Sometimes i need to quote Ford Prefect and don't panic.:-) But that's the Libra way i believe, panic then think.??
I DO have my towel ready though. We have been in touch with the company(Stock Transportation) that wound up winning over 400 existing routes. The recruiter has told us they will try and place as many of the drivers as possible and hopefully keep us on the same runs. The runs total over 400 and to hire and train that many is a challenge in its self, let alone find 400 buses. Also have heard they may sub contract out so if that's the case there should be no job losses, just pay cuts, but nothing to serious. I have done the pay cut thing before to keep working and will do so again. Thanks for all the notes of encouragement. This puts a serious dent into my plan to help the economy buy buying a camera or lens though.;-) Dave On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:54 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > Just found out around 2pm today that as of the end of school, our yard > in Newmarket. will no longer > have any school bus runs for the 2010/2011 school year. Apparently the > runs come up for > bid every few years, and we were under cut on them all, except a few > french board runs. Stock, our Markham yard and a newer company Sinton, > have scooped up our 70 odd runs. > > Life in the 21st Century, undercut and destroy. > > Having a safety meeting in February,and they hope to have more info on > who took what > area, but it sounds like Stock took the 4 Stouffville runs. > > SO > > See what the meeting has to offer, but we may have to call Stock and > see if we can get > on. The ex shop foreman who is a full time spare seems to think Stock > may call us to > offer the runs to us instead of training new people, but i find that > hard to believe. > I believe things happen for a reason, and we have weathered worse > storms, so hopefully we > can carry on driving, but with another company. We both like the bis > bus and would like > to carry on, but if not, we should find something. > > Maybe i quit horse shows a year to soon. > > Nah. > > Dave > > Dave > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
