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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 1851073" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Two important facts stand out here. First of all when it comes to the economic success of a contractor demographics play as important a role as management. Thirty years ago when Dan Sullivan and the 2 UPS mangaers rented a room by the Pittsburgh Airport their freely admitted focus was the major metropolitan areas of the nation. That is why you have a basic business model that was designed for a metropolitan area in a warm climate with flatter terain a modern highway system with higher population density and high percapita consumption. The other important point is that this company requires a person to take a fairly large sum of money in most cases borrowed money and place that money at risk in a business environment in which it maintains complete and aboslute control whereby it's one and only overriding concern is the growth and preserveration of shareholder equity. A respectable return on the contractor's investment is no concern of theirs and the contractor has to get that for himself within the heavy restraints the company maintains. As time goes by and when the contractors only saving grace and that is access to cheap labor starts getting hard to come the pressure from management will escalate dramaticly and we'll see how much of that you can take. One other intersting point. Of the 4 Day1 contractors which I was one of, not a single one of them became a multi route contractor despite plenty of opportunities to do so including having newly created route offered to them for free. That should clearly set the record straight about the difference in work experiences and economics between a generation ago and the difference between a rural and metro environments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 1851073, member: 58386"] Two important facts stand out here. First of all when it comes to the economic success of a contractor demographics play as important a role as management. Thirty years ago when Dan Sullivan and the 2 UPS mangaers rented a room by the Pittsburgh Airport their freely admitted focus was the major metropolitan areas of the nation. That is why you have a basic business model that was designed for a metropolitan area in a warm climate with flatter terain a modern highway system with higher population density and high percapita consumption. The other important point is that this company requires a person to take a fairly large sum of money in most cases borrowed money and place that money at risk in a business environment in which it maintains complete and aboslute control whereby it's one and only overriding concern is the growth and preserveration of shareholder equity. A respectable return on the contractor's investment is no concern of theirs and the contractor has to get that for himself within the heavy restraints the company maintains. As time goes by and when the contractors only saving grace and that is access to cheap labor starts getting hard to come the pressure from management will escalate dramaticly and we'll see how much of that you can take. One other intersting point. Of the 4 Day1 contractors which I was one of, not a single one of them became a multi route contractor despite plenty of opportunities to do so including having newly created route offered to them for free. That should clearly set the record straight about the difference in work experiences and economics between a generation ago and the difference between a rural and metro environments. [/QUOTE]
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