UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
The transit times are the same, unless UPS puts something on the rail. Our mileage and sleeper routes run the on the same highways as Fed-Ex. For peak this year, UPS choose to cut sleeper teams and put those loads on the rail to go cheap, even though they knew it was slower. Since the delivery guarantee is off during peak, they choose the cheap side.
Ground beats our in-transit time in a majority of the markets.