And that was the only account?
I know the type and I work with them every day, if you could go back 25 years and sit in Vikings break room I bet he would be complaining about them.
Carriers. They sign contracts with businesses, not people. And those contracts are non-negotiable. FedEx tells you what they need and you sign saying you can do it. If FedEx doesn't cancel a run by a time they determine fair, it goes loaded or not.
That's not completely true. In the northeast they create and imbalance with the rail freight going west and use p/t to bring the freight east totally cutting out our drivers. Another good one the company will tell you they don't put priority freight on the rail.
That's not completely true either, they use the rail to bring the back east too...the rail moves both ways. PT's are "supposed" to be use when the imbalance is in one direction but I'm also not naive enough to believe that they don't move PT's in both directions as well.
Big set of brass balls picking that name.
Lmao what!?!?!? You totally missed what I said just so you could feel that your statement was right. Are you management??????? Yes they run priority freight both ways on the rail. But they create most of the imbalance then feed us the bullshit there's a huge imbalance so they need as many pt as they use to avoid using more of our own driver. I see it everyday. No one said we don't need pt but we don't need as many as we have we have pt with steady bids here lol all they are missing is the uniform.
If they really wanted to bench their own drivers in favor of contract workers they would have done it ages ago. Red's right, in his own way. Most LTL carriers use purchase and rail. The few that don't have other solutions to the freight imbalance problem.Lmao what!?!?!? You totally missed what I said just so you could feel that your statement was right. Are you management??????? Yes they run priority freight both ways on the rail. But they create most of the imbalance then feed us thethere's a huge imbalance so they need as many pt as they use to avoid using more of our own driver. I see it everyday. No one said we don't need pt but we don't need as many as we have we have pt with steady bids here lol all they are missing is the uniform.
Oh my goodness Sherlock, you just cracked the case wide open!!! It IS the company's intentions to run as much freight on the rail and PT's as possible so their company guys in the northeast can sit at home and not get paid while saving the company millions of dollars!!!Lmao what!?!?!? You totally missed what I said just so you could feel that your statement was right. Are you management??????? Yes they run priority freight both ways on the rail. But they create most of the imbalance then feed us the
I just pointed out that's not completely true, they move freight on the rail both ways and they're "supposed" to use PT when there's an imbalance one way. Also, I never claimed they didn't move priority that way....no reason to get your panties in a wad!!
let me simplify this for you. They are benching our drivers they run freight west on the rail and send freight east on pt so we agree that there is freigh going both ways??
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ok you just said they move freight both ways on rail and pt and that is ok?? I told you about the company completely going around terminals rail west pt east. The company is like a broken record talking about the imbalance there isn't one like they say. We had a meeting about rails and pt the guy talking to us swore that priority freight doesn't go on the rail. Why lie? We will see what the future holds at my terminal we're adding about 10 pts a year. Our one run we are matched 5 bids 5 pts. But yeah get out there and pick up more freight lol good answer
We move primarily economy freight on rail for a reason...we are a regional, scheduled, LTL carrier, we're NOT a long haul LTL carrier like YRC, Watkins (was), OD, etc..., it's cheaper for us to move economy freight across the country (long haul) on the rail and that's why economy freight has a two week delivery window...it's not rocket science.
You don't go to the rail often do you? Majority of the ones I pick up are priority. They are supposed to do a lot of things but there's is no accountability. But still you don't seem to get the point of them creating the imbalance you keep repeating yourself about the pt I get how the pts work and the rails but they aren't sending the freight across country only about half way. Your points are invalid to the situations I'm bringing up. I appreciate the input though.
