The Express employee massacre continues.

[Gone fishin]

Even the rat’s eventually abandon ship.

I would think maybe the drivers aren’t gonna get a bunch more freight and not get more money and time commitments make it a lot harder. They’re probably all quitting.

 

[UnionStrong]

I would think maybe the drivers aren’t gonna get a bunch more freight and not get more money and time commitments make it a lot harder. They’re probably all quitting.

I don’t see how this will work.

 

[Gone fishin]

I don’t see how this will work.

The only way I would think is that the entire company becomes employees with good pay and benefits

 

[UnionStrong]

The only way I would think is that the entire company becomes employees with good pay and benefits

What are the chances that’s gonna happen? It’s a shame, FedEx was a premier company when I started at UPS in 90. I envied the couriers back then. What a travesty.

 

[Gone fishin]

What are the chances that’s gonna happen? It’s a shame, FedEx was a premier company when I started at UPS in 90. I envied the couriers back then. What a travesty.

Exactly

 

[MAKAVELI]

Nashville home of the first merger, has a contractor with the best routes in area, has his business up for sale. He must have had the first look at what the Express merger would look like and said take it all cash discount. 19 truck business is that average? Wait Spencer Patton is in Nashville maybe he’s interested.

Raj and @It will be fine

 

[Fred's Myth]

Ties in with the fact that the long downhill slide for contractors began in 98 when Fat Freddy bought RPS from Roadway and tried to make it serve multiple markets, none of which it has done all that well.
While terms did favor the company Roadway given that it was having a hard time just getting somebody to take the deal to begin with stayed in the lane RPS was designed for. In addition knowing that the contractors only had a few hundred up front bucks in the game and could leave right on the spot and only be out those few bucks, it treated contractors with respect. When Fat Freddy took over he required contractors to put substantial additional amounts of borrowed money at risk and to the extent that a number of contractors ended up with negative personal net worth.

Going forward Fat Freddy doesn't care if you've got 5 routes or 500 routes those routes still belong to him. He's just letting you use them for a maximum of one year or less if he's got it in for you.

From this point onward what happens to contractors.....happens to them....and there ain't a damn thing they can do about it.
And if what happens to them is unpleasant then they've got nobody to blame but themselves for not getting out when market conditions favored them.

You blame FedEx for not staying within the parameters set by Roadway, and then immediately tell us how Fred S promptly set about changing it to match his style of business.

Your arguments invoke a vision of an
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[Guitarman01]

Talk about polar opposites, you couldn't have a much better American story than FedEx and Fred S, who got his workers to buy into bleeding purple. Now it's been handed off to an Indian immigrant that probably has zero connection or care as to what made FedEx successful to begin with and that's the people.

 

[zeev]

Freddy was always the master of B.S. lots of slogans and pizza keep them distracted,take pension ,take healthcare, step program fallacy, let Raj take the blam

 

[bacha29]

You blame FedEx for not staying within the parameters set by Roadway, and then immediately tell us how Fred S promptly set about changing it to match his style of business.

Your arguments invoke a vision of an
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Wrong. Roadway Package System/RPS from the outset until it was sold was strictly a business to business carrier. No rezzies no booze. no home delivery appointments. no in person signature home delivery . No residential call tags, no furniture or appliance home deliveries. I apologize for not doing enough to simplify it for you. I'll try to do better next time.

 

[It will be fine]

Wrong. Roadway Package System/RPS from the outset until it was sold was strictly a business to business carrier. No rezzies no booze. no home delivery appointments. no in person signature home delivery . No residential call tags, no furniture or appliance home deliveries. I apologize for not doing enough to simplify it for you. I'll try to do better next time.

Are you seriously suggesting a company shouldn’t evolve the services it offers as the market changes?

 

[59 Dano]

Nashville home of the first merger, has a contractor with the best routes in area, has his business up for sale. He must have had the first look at what the Express merger would look like and said take it all cash discount. 19 truck business is that average? Wait Spencer Patton is in Nashville maybe he’s interested.

Nashville is not the home of the first merger.

Why are the ones most eager to stir the pot the ones who least know what is happening?

 

[fdxsux]

Nashville is not the home of the first merger.

Why are the ones most eager to stir the pot the ones who least know what is happening?

My manager said the alpha test was Minneapolis. They shut it down after 2 weeks because the service level had dropped to 30%. He said they are testing there again so they must have made some changes.

 

[Gone fishin]

Nashville is not the home of the first merger.

Why are the ones most eager to stir the pot the ones who least know what is happening?

Sounds like it’s failing everywhere , who woulda guessed.

 

[Cactus]

My manager said the alpha test was Minneapolis. They shut it down after 2 weeks because the service level had dropped to 30%. He said they are testing there again so they must have made some changes.

Changes? If you’re talking about the engineers, they’ll come with something just as bad.

Those boys could up a one car funeral.

 

[Gone fishin]

Changes? If you’re talking about the engineers, they’ll come with something just as bad.

Those boys could up a one car funeral.

If they want to save money , get rid of the engineer’s

 

[bacha29]

Are you seriously suggesting a company shouldn’t evolve the services it offers as the market changes?

When you don't bother to first redesign the company in order to best serve a changing market you end up with the mess you've got now. Having expanded into additional markets and you're already encumbered with the poorest setup in the history of wheeled transportation and now that you can plainly see that it can't do the job you suddenly embark on a radical restructuring with no clear idea as to how to go about doing it or whether or not it's even going to work.

 

[UnionStrong]

When you don't bother to first redesign the company in order to best serve a changing market you end up with the mess you've got now. Having expanded into additional markets and you're already encumbered with the poorest setup in the history of wheeled transportation and now that you can plainly see that it can't do the job you suddenly embark on a radical restructuring with no clear idea as to how to go about doing it or whether or not it's even going to work.

Have to agree with that.

 

[It will be fine]

When you don't bother to first redesign the company in order to best serve a changing market you end up with the mess you've got now. Having expanded into additional markets and you're already encumbered with the poorest setup in the history of wheeled transportation and now that you can plainly see that it can't do the job you suddenly embark on a radical restructuring with no clear idea as to how to go about doing it or whether or not it's even going to work.

So you think it’s bad for the company to redesign its structure to fit the market because it didn’t redesign its structure before the market changed. Makes perfect sense.

 

[Gone fishin]

So you think it’s bad for the company to redesign its structure to fit the market because it didn’t redesign its structure before the market changed. Makes perfect sense.

Why wouldn’t you redesign your pay structure as generations change. You obviously know people need sick days , because people get sick. They shouldn’t have to worry about missing a days pay to pay rent.
Emotionally people need breaks to recharge the work batteries. It’s called payed vacations.
This isn’t directed all to you , but contractors in general.
The world is changing and companies need to change with it.
That make sense ?