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PRAYING FOR A STRIKE IN AUGUST !!!
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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 3559670" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>Could be. I don't believe the competition could ramp up enough to take more than around 70% or so of UPS' volume, and that only if the strike went a few weeks. And I can't imagine it going longer than that. I'm just saying it would be way more than it was last time.</p><p></p><p>Think about it. They would do what they did last time. Rent more equipment, hire temps and work their current workforce tons more hours, contract with more independent carriers for the feeder runs, rent air planes, etc. What they did not do is build more buildings, but all of our competitors have literally millions more square feet of hub capacity than they did back then.</p><p></p><p>One reality of the new ecomerce economy you are forgetting is that the spike in peak volume compared to rest of the year volume has gotten way larger than it ever was, so our competitors, like UPS have been building the ability to ramp up quickly and to a much larger capacity at the end of the year than they used to. As I have said, no way I see them moving it all, but they will move a much larger percentage of it than they did last time. And if they can hit 60-70% by the time a strike comes to an end, you will see a lot of that volume never returning to brown trucks. Just something to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 3559670, member: 14596"] Could be. I don't believe the competition could ramp up enough to take more than around 70% or so of UPS' volume, and that only if the strike went a few weeks. And I can't imagine it going longer than that. I'm just saying it would be way more than it was last time. Think about it. They would do what they did last time. Rent more equipment, hire temps and work their current workforce tons more hours, contract with more independent carriers for the feeder runs, rent air planes, etc. What they did not do is build more buildings, but all of our competitors have literally millions more square feet of hub capacity than they did back then. One reality of the new ecomerce economy you are forgetting is that the spike in peak volume compared to rest of the year volume has gotten way larger than it ever was, so our competitors, like UPS have been building the ability to ramp up quickly and to a much larger capacity at the end of the year than they used to. As I have said, no way I see them moving it all, but they will move a much larger percentage of it than they did last time. And if they can hit 60-70% by the time a strike comes to an end, you will see a lot of that volume never returning to brown trucks. Just something to think about. [/QUOTE]
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