Take it from someone who knows... UPS cares about UPS FREIGHT. In 10 years time, you will ALL be absorbed into the full culture of UPS... it just takes time.
When Fed Ex absorbed RPS into Fed Ex Ground... do you hear about RPS employees anymore?... I don't think so!! Whoever is left has been assimilated into the culture so much, no one talks about the, "good old days anymore". Because as far as everyone is concerned, only today matters. You need to get the past out of your heads and move on with the times. UPS is taking it slow with you guys for a reason... it's a well thought out plan. Need some more help?... Flying Tigers, RPS, etc. They don't exist anymore, right? So there's no going back. The past is the past. If you don't like it, find something better.
Fed Ex learned from UPS. When you take over, do it slowly, have a plan, assimilate those that can be assimilated and COST CONTROL!!!
The reason why you lost your company is not that it was doing so well. You lost your company because they couldn't make any more money, and decided to sell and go out on top. You guys turned into UPS FREIGHT because you had no other option!!!! You would have gone under eventually if it were not for UPS, and your board of directors KNEW THIS!! ALL START UP COMPANIES REACH A POINT WHERE THEY CAN"T MAKE ANY MORE MONEY AND HAVE TO LET THE PROS TAKE OVER. (In other industries, it usually occurs after the IPO).
Listen, and listen hard!!!... Any maroon can make a bundle of money and keep it for a while. BUT VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY few companies can start up and keep making the money they are making. Entrepreneurs are excellent at starting up companies and making crap loads of money - it doesn't take a rocket scientist to over charge the customer, when you need more money, or to saturate the market with sales numbers.
But there comes a point in time where the customer WANTS A BETTER PRICE AND SHARE HOLDERS WANT A BIGGER RETURN ON THEIR MONEY... and this is why your COMPANY FAILED and decided to sell to UPS, BEFORE the bubble burst. Only cost control makes companies sustainable over decades of good times and bad times.
UPS is great at cutting costs. Yeah, they liked the over-funded pension. And yes, UPS is into cost control measures that you guys have never even seen, yet. It's not enough to make money any more in the transportation business, in order to survive, you have to be able to control costs over the long haul, and your board knew the cash cow could not go on for long.
If you want to make money, go to a Mom and Pop operation. You'll make a lot more money, but one day you may come in to find it closed and they still owe you two weeks pay that you will never see. It's a gamble either way. But with UPS you may not get the Banging Bucks anymore, but you trade it in for long term stability -but at a price. At a price the customer can afford, the stock holder can afford and hopefully one that employees can live off of. Your Pension plan may not have been sustainable. Even though it may not be as much now, it's probably going to be brought back into a sustainable pay out level. What good is a butt kicking Pension that goes bust in 30 years - just before you retire. Or one that goes under 1/2 way into your retirement? Yeah, UPS is going to shave that Puppy down!!... But at least it'll be there when you need it. (Look at when UPS cut out the Thrift Plan. It was getting 13% interest when they shut it down -it use to get 23%. But they reeled it in before it was unsustainable. It seemed underhanded at the time, and pissed me off when they, "Discontinued it". But they made the hard call. Would it have been better for them to keep it and lose my money? Mmmmm...).
is this solo or sleeper teams to slow down too?
last week i started my new run from seattle to william ca. they have me my co driver droping trailer in portland or. then going on to william ca. and back to portland or. back to william you get the picture. i ran seattle to fontana ca. two and half time of week !!!!!!!!!!! so what is ups up to???????????????????????????
