Will my base car route be permanently dissolved in 2024?

[Thebrownblob]

It’s never been an easy straightforward job but I’ve found that the people who can be flexible and “expect the unexpected” do much better than the ones who just have a meltdown if they get a cut of 10 stops off of another route.

Gotta have an I don’t care attitude about some things. I’m here to make money if they want to force me to make more that’s up to them.

 

[Coldworld]

The company is more than welcome to eliminate my route and caused me to bump or be unassigned, but it will definitely be just as much their problem as it is mine, I can assure you. I’m coming in with my lunchbox ready.

You ain’t going home!! Everyday is go time bud.

 

[oldngray]

Hope he chimes in on how many years he’s been here..should be interesting.

He said 6 years. I guess he considers that an old timer.

 

[Coldworld]

Gotta have an I don’t care attitude about some things. I’m here to make money if they want to force me to make more that’s up to them.

Yup..sometimes it’s just cheaper to keep the cars in than have you out there til 10 struggling with missed pickups and deliveries, late air, etc.

 

[Thebrownblob]

Yup..sometimes it’s just cheaper to keep the cars in than have you out there til 10 struggling with missed pickups and deliveries, late air, etc.

I’m a firm believer if you make it their problem they’ll eventually leave you alone L O L

 

[oldngray]

I’m a firm believer if you make it their problem they’ll eventually leave you alone L O L

 

[Coldworld]

He said 6 years. I guess he considers that an old timer.

So about 4 on this route=a good while…ok now some of this is making sense. Also as others have said, a base car doesn’t mean in Orion world…maybe back in the day because they didn’t want to piss off the old timers but it doesn’t mean jack now.

 

[oldngray]

So about 4 on this route=a good while…ok now some of this is making sense. Also as others have said, a base car doesn’t mean in Orion world…maybe back in the day because they didn’t want to piss off the old timers but it doesn’t mean jack now.

How many of those years were seasonal?

 

[Coldworld]

I’m a firm believer if you make it their problem they’ll eventually leave you alone L O L

It takes some people a career to actually figure “this trick out that mgt doesn’t want you to know about…”

 

[Coldworld]

How many of those years were seasonal?

We should ask him if he was an off the street hire? Wouldn’t surprise me but OF COURSE IM ONLY MAKING ASSUMPTIONS…..

 

[Brownwind]

Hi fellow Teamsters. I started as a cover driver about 6 years ago, became a utility driver a couple of years after that and have had a base car route for a good few years now. I'm used to the route being cut on Mondays and even being cut a couple of random days during the week when the volume is allegedly too low to provide my guaranteed 8 hours but it was only in one day this week on Tuesday, which I guess makes sense because the volume that travels to the hub over the weekend seems like it warrants the base cars to be in.

I'm, of course, aware that the job cuts on the horizon have to do with a drop in volume and that it's supposedly going to mainly affect managers, sups, etc but also a lot of the lower seniority drivers and hub folks too. I'm very concerned that my base car route is going to be permanently dissolved because it happened to another fellow driver who had to go back into the utility mix, which would be an absolute nightmare for me.

No need for comparisons or of how long some of you had to wait to get a route, how some of you don't mind it or statements of how I just need to suck it up and deal with it, everyone has to put in time, blah blah blah, or even a statement like "you just want someone to say it's going to work out for you". Please spare me.

Can any one of my fellow Teamsters here chime in about how likely the higher ups might choose to permanently dissolve base car routes, especially in a hub in Los Angeles? Also, does hub management and dispatch determine how many and which routes to cut or are those decisions determined by their higher ups not physically in the hub? Thanks in advance for your helpful replies.

You mentioned going back into the utility role will be a nightmare for you which indicates you are a lower seniority driver. Unfortunately you’re in a bad spot and probably should be more concerned about working everyday.

Everyone on this thread will give you the same advice. Outside of the Covid years it’s been slow every year until vacations start up again. Fight to keep working and prepare yourself to be on horrible routes. At least you are in good weather.

 

[Coldworld]

How many of those years were seasonal?

Sometimes these drivers run their asses off as a favor to mgt…let’s see if they return the favor by keeping his run in…JUST MORE ASSUMPTIONS sorry couldn’t help it.

 

[Coldworld]

You mentioned going back into the utility role will be a nightmare for you which indicates you are a lower seniority driver. Unfortunately you’re in a bad spot and probably should be more concerned about working everyday.

Everyone on this thread will give you the same advice. Outside of the Covid years it’s been slow every year until vacations start up again. Fight to keep working and prepare yourself to be on horrible routes. At least you are in good weather.

It’s all about being flexible…if you don’t have that attitude and mindset you get mind ed here…adapt to changing conditions is real.

 

[UnionStrong]

It’s all about being flexible…if you don’t have that attitude and mindset you get mind ed here…adapt to changing conditions is real.

 

[MECH-II]

Those surrounding drivers are definitely overloaded. They complain to me privately about it but aren't the kind of guys who complain to the office, file grievances, etc.

P*

 

[Coldworld]

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Name of the game bud..especially at Brown

 

[Brownwind]

It’s all about being flexible…if you don’t have that attitude and mindset you get mind ed here…adapt to changing conditions is real.

Absolutely correct. I have house calls off a cut route to start my day and a rural area cut off my daily route. Nothing is normal except change.
Funny reading how people think they are unique.

 

[Brownwind]

P*

We appreciate your support and need you to cancel camp to work on Saturday

 

[542thruNthru]

Thanks for the reply but it was exactly the kind of reply that that wasn't necessary. I was hoping for a concrete answer, not a "tough " one.

That is a honest answer. If it's being cut that much already then it will be eliminated soon.

You don't like the answer because you're hoping for some hail Mary language that will protect your route. It doesn't exist in 396 or 952 which ever local you're in.

 

[TexCal519]

This could be a kid that has only done 5 routes total in the building before he won his current one. Seriously might have a panic attack if thrown on anything else…I use to drive with a couple guys like this…would fold like a house of cards, bad. OP…you need to get in your head now that things are going to get real very fast. If your route isn’t cut then it’s probably going to get a bunch of other areas which could be just as bad. It’s not going to be fun for the next year or two….seriously.

Or I couldn't be a kid that has only done 5 routes, etc like you've gone to town on here. And I never claimed to be Mr Seniority or anything like that. Jesus man.