Our station had started giving some freight to ground and it was hardly noticeable. I think it depends on the size of your station. They know if they give too much it would jeopardize too many full time routes. Full time routes are essential for express
No. Or more likely will go region by region. We never got behind here. Our drivers showed the kind of capacity we can handle. May as well use it. I’d hate to have to lay people off for six months just because west coast facilities had problems.
The practicality or feasibly of something plays no part in its implementation once FredEx makes a decision.
Where did things go dismally? Ground ran better than I’ve seen in years.
Not at our station. Maybe it depends on your ground hub. Ours is horrible , owners tried recruiting some of us for Sunday’s two months ago. Disaster.
I’m sure that it worked well in some places. I was referring to peak in general. Not the Express to Ground shift. We will be delivering holiday freight probably for most of next week.
That’s just what the corporate communication to us said in September. It laid out the schedule for turning it off entirely in November and says it turns back on Jan 3. Locally we have been told to expect an increase over what we had been getting.
