Express going "independent" ...and to current events

[It will be fine]

...or do the economicly wiser thing by making everyone contractors...

Make everyone employees of contractors

 

[MAKAVELI]

...yet the deliveries would still be made and commit times would still be met...

Yeah right..... That's exactly why they have had to increase pay. SMH

 

[BrownFlush]

So you don't even work for X and you are trying to peddle this bs?

I don't even work . Retired @ 52 with a Teamster pension . The post was honest .

 

[BrownFlush]

Smells like troll in here lol

Nope.

 

[BrownFlush]

Green and black? Blue and orange? Lol. Someone is color blind.

I am color blind .

 

[Operational needs]

...or do the economicly wiser thing by making everyone contractors...

Economically. . Come on Dave, you know that didn’t look right. Lol.

 

[bbsam]

Express would implode if that was done.

It was once said that RPS would implode. That was a long, long time ago.

 

[bacha29]

Express would implode if that was done.

Fat Freddy has a mess on his hands right now . Therefore I think that you'll see him relinquish some of his control so that his kids and son in law can figure out what to do especially if peak is the disaster many believe it will be . If it turns out that way contractors will experience Fat Freddy's wrath in ways they never expected.

 

[Operational needs]

I am color blind .

No wonder. FYI, Ground is purple and green and Express, purple and orange, unless the Ground truck has changed to Express colors.

 

[bbsam]

Fat Freddy has a mess on his hands right now . Therefore I think that you'll see him relinquish some of his control so that his kids and son in law can figure out what to do especially if peak is the disaster many believe it will be . If it turns out that way contractors will experience Fat Freddy's wrath in ways they never expected.

Why? The last 5 peaks have been disasters.

 

[MAKAVELI]

I don't even work . Retired @ 52 with a Teamster pension . The post was honest .

Honest bs. You and your friend are oblivious as to how things work at FedEx. @bacha29 is right. They will continue to operate as they do until forced to change. My guess is they would combine the opcos and try to operate as efficient as UPS.

 

[bacha29]

No wonder. FYI, Ground is purple and green and Express, purple and orange, unless the Ground truck has changed to Express colors.

This past summer X announced that all trucks regardless of the operation subsidiary will bear the orange and purple colored logo and is currently undergoing that transformation.

 

[bbsam]

This past summer X announced that all trucks regardless of the operation subsidiary will bear the orange and purple colored logo and is currently undergoing that transformation.

And I doubt that is because the company just thinks orange is prettier.

 

[BrownFlush]

With all due respect friend this issue has been thoroughly argued over in the past. It would require extensive new legislation for it to happen which would take years if not decades to be drawn up and passed into law. If it was something that could have been done it most likely would have begun when X bought Roadway Package System from Roadway in 1997. Express will continue to operate in it's present form for the foreseeable future . Ground on the other hand will continue to be the big money maker while it's cheap wage, zero benefit, fast food joint wage structure will continue to undermine the wage and benefit base over at Express.

Thanks . I was around when RPS started up and the sale to FedX . My friend of 50 years was very serious about this. I don't know much about FedX , but he was very serious and concerned . The "foreseeable future" he was told was 2 years . The reason was exactly as you state , profit . I simply seen it as an opportunity for FedX to organize . My motive was the purest . I do wonder why the color change.. been seeing ground look like express on other trucks....oh well.

 

[MAKAVELI]

It was once said that RPS would implode. That was a long, long time ago.

RPS was an infant compared to the size of the Express operation.

 

[Operational needs]

This past summer X announced that all trucks regardless of the operation subsidiary will bear the orange and purple colored logo and is currently undergoing that transformation.

Duh. I said that basically. Reread my post slowly.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Economically. . Come on Dave, you know that didn’t look right. Lol.

Tell us about your plan to improve turnover.

 

[Operational needs]

Tell us about your plan to improve turnover.

lol. Better pay and benefits. That simple.

 

[MAKAVELI]

Tell us about your plan to improve turnover.

Combine services and make everyone employees.

 

[BrownFlush]

Express would implode if that was done.

By implode do you mean everybody quit or stick together and organize ?