Well,it's like this. We have been an agent for several years in Ilinois. About three years ago we were asked if we could take on another area and we said yes. A year later we were asked to take another area and again we said yes. The reason they asked us was the excellant service we gave them. Our record of on time deliveries have been 99.8% the .2% we were lacking was due to weather or construction. Sevearl months ago I get a call asking us if we would also be willing to run the warehouses and I said yes if the money was right. They were offering $20.00 per callout(the current pay is $40.00) $3.50 for tech courier pul(I'm not sure what the current for that is)and $1.25 per billable unit(that is square footage pay for storing parts). They wanted me to come down so I did. $28.00 I asked for call out and $3.00 for tech courier pull, $1.25 per billable unit. THe guy I was dealing with said that they woul'nt be saving any money with what I was asking for. Ok, now keep in mind that by me running the warehouse, they would not be paying their current employee her wages($600-$650 per week, they would not have to pay the $1,100.00 rent the $500.00 utilities, health benefits, workers comp. We figured that they would be saving about$35,000.00 a year just on one of the warehouses. What they are doing is outsourcing the warehouses now I'm not sure if this is through out the US but I believe thats what they are doing. Anyway a few months go by and I heard nothing. So I called to find out what was going on. I was told they were considering someone else. So I put in another bid. I was willing to make nothing on the warehousing in order to keep our agent status. $00.00 for call out $1.35 for tech courier pull and $1.25 per billable unit. Keep in mind that they did not contact me to tell me that someone had bid lower and give me a chance to beat their bid. Instead they hired some other company. This company has a very bad record for on time deliveries. How do I know that. Because one of my drivers has known about this company,because his sister was asked by Sonic-Air(NOW UPS-SCS) to do the deliveries that this other company was doing because they were either late on pick-ups or deliveries and would'nt go out in bad weather or work week-ends(that is one of the requirments to be an agent is to be available24/7). I get a call one day form one of my drivers that the other company had taken over, doing our deliveries we ahd no worning. I rates are low we were charging $1.35 per one way mile and 0.15 more for after hrs. You see from what I hear and I have a very reliable source of information that the IBM contract is up for bid., and IBM is not happy with UPS-SCS and they are scared they aren't going to get the bid and thats why all this is going on. I just wonder if they told the new company that the IBM was up for bid and they may or may not get it. If they do loose IBM it will have a big impact on one paticular warehouse because 95% of it is IBM. Hence, if they loose IBM so does the guy that took our place.
