Holland | New terminal
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Throwing a "bone" to the Canadians from Welsh appease the grumbling minions at YRC and a bit of a reward from Hoffa for the last election support?
"Let them eat cake"...........".used for talking about the attitude of someone
who really does not care about a group of peopleor does not understand their problems although the pretend to."
Quote is commonly but erroneously attributed to French Queen Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution when her people were starving.
Seems to rather fit both Hoffa and Welsh.
"Let them eat cake"...........".used for talking about the attitude of someone
who really does not care about a group of peopleor does not understand their problems although the pretend to."
Quote is commonly but erroneously attributed to French Queen Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution when her people were starving.
Seems to rather fit both Hoffa and Welsh.
Gives new double meaning to the term "foreign power" - which is exactly who is going to be pulling loads in and out of there.
Canadian Flyer
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That's a Speedy terminal, guys. Just like all of Holland's Canadian terminals. It's been open for over a year now and YRCW didn't spend a single penny on it.
Canadian Flyer
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Speedy Transport has been running Holland's Canadian freight since the divorce with TNT in 1996. Holland only has a sales team here.
Canadian Flyer
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They didn't. Speedy did.
Canadian Flyer
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Not unless you want to buy your own truck and give up your union card. Speedy is 100% owner/operator and the dock is non-union.
Canadian Flyer
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This had nothing to do with the IBT or YRCW. Speedy Transport opened that terminal on their own more than a year ago. There are no union employees to "thank" for helping Hoffa win. And I doubt James Welch has ever met Jared Martin, Speedy's president.
We are an independent company. We haul our own domestic freight as SZTG, but we also act as the Canadian agent to several other US carriers. HMES is just one.
Canadian Flyer
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Not a single penny for this facility came from YRCW.
Spend that money!
Then why all the "hoopala" with the ad sporting a USF Holland header stating "Operations will begin at OUR Ottawa, ON terminal on Mon, May 1?
More "fake news" for the consumption of disgruntled customers and employees?
"The NEW terminal is located at ; 205 Broome Rd, Brockville, ON,..............Just more BS?
OK, I believe you. I remember when TNT split off from Holland becoming USF, but why is YRCW trying to make it sound like a new "grand opening", if it's been there for a long time already?
Canadian Flyer
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Because Holland did not have a local sales office at this terminal yet.
The reason Holland makes it sound like theirs is because Speedy Transport acts as an agent. We are Holland in Canada. We use Holland bills for Holland freight and we even use some of Holland's tailgate vans. Holland wants us to represent them, so we do.
Canadian Flyer
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It's no problem! We used to provide agent service to Red Star before they closed, and to NPME until last year when they switched to a partnership with Dicom Freight.
This has resulted in a lot of strangeness, like Dicom having a trailer spotted at Holland's Detroit barn and Speedy having to service Canadian Holland customers located in NPME territory.
Snark Monkey
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Are the city drivers owner operator too?
Canadian Flyer
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They are. It's not unusual for that to be the case up here.
Dick Dastardly
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Same as Fredex Freight in Canada.