No, sir. You're telling the right people what they want to hear. The rationale for a legal reclassification is certainly there, but you're pretending it isn't. FedEx Express has incorporated Ground into its operation and vice versa. You keep citing laws that no longer have any basis in fact and/or logic. The only thing keeping them in place is FedEx money and compliant politicians and bureaucrats who have been the long-term beneficiaries of FredEx largesse.
LOL. This is hilarious! If Express isn't rightly classified as RLA under the law, why were they trying to change the law to specifically exclude Express????
Like I said semantics. You can call it whatever you want, doesn't change the reality of the changes. Ground isn't contracting anything. FedEx chose Express to take over all Ground ops for those two states. It isn't that complicated.
You do understand that Ground contracts all its delivery operations, right? In those states they are choosing Express to take their stuff instead Joe’s Trucking Inc like they use in the rest of the states. It’s not just semantics, it’s normal legal contracting. You are right, it’s not complicated, you just like to be obviously wrong in your belief.
It is semantics. This was never done before since acquiring Ground. That separation was iron clad in the past. The bottom line is Ground freight is not proprietary to Ground but it is to FedEx Corp. There is no contracting that Freight to Express or vice versa. You are simply ignoring the facts that FedEx is in the beginning stages of merging the two OPCOs with Network 2.0 and DRIVE.
No merger....No savings. What other way is there if they are to get their operating costs down to where they have been mandated to get them to?
There is no other way. @It will be fine just refuses to acknowledge that fact.
That’s a big fat lie
So when Express uses other airlines to haul their stuff you guys believe they are merging companies with those airlines? Or do you understand they are just buying space on those planes like a customer? Is the difference just semantics?
Ground isn't a separate entity. Ttku.....
Wow, you really don’t understand how anything works. It’s remarkable.
The object is to drastically reduce corporate overhead costs. The first place you start is by eliminating the several tiers of duplicating and overlapping management. Sending air box over to Ground and expect them to haul it for nothing would be far more likely to create more abandoned routes than sufficient amounts of savings while at the same time keeping the costly and oversized corporate structure in place.
That’s a bluff, the pilot’s are looking to strike.
I’m hearing that express drivers are gonna start delv/pup ground packages when needed.
Based on what is known publicly the only remaining final mile express drivers ( and it doesn't look like there will be a lot of them) will be handling the remaining high value expedited freight that is not sent over to Ground. The executives at FDX are under strict orders to quickly and drastically cut corporate overhead and final mile delivery costs. And assuming that they really are serious about it his time it will likely mean that fewer and perhaps a lot fewer people will be drawing a Fedex Express paycheck.
They are going to have a hard time finding drivers willing to do what UPS does for less than half the pay.
I’ve talked to several ground workers and they don’t have a clue what ups offers. They are probably were they belong and couldn’t get a better job.
