Any Ground contractors from Nashville?

[It will be fine]

Did all the Ground folks get that memo today talking about how great it is to own both HD and Ground in the same area? Sounds like 6 day operations are coming by 2020 and you'd better own both services by then. They mentioned they're already doing 6 day around Nashville. Anyone have any info on what's going on there?

 

[STFXG]

And there's the reason they are dumping HD and merging it with Ground. It was inevitable.

 

[bbsam]

I'll be interested to see how they manage the transition in places where either the Ground or HD CSP won't take on the complimentary volume.

 

[It will be fine]

I'll be interested to see how they manage the transition in places where either the Ground or HD CSP won't take on the complimentary volume.

Same thing they always do. "Either you take the volume or we'll find someone that will. There's the door." There's always a contractor around willing to expand, especially when the area is available for free.

 

[bbsam]

Same thing they always do. "Either you take the volume or we'll find someone that will. There's the door." There's always a contractor around willing to expand, especially when the area is available for free.

Not really. If they did that here, we'd instantaneously have CSP's with 35% of the building's volume. Too much 4isk associated with that.

 

[It will be fine]

Not really. If they did that here, we'd instantaneously have CSP's with 35% of the building's volume. Too much 4isk associated with that.

I would guess entities that large would be able to work out swaps in order to stay in business. It'll be messy, but I think they are being pretty blatant in their push to combine. They want us all to work it out ourselves over the next few years so when the time comes to force it it won't be a big deal.

 

[Code 82 Approved]

I'll be interested to see how they manage the transition in places where either the Ground or HD CSP won't take on the complimentary volume.

Our new terminal is commingled, and the HD guy proposed we take all of his businesses and resi on Monday, but take back all of our resi for tues-fri
Win Win for him
That did not fly

 

[bacha29]

What this looks like for your average contractor employed driver is a 70 hour work week.Or a permanent battalion size group of part time Saturday drivers and not many will be willing to work all 52 of them especially weekend holidays such as July 4th, Labor Day, Memorial Day etc. They will want that time with their familys.

 

[It will be fine]

What this looks like for your average contractor employed driver is a 70 hour work week.Or a permanent battalion size group of part time Saturday drivers and not many will be willing to work all 52 of them especially weekend holidays such as July 4th, Labor Day, Memorial Day etc. They will want that time with their familys.

Right now you just run some people Tues-Sat and others Mon-Fri. That only works if you only have to run HD on Saturday. If they want us to run everything everyday it'll be annoying. Their won't be many pickups on Saturday so if you clear out all the delivery volume the Monday guys won't have anything to do. As long as they keep Ground Saturday service something customers need to pay a premium for it won't be a big deal.

 

[robdabanks]

2025, express will be eliminated and the ground contractors will be responsible for the express packages in their zip!

 

[OUMick]

This is the main reason I didn't buy the last set of routes I was looking at. That and everyone being so tight lipped about the new ISP changeovers. I was looking at a group of ground routes and the hd contractor in the terminal was just as big as the ground routes.

 

[bacha29]

Everything right now is in it's earliest stages but Fred S and the boys at the CATO Institute have longed advocated the privatasation of the U.S.P.S. and it runs 6 days a week and I think old Fred has his eyes set on the post office as a future target and he's crazy enough to attempt to take it over if and when the opportunity arises . If X doesn't take advanatage of the opportunity he knows UPS will so get used to a permanent 6 day a week operation.

 

[MAKAVELI]

2025, express will be eliminated and the ground contractors will be responsible for the express packages in their zip!

Don't worry, drones will be taking your jobs as well by 2025.

 

[bacha29]

They will try to use them until Charlie Redneck and Billy Joe Sixpack believing that it's the United Nations coming to take their guns start shooting them down. Out my way the prevailing mindset regarding guns is simple If you can't bring down a helicopter with it, it isn't worth having. But, the most likely scenerio is one collides with an airliner which will bring about rules so restrictive that the will won't be in everyday use.

 

[CJinx]

 

[59 Dano]

Everything right now is in it's earliest stages but Fred S and the boys at the CATO Institute have longed advocated the privatasation of the U.S.P.S. and it runs 6 days a week and I think old Fred has his eyes set on the post office as a future target and he's crazy enough to attempt to take it over if and when the opportunity arises . If X doesn't take advanatage of the opportunity he knows UPS will so get used to a permanent 6 day a week operation.

Neither FedEx or UPS would, or should, want to take over the USPS. The money to be made from the USPS is in bulk transport of mail via airplane, and FDX already already has a 7 year, $10 billion contract to do that.

 

[It will be fine]

Heard some info about the Nashville 6 day pilot program. It sounds like they have the word out to all the large shippers in the overnight area. They are running pickups on Saturday and another sort. It sounds like it is going well and they plan on expanding the service. I don't think they were running P&D pickups yet, only Linehaul, but I'm sure that will change.
This will make it harder to staff with 5 day a week shifts and we all know fedex won't pay us well enough for the additional cost. Doesn't look good.

 

[Route 66]

This will make it harder to staff with 5 day a week shifts and we all know fedex won't pay us well enough for the additional cost. Doesn't look good.

It will be fine

 

[RedAngel]

2025, express will be eliminated and the ground contractors will be responsible for the express packages in their zip!

Not just Express

 

[dvalleyjim]

They will try to use them until Charlie Redneck and Billy Joe Sixpack believing that it's the United Nations coming to take their guns start shooting them down. Out my way the prevailing mindset regarding guns is simple If you can't bring down a helicopter with it, it isn't worth having. /QUOTE]

You mean good Americans interesting in saving the country for your children and grandchildren?