So... I'm getting an offer

[sandwich]

I don't think part timers who are already cover drivers will take a pay cut. I also think its BS we are even talking about us taking a pay cut in general. Two thirds of UPS employees are part timers there is no reason that you can reward someone for waiting 8-10 years with a good paying salary

I think if it got voted in, you wouldn't have a choice.

 

[Browndriver5]

I think if it got voted in, you wouldn't have a choice.

So how would that work? I'm a cover driver at $29.35 an hour...If I went full time I would make less than being a cover driver? Or would I be red circled?

 

[Box Ox]

So how would that work? I'm a cover driver at $29.35 an hour...If I went full time I would make less than being a cover driver? Or would I be red circled?

Red circled. Just like a former top rate PT air driver would be.

 

[Browndriver5]

Red circled. Just like a former top rate PT air driver would be.

If that's their plan idk why we keep hiring cover drivers, we have a ridiculous amount of cover drivers and only the top 4 drive enough to make a living.

 

[moldsporh]

If that's their plan idk why we keep hiring cover drivers, we have a ridiculous amount of cover drivers and only the top 4 drive enough to make a living.

They need to give you work if you request it, the problem is all the burners keep running and skipping lunch and running 220 stops and if they did it by the methods everybody would have a job

 

[Wally]

Pick option C! You can't go wrong!

 

[Just Numbers]

How solid is the railroad company? I wonder what happened to the dispatchers at New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio, Nickel Plate, ect. ect. ect.

 

[DOK]

At the railroad as a dispatcher
Top rate is $43/hr

I really like UPS... i want to be a driver so bad im that close.

I just got my year in

but $43/hr is too much to pass up on and the railroad benefits are top notch.

I have no idea what to do this is overwhelming.

Railroad, don't look back...

 

[DOK]

You think they will reduce the $36/hr after 2018? If so i may leave lol

But nope im still a pt handler and actually won a bid for a full time permanent driver but i was disqualified.

A two tier wage scale is not out of the question in the future IMO.

 

[Dracula]

Top rate $43 an hour, this might not apply to you, but at BNSF, the problem for the people I see, is they aren't employed by the railroad. They are a contract company that does the legwork. When you go to the BNSF railyard, the vast majority of people working, work for the subcontractor. And you can bet they aren't being paid railroad wages.

 

[Re-Raise]

So did you get an offer, or are you applying for the job?

 

[bbsam]

I have a former driver looking to come back for a while.
BNSF has been laying off; Apparently ever since Berkshire Hathaway started investing, management has been tightening up on labor.

 

[barnyard]

One of my daughter's lives near a BNSF crew change point and says the same thing. She also knows of recent hires that have been furloughed.

 

[Number24]

Railroad job as in for what company?

 

[pickup]

I have a former driver looking to come back for a while.
BNSF has been laying off; Apparently ever since Berkshire Hathaway started investing, management has been tightening up on labor.

With the price of oil so low, domestic oil production has declined . BNSF transports oil and so it would make sense to conclude that BNSF isn't as busy as it used to be.

 

[bbsam]

With the price of oil so low, domestic oil production has declined . BNSF transports oil and so it would make sense to conclude that BNSF isn't as busy as it used to be.

I thought possibly the same thing, but when I asked him, he said they have plenty to move but the new policies with labor are cutting staff. He did have some pretty crazy stories about how little they would so on certain days.

 

[PT Car Washer]

With the price of oil so low, domestic oil production has declined . BNSF transports oil and so it would make sense to conclude that BNSF isn't as busy as it used to be.

Still pumping oil just not opening any new wells.

 

[watdaflock?]

Bail UPS and head to the Rail Road.