Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't know that you were the self appointed intellectual arbiter for this site. I'll be sure take note of the fact that whatever comments on this site you and you alone consider to be "stupid" the rest of us will have no choice but to acquiesce.
And your ego speaks for itself. But you know something. Perhaps it's not a question of ego but rather an insecurity complex. Good thing I'm too "stupid" to know that for certain.
Of course I have to agree with everything you say or you'll go off on another one of your personal attack laden psychotic tirades.
True to a certain extent. But the overlap really makes operating a CSA so much easier. We did some right before peak and it was an incredible God send. Not sure how the restructured money will work out because we basically subcontracted to each other for short term. We'll see. I'm not overly optimistic.
It's great as a subcontract, when you negotiate with overlap you lose. I doubled my stop count with overlap and they lowered every bucket. Less annual, less stop rate, less piece rate. I lost a few hundred per week per route under the new overlap contract. The efficiency gained is washed out by all the additional trucks I had to send out. It's a bad deal and I have to be available 6 days a week too.
I don't doubt it. My guess is we'll just subcontract until 2021 when it all becomes mandatory. It's too bad too. They could build something respectable but they insist on being cheap.
No doubt that they are consolidating their power over a smaller number of contractors . Creating and preserving contractor equity is of no concern to them. They don't care about building a relationship with their contractors. Why should they? They control everything.
By the results this peak it's working. I was hoping for some systemic failures so they'd put more money towards us. Didn't happen, we did too well and now we're getting shippers switching over left and right.
Maybe. Safety seems still a huge problem.
Based on what your saying it would appear that rather than HD being absorbed by Ground which is what one would normally think would happen Ground is being absorbed by HD with the new rate structure based on the lower HD rate. If that's what is happening than no one need be surprised because their entire focus is not serving a market successfully but rather how to beat route contractors by all means possible and get away with it.
That's tortured logic.
But, that doesn't fit HIS worldview! You must re-think your position.
No surprise there. You see my station is combined HD/Ground and is located in a sparsely populated rural area with an overall truck deployment impossibly thin. As a result it didn't matter if the box had a G or an H on the side of it or if it went in a Ground truck or an HD ride. It was all a question of whoever happened to be closest to box's destination. The company's consolidation plan is something we've been doing for years. It's the only way anybody survived economically and still managed to get back in by 9PM. Any gross revenue erosion resulting from consolidation could result in far fewer people willing to take on rural areas.
