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<blockquote data-quote="Island" data-source="post: 1294499" data-attributes="member: 42417"><p>The cases I have heard of were at DFW, not Mesquite. The reason so many of us have turned it down and allowed new hires to go drive is because our local has done such a bad job enforcing 9.5. There are too few routes, and drivers have too many stops. At DFW there isn't room for more trucks to be parked so the company, rather than building a new hub a long time ago, has simply been harassing drivers this whole time while having a lot of service failures. Mesquite is probably the same in this respect.</p><p>I don't want to drive because I don't want to be the new driver who is stuck working 13 hour days, and my short day is a 10 hour day. When I meet a person who wants to go drive I make it very clear to them what's going to happen but they typically don't believe me and go looking for more sides of the story. As they talk to other people they quickly learn that I was right. Unfortunately I can't talk to just everyone. But if I was discouraging every single employee from becoming a driver, the company would have a real serious shortage of drivers. Once the new building is complete we'll see how the drivers 9.5 language is enforced and if IE actually planned the number of stops per routes correctly or if they purposely arranged for all routes to still have too many stops.</p><p>There are drivers moving to feeders to replace retirees because they know they'll actually get fewer hours in feeders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Island, post: 1294499, member: 42417"] The cases I have heard of were at DFW, not Mesquite. The reason so many of us have turned it down and allowed new hires to go drive is because our local has done such a bad job enforcing 9.5. There are too few routes, and drivers have too many stops. At DFW there isn't room for more trucks to be parked so the company, rather than building a new hub a long time ago, has simply been harassing drivers this whole time while having a lot of service failures. Mesquite is probably the same in this respect. I don't want to drive because I don't want to be the new driver who is stuck working 13 hour days, and my short day is a 10 hour day. When I meet a person who wants to go drive I make it very clear to them what's going to happen but they typically don't believe me and go looking for more sides of the story. As they talk to other people they quickly learn that I was right. Unfortunately I can't talk to just everyone. But if I was discouraging every single employee from becoming a driver, the company would have a real serious shortage of drivers. Once the new building is complete we'll see how the drivers 9.5 language is enforced and if IE actually planned the number of stops per routes correctly or if they purposely arranged for all routes to still have too many stops. There are drivers moving to feeders to replace retirees because they know they'll actually get fewer hours in feeders. [/QUOTE]
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