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<blockquote data-quote="RPSman" data-source="post: 3363812" data-attributes="member: 51437"><p>The correct name was Roadway Package System. Remember it well, was a P &amp; D contractor for them in MO during the 97 strike. RPS started in the spring of 1985 on the East Coast. They achieved continental coverage of the USA by spring of 1996. Before the 1997 strike, RPS told all of their customers that a 10 to 15 percent increase in package volume was all the system could absorb if UPS did strike. Federal Express did not have a ground network at the time, the station next to us had a cube van for line haul, their couriers drove 1/2 ton cargo vans and small pickup trucks with special built toppers. If you wanted to see something funny, watch a courier try to deliver a package weighing more than 20 lbs. As to your comment about strike era UPS drivers not being around now, it was RPS contractors who took the biggest hit. After the 1997 merger between Fed Ex and Caliber Systems (RPS&#039; parent company-which was the old Roadway Services less Roadway Express) Fed Ex Ground changed from the P &amp; D contractor concept, where only veteran drivers could have a max of 3 routes, although I knew of a brown nosing P &amp; D-er who had 4 routes at another MO terminal; to an ISP (individual service provider) set up where ISP&#039; people can have 12 to 15 routes. So a lot of single route P &amp; D ers had their routes taken away. As to the comment about disproportionate loading of your package cars, I once knew one of your preloaders who told me that if they had a heavy shipment going on a female drivers package car, that they were told to remove it and put it on the nearest pc male driver&#039;s route. PVD was a failure, you need to get that removed from your next contract.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="RPSman, post: 3363812, member: 51437"] The correct name was Roadway Package System. Remember it well, was a P & D contractor for them in MO during the 97 strike. RPS started in the spring of 1985 on the East Coast. They achieved continental coverage of the USA by spring of 1996. Before the 1997 strike, RPS told all of their customers that a 10 to 15 percent increase in package volume was all the system could absorb if UPS did strike. Federal Express did not have a ground network at the time, the station next to us had a cube van for line haul, their couriers drove 1/2 ton cargo vans and small pickup trucks with special built toppers. If you wanted to see something funny, watch a courier try to deliver a package weighing more than 20 lbs. As to your comment about strike era UPS drivers not being around now, it was RPS contractors who took the biggest hit. After the 1997 merger between Fed Ex and Caliber Systems (RPS' parent company-which was the old Roadway Services less Roadway Express) Fed Ex Ground changed from the P & D contractor concept, where only veteran drivers could have a max of 3 routes, although I knew of a brown nosing P & D-er who had 4 routes at another MO terminal; to an ISP (individual service provider) set up where ISP' people can have 12 to 15 routes. So a lot of single route P & D ers had their routes taken away. As to the comment about disproportionate loading of your package cars, I once knew one of your preloaders who told me that if they had a heavy shipment going on a female drivers package car, that they were told to remove it and put it on the nearest pc male driver's route. PVD was a failure, you need to get that removed from your next contract. [/QUOTE]

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