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<blockquote data-quote="35years" data-source="post: 2290121" data-attributes="member: 60822">JL Wrote:You have to realize there&#039;s a correlation between the ever increasing compensation that drivers make as a result of being unionized (a good thing of course) to increased hours, work load, and pressure from management. Our compensation has increased faster than most industries. Many jobs don&#039;t get any raises for numerous years at a time.You are wrong here. Driver compensation (adjusted for inflation) is the same as it was in 1981(actually slightly less). Additionally part timers make far less than in 1981...They made the same per hour as full timers back in the day, and they are Unionized. That&#039;s the drawback with making what we make. In the interest of economics, the company realizes the savings in running less drivers for more hours.If we made say, $22/hr top rate, plus had to contribute to health insurance and had no pension, trust me, we&#039;d run more routes with much less overtime.Half true...The expensive heath insurance and pension are a dis-incentive to hire more drivers but a higher wage rate is actually an incentive to hire more workers and give less overtime. The cost of infrastructure...Bldgs, trucks etc. is a greater dis-incentive to hire more workers.Plus, there&#039;s that thing called competition. We do over 70&#039;s (up to 150) because Fedex does. It goes back and forth and over time you just have to keep producing more and more.If I am not mistaken, we started moving over 70s prior to Fedex.&nbsp; I doubt we move over 70s simply because others do. We get a premium price for moving them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="35years, post: 2290121, member: 60822"] JL Wrote: You have to realize there's a correlation between the ever increasing compensation that drivers make as a result of being unionized (a good thing of course) to increased hours, work load, and pressure from management. Our compensation has increased faster than most industries. Many jobs don't get any raises for numerous years at a time. [B][COLOR=#0000b3]You are wrong here. Driver compensation (adjusted for inflation) is the same as it was in 1981(actually slightly less). Additionally part timers make far less than in 1981...They made the same per hour as full timers back in the day, and they are Unionized.[/COLOR] [/B] That's the drawback with making what we make. In the interest of economics, the company realizes the savings in running less drivers for more hours. If we made say, $22/hr top rate, plus had to contribute to health insurance and had no pension, trust me, we'd run more routes with much less overtime. [B][COLOR=#0000b3]Half true...The expensive heath insurance and pension are a dis-incentive to hire more drivers but a higher wage rate is actually an incentive to hire more workers and give less overtime. The cost of infrastructure...Bldgs, trucks etc. is a greater dis-incentive to hire more workers.[/COLOR][/B] Plus, there's that thing called competition. We do over 70's (up to 150) because Fedex does. It goes back and forth and over time you just have to keep producing more and more. [B][COLOR=#0000b3]If I am not mistaken, we started moving over 70s prior to Fedex. I doubt we move over 70s simply because others do. We get a premium price for moving them.[/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]

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