Let's see, 10 load bars, 10 pads, pallet jack, dock plate, 100% on time, acceptance and safety.
They don't care. They make no attempt to track driver performance beyond about 2 months, and as such make no effort to differentiate between good and bad drivers. All drivers are treated to the lowest common denominator, a.k.a., the bad driver who is likely to screw up.
If you don't think it is becoming a team world at panther, time to get out of the bubble.
If you're just now coming to that realization, welcome to outside the bubble. Straight truck teams are royalty to an expedite carrier. Always have been.
When was the last time you sat down to dinner with a couple of teams, been #1 on a board for days, and during dinner all 3 teams get loads under 600 miles.
I can't recall ever sitting down to dinner with 2 teams and then having 3 of them get loads of any kind. I'm in a van and I have sat in places like Laredo for days and then watched straight trucks, both solo and teams, get loaded out with a single skid after having delivered their load mere hours before.
For those who think "strike" is employee based, why don't you think outside the box. There are various tools available to us all to accomplish different tasks for the betterment of many.
Which box is that? The box where a carrier is not required in any shape or form to bargain in good faith with independent contractors? The box that allows carriers to choose whichever independent contractors they feel like, and if you tell them you won't haul freight unless they change how they do business, they'll tell you that's fine with them? That box? The one where if you go on strike all the carrier has to do is never call you again for a load? They aren't required to, you know. The contract you signed states very plainly that they make no guarantees that they will ever offer you a load.
Read the current minutes from the driver councils meeting. I am not the only one having issues with panther.
Driver Council Minutes have quite a nifty little history of "action items" that are not addressed in any way unless they benefit the carrier with direct, immediate results.
Many of those issues do not exist at other carriers, and by the same token other carriers have significant issues that Panther does not. They key to all of this is not to try and force the carrier to mold themselves into what you want them to be, because you'll lost that battle, but rather to find a carrier that already does things to your liking.