7 days will be here after peak 2019
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You can go to a 4 day week with another driver delivering the other 3 days.A lot of places running seven day schedules run alternating schedules- 4 days one week, 3 days the next. A smart contractor could realize savings, but the dumb ones will argue that it can't be done. It should be no issue for larger contractors, as they will be able to save the most.
It will be fine
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If you need X trucks to handle pickup volume it doesn’t matter if daily delivery volume goes down, you still need to dispatch X trucks. Where are you getting lost?
OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
Then I'll probably move on to Amazon after this peak... they get to choose to work Sunday or not, right ?
There's also a reason some drivers want HD over ground and that's the pickups.
Resis returns/call tags are ok for me and others since there's no real time commits for them. Just get them in sequence with your delivery manifest
Yeah yeah, WAGN... but in my area, we're no where near overlapping both ground and HD for some reason. I still see 2 ground drivers daily
And just how do you plan on accomplishing that little feat?
Contractors big and small get audited all the time despite the fact that they are private corporations whose books and payroll information is private and privileged information protected by law ....that never stopped XG from demanding access to that information .
Brown287
Im not the Mail Man!
Spacing volume out only helps so much.....time in transit is still king. Pick up volume on Monday that you generally deliver in one or two days.....can’t space that out much can you. We have Saturday Ground and Mondays became a headache on monumental proportions. Try running less routes cause you’ve delivered that volume on Saturday and now apparently Sunday.....You still have pickups to service. That’s where we got squeezed, had no choice but to run more routes to cover the pickups. I’m pretty sure you guys are like us....Monday is your heaviest pickup day and Wednesday/Thursday are your heaviest delivery day. Point is Saturday and Sunday are like lipstick on a pig.....looks nice but it’s still a pig.
Talked to an XG manager yesterday. Your message is legit. What can a contractor do about it? Nothing. It's conform or find your trucks parked outside with a termination notice slapped on them.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
Who’s gonna deliver all that freight then?
Temps in rents and the rest dumped onto the contractors who are the nearest to the affected area.
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Troublemaker!!
XEQaF
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What fascinates me is they never discuss operational changes with their partnering contractors in each region well in advance to lay out plans, concerns, contingencies etc. They just throw caution to the wind, roll it out, and add more one sided addendums complete with threats to keep the sheep inline. It's a 'figure it out and if it fails it's your fault' scenario.
The best and quickest way to find out what little conspiracy they're lining up next is to check the forward looking guidance in the back of the annual report and to check out what Fat Freddy has to say when the quarterly earning report is released. It's the only way to get a heads up on what they're going to do to you next. Because keep in mind it's doesn't matter if you're a employee or a contractor it's all the same to Fat Freddy . He's the rancher and you're the cattle.
sadmanhere
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fedex is going to aggressively seek out big packages to delivery..... look for non stop big stuff
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
And the sales staff will expect couriers to come up with the leads while they’re out on the golf course.
XEQaF
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Absolutely. Another FDX opportunity involving "act before thinking" cashing in on the surcharges applied to O/D items without first upgrading facilities and operations to accommodate this move. When you are structured as a package courier company and your contractors are also structured as such paid as such, who now have to retool themselves to become a trucking company.
I'm not sure how FedEx Freight works but seeing them move into a 'white glove' service to compete with XPO is probably another initiative that they haven't thoroughly studied.
Clearly Fat Freddy has doing not only delivery of furniture and appliances in mind but setup and installation as well.
XEQaF
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Next up: Fat Freddy announces FXG will now be delivering bulk aggregate, sand, gravel, crushed stone for all your landscaping needs! Just tell the driver how many yards you require and he will deliver to your house with shovel in hand. White glove service available if you require help planting your perennials!!!
On occasion I had to pull a cargo trailer behind my off road van during part of the morning to handle bulk stops. It did in fact look quite a bit like a livestock trailer. One day this polite young woman came up and said quite seriously......."Is Fedex going to start hauling horses"? I said in response : " Girl, don't let those warped s.o.b.'s hear you say that or they'll figure out a way to do it".
