why hate off the street hires ?

Knothead

Yep.
Most over the road drivers I've seen look like they wouldn't last a week in package. As most of us know, there is way more to the job than just driving around and dropping off boxes. People coming in from the outside really have no clue.
 

WorknLateHuh

Well-Known Member
Ok but let's be honest you think package takes more skill and experience to do than driving a big rig ? I'm sorry to burst your bubble but anyone can be trained to become a package handler or delivery person

oh, the arrogance

I've been in package 13 years driving, off the street. And i drove tractor trailers before that. you're wrong.

This is why ppl dont appreciate us... you dont know what you're talking about.

You sealed the deal with that comment.
 

BusterBrown31

Well-Known Member
Most over the road drivers I've seen look like they wouldn't last a week in package. As most of us know, there is way more to the job than just driving around and dropping off boxes. People coming in from the outside really have no clue.
Yeah maybe if they're 400lbs they wouldn't last a week but then again they wouldn't be applying for an active job like that either
 

oldngray

nowhere special
I knew of several feeders drivers who tried to qualify as package drivers after being laid off. Not a single one made it. Completely different environments.
 

Hump dump and roll

Well-Known Member
Ok but let's be honest you think package takes more skill and experience to do than driving a big rig ? I'm sorry to burst your bubble but anyone can be trained to become a package handler or delivery person it takes a certain person to put in his time OTR and rack up thousands maybe even millions miles under all types of stress. I'm not just a steering wheel holder I've put my time in on the road and that's what this job requires. It doesn't ask you how many packages have you lifted or delivered in the last 10 years.
I hear a lot more about autonomous big rigs then I do about autonomous service providers.
 

OrionsBitch

Not...
Insiders are just pissed because they wasted 10 years working inside for :censored2: pay trying to become a driver. They weren't smart enough to go do something else and wait for a position to open up for an outside hire lol As Ben Shapiro would say. "Facts don't care about feelings."
 

BusterBrown31

Well-Known Member
Insiders are just :censored2: because they wasted 10 years working inside for :censored2: pay trying to become a driver. They weren't smart enough to go do something else and wait for a position to open up for an outside hire lol As Ben Shapiro would say. "Facts don't care about feelings."
Couldn't of said it any better
 

anHOURover

Well-Known Member
When @anHOURover produces a copy of his DD 214....

I will let up.


He talks smack.

And, posts the TDU narrative to an extreme degree.


Muscle up.... Or shut up.



-Bug-
Bug you are what's wrong with today's union leadership. Look in the mirror and you will see a clown. All your friends are getting in trouble for corruption. I love sitting back and reading about the criminals getting in trouble after all the years of Wrong doing.
I don't have to prove anything to you.
If I ever see you I promise you will be put on YouTube. Everyone knows I have nothing to do wth the tdu clan. I constantly point out their lies as well.
FACT
 
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jibbs

Guest
Insiders are just :censored2: because they wasted 10 years working inside for :censored2: pay trying to become a driver. They weren't smart enough to go do something else and wait for a position to open up for an outside hire lol As Ben Shapiro would say. "Facts don't care about feelings."


Pretty much exactly what I was about to post. People like newcomers to start from the bottom and go through the same hoops and obstacles that most others have had to go through.

A PTer can always bid for a driving position. Typically ignorance of that fact and a lack of initiative, motivation and/or certain skill-sets keep said PTer from putting their name up-- things that they can all work on and develop personally. So yeah, even though we might get mad, almost always (ALMOST) that anger is just an outward reflection of how we feel about our own working situation. You might even go so far as to call it entitlement when that happens, as in the PTer feels they're entitled to the FT position because they've put in the years despite not going through the proper channels to get the job.
 

trickpony1

Well-Known Member
I knew of several feeders drivers who tried to qualify as package drivers after being laid off.

Why would they do that when they can pick up the phone, call a temp agency and be driving a big truck before the day is over?

Many of our feeder drivers have all the endorsements (hazmat, tankers etc.) in case they get fired for some chickenshirt reason. They can say "it's been fun", pick up the phone and be driving before sunset.
 

AlliSeeisBrown

Well-Known Member
10% of the people you meet, work and associate with no matter what you do will always have something to complain about. That's how some people are. In one ear and out the other. Don't let it affect you or your assigned work. Review paycheck at end of week and repeat.
 
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jibbs

Guest
10% of the people you meet, work and associate with no matter what you do will always have something to complain about. That's how some people are. In one ear and out the other. Don't let it affect you or your assigned work. Review paycheck at end of week and repeat.


I think you might be understating that statistic a bit.
 
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