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Gater

Gater

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Today our manager told us that all the new tractors will be going to the junior employees. He said this came down from the top and he had no say in the matter. Has anyone had this happen at their terminal?
 
I guess they feel they need the auto-trans, lane control, anti-collision warning, all that other :crap::crap: that makes it "easier" to operate..
 
It’s a 50/50 mix at my barn.
Most of the crap ones we have leftover by mid day end up with the 10 per enter.

I heard some of the reasoning was to quickly rack up miles on the older ones that are stagnant so they can get rid of them.

Another reason is bad timing. If the line haul/road driver arrives later than normal, the senior city driver that shares the unit has to take another unit (usually an older one) and vice versa when the city driver comes in later than normal and the road driver he shares with has to take another unit.
 
We do it by seniority at my terminal.

However, my automatic straight truck (real automatic-allison) got "taken away" from me when i was doing city because, supposedly, one of the newer guys had problems with manual trans. (how did he get a cdl?).

When i first did road, i got one of the newest tractors in the fleet with only 4,800 on the clock. At this time, i was the lowest driver on the road board. But this got taken away by someone with higher seniority after a few months. i believe the truck now has 30,000 miles on it?
 
maxicoze said:
We do it by seniority at my terminal.

However, my automatic straight truck (real automatic-allison) got "taken away" from me when i was doing city because, supposedly, one of the newer guys had problems with manual trans. (how did he get a cdl?).

When i first did road, i got one of the newest tractors in the fleet with only 4,800 on the clock. At this time, i was the lowest driver on the road board. But this got taken away by someone with higher seniority after a few months. i believe the truck now has 30,000 miles on it?
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At our place drivers dodge the new trucks because they have cameras in them
 
maxicoze said:
We do it by seniority at my terminal.

However, my automatic straight truck (real automatic-allison) got "taken away" from me when i was doing city because, supposedly, one of the newer guys had problems with manual trans. (how did he get a cdl?).

When i first did road, i got one of the newest tractors in the fleet with only 4,800 on the clock. At this time, i was the lowest driver on the road board. But this got taken away by someone with higher seniority after a few months. i believe the truck now has 30,000 miles on it?
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We had guys apply here and it stated on their cdl (auto only) . From my understanding now if you do your test in an auto that's whats going to be put on your cdl. At my company you would need 15++++ years to even get close to an auto
 
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