what are they like to work for any of u guys know do they do rigids or bendy’s
thx for the help
They run small doubles (2 x 30ft trailers) on Night trunks and small day cabs with single 30ft trailers for deliveries.
They seem to be nationwide.
Yellow Freight is a union LTL carrier. They pull almost exclusively double 28’6" pups (called “wiggle wagons”), and pull triples where legal. As in most LTL companies, you work “casual” for a few years before (maybe) being hired on full-time. This is similar to the way railroads are run over here.
As a casual, you must be available any time they call, or be removed from the list. You can expect maybe 10 hours one week, maybe 20, maybe zero. As a part-timer, you will never see more than 25.
The drivers on LTL companies also “slip-seat”, which means you get a different vehicle every time you go out. Everything you need, you carry. The tractors are as basic as can be-no power steering, no tach, no power windows, many have no A/C, some have no jump seat. The insides of these trucks are mostly carboard headliners and painted metal. The motors are small, too.
You must have verifiable experience to work for them. Also, since they are a Teamster’s Union shop, unemployed Teamsters (of which there are many) get the first pick on new positions. The company is nationwide, but the runs will never take you more than about 400 miles from where you are based.
Ok Alex,enough of the good stuff,what’s the catch? 
Would I be right in saying that ONCE you’ve done your time (or greased the right palms),then the job improves dramatically ?
They would never employ me 
If anyone phoned me expecting me to just drop waht I am doing and turn in they would be very much mistaken
I once registered for an agency and two days later at 5.00am they woke me up with a phone call “Tesco at Crick need a driver ASAP”
“Tesco at Crick can go on needing, don’t ever call me before 8.00am, if you have an early start let me know the afternoon before or stick your agency”
A man after my own heart Pat
Here in NY, the real story about getting a Teamster position is, unless you are of a “verifiable minority”, you really need to know somebody to get a job. A few thousand dollars to the right person involved in organised crime will get you a job, but might be obligated to occasionally do a “job” for them.
Unions, Teamsters especially are a waste of time and money, they do nothing of real good anymore, they were good once, The 1977 British Transport strike for instance got everyone a 10% rise one the basic hourly pay.
Over here if unions were any good no driver would be paid by the mile, all would be paid for every hour at work and time and a half after eight hours each day.
Well, Pat, the reason why our unions were (and some still are) so corrupt was because of the socialist witch hunts from the 30’s and later in the 50’s.
The earliest days of the union movement, like in Britain, were controlled by socialists and communists. At around that time, the socialist movement became mainstream in the UK, but was repressed with a vengance here in the US. By the 1950’s, just being a socialist would be enough to deny you employment. Being a communist would get you jailed. When the original socialists were removed, the mafia moved in.
Most unions have cleaned up their act, but the teamsters seem to still be stuck in 1940.