At some point ground and express hubs will have to be mainly automated or operating expenses will have to take a hit.
There's not enough of a part-time workforce to make that viable. The full-time drivers are the backbone of making Express commit times. Express is simply too big to gut without the whole company going down with it.
If you can't handle the commit times you can't handle Express volume.
Oh BS, they'll think a lot about it when it starts cutting into profits.
In terms of volume it’s not really a big increase. It would be like a normal peak, fairly easy to adjust to. They are moving commercial stops over now, there’s no reason to think they’ll stop there.
In terms of volume these 4Z packages isn't very much. Ground can't handle all of Express volume and meet time commits. This is more or less a test what Ground can handle.
They have actually given back some of the freight we were handing off to ground. Ground can’t handle anymore because lack of help in my area
Contractors/ISP's are compensated very differently than when you and I were in this game. Alot has changed. Some of the anticipated problems of this proposed debacle that would concern a contractor then, don't necessarily apply quite the same now.
My guns are packed up crated and ready to go. The landing pad has been cleared , distinctly marked and an unobstructed approach path down through the "holler" has been established However one historic fact at G hasn't changed..... Three guys on every truck. 1 coming, 1 driving and 1 leaving. And as was noted earlier it'll only go on for so long until that reservoir of healthy young labor willing to go out there and kill themselves for half the wages and zero benefits is pumped dry. And given that the nation's population only grew 7% over the past decade plus an average of 12,000 boomers a day retiring for one reason or another and will continue at that pace at least for the next decade the development of delivery robots needs to rapidly accelerate it's pace.
"It'll fit on the pkg car, but half of it will be late"
What Ground can handle and what they need to do to in order for Ground to handle more.
What you need to do is prove that you can make the day and commit times of the 4Z packages that are transferred to Ground.
Not sure. We do it all the time around here.
Well it sounds like they’re turning up the heat in the kitchen let’s see how much you guys can handle. Might wanna’ put on a uniform and get out there in the real world.
You only have resi 3day. Add in business which is due by 1630 and 2day or Standard overnight and we'll see how you guys handle that.
You probably don’t appreciate the density that volume provides the routes. My guys drive about 20 miles/day on a route, not counting stem, that’ll do 150-200 stops.
