Do you operate in the manner I just described?Why do you hate America so much?
yes I know... read my post, i was saying a better choice for fedex would have been to integrate this "savings" on the origin side.. the way it currently sits, it might not end well and implementation is going to have real problems in some areas(if possible at all)The new plan allows for Express to fly this package, but Ground is still gonna deliver it. That's why it's called "Last Mile" Optimization.
Absolutely. Not sure why any contractor wouldn’t.Do you operate in the manner I just described?
This is nonsensical even for you. You’re complaining that if a driver can’t meet standards they’re fired. What’s the alternative? Have no productivity standards and employ anyone that breathes? You think I’m a bad person for having the expectation that my employees do their job, it’s a very strange worldview.It's not cleverness it's fact and a fact you find embarrassing. If the tenant farmer didn't turn enough yield off the plantation owners acres away he went. Today as a modern day sharecropper if the guy on your truck doesn't turn enough stops per hour or per day then away he goes. And once he reaches the point where he's so physically beaten up by the job that he can't keep up the the quotas he's simply disposed of and with no healthcare or pension he ends up becoming dependent on charities and state sponsored public assistance programs.
If this is your idea of "running a business" I'm glad I'm not part of it.
And Express guys take a good look. This is the guy who is in fact going take your job from you.
That pretty much describes Express presently.. What’s the alternative? Have no productivity standards and employ anyone that breathes? .
Oh come on! Aren’t you running a charity?This is nonsensical even for you. You’re complaining that if a driver can’t meet standards they’re fired. What’s the alternative? Have no productivity standards and employ anyone that breathes? You think I’m a bad person for having the expectation that my employees do their job, it’s a very strange worldview.
Oh, so you want government to make it all right and give you a clear conscience? Not going to happen . You chose to get into this.Absolutely. Not sure why any contractor wouldn’t.
Honestly, I wish the rules were different. I posted elsewhere that a candidate ran on getting 50% of workers in unions, fix Obamacare and restructure social security, he or she would be branded a socialist.
Nothing about that should be hard for a majority of Americans to get behind, but something has brain banged the American psyche.
yes I know... read my post, i was saying a better choice for fedex would have been to integrate this "savings" on the origin side.. the way it currently sits, it might not end well and implementation is going to have real problems in some areas(if possible at all)
Oh no. You misunderstand me. I have a clear conscience.Oh, so you want government to make it all right and give you a clear conscience? Not going to happen . You chose to get into this.
For years Fat Freddy did a good job of covering up the dirty little secret called Fedex Ground. Trucks all looked the same and guys in them wore the same looking uniforms conveying to the public the lie that everyone was a company employee driving a company owned truck.
While eventually they had to give in and allow a disclaimer to be posted but they decided it's dimensions what it would say and where it would be posted which happened to be the place that got covered with the most dirt and mud.
The good point about Friday's announcement is that the media is picking up on it and soon they will find out the unpleasant motives behind it.
Fedex Express employees earning good wages and a company funded pension disability and healthcare plan are going to be systematically eliminated replaced by contractor employed drivers earning half the wages and either they ask their spouses employer to pay the health insurance premiums in order that they can have coverage or they have to go into the exchanges and try to get some coverage with publicly subsidized premiums and if they are lucky enough to be living in a participating state perhaps the expanded Medicaid program.
And when they are so beat up that they can't keep up they are simply handed off to another employer with the expectation that he will accept the growing health risks and give the guy a job.....Very few will do that.
So now what's the guy left with? Apply for SSD . That's going to be about it. Ever bother to read the Social Security "Blue Book" If so you would plainly see why 74% of all first time SSD claims are denied you've got a 1 in 10 chance of being granted a reconsideration and even if you granted a hearing by an administrative law judge the average waiting time is 21 months.
This is what's coming and what many will have to look forward to.......basically nothing.
Right, matching the production of a UPS driver for half the compensation and zero benefits and you still expect people to hold you in high regard? LMFAO.This is nonsensical even for you. You’re complaining that if a driver can’t meet standards they’re fired. What’s the alternative? Have no productivity standards and employ anyone that breathes? You think I’m a bad person for having the expectation that my employees do their job, it’s a very strange worldview.
And here's the funny part Under the USMCA the minimum wage for auto workers in Mexico making auto parts for the US market will be $16 and hour.I'm sure they will do this on the origin side of things where feasible. A Florida-to-Georgia package can make it in 2 days, so I don't see why they wouldn't use Ground for the ride and the delivery. That may also be in the works with the new ASTRA coding.
But in your cases you stated a Ground driver would deliver the Georgia package and an Express driver would deliver the California package. The company wants $15/hour Ground drivers, not $25/hr Express drivers so they're going to increase the use of their contractor model. Actually, the shareholders want that and the C suite is focusing on that.
I am because it's my freight going to the lowest bidder. I'm not against you guys per se, i'm against the scope creep.I’m not against the initiative. Why are you?
My drivers get benefits. Your talking points are old and uninformed.Right, matching the production of a UPS driver for half the compensation and zero benefits and you still expect people to hold you in high regard? LMFAO.
Good for you, but in our area most of the contractors don't get benefits. I talk to a few drivers while on area and they don't get anything and they are on the pay-per-day model.My drivers get benefits. Your talking points are old and uninformed.
Exactly. Our station has been having "Sign here please" parties, since the beginning of the new year. People try to do the right thing because they seem to preparing that famous line of "We don't fire you. You fire yourself".I’m sure people will be “displaced”.
It varies pretty dramatically within terminals. Larger contractors can offer more and get by with slimmer margins per truck or driver. All the current changes are leading to larger contractors. I would expect competition to drive compensation upwards for Ground drivers provided productivity increases as well.Good for you, but in our area most of the contractors don't get benefits. I talk to a few drivers while on area and they don't get anything and they are on the pay-per-day model.
I think it varies per market and region.
Well I get where you’re coming from but it’s not your freight. WAGN and welcome.I am because it's my freight going to the lowest bidder. I'm not against you guys per se, i'm against the scope creep.
my freight = Fedex EXPRESS freight. Not "FedEx" freight, not "FedEx Ground" freight. The customer SPECIFICALLY stated they wanted that service with the Express company, NOT with Ground. If they wanted GROUND service, they would have chosen the GROUND company. If Ground wanted to give Express freight, they could because we could be a "contractor" with FXG, just like you.Well I get where you’re coming from but it’s not your freight. WAGN and welcome.
I think you’ll be surprised at how few customers actually realize there’s a difference.my freight = Fedex EXPRESS freight. Not "FedEx" freight, not "FedEx Ground" freight. The customer SPECIFICALLY stated they wanted that service with the Express company, NOT with Ground. If they wanted GROUND service, they would have chosen the GROUND company. If Ground wanted to give Express freight, they could because we could be a "contractor" with FXG, just like you.
There is no way to go the other way around. We don't contract with other companies when we service the area ourselves.
That's where the lawyers are going to circle. It's bait and switch, technically.
If FedEx sold all shipping products as pure "FedEx" shipments then I'd have no leg to stand on. However, they paid for "FedEx Express", not "FedEx Ground".