Yellow | Should YRC management read and heed?
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Fixing YRC … and LTL too | Trucks at Work Blog
For YRC directly, Sartain noted a lot must be done quickly:
• Apply a Lean Manufacturing approach by eliminating costs that do not add value to the customer or to the carrier
• Cut discretionary spending
• Reduce P&D and linehaul miles by at least 10%
• Eliminate the “core zone” P&D model and use a “primary route” model for the local P&D operation
• Focus on cutting out one of the four internal purchased transportation costs (pick-up, delivery, dock & linehaul) when securing revenue shipments.
• Cut top heavy wages throughout the company
• Look to eliminate terminals that cannot support their own cost structure
• Consider fewer terminals by merging multiple operations
• Take under-utilized office or supervision employees and have them sell around the terminal to increase their employee contribution and add market share without adding more Human Resource expenses.
• Use cheaper equipment options such as straight trucks instead of 48-foot tractor trailers in low density local peddle areas
• Reduce the number of tow motors and use pallet jacks when applicable
• Look to use the tractors more hours per 24 hour day by having the tractor shared by the local P&D driver and a linehaul driver who will return to the same terminal before the next day’s peddle operation.
Of course, we’re also talking the elimination of some full-time jobs here – certainly something no one wants to contemplate in these tough times. But Sartain puts this issue in pretty understandable – if stark – terms when it comes to big players like YRC: “The question is, would you rather reduce employment or just watch 59,000 jobs disappear altogether?”
Thanks, I saw that too.
I'll pull a quote from it.
Fixing YRC … and LTL too | Trucks at Work Blog
For YRC directly, Sartain noted a lot must be done quickly:
• Apply a Lean Manufacturing approach by eliminating costs that do not add value to the customer or to the carrier
• Cut discretionary spending
• Reduce P&D and linehaul miles by at least 10%
• Eliminate the “core zone” P&D model and use a “primary route” model for the local P&D operation
• Focus on cutting out one of the four internal purchased transportation costs (pick-up, delivery, dock & linehaul) when securing revenue shipments.
• Cut top heavy wages throughout the company
• Look to eliminate terminals that cannot support their own cost structure
• Consider fewer terminals by merging multiple operations
• Take under-utilized office or supervision employees and have them sell around the terminal to increase their employee contribution and add market share without adding more Human Resource expenses.
• Use cheaper equipment options such as straight trucks instead of 48-foot tractor trailers in low density local peddle areas
• Reduce the number of tow motors and use pallet jacks when applicable
• Look to use the tractors more hours per 24 hour day by having the tractor shared by the local P&D driver and a linehaul driver who will return to the same terminal before the next day’s peddle operation.
Of course, we’re also talking the elimination of some full-time jobs here – certainly something no one wants to contemplate in these tough times. But Sartain puts this issue in pretty understandable – if stark – terms when it comes to big players like YRC: “The question is, would you rather reduce employment or just watch 59,000 jobs disappear altogether?”
curiouswork
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HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! WHATEVER!!!! Tell that to a union office employee!!!! :lol:
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Change equipment and labor: When applicable, use straight trucks instead of tractors and trailers to reduce Class A wages, maintenance, fuel, registration and new equipment expenses. Use part time labor for P&D and dock work to reduce per hour wages, health care costs and paid time off.
Wonder how many nons are pulling this kind of crap,with full timers sitting home.
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All this wil undoubtedly help.Galen Roush(one of the founders of roadway) once said"If you pickup freight at point "A" and deliver it to point "B" safe and intact,in a timely manner,you will make money".It seems that the freight business has become a lot more complicated than it has to be.Mabe YRC needs to get back to basics.At YRC there are so many management and middlemen that all draw a considerable paycheck,that really aren`t needed to move the freight from point A to point B .At one of the terminals I remember so many management personal,they couldn`t move without stepping on one another.Change is needed and it`s now or never.YRC may be out of 2nd chances.
• Take under-utilized supervision employees and have them sell around the terminal to increase their employee contribution and add market share without adding more Human Resource expenses.
How's that?..... From what I read the supervision @ YRC is very top heavy in the supervision dept..
Around here in the Balt/D.C. area that is the norm with the non-union carriers. Have heard of some LTL's having drivers come in for the morning rush, go home for a while then come back for afternoon/evening work. Also they will utilize employees to never get over 8 hours to avoid overtime at all costs if they do in-fact pay overtime.
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i would love to use a pallet jack,instead of a fork truck
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And they don't get enough hours for health insurance?...or they get just enough hours for health insurance?
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gosh.. those were the most moronic suggestions I ever read.
And this " Sartain " character works for a logistics company. so what he does, is conives his way to the CFO of a company and promise a 20% reduction in their freight rates then goes to town with a bid where carriers break their backs to hopefully wiggle out a penny of profit if they are lucky. Then Sartain adds a healthy profit for himself and bears no burden for the costs for tires, claims, workmans comp, toll increases, insurance, and the ever more stingent emmision standards etc. Sartain pushes paper- nothing more. It is guys like Sartain that are the scourge of the industry.
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that sure is one cool bike wheelwhore
folks i don't post much on here but..for some odd reason i feel the need to add my 2cents worth on this one. in my 18yr driving carreer,14of which has been union..i have never seen a company that has been so managment heavy,seems like you have disp. then a person to manage that person then another to manage both of them then two more to manage them and so on granted i hate to see anyone unemployed but i'm pretty sure these are all salary people as none of them are union members. How much managment do you really need when half of the workforce is laid off?
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I'm just sayincarolinajohn
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folks i don't post much on here but..for some odd reason i feel the need to add my 2cents worth on this one. in my 18yr driving carreer,14of which has been union..i have never seen a company that has been so managment heavy,seems like you have disp. then a person to manage that person then another to manage both of them then two more to manage them and so on granted i hate to see anyone unemployed but i'm pretty sure these are all salary people as none of them are union members. How much managment do you really need when half of the workforce is laid off?
It`s been that way for the 35 years that I`m aware of.I think the upper level managers way of thinking is,the more managers under their control,the more power and authority they have and the more people to blame when something goes wrong.When Roadway hired a new supervisor,they would send them to Akron for a 2 week orientation,and they would return lacking common sense.
There was a time not long ago when every post was about the evil UE that was going to take all the jobs. That UE was all about utilization to reduce cost, improve service and grow the business, or at least stop losing it. Now fast forward one year and the UEs have been eliminated, wages reduced, and are the customers getting more for their money? Is anyones job more secure now? If the company is given the tools to make money and choose not to, the workers suffer.
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HAHAHAHAHA! 59,000 employees, when did this buffoon write this, 4 years ago! It reads more like a memo from pos hoffa's office.
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This kind of business pfractice is exactly why we have a national healthcare bill...too many businessmen have followed this kind of advice....no union,do whatever it takes to profit, work people part time and don't give healthcare.
Anybody wonder why we're all gonna have to pay higher taxes for everybody's healthcare? It's cause of business creeps like these makin it at everybody else's expense. Then they take the business from company's which are forced to provide through union contracts and sooner or later nobody gets health insurance at work. The healthcare bill has earned the name small business ------- outfit bailout bill.