New huge customer.....
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blue efficacy
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If this is true, Peak is going to suck extra hard.
They're projecting 180K for peak day (how they can forecast this early with any degree of accuracy is beyond me) while last year peak day was about 150K
They're projecting 180K for peak day (how they can forecast this early with any degree of accuracy is beyond me) while last year peak day was about 150K
Hey hows everyone doing just found this board its pretty cool! Anyways i'm a ft driver in nyc....just letting you know when i read this post i'm positive we didn't get apple i have an apple store on my route and fdx ground and express get about 50 to 100 pieces daily for them each...and that was yesterday i park next to him everyday and bull**** about whats going on....so thank god thats not true....
dragracer66
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Go to upser's.com we did pick up apple the story is on there
The Brown Santa
Ping Pong Ball
I just bought an iMac, I love it. PC's are teh suck.
hmm maybe fedex still has there factory to store shipping but we took the resi's from them i don't know i just hope i don't get hit with that right before peak my route is so slammed i drive a straight truck park it in the morning and don't move it till i'm heading in at night no more room to fit a single box average about 1k pieces a day during peak we have a seasonal guy driving a uhaul
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speeddemon
Guest
Learn to spell on you Icrap....
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brownISer
Guest
I find it amazing that extra volume/new business is frowned upon and thought of as "extra work"....no wonder the stock is in the tank!
VoiceOfReason
Telling it like it is
You must not understand how the new business volume works. We pile it on the same drivers who already have 9-9.5 days, and expect them to "get it done" because the upper management people have a tough time justifying another car on the road to help with the "new business" when its new stuff. Eventually when the cut route is in 5 days a week instead of 3-4 times for a particular area it ends up getting bid as a route and staying but by then all the other drivers in the loop are beat to death from the year + it took of them handling all the new business with their own business. Not to mention during this period more new business is sprouting up and even with the new route everyone in the loop is still overworked.
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brownISer
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ok, let's tell all our shippers to start using FEDEX or USPS...would that make everyone happy???
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brownISer
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I guess too little volume (and layoffs) is better than too much volume (and OT)---??? 
Leftinbuilding
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Yeah, this would be the perfect job if we could get rid of all those boxes. But I've only been here 33 years so what do I know?
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brownISer
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Amen to that!
VoiceOfReason
Telling it like it is
No one said that we get rid of boxes. Bring them on, as long as we bring the staff and vehicles to deliver/pu also. I'm just stating my point of view that I see from the drivers when we earn new business but not new routes. Its getting close to where there is nothing left to squeeze out of the drivers.
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brownISer
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so the next logical step is to reduce the number of boxes then...
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brownISer
Guest
attentions all drivers: starting tomorrow, tell your customers that we cannot take any more boxes from them...(but first make sure you sell any stock you might own)
The Brown Santa
Ping Pong Ball
LOL, okay.... Nice grammatical error. Learn what "teh suck" means.....
