You are one big optimist, someone could
on your head and you would grow flowers. Good for you.
6 days a week ??
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on your head and you would grow flowers. Good for you.I think that it's safe to say that in the end you guys will find as many loaded trailers parked at your terminals on Monday morning as you'll find parked there on Saturday morning 52 Saturday's a year. It's pretty obvious that X sees Saturday as simply unused capacity. Do they see Sunday in the same light? Why wouldn't they?
Don't feel bad O. That contractor is making money hand over fist thanks to guys like you. But sooner or later you'll catch on to this and will be rightfully angry when you discover just how badly you were used.
12yearsaslave
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Yeah, so far volume has been . Feels like 12 years ago when it was 2 routes where i run 12 now.
. Feels like 12 years ago when it was 2 routes where i run 12 now.I don't think this is going to be a Shipper favorite. Coast to Coast that is a 2 day penalty vs today.
I've heard about this for a while from Sales Reps, is there any type of ETA on that? From a shippers perspective that will be good.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
Well, you're learning.
So you guys have to provide labor and trucks for an extra day, absorbing additional cost for less profit?
X plans on building this on the contractors back, and you have no choice?
As you scramble to obey, deal with turnover, watch you profit go down, be prepared for the next but %$ck.
With X stock WAY DOWN, and future not looking bright, they have one group they can reliably screw over, and there is nothing you can do.
You own a busines,blablalala..right.
X plans on building this on the contractors back, and you have no choice?
As you scramble to obey, deal with turnover, watch you profit go down, be prepared for the next but %$ck.
With X stock WAY DOWN, and future not looking bright, they have one group they can reliably screw over, and there is nothing you can do.
You own a busines,blablalala..right.
Doing pick ups..
Before anybody dismisses your comments they need only to go back to last week and read Fat Freddy's comments. What he was trying to tell you is that next year plane's will be flying around up there with half a load on them and having to pay Freight jocks close to union scale or they won't do it . To get his stock back up there to 275 it needs to make at least 18 a share and what he's saying is that he doesn't see Freight or Express doing much to get it there.
That leaves Ground with the survival of contractors totally dependent on box ox willing to kill themselves out there for fast food wages and zero benefits. You might still be able to find enough of them to get by in some markets but not all of them as we saw this peak season where X had to pay more than it wanted to in order to get mercenary contractors to go plug the gaps.
OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
So far my Mondays are light ... most of the HD group are under 10k weight limit & we can skirt the 34 hour reset. A few were in p700s though...
I was finished by noon, then text my manager if anyone else needs help before I clock out for the day.
We're still separate ground and HD, so there's still overlap in my area.
Ground could've easily took my res stops today, unless he's got too much before his pickups schedule start in the afternoon.
I was finished by noon, then text my manager if anyone else needs help before I clock out for the day.
We're still separate ground and HD, so there's still overlap in my area.
Ground could've easily took my res stops today, unless he's got too much before his pickups schedule start in the afternoon.
I was informed by the station I was at that they go 6 days year round beginning 1-21-19. It's a G/HD combined station and for years because the area is so big and so sparsely populated that it didn't matter if the box had a G or an H on the label. It was simply a matter of who was the closest to where the box had to go.
The biggest gripe from contractors is that there will be too many trucks going out on too many days with half a load on them along with driver concerns regarding the prospect of having to go to a split work week schedule
They might as well prepare themselves for a 7 /365 work experience because even here in the jhing weeds USPS is out here running around on Sundays.
12yearsaslave
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We got a Monday settlement enhancement (per stop on all volume year round). Definitely covers the extra expenses. But I'm sure we're all are stupid and Exec will let me know how I'm an idiot still running a multi million dollar business...
Meh, we'll see how the revenue adds up, but I'm guessing they take that extra settlement as soon as you are up for renewal and renegotiate. Then they will play hardball and continue to put pressure on your rates.
Can't wait for the annual "negotiation" back and forth:
Negotiator: With our proposed rates and projected growth, you will be grossing much more!
Me: My revenue per stop is the same or less now, you
.Mondays are annoying right now because we have no vision report at all, so we are completely clueless on how the routes will look. FedEx can't even give us good projections. Yesterday was half the volume the station told us would show up.
