Yellow | YRC Freight Joins uShip LTL Marketplace?

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"Online freight marketplace uShip announced April 16 that three national less-than-truckload carriers have committed to join uShip’s shipper-direct LTL spot rate marketplace. Con-way Freight, Old Dominion Freight Line and YRC Freight bring the total of LTL carriers that are either live or coming online to uShip’s marketplace to 28, representing more than 80% of the annual volume in the $32 billion U.S. LTL market. UShip’s marketplace provides millions of small to midsize shippers not under a freight contract with a single online location to manage all their shipping, direct carrier access, instant capacity and transparent, competitive pricing."

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/bas...y-ODFL-YRC-Freight-Join-uShip-LTL-Marketplace

Con-way, Old Dominion, YRC Join uShip LTL Marketplace

http://about.uship.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/uShip_LTL_Freight_Flow.pdf
 
Looks like another source of cheaply priced freight. It shows comparing price and service times with other listed carriers.
 
more work for the cartage for hire and more kick back money to management cause they'll farm this work out and keep a list man home.
 
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Looks like the real winner here is U-Ship. They get a piece of the pie by matching customers with competing carriers. I can't see this involving individuals as much as commercial customers. Freight companies can't compete with UPS, Fedex or the Post Office. Back in the day we used to call them brokers.
 
More home deliverys...I think

Ever watch that show Shipping Wars on A & E? See some of the unpackaged crap they show on there. Would hope YRC would stick to commercial freight customers and not start going to residentials to pick up someone's swimming pool half full of water.
 
More warning letters for clipping those telephone lines attempting to do residents with a 13'6'' trailer, more liability to fire someone but its work and a job be happy.:17:
 
The only thing worse than a home delivery is a pickup at a residence for some reason they dont all have forklifts
 
UShip sucks.

I am sending a rocking chair to a relative in Oklahoma, but I don't have any shipping material to speak of. And I want to spend as little money on material and shipping costs as possible.

You fill-in the blanks.

Wasted time on residential pickups for unpackaged or improperly packaged shipments. Oh and, "A skid? What's a skid?"
 
Ever watch that show Shipping Wars on A & E? See some of the unpackaged crap they show on there. Would hope YRC would stick to commercial freight customers and not start going to residentials to pick up someone's swimming pool half full of water.

With U Ship, here is no way to know if the shipper is a $10 Billion company, some guy with a business in a rental unit. or Grandma Mack on Cul-De-Sac Street.
 
UShip sucks.

I am sending a rocking chair to a relative in Oklahoma, but I don't have any shipping material to speak of. And I want to spend as little money on material and shipping costs as possible.

You fill-in the blanks.

Wasted time on residential pickups for unpackaged or improperly packaged shipments. Oh and, "A skid? What's a skid?"

YRC- Sure, you can pick up your toothpicks when it arrives 6 weeks past due with 10 HOT stickers on it. Have a nice day :)


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UShip sucks.

I am sending a rocking chair to a relative in Oklahoma, but I don't have any shipping material to speak of. And I want to spend as little money on material and shipping costs as possible.

You fill-in the blanks.

Wasted time on residential pickups for unpackaged or improperly packaged shipments. Oh and, "A skid? What's a skid?"

With U Ship, here is no way to know if the shipper is a $10 Billion company, some guy with a business in a rental unit. or Grandma Mack on Cul-De-Sac Street.

YRC- Sure, you can pick up your toothpicks when it arrives 6 weeks past due with 10 HOT stickers on it. Have a nice day :)


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Refuse to pick up poorly prepared shipments and move on.
 
I haven't studied what U-Ship is but it sounds like what our sales-reps (both of the 2 that are left) call a 3PL, or Third-Party Logistics company. There's Leading Edge Logistics, C H Robinson and a few others. In a nutshell, here is my interpretation of how they work.

You contact them and they arrange the pricing and call in the pick-up. YRC or some other unlucky trucking company gets the pickup request from the 3PL. Joe Driver (or me) get's dispatched to make the pickup. You arrive and the only person working there asks "Are you with Leading Edge?"

ME: No ma'am, I'm with YRC.

HER: "Who?!?!? I've never heard of them!"

ME: Well, I've been with this rust-bucket of a company for 30 years and I'm pissed cause I can't retire. Where's the freight?

HER: "It's over there."

ME: Do you have a bill of lading?

HER: "No, Leading Edge was supposed to send it to you"

ME: I'm sorry, I can't pick it up without the proper paperwork

She makes a call to Leading Edge (or whoever the hell it was) and they explain to her that they faxed the paperwork over earlier.

I try to not tell her that I don't have a fax machine in my truck, cause if I did, it would be like everything else in my truck.....BROKEN

Usually within 10-15 minutes, city dispatch says move on, which basically means that we will be back tomorrow to attempt to pick it up. By the 3rd or 4th day, the paperwork magically appears and then MAYBE the freight is properly packaged and ready for pickup.

Now, there are many variables to this scenario, but since the household budget cuts were implemented by the wife, my computer time has been cut by 15%, so I can't even begin to attempt to explain all of these variables.
 
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