Okay man. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. By summer next year there are going to be thousands of couriers with great routes & schedules looking for new jobs. Don’t be surprised if certain stations like the ones you’re talking about aren’t just closed down.
It’s coming...
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MassWineGuy
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I know it’s been brought up, but I don’t see a realistic scenario where Ground will succeed in taking on all the extra volume. The Ground drivers I see are already pushed to the wall. And customers will revolt (read: Switch to UPS) once the new system begins to implode.
If they close down how in your estimation will Express freight be delivered?
" What A Fool Believes".....The Doobie Brothers.
Same thing happening at ups, so who do you go to?
AB831
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Neither one.
i heard something like this, but slightly different. That some stations will absorb part timers into full time positions. I know in UPS, Fulltimers are required to be created by contract , but management target those employees asking them do they wanna go home early.- whenever the sort is overstaffed dictated by volume. Another words, you are fulltime but effectively or perhaps constructively part time in practice. depending on operational needs. I dont know if fedex can do this with commitment times
The Ground guy and I got a chuckle out of this while we were each picking up a handful of boxes from the same customer.
CatMan
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ONE of the most important elements of working for FedEx is, there will be hours for you and there will be positions for you, all you need to do is adjust and "find your niche"...But never forget that operational needs is the rule of law. Period.
Yah, but totally different from two Express guys working the same long distance Express rt. Just curious, can you do your Express route and the local Ground guy's route too every day? Been my experience that they always have me plenty to do with no time to take on all the bulk in the big Ground truck. I get a chuckle thinking about even trying to get through a day with the routes combined.
It’s going to affect your station. You’re not going to be getting P1 & P2 at the beginning of the day anymore. The tractor trailers that bring your freight will show up with P1... then later in the morning show up with P2. The company is going to 2 sorts. 100% that is happening. However your station decides to deal with that is probably up to them. But I doubt they’re gonna sort P1 and wait to send you out until the P2 comes in. All the P1 would be late by then. And with no P2 on a truck... there’s no need to keep the route full time.
Gone fishin
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We take p1 and p2. We then have some close rts come back to the station and pick up the second sort. There will be 2 shuttle rts to take the further rts their freight. We have a smaller station , but that’s how it’s working here
I'm retired. Just speaking from experience. FedEx can route outlying freight to a station for the early morning sort whether P1 or P2. It's certainly feasible that they'll have part-timers working early, then driving back in 10-15 minutes to hand off trucks in large metro areas with a big city surrounded by suburbs. They aren't going to have a PT courier go way out in rural areas, then drive almost an hour, maybe more, to hand off to a FTer, who'll go back out into an area with few pickups and some of his P2 already diverted to Ground. If you are running a business would you do that? Would you hire a bunch of PTers so that you could lose even more money on rural routes? If some P2 is already diverted to Ground that FTer is going to have less to do anyways and get in earlier. They may even have him deliver some P1 freight on his way out to his area to help make service in the city. Believe it or not FedEx isn't going to cut off its nose to spite its face.
Gone fishin
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Hopefully ground goes to express so Fedx can become reputable again. Ground is making Fedx look ridiculous
So basically you think Express employees will do just pickups and Ground will do the rest?
falcon back
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What meeting did you hear that at?
zeev
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Eventually everything will be Ground the Express stations will not be worth it. Freight is available to help out as Ground as expanded. Contractors model has been used for years in trucking but has been going away because of the internet has allowed owner operators to bypass the companies for loads. Ground contractors and drivers have no leverage on freight and Fdx knows it.
MAKAVELI
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Freight might be able to help with line haul a little bit but they will not be delivering small packages.
It will be fine
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Fright has been delivering “small” packages for most of this year.
Ground is piloting a few different contracts to handle large packages within the network.
