Numbers Are Out
- Thread starter bacha29
- Start date
I don't think theses numbers will compel them to undertake any serious changes at least for a little while.
They will shift more business to ground
Won't help ground contractors given the reports I'm reading stating that contractors are not getting 100% of the fuel surcharges FXG applies to shippers billings.
If FedEx ground wants to stay in business they better help their contractors out a little bit.
It will be fine
Well-Known Member
We’ve never gotten that. FedEx charges shippers a surcharge per piece and they pay us per stop. The rest goes in their pocket. It’s one of their best scams. It’s such an easy way to boost revenue for them. Shippers shrug because gas is expensive but little of that increase actually goes to cover gas.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
And Ground will refuse them and bring them back to Express or stuff them in drop boxes.
Trust me I see firsthand what ground does
olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
love these divs
So fuel supplement that they used to pay is now gone. No surprise there. Give you something here....take away something somewhere else. That much has never changed even after all these years. I am shocked that they're getting away with this con. But, then again there's no governing legal authority in place with the judicial power to make them do anything anything they don't want to do. . So they just go on their merry old way doing whatever they damn well please.
I told you guys back 3 years ago before COVID that I thought your routes would not be worth more than they were at that moment. So now how do you tell a prospective buyer that you don't get fuel supplement? Especially today when we saw crude oil go back above 100 bucks.
In short order you’ll see trucks parked in protest or financial ruin. I’m considering it just because I know I can rent my trucks short term for far more than I can profit under these
contracts. And X keeps talking about the profitable future that seems further and further away. I don’t know who’s believing anything they say anymore.
The biggest thing that you find the most tiring is the treachery, the deception, the betrayal and the lies. It wouldn't be so bad if all you've got tied up in it is your lunch bucket, not the hundreds of thousands the average contractor has tied up in it.In short order you’ll see trucks parked in protest or financial ruin. I’m considering it just because I know I can rent my trucks short term for far more than I can profit under these
And X keeps talking about the profitable future that seems further and further away. I don’t know who’s believing anything they say anymore.
SmithBarney
Well-Known Member
Well they do bring them back after a week with them.. if they shove em in the drop box, the jokes on them they'll get it right back.
The system is wack though, I picked up packages yesterday that if they were going express would have been in the truck next to me, but they became 4Z ground.
I've also had Express MPS packages I've picked up and one of the two is a 4Z.
On the deliverend I had piece 1 of 2, an ASR Gunshop, as I'm walking out ground is walking in with box 2 of 2.. This gun shop was cool about it, but I have several others that will not take a MPS shipment if a box is missing.
MassWineGuy
Well-Known Member
Ground contractors need to file a class action complaint.
Nah. Just park the trucks.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
That would get national attention and most importantly, the attention of stockholders.
At this point I think stockholders are just stupid. Or not paying attention. Which in itself is stupid.
