So what does Memphis REALLY think is the real core of the problem with DRA? Is it the program or is it the full-time Couriers which are sabotaging its implementation??
Remember, Ground and Express deliver to the EXACT same addresses. Different drivers and different business models, but the addresses are the same.
Yes but one major difference is Ground Straight lines, Express has varying time commits, which vary from rte to rte, which a DRA might be able to
handle, but it is not up to speed yet.
We aren't on DRA, but we use roads and the manifests in the ppad, which seems to work well enough, as we run 115% year over year. So we aren't experiencing the same things here, our saturday staff has doubled in the last 5 years(thanks Amazon) and we've added 4 PT FO routes(who also help when needed if they want to) We are still short vehicles, but thats nothing new.
The problem as seen in Memphis ISN'T DRA, it is the career Courier which threatens Express getting its 10% profit margin. Ground doesn't have career drivers, and they are paid between 50 and 66% of what Express Couriers are paid. Again, where does the problem lie from Memphis' perspective?
One of the faulty assumptions that the Couriers make, is that Memphis is being 'straight' with them as to what THEY see as the problem. You've watched the monthly propaganda videos with MT3 waving his hands around. This is actually your BEST insight (as a typical Express wage employee) as to what Memphis really thinks (you have to read between the hand waving...).
The problem that MT3 talks about in his videos, ISN'T the problem with DRA - it is the problem of the Couriers not "getting with the program" and working as Memphis wants them to. Thus why all the threats and discipline.
We all know Memphis isn't being Straight, but the big mistake Memphis is making, is making decisions based on inaccuracies years of Managers/crrs/etc fudging numbers is now coming back to bite them. So now they assume the problem is the CRRs, but in reality the system they
created of lying and deceit to please stockholders is finally catching up.