Not anymore.
Now when a Ground contractor talks about offering benefits they are always very vague about how expansive are those benefits about those benefits actually are.
That's the only way it will work in a 300 mile day. Not the 30 mile day you consider to be a long haul. Where you come from you talking about working neighborhoods. Where I come from you're talking about multiple rural counties.
There are guys at my station still not getting back until after 8PM and they are not dragging ass because they get paid a flat per diem. Out here you go to one little borough do the stops there then go out and chase it's 300 plus mile RD carrier system. Once done there you don't go back Instead you move onto the the next little borough and repeat the process. And on the pickup end all you can hope for is that they'll give you a key or the combination to get in and get your stuff well past dark. They is simply no backtracking and in many cases a 16:30 cutoff many times won't be enough especially if it's a house box because you are doing those in the evening.
I’ve had guys go over there, on road right away. The problem was they’d only get scheduled a day or 2 per week and then laid off for months. That’s at their entry wage, which is much less than mine. So even if they get on road immediately, they still don’t make good money for years.
Remember what they say in the NFL:...."The best ability is availability ". Now if you want to continue to devalue the contribution of that guy who comes to work day in and day out and turns in an honest day's work and you refuse to pay in accordance with what the market dictates and that's the UPS/Teamster wage standard which still sets the market., then you might just have to learn the hard way the need to place much higher value on availability rather than the low skill basis that you continue to embrace. High skill. low. skill in between skill it doesn't mean a thing if a dependable employee with that high level of availability tells you to go pound salt up one of your bodily orifices because he got tired of you reminding him that he is a low skill worker and use it as justification for you not paying for his readily available work ethic.
I can definitely see ground start to be taken over by express during this recession and lower volume. Start in the west and make your way east.
I don’t know for sure as they are halfway across the building with several belts between us. I’m not one to walk around socializing with the other contractors drivers much. At first it was pretty ugly with what I’m guessing was an outside company coming in and running those routes out of trucks that looked like they had no business doing what they were. Now it’s back to Fedex branded trucks in all the routes.
Now that is a correct statement!
People aren’t paying a 120 bucks for a delivery 2 days late. Contractors are constantly a mess. It would be like a corporation hiring a CEO for 30 thousand a year.
Why as a customer would I ship with a company that has a “you’ll get it when you get it “ policy with no ramifications.
You people never cease to amaze me , I think express is going to be ok.
