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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 2521215" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>One fact does remain. When X bought&nbsp; out Roadway Package in 1997, they had to buy it with stock rather than cash. For the majority of years since if not all years Ground has achieved a higher net operating margin than Xpress. In recent years however the margins at Xpress have improved quite a bit. It has however come at a cost. It is no longer considered to be a valued place to work with good wages and benefits. That price has no doubt been paid and paid dearly by the people who have to physically move the shipment on the ground. And over at FX&nbsp; Ground once the single route contractors were eliminated the few multi routes that remain are now experiencing heavy downward pressure on their settlements combined with demands for even greater value to be provided to the corporation. And there&#039;s little many can do about it because they are heavily leveraged from buying out other contractors to get to scale.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 2521215, member: 58386"] One fact does remain. When X bought out Roadway Package in 1997, they had to buy it with stock rather than cash. For the majority of years since if not all years Ground has achieved a higher net operating margin than Xpress. In recent years however the margins at Xpress have improved quite a bit. It has however come at a cost. It is no longer considered to be a valued place to work with good wages and benefits. That price has no doubt been paid and paid dearly by the people who have to physically move the shipment on the ground. And over at FX Ground once the single route contractors were eliminated the few multi routes that remain are now experiencing heavy downward pressure on their settlements combined with demands for even greater value to be provided to the corporation. And there's little many can do about it because they are heavily leveraged from buying out other contractors to get to scale. [/QUOTE]

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