Looking into feeder driver

[blaeux35]

I talked to a harpa feeder driver last week. says they are hiring off the street and they have twenty sleeper teams going in too.

wow. whats going on in harpa for them to add 20 sleeper teams?

 

[spif91]

Do you not have a "inside to outside" hire ratio, like we do in package?

No when a feeder job is open they take the most senior pkg driver that has signed a feeder bid list and put him thru the 3 day school and all the training. He may cover vacations for a couple of years before he gains his feeder seniority and then can go on the coverage board before eventually having the chance to actually bid a run......

 

[Catatonic]

wow. whats going on in harpa for them to add 20 sleeper teams?

Finding something for the DC-8 mechanics to do?

 

[Cementups]

I talked to a harpa feeder driver last week. says they are hiring off the street and they have twenty sleeper teams going in too.

There has been ads in our local paper for some time looking for casual feeder drivers here in Harpa.

 

[Old International]

3 day Feeder school? Not in SC. 5 Day school, 8-10 hours a day. Plus no pay. But it's still cheaper then going to truck driving school.........

 

[NEFARIOUS]

Here it's 5 day non-productive (some in classroom some empty trailers).Then 5-days productive( on a feeder run). 8-11 hours a day all paid.

 

[outta hours]

The last off the street hire here in Okla City was about 2001....

I always get a kick out of your night time dispatcher. He cracks me up. He always makes me money by giving me a load to take back to another hub. Rather than just M/T's back to mine. Of course this is when I am running Xtra without a schedule to keep.

 

[JimJimmyJames]

No when a feeder job is open they take the most senior pkg driver that has signed a feeder bid list and put him thru the 3 day school and all the training. He may cover vacations for a couple of years before he gains his feeder seniority and then can go on the coverage board before eventually having the chance to actually bid a run......

That sounds terrible. Where I am from once you leave package, you leave package.

 

[spif91]

I always get a kick out of your night time dispatcher. He cracks me up. He always makes me money by giving me a load to take back to another hub. Rather than just M/T's back to mine. Of course this is when I am running Xtra without a schedule to keep.

Where u out of?

 

[outta hours]

To keep my identity concealed I am out of one of these. 7519,7619,7649,7529. And I do go to 7319 quite often.

 

[trplnkl]

To keep my identity concealed I am out of one of these. 7519,7619,7649,7529. And I do go to 7319 quite often.

You not pullin' the wool over my eyes, you made all them numbers up...didntyou.

 

[outta hours]

You not pullin' the wool over my eyes, you made all them numbers up...didntyou.

Nope, all real places. Spif91 will know what I mean.

 

[spif91]

To keep my identity concealed I am out of one of these. 7519,7619,7649,7529. And I do go to 7319 quite often.

You'll b easy enough to spot coming into the hub with ur Mack pulling those double FedEx pups. I'll b looking 4 u.

 

[outta hours]

Copy that I'll pull anything to make some $$$