Seasonal workers gone

[anonymous23456]

Get ready boys and girls. Next year is going to get interesting.

Recession or Depression?

 

[Brownwind]

I have a feeling a lot of lower guys will be day today for quite a while

I have a feeling a few of us will be enjoying burner weeks in warmer climates

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I have a feeling a few of us will be enjoying burner weeks in warmer climates

And that's not on all this fun?

 

[UnionStrong]

I have a feeling a few of us will be enjoying burner weeks in warmer climates

AZ is full, just saying. Try New Mexico.

 

[Pullman Brown]

Get ready boys and girls. Next year is going to get interesting.

It really just depends on where you are located imo.

 

[Pullman Brown]

With our volume disappearing at an alarming rate is gonna require a workforce that better reflects it. Amazon is no longer a potential threat, they’re the threat. We’ve become their temp agency. They just throw crumbs at us when they can’t handle their volume. Unfortunately we don’t have the balls to say no.

Or charge more

 

[UnionStrong]

It really just depends on where you are located imo.

Definitely a factor

 

[Pullman Brown]

Definitely a factor

My area needs to build a wall!! Goodnight!!

 

[Pullman Brown]

Insinuating less routes + more work for the drivers that work?

Um.. until that 9.5 language smacks you in the face!

 

[Analbumcover]

Two Fridays before Christmas and management told EVERY PVD that they were not needed today. TP60s sitting empty in the lot. Drivers still getting in under 9.5 with all the PVD volume redirected onto brown trucks.

PDS said next week isn't looking particularly heavy either.

This has been one floppy, saggy, flaccid peak.

 

[Pullman Brown]

PVAT changed everything, no more customers dumping 50 trailers over plan and telling us to deal with it, Carol put them in the cu&k shed and said "pay up"

PVAT??

 

[Brownwind]

AZ is full, just saying. Try New Mexico.

Awesome response.

Taos is nice but those yellow plates warn you of the bad drivers behind the wheel.

 

[UnionStrong]

Awesome response.

Taos is nice but those yellow plates warn you of the bad drivers behind the wheel.

I’m serious, stay the out.

 

[Pullman Brown]

Nope, actually the decline started 3 years ago in NorCal. Volume has grown exponentially along side the growth of e-commerce till the second week of December 2020. The importance of that date, that was when Amazon went live in our area. Over night blue vans were everywhere and like Thanos snapping his fingers, half of our residential stops was gone. The economy, the end of free money, and Amazon delivering their own stuff was a recipe for disaster. They grow we shrink, how long do we stay relevant in that climate. Our volume is/was our golden ticket. The shrinking of it results in our shrinking leverage over our margins. I’ll be gone when the music stops and hopefully you have the years in too.

Where you live might have more to do with that than Amazon. We had that company go live two years before that and still have been adding routes!

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

Recession or Depression?

Yes

 

[anonymous23456]

Where you live might have more to do with that than Amazon. We had that company go live two years before that and still have been adding routes!

Basically look at all the cities and surrounding suburbs, and you can see where all the Amazon warehouses are.

 

[Brownwind]

Two Fridays before Christmas and management told EVERY PVD that they were not needed today. TP60s sitting empty in the lot. Drivers still getting in under 9.5 with all the PVD volume redirected onto brown trucks.

PDS said next week isn't looking particularly heavy either.

This has been one floppy, saggy, flaccid peak.

And I’m enjoying the good weather we’ve had. Makes a huge difference in how much I give to the kid on the helper route in my loop

 

[KearsargeCoop]

And I’m enjoying the good weather we’ve had. Makes a huge difference in how much I give to the kid on the helper route in my loop

The weather is huge. Our center is averaging almost an hour less paid day each driver compared to last Dec.

 

[Brownwind]

I’m serious, stay the out.

When I’m traveling through Sky Harbor I’ll give you a shout out.

Lake Havesu for Spring Break???

 

[UnionStrong]

When I’m traveling through Sky Harbor I’ll give you a shout out.

Lake Havesu for Spring Break???

That will be the day.