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Hey I resent that my grandpa ran a bid down to meridian for years out 682 lol boy the stories I heard about Big R down there. I'm assuming Valdosta could relay for meridian and Jacksonville and take pressure off Marietta.
They took pressure off of Marietta.they opened that one Terminal south of Marietta.or reopened it
 
For the life of me I simply dont understand how with our bill count we can continue to run without the old Roadway hub and spoke.

This everyone runs to everywhere vision...I just don't understand it. Never did.
 
For the life of me I simply dont understand how with our bill count we can continue to run without the old Roadway hub and spoke.

This everyone runs to everywhere vision...I just don't understand it. Never did.
Hub and spoke is pretty obsolete now Rex. Too much handling=poor service, more claims, because of more handling.One example; 2 day service between Chicago area and New Jersey , running through Akron . Old way through say origin,309-135, to destination 3-4 days
 
Hub and spoke is pretty obsolete now Rex. Too much handling=poor service, more claims, because of more handling.One example; 2 day service between Chicago area and New Jersey , running through Akron . Old way through say origin,309-135, to destination 3-4 days
What is hub and spoke?
 
I look at it like this. Dock labor is much cheaper than road miles. Whatever doesn't make those cuts from 309-211 is going to be 1 day late automatically. Fuller trailers make for fewer trips and less damage assuming loaded properly. More density into the HUB means more direct loading out of the HUB which may add the transfer to the hub but eliminate the one at Akron for the sake of this example. I don't feel as though our service has improved since abandoning the Hub and Spoke. I do feel that our claims are at an all time high, equipment trailer wise is poor, and that our linehaul delay is out of this world bad.

All things that the hub and spoke would improve.

Of course I could be wrong, it would not be the first or last time I was.
 
What is hub and spoke?
Origin terminal,loads to their parent breakbulk. That breakbulk loads to the breakbulk that services destination terminal. Here is how it used to move
Example:
303 wheeling il picks up frt going to jersey city nj
303 loads it to 309 BB
309 strips it and loads to 135 Harrisburg BB
135 strips it and loads it to destination terminal
Frt handled at least 4 times

Same frt now would go 303 to 211
211 to destination
Half the handling,moves faster

Obviously fastest would be terminals that can load direct to destination terminal...
 
Origin terminal,loads to their parent breakbulk. That breakbulk loads to the breakbulk that services destination terminal. Here is how it used to move
Example:
303 wheeling il picks up frt going to jersey city nj
303 loads it to 309 BB
309 strips it and loads to 135 Harrisburg BB
135 strips it and loads it to destination terminal
Frt handled at least 4 times

Same frt now would go 303 to 211
211 to destination
Half the handling,moves faster

Obviously fastest would be terminals that can load direct to destination terminal...
Seems like they want to keep all relay freight going thru BB which isn't always the best method.
 
Origin terminal,loads to their parent breakbulk. That breakbulk loads to the breakbulk that services destination terminal. Here is how it used to move
Example:
303 wheeling il picks up frt going to jersey city nj
303 loads it to 309 BB
309 strips it and loads to 135 Harrisburg BB
135 strips it and loads it to destination terminal
Frt handled at least 4 times

Same frt now would go 303 to 211
211 to destination
Half the handling,moves faster

Obviously fastest would be terminals that can load direct to destination terminal...

But if all of the 309 satellites load their jersey city into 309 and 309 loads direct ro jersey city how many trips get eliminated? Same deal coming back if all 211 satellites load 303 to 211 and then 211 loads direct to 303.
 
But if all of the 309 satellites load their jersey city into 309 and 309 loads direct ro jersey city how many trips get eliminated? Same deal coming back if all 211 satellites load 303 to 211 and then 211 loads direct to 303.
But in your example how long does it take for that freight to get through 309 & 135? And because they do not run sleepers east there is no direct 309 to N.Y. N.J. Still relays through 211 or 135
Going through 211 means you bypass at least one break, And that speeds everything up. This is also why direct loading out of the EOL is the wave of the future.
 
Direct loading has been the wave of the future for at least the last 20 years at YRC.
Some how it just does not figure into the dock numbers or the pre planning by looking at program that tells what is already in the system.
 
But if all of the 309 satellites load their jersey city into 309 and 309 loads direct ro jersey city how many trips get eliminated? Same deal coming back if all 211 satellites load 303 to 211 and then 211 loads direct to 303.
because as it works now,most frt going to 309 from Chicago area satellites, does not get there until well after midnight,or even 0800 the next morning. The freight then takes close to 24 hours to make it through the yard,dock,back to get hooked, and leave.Add to that the snails pace the yard and dock production (less than 3 bills per hour), then have to run it to a relay point because of the mileage. The more frt you keep out of 309, the better.
 
I know alot of people won't like this but before the merger at the barn I worked out of we used to direct load to the farthest break possible. Even if it meant holding that trl another day to maxx it out. Still made service and most cases reached it destination on time with time
 
It's sounds like after you eat one of those Flying J hotdogs that's been laying on the rack all week. Add some week old chili to it and about 3 a.m. Sunday morning you will both feel and hear the rumble down below. If there's a wide spot in the road and you brought your own toilet paper you might be okay.
That must be what happens to Wong about 2 hours after we leave Big Cabin on Saturday night...
 
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