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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5576546" data-attributes="member: 58386">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&#039;t care if you&#039;ve got 5 routes or 500 routes those routes still belong to him. He&#039;s just letting you use them for a maximum of one year or less if he&#039;s got it in for you. From this point onward what happens to contractors.....happens to them....and there ain&#039;t a damn thing they can do about it.And if what happens to them is unpleasant then they&#039;ve got nobody to blame but themselves for not getting out when market conditions favored them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 5576546, member: 58386"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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