The ones that stay open will be doing both. Most of the buildings that close down will be the Express buildings that don’t have the capacity to handle Ground freight. The old Express buildings with few dock doors aren’t taking on the areas delivered by 26 Ft straight trucks. They aren’t taking on the areas with massive Ground outbound volume that requires fully automated sorting systems.
Most of those buildings are small rural stations. Ttku.....
Small rural stations where Ground can make service ( 5:00 PM) and make pu will most likely close and be absorbed by Ground. Large metro stations with early commits and large outbound will most likely stay all employee. Ground doesn't have the physical footprint of stations to make service in the majority of condensed population areas. There's usually at least 2-3 Express stations for every 1 ground station in a delivery area. You just can't grasp the logistics side of the Express operation.
Your 26 ft straight trucks would simply be delivered by employees not contractors.
Its been happening for a couple years in our area. It gets bled off during the sort at the ramp and put into containers, just like they do for the other stations. Its really not that big of a deal.
P1?
Express buildings don’t have the capacity to load them. They don’t have the load doors or the sortation systems needed. Express isn’t going to buy the equipment to get it done, that would be a cost increase.
Getting that priority freight to ground hubs buildings is a big deal. They have less buildings in a geographic area than Express. Longer RTD runs and longer stem times for routes.
FedEx has no problem spending money. The are building a new $350 million hub in Dubai.
I can’t take the sfa anymore, my mind won’t let me. It’s a waste of my time and the company’s money.
Absolutely. It goes out in the AM with the other cans to all the stations. I believe they are averaging 2-3 positions at this time. Was a little more a year ago. We drop the trailer off, they unload it, and we pick up the trailer later.
One of the Express stations I deliver to, runs two straight trucks everyday. They are used for bulk deliver and pickups. Freight is palletized and wrapped in the warehouse during the sort and forked into the back of the straight truck where someone with a pallet jack moves it into place. . Opposite order when unloading. Before HP left town they also did two 53' trailers every morning the same way. Been doing it there for over 20 years. Not as efficient as having a dock. No one at express is going out in a 26' straight truck with single package deliveries. They are for palletized freight. The hubs have the multiple belt systems and the extenda belts for freight sortation and ease of bulk loading trailers.
In our area you actually pass both ground buildings on the way to the express buildings, so not longer RTD runs. As you probably know the freight that is being bled off to ground in the last few years is in specific zip codes and areas. They are testing them with the easy bunched together stops and not giving them the P1 that are in areas 30 - 40 minutes away at this time.
That's specific to your area and not the norm. Ground has less buildings and a building will typically cover at least twice the area 1 Express station covers. There's a reason they haven't ripped the bandaid off. That's just one reason.
