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Slow Holiday Season hurts New Drivers & Union Progress in 2008 First Quarter
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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Cross" data-source="post: 286896" data-attributes="member: 7348"><p>Greg,</p><p>Anyone that has been in this buiness will tell you that being on the "bottom" is not a great place to be when things slow down, but you do have to start somewhere. I am not sure if you are Local, dock CDL or RDDR. Yes the Union may well be the way to go now that we have been adopted by Uncle Brown. I'm not quite sure how the operations will procede under the contract(s), but I am sure it will be different than it has been since I have been involved with this outfit. You say you have been working less than a year, so you may be placed on some sort of casual board, should your barn acheive a contract. This will be a "call you when needed" board, if and until you move up on the senority list. My advice to all the new employees at my barn "Is to work any and all the days you can when business is good and to save some cash for the first quarter of the new year, when business SLOWS". Also, should you be a RDDR and you are on the casual board, a senior employee who has a run cut, could bump you from working that day, if the work is offered to him/her by dispatch. Good luck with UNCLE BROWN!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Cross, post: 286896, member: 7348"] Greg, Anyone that has been in this buiness will tell you that being on the "bottom" is not a great place to be when things slow down, but you do have to start somewhere. I am not sure if you are Local, dock CDL or RDDR. Yes the Union may well be the way to go now that we have been adopted by Uncle Brown. I'm not quite sure how the operations will procede under the contract(s), but I am sure it will be different than it has been since I have been involved with this outfit. You say you have been working less than a year, so you may be placed on some sort of casual board, should your barn acheive a contract. This will be a "call you when needed" board, if and until you move up on the senority list. My advice to all the new employees at my barn "Is to work any and all the days you can when business is good and to save some cash for the first quarter of the new year, when business SLOWS". Also, should you be a RDDR and you are on the casual board, a senior employee who has a run cut, could bump you from working that day, if the work is offered to him/her by dispatch. Good luck with UNCLE BROWN! [/QUOTE]
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