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<blockquote data-quote="NYCFXG" data-source="post: 2588969" data-attributes="member: 56621"><p>There are guys that have been working in my terminal for 10 years that still don't know or care about "Closures". Also, the fact that you are asking about things not getting loaded on your truck before having any direct experience with the routes smells fishy to me. Software background... tech background... entrepreneur. I don't buy it.</p><p></p><p>People who are in this business don't give a crap about efficiency of deliveries unless you are talking about turning 1 stop in 4. Want to hear about how my settlement hasn't been right a single day since ISP started? Or the fact that they have the audacity to charge me for over-payments when they owe me close to 7k since peak. Or how about how I have a contract for 24 scanners and they can only provide me with 19, yet the bill I am forced to pay says 24. How about being told I should go out and spend $200 per truck for scanner chargers because the batteries only last 6 hours and the routes take 9+ to complete. Spare batteries? Nope don't have any of those because people horde them out of fear.</p><p></p><p>Ask yourself this question. Are you getting into this business to build equity and sell or as a form of income? If so, buy the routes without the trucks, have the seller price the trucks out of the sale and buy new trucks. Pay your manager(s) very well and your drivers just enough to keep them showing up to work. Take all new work that appears and grow fast. Then sell. That is how you make money in fxg/hd.</p><p></p><p>If you are coming into this business expecting to make money on a regular basis, you will have to be ruthless and uncaring. You are in Seattle which means higher cost of living. You won't be able to pay your employees enough to pay for their most basic needs. I would sell my routes tomorrow if I could. I too came in caring only about providing the best service and being the most efficient. All that it got me was more stress and depression. I grew.. boy did I. I have 20+ employees and had only 4 two years ago. I am that "ISP Success Story". I built my business on the failures of others. This is a horrible, horrible business. (If you can call it that) Not a day goes by that I regret the decision that I made to get into this business.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NYCFXG, post: 2588969, member: 56621"] There are guys that have been working in my terminal for 10 years that still don't know or care about "Closures". Also, the fact that you are asking about things not getting loaded on your truck before having any direct experience with the routes smells fishy to me. Software background... tech background... entrepreneur. I don't buy it. People who are in this business don't give a crap about efficiency of deliveries unless you are talking about turning 1 stop in 4. Want to hear about how my settlement hasn't been right a single day since ISP started? Or the fact that they have the audacity to charge me for over-payments when they owe me close to 7k since peak. Or how about how I have a contract for 24 scanners and they can only provide me with 19, yet the bill I am forced to pay says 24. How about being told I should go out and spend $200 per truck for scanner chargers because the batteries only last 6 hours and the routes take 9+ to complete. Spare batteries? Nope don't have any of those because people horde them out of fear. Ask yourself this question. Are you getting into this business to build equity and sell or as a form of income? If so, buy the routes without the trucks, have the seller price the trucks out of the sale and buy new trucks. Pay your manager(s) very well and your drivers just enough to keep them showing up to work. Take all new work that appears and grow fast. Then sell. That is how you make money in fxg/hd. If you are coming into this business expecting to make money on a regular basis, you will have to be ruthless and uncaring. You are in Seattle which means higher cost of living. You won't be able to pay your employees enough to pay for their most basic needs. I would sell my routes tomorrow if I could. I too came in caring only about providing the best service and being the most efficient. All that it got me was more stress and depression. I grew.. boy did I. I have 20+ employees and had only 4 two years ago. I am that "ISP Success Story". I built my business on the failures of others. This is a horrible, horrible business. (If you can call it that) Not a day goes by that I regret the decision that I made to get into this business. [/QUOTE]
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