CP Rail Gearing Up For a Strike

What a headache we ship 2 to 3 loads of LTL a day to the west nothing but problems at the moment.
 
There's LOTS of drivers out there. Your driver shortage problem is similar to my problem wanting to buy a new 4wd Dr, 4 door, 8' box, diesel powered pickup for $30K. I'm just not offering enough money...and neither are You!
 
What about the hundreds of thousands of people who are currently making their living as drivers in Canada. All those carriers who employ them were able to buy your proverbial 30K pickup?
 
Igor Galanter said:
Not to take sides, but just to share..
Ralphthetracker ment that he CAN NOT buy that pick up for that much money, same as some carriers CAN NOT get the drivers for money they offering...
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I know Ralph and that is what he is saying. He is a big proponent that there is no driver shortage it is all pay related and carriers cannot get drivers because we do not pay drivers enough. I just wonder what is enough as the one's paying by the hour are looking, private fleets that pay better rates locally are looking mega carriers are looking as well as every other guy that owns a truck?
 
My understanding it's not only a pay level, but a whole package including shifts or schedule, equipment, communication and recognition from ALL levels of management, shippers, receivers, and general public, locations of the company and customers and even commodity comes to play for some.
I think I covered all, eh...
 
Back in the 1990s I worked for a carrier that was short of drivers. The owners of the company got fed up with some of them and fired about 20. Word got around, and soon our hiring numbers went up.. way up. The reason we believed was because word got around we weren't hiring just anyone.. drivers like being part of something better than run of the mill.. if not elite. Our pay structure and operation didn't change.. just the perception of our company among the driver population.
 
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Igor Galanter said:
My understanding it's not only a pay level, but a whole package including shifts or schedule, equipment, communication and recognition from ALL levels of management, shippers, receivers, and general public, locations of the company and customers and even commodity comes to play for some.
I think I covered all, eh...
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It's the young people nowadays, they don't want to live in a truck, they want to be home after their eight hours and out with their friends. They won't put up with the bullshit from shippers, receivers, the scales and everyone else like us older guys used to do.
 
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FR84ME said:
It's the young people nowadays, they don't want to live in a truck, they want to be home after their eight hours and out with their friends. They won't put up with the bullshit from shippers, receivers, the scales and everyone else like us older guys used to do.
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And still do.....
 
My grand dad fired locomotives for the CPR... often shovelling the coal in the grate by hand when the mechanical stokers were down (which was often enough).. He used to tell me (back in the 70s) that my generation knew nothing about hard work. I guess every generation says that about the following one.. and I guess we generally want our kids and their kids to have an easier life than we had.
 
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