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Should I move to feeders?
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<blockquote data-quote="xracer" data-source="post: 107193" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>The choice to move into feeders is not one for everybody, I personally miss the human contact of being on delivery it was hard to make the change after 20 years of package car but I am enjoying my decision thus far but I am less than a year into it. In our center we rebid every 24 months and I can go back into package if I like, as our seniority is retained on one seniority list for both package and feeders. Our center is unique in the fact that we have almost as many feeder routes as we do package, 30 package and 20 feeder and I am actually higher on the feeder seniority list than I was on package. We also have runs that start at all times of the day and night so it is possible for me to work the same hours as the package guys, I prefer work a shift that starts in the afternoon so I can get things done in the morning before my shift starts, others prefer the shifts that start in the late evening so they can spend time with thier kids which while on package they say that they got home in time to tuck them in for bed and now they can spend the evening with thier kids and sleep while the children are in school. There is also the money issue, I was one of the top paid package car drivers in my center and the move into feeders resulted in pay raise of approximately $20k a year which is obviously the direct result of more overtime although I do make $.50/hour more than a package car driver as I haul doubles and Rod if you don't think that feeder drivers deserve a higher pay rate you have not hauled doubles through a white out from lake effect snow and your rear trailer keeps disappearing from your view as it wiggles back and forth through the snow drifts that is if your visibility is good enough to even see that rear trailer, or had an air hose blow out on a highway at 3am and the wheels on your trailer lock up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xracer, post: 107193, member: 2209"] The choice to move into feeders is not one for everybody, I personally miss the human contact of being on delivery it was hard to make the change after 20 years of package car but I am enjoying my decision thus far but I am less than a year into it. In our center we rebid every 24 months and I can go back into package if I like, as our seniority is retained on one seniority list for both package and feeders. Our center is unique in the fact that we have almost as many feeder routes as we do package, 30 package and 20 feeder and I am actually higher on the feeder seniority list than I was on package. We also have runs that start at all times of the day and night so it is possible for me to work the same hours as the package guys, I prefer work a shift that starts in the afternoon so I can get things done in the morning before my shift starts, others prefer the shifts that start in the late evening so they can spend time with thier kids which while on package they say that they got home in time to tuck them in for bed and now they can spend the evening with thier kids and sleep while the children are in school. There is also the money issue, I was one of the top paid package car drivers in my center and the move into feeders resulted in pay raise of approximately $20k a year which is obviously the direct result of more overtime although I do make $.50/hour more than a package car driver as I haul doubles and Rod if you don't think that feeder drivers deserve a higher pay rate you have not hauled doubles through a white out from lake effect snow and your rear trailer keeps disappearing from your view as it wiggles back and forth through the snow drifts that is if your visibility is good enough to even see that rear trailer, or had an air hose blow out on a highway at 3am and the wheels on your trailer lock up. [/QUOTE]
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