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Is Fred Going to Give Heavyweight to FedEx Freight?
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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 1095173" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>Again, you don't understand the internal logistics. The freight will still be line-hauled by aircraft or whichever way is cheapest. A lot of Heavyweight moves by contract carrier if it's close enough to be trucked anyway. There are far more FedEx Freight trucks on the road than Express Heavyweight trucks. The engineer in a MEM cubicle says "hey, the Freight truck is in the area anyway, let's cut one truck (and employee) out of the operation". </p><p></p><p>All of the talking heads also think it's a great idea because they can further downsize Express, and make Freight drivers more "productive" too. The problem, as you pointed-out, is the commitment time, because if it's FFO of F1, it has to go on a plane and leave on a plane if it's outbound. They may have basically created a few Freight positions that mimic the position of the Heavyweight Driver for the FFO and F1. The F2 and F3 aren't as problematic.</p><p></p><p>The one issue that may hang them up is the RLA, which they could get around by having the Freight trucks sit at the dock and not have the drivers enter the AGFS facility.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 1095173, member: 12508"] Again, you don't understand the internal logistics. The freight will still be line-hauled by aircraft or whichever way is cheapest. A lot of Heavyweight moves by contract carrier if it's close enough to be trucked anyway. There are far more FedEx Freight trucks on the road than Express Heavyweight trucks. The engineer in a MEM cubicle says "hey, the Freight truck is in the area anyway, let's cut one truck (and employee) out of the operation". All of the talking heads also think it's a great idea because they can further downsize Express, and make Freight drivers more "productive" too. The problem, as you pointed-out, is the commitment time, because if it's FFO of F1, it has to go on a plane and leave on a plane if it's outbound. They may have basically created a few Freight positions that mimic the position of the Heavyweight Driver for the FFO and F1. The F2 and F3 aren't as problematic. The one issue that may hang them up is the RLA, which they could get around by having the Freight trucks sit at the dock and not have the drivers enter the AGFS facility. [/QUOTE]
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