paul purple
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Our WM freight has increased our load by at least 25%. On a rt where I have 65 rural stops on a heavy day (that's a 10-12hr rt) I now have 80. It seems to be slacking off just a little now tho.
Whats up with Walmart?
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Fred's Myth
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Our WM distribution center went from a 700, to 16 trailers a day. THEY load the trailers and they're sent directly to the hub for offload. Fedex only becomes responsible AFTER our first scan. And they're Express because Ground can't guarantee 2-day delivery countrywide.
Sign___Here
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Our Walmart freight has dropped off this week quite a bit.
Purplepackage
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Same here, the last couple weeks were insane though.
Maybe people are taking a buying break lol
Purplepackage
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So is ground, but if it's going 2 day I'm pretty sure it's mostly going express
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Our "Pickup at Store" volume has increased dramatically.
It will be fine
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We've always gotten tons of it. There's been a noticeable uptick of it on Saturdays. As Walmart integrates with Jet I imagine a lot more of it will get in the Ground network as they begin to better anticipate orders and stock their DCs better.
OrioN
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Yay, I found UPS, FedEx express, USPS, and me going to the same house today!!!
Each one of us left one box each, LoL...
Finally caught up with the blizzard fiasco, so I am not bricking out as much, got done at a decent time this Saturday @ 1630...whew
Every day looked like a Tetris game for the past 2 weeks
Thank goodness I preload them to go in a straight line mode, not following OrioN trace 100%
Star B
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Okay, I thought FedEx (Express/Ground) was the only ones getting it.
I've seen ground Walmart, but then we have a distribution center an hour away and a major ground hub 2 hours or so. So, it's tots feasible that local 2-day freight is coming out of there and going to ground to get trucked back this way. (one overnight to make it to the hub, daysort, then via linehaul the next overnight back to the station for delivery on day#2)
BootsOnTarmac
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Kudos to OrioN for securing the load!
OrioN
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Hehehe, nah man, it's sorta common sense to keep my load away from the rear barn door GLASS ( dunno wtf my subcontractor was thinking with this van ~ metal skinned doors,yo!)
I have seen an Amazon driver with the low roof version of this Ford transit cargo van & a package has blown thru the rear glass when he accelerated, LoL
I'm in a rural area and experienced a dirt road with "washboard grooves" for the first time... so my cargo is strapped down
Ps, it would be fun to see a bricked out express freighter too
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Sign___Here
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Ive seen Ups FedEx Grpound and Express all at same stop with Walmart. We all are getting a piece of the action, although FedEx is primary carrier.
MassWineGuy
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We're not seeing much if any, thank god.
OrioN
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see/like post #90
if you ever have to goto a Walmart to drop off their "site-to-store" deliveries on a Saturday...
see/like post #90
if you ever have to goto a Walmart to drop off their "site-to-store" deliveries on a Saturday...
Purplepackage
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This could be right or you might not notice the volume increase since you primarily do pups
Definitely calmed down last week, but who knows what this week will bring
SmithBarney
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Alot of the walmart stuff isn't even labelled as being from walmart, the only give away is the shipper release number(its the same on a ton of packages, with different shippers)
59 Dano
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They are shipping a ton of it directly from suppliers' warehouses and distribution centers.
