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<blockquote data-quote="Shiftless" data-source="post: 3380302" data-attributes="member: 47472">I think my experience was very different. Started in a building with 4 centers. I was not there during the 1974 strike. Spent the last 21 years in an outlying center. Ya know the type. You have your own key to the building.No fences, had a payroll clerk, cash cage, no mule or shifter, you could drive your personal car up to the pkg car and move your stuff to the pkg car then go park, wives would walk in on Fridays and pick up the paychecks for some, clerks would ship your pkg and give you a bill the next day to pay. drivers who car pooled would throw footballs around and over pkg cars to pass the time waiting for their ride share partners.I saw so many come and go at the beginning as a full time driver, then so many burn out half way there and/or just quit or get fired. Even tho I saw drivers retire, the amount of drivers that came and went makes my personal observations probably at more 50% stayed and survived or less. What I also saw in&nbsp; the mid 70&#039;s with all the expansion and all states going online, many tried management and washed out pretty quickly or just quit. BUT! Everyone&#039;s experience is different.&nbsp; Heck today&#039;s pkg world is so much different for drivers with all the commit times and services! Glad I am DONE!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shiftless, post: 3380302, member: 47472"] I think my experience was very different. Started in a building with 4 centers. I was not there during the 1974 strike. Spent the last 21 years in an outlying center. Ya know the type. You have your own key to the building. No fences, had a payroll clerk, cash cage, no mule or shifter, you could drive your personal car up to the pkg car and move your stuff to the pkg car then go park, wives would walk in on Fridays and pick up the paychecks for some, clerks would ship your pkg and give you a bill the next day to pay. drivers who car pooled would throw footballs around and over pkg cars to pass the time waiting for their ride share partners. I saw so many come and go at the beginning as a full time driver, then so many burn out half way there and/or just quit or get fired. Even tho I saw drivers retire, the amount of drivers that came and went makes my personal observations probably at more 50% stayed and survived or less. What I also saw in the mid 70's with all the expansion and all states going online, many tried management and washed out pretty quickly or just quit. BUT! Everyone's experience is different. Heck today's pkg world is so much different for drivers with all the commit times and services! Glad I am DONE! [/QUOTE]

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