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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 4753616" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Exactly, by your own admission you couldn't hack it and chances are it was for all the same reasons that I fought them over. Secondly having never married and no kids the people who were coming into that little piece of heaven were the same age as my kids would have been if I had my own. Kids who came from nothing had nothing. They called me "Big Brother" or "Sargent" I loaned them money to get their trucks fixed , helped get trucks started in the morning and flat tires fixed and I didn't leave the terminal at night until everyone was back in by the time line haul was ready to leave. If they weren't back and accounted for by 9PM I went out looking for them .As I said we 3 were the startups. It was up to us if the place was going to make it or not and that fact was pressed home from the beginning and it was made clear to us that we would be doing it more for the benefit of those who came behind us than for ourselves.</p><p>We started out with 82 boxes total the first day Three of us covered 11 rural counites stretched across 2 states working out of a terminal that was designated for closing twice in it's first 3 years of operation. All 3of us Day 1's stayed for 23 years all leaving within a couple of months of each other all of us beginning to deal with the accelerated rate of ageing the job inflicts and the health affects there in.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately today the place is controlled by these so called "entrepreneurs" who are nothing more than anti union firewalls who have guys out there killing themselves for half the wages and zero benefits as that of their counterparts at UPS who will simply be disposed of when they can't take the beating anymore and will go away with nothing and likely will be heavily dependent on government social program benefits for their basic survival. It did not need to be that way but sheer greed has a habit of creating that result.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 4753616, member: 58386"] Exactly, by your own admission you couldn't hack it and chances are it was for all the same reasons that I fought them over. Secondly having never married and no kids the people who were coming into that little piece of heaven were the same age as my kids would have been if I had my own. Kids who came from nothing had nothing. They called me "Big Brother" or "Sargent" I loaned them money to get their trucks fixed , helped get trucks started in the morning and flat tires fixed and I didn't leave the terminal at night until everyone was back in by the time line haul was ready to leave. If they weren't back and accounted for by 9PM I went out looking for them .As I said we 3 were the startups. It was up to us if the place was going to make it or not and that fact was pressed home from the beginning and it was made clear to us that we would be doing it more for the benefit of those who came behind us than for ourselves. We started out with 82 boxes total the first day Three of us covered 11 rural counites stretched across 2 states working out of a terminal that was designated for closing twice in it's first 3 years of operation. All 3of us Day 1's stayed for 23 years all leaving within a couple of months of each other all of us beginning to deal with the accelerated rate of ageing the job inflicts and the health affects there in. Unfortunately today the place is controlled by these so called "entrepreneurs" who are nothing more than anti union firewalls who have guys out there killing themselves for half the wages and zero benefits as that of their counterparts at UPS who will simply be disposed of when they can't take the beating anymore and will go away with nothing and likely will be heavily dependent on government social program benefits for their basic survival. It did not need to be that way but sheer greed has a habit of creating that result. [/QUOTE]
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