Jason is our yardman and union leader! Even thought we do not have to deck trucks at our facility, he holds the title as a Yardman. His job? In the morning and afternoon, he gets the passes from Amports and brings them back to the office.
Work Ethics:
- Replacing a (non union) Owner Operators brakes while on the clock, while a (union) company driver loads at the port by himself, while the boss takes a day off to go camping.
- Consistently sitting in the truck with the AC on, talking on the cellphone and/or listens to the radio, while the drivers are underneath loading and breathing in carbon monoxide.
- Leaving drivers to load in the rain at the port, while he goes back to the terminal.
- Giving out load information to NON UNION Owner Operators
- Job Salary – $19 an hour
- Job description – Assist driver to load and get truck releases
Work schedule
8:00 – 10:00 AM – Arrive to work, watch TV, get passes
10:00 – 11:00 – Go to the port and help load
11:00 – 1:00 – Lunch with the Owner Operators
1:00 – 3:30 – Watch TV/Mingle with the owner operators’s
3:30 – 4:30 - Come to the port to help load
4:30 – 5:00 – Bring passes back to office and go home!
Now, I can understand having some lazy days, having bad day(s), etc … But in general, Jason was simply lazy and disrespectful. There would be a lot of people that would be grateful with a job like his at $19 an hour. Unfortunately, he doesn’t see what he has and has put the company drivers through a lot of agony because of the preferential treatment brought upon by the terminal manger and owner operators.
Gary got his job through Jason and needs someone to fill him with the inside info and well, ya know … never bite the hand that feeds ya right?
An intelligent manager would have the yardman help the drivers find their trucks in order for the driver to utilize their hours for driving and not loading. Jason used to do this until Gary showed up. Now all he does is hang around the yard until were almost loaded [and then] comes over to help!
Drivers only have 70 hours a week to run. When these 70 hours are utilized for other things, ie .. loading, maintenance, dispatch, etc….. drivers have to make up for that lost time by backing up their hours. As the years go by, every driver will start to burn out.
Common sense right? Then why can’t management can’t figure this out! Instead at our terminal, the hourly guys hang out and collect their checks, while the drivers are pushed to run.
