How's North Carolina TEST STATION doing??

[bbsam]

Good weather if you can find it. However it’s still winter and snowfall in the midwest can last thru the 3rd week of April.

Not this year.

 

[bbsam]

You had to have someone else recruit your drivers???

I thought for sure people were lined up for blocks begging for an application just to work for you.

. No. They came looking for the position. Hired one guy before he was even 21. Didn’t even really need him at the time.

 

[Cactus]

Not this year.

You know that for a fact?

 

[bacha29]

That depends. Is it just me or is it thousands of contractors dealing with the same issues?
If it’s just me, they either don’t offer me a new contract next year or if it’s bad enough, they terminate the current contract.

Did you already know that answer bacha? Are you trying to strike some kind of fear in me or other contractors with the power X has? Lol. Everybody knows that. There’s probably not a contractor on this site that hasn’t personally witnessed a fellow contractor have their contract terminated.
Know what happens then? Every other contractor knows “not to friend’n do that!”

I think what you keep missing is that any contractor can set up his own driving school and bring in the “cheap labor”. Takes a couple weeks to get through but pretty straightforward. I’ve gotten a couple guys from the local Jr college. I’m longtime friends with the coach and he’s sent me a couple guys who for their own reasons didn’t feel college was right for them. One had pizza delivery experience, another worked in a pizza restaurant. Both are turning into good, dependable, productive drivers. Do you think I’ve found the last two on the face of the earth?

So they do to a certain extent take responsibility for overselling the service and wrongly assumed that the lifeforms would just be there to haul their junk away?
In addition I am truly amazed that you actually have that large a pool of unskilled socioeconomic underclass people to draw from.

In my area where the population is washing out the age group that you would normally draw from is shrinking and those who can are making every effort to get to a better place and into a better line of work primarily professional in nature. The handful that remain from that core to a considerable extent come from conditions so impoverished that selling and using drugs is their economy. .......And the situation in my area is by no means unique and will almost certainly create more numerous service failures and disruptions going forward.

When contractors cried to me about always being shorthanded I would respond by say "Take a look around. There isn't anybody and those who would qualify simply will not take this ball busting work for what you want to pay. And if you were to abolish the New Deal and Great Society social programs living conditions around here would go from existable to unlivable in a month. It's your own dumb fault that you still went out and borrowed money to
service and support an economy that was already being well supported by existing carriers".

 

[59 Dano]

You had to have someone else recruit your drivers???

I thought for sure people were lined up for blocks begging for an application just to work for you.

Go ahead, take shots at a guy whose operation is fully staffed.

 

[It will be fine]

Go ahead, take shots at a guy whose operation is fully staffed.

For some reason having current drivers refer their friends for a job is seen as a negative to @Cactus. That’s some ironclad logic.

 

[bbsam]

You know that for a fact?

Lol. Even if we got hi with the 9 inches of snow (that was actually predicted last Thursday) it’d be gone in a day. Went from 100% chance to 0

 

[Cactus]

For some reason having current drivers refer their friends for a job is seen as a negative to @Cactus. That’s some ironclad logic.

Reread the post. The drivers were referred by bbsam’s friend, not the driver’s you fool.

 

[Cactus]

Go ahead, take shots at a guy whose operation is fully staffed.

And you’ve witnessed his operation? I don’t think so.

I rest my case.

 

[59 Dano]

For some reason having current drivers refer their friends for a job is seen as a negative to @Cactus. That’s some ironclad logic.

Don't you love the movement of the goalposts?

"You don't pay enough, that's why you can't find help."
"I've got all the positions filled and I'm getting referrals."
"Well, you don't have people lined up begging for a job."

 

[59 Dano]

And you’ve witnessed his operation? I don’t think so.

I rest my case.

I don't know what case you're resting, but OK.

 

[Cactus]

I don't know what case you're resting, but OK.

Your memory seems rather poor just like your argument.

 

[Gone fishin]

Greensboro must be working hard as usual. Not a peep out of them

 

[yadig]

Yup, but only I only hear that drivel here. What do you think my job is?

Idc

 

[yadig]

“You’re”. “An”.

My secret is out. English is my second language. I’m better at speaking than writing it. Hey, ain’t u a die hard demoncat? Quit bullying me!

 

[It will be fine]

Idc

I appreciate your admission that you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.

 

[yadig]

I appreciate your admission that you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.

25 years.

 

[SmithBarney]

the QxxxxQ packages are going to a lot of different markets other than just the GSOR market, I picked up packages heading to 10 with locations from the NYC to MIAMI areas.

EDIT, those 10 packages only came from two different small shippers. (6 came from one shipper)

 

[bbsam]

We have 2 expected at our building today.

 

[SmithBarney]

We have 2 expected at our building today.

Pace yourself, take one today, and one tomorrow.