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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5560816" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Rural routes are so big that they are not measured in neighborhoods but rather multiple counties. Fedex has this "you're going right past it " frame of mind when it comes to passing off the air boxes onto a Ground contractors truck. A contractor employed drivers area is so big that there is simply nowhere near enough time in his day to hang around at the terminal waiting for that air box to finally get there and still cover and clean his entire route. And if it's coming into a little regional or county airport you don't know when it's even going to get there if at all or how far from the terminal it's located. </p><p>So the contractor is faced with having to put on additional trucks to compensate for the reduced range of his ground routes or use dedicated air box only trucks to wait around for the air to arrive then go out and cover the same area a couple of hours later and with a light load and limited range because he'll have to get back in time to get the air box load up and back out to the airport . Either way he'll never get enough out of it to make it profitable. </p><p></p><p>At the terminal I was at for a number of routes the first stop of the day was 70 miles away. </p><p>This might work in a metro area but out in rural America you've got one shot and one shot only to cover and clean and you have to be out the door the moment that last box is off the belt..... And there's not waiting around and there's no coming back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 5560816, member: 58386"] Rural routes are so big that they are not measured in neighborhoods but rather multiple counties. Fedex has this "you're going right past it " frame of mind when it comes to passing off the air boxes onto a Ground contractors truck. A contractor employed drivers area is so big that there is simply nowhere near enough time in his day to hang around at the terminal waiting for that air box to finally get there and still cover and clean his entire route. And if it's coming into a little regional or county airport you don't know when it's even going to get there if at all or how far from the terminal it's located. So the contractor is faced with having to put on additional trucks to compensate for the reduced range of his ground routes or use dedicated air box only trucks to wait around for the air to arrive then go out and cover the same area a couple of hours later and with a light load and limited range because he'll have to get back in time to get the air box load up and back out to the airport . Either way he'll never get enough out of it to make it profitable. At the terminal I was at for a number of routes the first stop of the day was 70 miles away. This might work in a metro area but out in rural America you've got one shot and one shot only to cover and clean and you have to be out the door the moment that last box is off the belt..... And there's not waiting around and there's no coming back. [/QUOTE]
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