanoncr" data-source="post: 596382" data-attributes="member: 6408"><p>Also didn't vote on poll cuz didn't feel the options rightly reflected my view.</p><p> </p><p>Can't say, after 31 yrs, that I love this job. Have been feeder driver for more than 28 but it hasn't been a fluff job. Was at bottom of senior list for many years. Had to take crummy feeder jobs, some were not even bids, just cover, on-call, etc. Here, it's only been, maybe the last ten years or so that I've had a decent (to me) choice of bids to keep me going. </p><p> </p><p>I will say, tho, that the worst job in feeders has always been better than the best job in package cars. So I made a go of it.</p><p> </p><p>I did sleepers for many years and consistently made at or over 100K a year. Where else could I go with almost no education (only completed 12th grade and that was barely) and make this kind of $ and bennies attached? </p><p> </p><p>The actual job now consists of almost nothing. Just drive out to meet point, drive back. Got decent tractor, a/c, air ride cab, vertical stack, XM radio...most things we didn't have when I started, and I thot I was on top of the world THEN! </p><p> </p><p>I, too, am really put off by the direction the company is taking these days. I came back after long disability just a couple weeks ago, as an example, and had the required rider. He was OK but the paperwork at the end of the ride was INCREDIBLE!!!! 9 pages of stuff to go over now and it had to be done NOW, not tomorrow. That meant I had to wait ON THE CLOCK for him to finish it. No bid deal, cuz it was O/T but what about all the cutbacks? </p><p> </p><p>Sometimes you just sit back and scratch your head while counting your money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="raceanoncr, post: 596382, member: 6408"] Also didn't vote on poll cuz didn't feel the options rightly reflected my view. Can't say, after 31 yrs, that I love this job. Have been feeder driver for more than 28 but it hasn't been a fluff job. Was at bottom of senior list for many years. Had to take crummy feeder jobs, some were not even bids, just cover, on-call, etc. Here, it's only been, maybe the last ten years or so that I've had a decent (to me) choice of bids to keep me going. I will say, tho, that the worst job in feeders has always been better than the best job in package cars. So I made a go of it. I did sleepers for many years and consistently made at or over 100K a year. Where else could I go with almost no education (only completed 12th grade and that was barely) and make this kind of $ and bennies attached? The actual job now consists of almost nothing. Just drive out to meet point, drive back. Got decent tractor, a/c, air ride cab, vertical stack, XM radio...most things we didn't have when I started, and I thot I was on top of the world THEN! I, too, am really put off by the direction the company is taking these days. I came back after long disability just a couple weeks ago, as an example, and had the required rider. He was OK but the paperwork at the end of the ride was INCREDIBLE!!!! 9 pages of stuff to go over now and it had to be done NOW, not tomorrow. That meant I had to wait ON THE CLOCK for him to finish it. No bid deal, cuz it was O/T but what about all the cutbacks? Sometimes you just sit back and scratch your head while counting your money. [/QUOTE]
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