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Thead bookmarked, holy poo poo did I find you guys on the right day. I've been working as a Logistics Coordinator for I think a full year now and I got a million questions. We're a 3PL and I'm on the account that works for a store similar to Whole Foods. We get all the fresh to the stores in the AM, and Dry/Frz later in the day/nights. 75 trucks, 150 loads a night, a lot of work. Long story short, I used to be a bartender, and made friends with a guy who works in logistics. He got promoted so he gave me his old job with zero work experience. I'm not stupid though, and we were just switching to TMW, so everyone else was on my level. Now, I'm one of the best employees there when it comes to fixing calls in the computer and working on orders. I get along with almost everyone, the drivers like me a lot, and I'm crushing it at work on my reports. Lately, work has been bullshit though. New ops manager, new unnecessary changes. I'm getting my hours cut so they don't have to pay me OT, I'm ready to jump ship. I'm 31 / Male / Single / No kids. I'm a tall, clean cut, white guy who dresses up well for interviews. I love the chaos of logistics, I like fixing problems. I want to move up the field. I've already networked very well so far, and I have friends who want to hire me, they just don't have positions open yet. Anyone have any suggestions for someone who's kinda young an very new to the game? I'm open for traveling, anything. My boss's wife does Air Freight, which I guess she makes like 3x more than he does it. I know there's money in a lot of spots. I just cant' sit in a cubicle cleaning up TMW calls all day. I like interacting with drivers, hearing their crazy road stories ect.
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Also, the hours you work are amazing. I wasworking 12 hour shifts, 3/4 days a week. Every other week I get a 4 day weekend. This was on salary. Then they switched me to hourly, so I started making like an extra 5k a year (thanks overtime). Got a letter today though saying I'm do 4 10 hour days, so that lasted about 2 months. It's nice to finally see the overtime you've illegally been missing out on, only to have it taken away from you 2 months later. What a kick to the nuts.
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sbaldrick posted:I hate to say it but you are missing at least a year before you can straight jump into ops. I agree. I think I'm over qualifying myself in my head. It's just that in a year I've become better than my co workers who have been doing it 5-10+ years. I see your point. My manager told me the other day he was with Swift for 2 .5 years and they asked him why he left so early. I want to take the next step to the role of supervisor or something equivalent, 50-60k+ a year or so(I make 42.5k, prob less now with out overtime). The problem I have is the amount of curve balls we deal with every single day. I know I'd be able to do it with the assistance of drivers. Random question with Qual Comm? Ask a driver for help. Truck losing power? Pass the phone off to a experienced driver. It's just kind of crazy the amount of responsibility I have and what I'm in charge of. I got a lot of potential, I just wonder if it looks that way in my resume. ie. crazy curve ball today: Driver is picking up a dry backhaul from a warehouse he's been to many times before. This driver is the loving worst, I can't say enough bad things about him. Yet, for some reason, they won't fire him. I heard something about not trying to pay him unemployment. Basically, this driver works like he wants to be fired. Today, on a live load backhaul, he dropped the trailer onto the tires (unhooked due to a problem with the doors?). His domicile dispatcher told him to call breakdown. He did, he got suspended right away. I talked to breakdown and they informed me I was being recorded and that he was not allowed to drive a live load until safety, in the morning, inspects the 5th wheel to determine the cause of the accident. They said he was fine to drive back home as long as the 5th wheel was not used. I said great, that gives me 1 more bullpen driver. I'll let him bob tail. My Ops Manager comes over, wonders why I've been on the phone so long and immediately puts the phone on speaker. Long story short, he's like like "I want that in an e-mail now!!!" "they are like, we are just suggesting what you do, to save a driver. My Ops Manager is like I didn't ask for your advice, we got it and that was that. Then he explained to me how they wanted to pass off the liability on me. Obviously this crazy driver just got fired and knows it, and I almost let him drive home. I see both sides. I guess it comes down to why would I risk my rear end? I totally get it, but it's poo poo like that that makes me think I'm not ready to be a manager yet. However, you have to take risks in live. Push yourself.
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Apr 6, 2016 14:39
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Missing the 5th wheel is like the worst thing you can do as a trucker. Think about it, if that came unhooked on the road and was loaded, that's potentially an 70,000 lb missile hitting a car. You could easily kill someone. It's the driver being lazy and not doing the correct post trip usually. I've seen cases where it was mechanical, but 8/10 times it's driver error. Safety did assist in lifting the trailer off the tires, and getting the truck out from under safely. They said he and the truck were fine to drive, just no load, nothing can touch that 5th wheel till they do their investigation in the am. When someone offers a suggestion to me I listen because I assume their trying to help me. It sounded fine to me, but my Ops Manager was like gently caress no. Obviously, stuff like this isn't written in some text book. You're not going to learn scenarios like that in a classroom. I'm just going to keep playing sponge and learn everything I can. I had a good 1+ hour talk with the days manager who supervised me when I was training. I'm doing good, it's just my pay doesn't reflect that and I'm taking it personally. I need to remind myself I'm getting paid right now for a college education in trucking. I'm lucky to be where I'm at all things considered. God I'm going to miss my old schedule. I was working 12 hour shifts, 3/4 days a week alternating. I worked less than a teacher, and got paid more. 6 months off every year. If I wanted to take a 11 day vacation, I'd time it out on my short week and only have to request time off for 3 days. It was amazing. Now I have to work 4 days, 10 hour shifts. How can I bitch? Now I have only 3 day weekends every week? I had it too good, and they killed it. I did lose Sat night, which loving blows for my social life. I was starting at 5pm on Sundays. Sun-Tue, every other Wed. Dream schedule.
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Sep 20, 2016 09:01
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I just got promoted to Logistics Supervisor this week!! I got a nice raise from 42.5k to 53k and I get my bonus back. I beat out like 8 people for it too. I've only been doing this 1.5 years, but I deserved it. I'm already kinda dreading parts of it. I know the 3 people I'll probably be in charge of are the worst of the 4 teams. I'm afraid I'm going to be the punching bag for 2 of them. Any general advice on transitioning from Coordinator to Supervisor would be appreciated. I'm another 3PL out of Chicago too. SketchyNick, my managers wife does international air freight. He's saying that's where the money is, something international or with customs. Just curious, what's your title/ pay? I work 1/2 the year. 3/4 days a week 12 hour shifts.
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Sep 27, 2016 09:19
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So before I started working at my job, a few of the older guys started a lawsuit I guess for not getting paid overtime. We were salary working 48/36 hours a week alternating. I guess technically it was illegal, but we were all making pretty good salary and bonuses so no one complained. I just got a letter saying I'll be getting a check for $650 if I settle now. I didn't even sign up for this but I guess they have to pay me. Just got promoted and I get like a free weeks pay, this week has been awesome.
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Sep 29, 2016 10:15
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Moving from reefers to chemical tanking. Any advice in general? It pays more so I'm gonna do it and I'm good at logistics but I know nothing about tankers
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Dec 19, 2016 22:01
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drat there's a lot to know in tanking. Last contained, center / rear, does the driver has haz / twic. Where's the nearest tank wash? ect. steel trailer vs aluminum. I was hired as a driver manager, then after my 1st two weeks my boss is like I want you to learn dispatch, which I was actually happy with because it's more what I used to do. However, the other guy who does all the dispatching is a guy who won't show me anything (75% sure he knows I'm here to try and replace him now). I'm like 4-5 weeks in now. I'm just frustrated. I knew this was going to be a challenge going to a brand new terminal that is expanding quickly under new management. It seemed like a good opportunity to see how grow from 25 drivers to 100 and learn a whole new aspect of logistics that's a huge industry. My terminal manager every day is like, "Hey, you know how to dispatch yet?" I know HOW to dispatch drivers and assign them to loads in TMW, but the planning before that is what I'm struggling to figure out. The load planning aspect I never really did because at my old company we were so big it was all up to 2 planners, we just did dispatch. Now I need to figure it all out at once. Rant over. It's harder than I thought it would be to start over at a new terminal trying to get back on it's feet. We're gonna take over this city though. We used to be an affiliate terminal here, but they ran it into the ground so we bought it back. That's the good thing. Corporate is throwing a lot of money at us to succeed so it's going to happen. Every week our revenue numbers look better. I'll get there, it's gonna take some time to learn. I'm just going to keep making cheat sheets for all the customers of what I need till I get used to the repetition. Yomofo fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Mar 15, 2017 |
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