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In Indy we are pulling from 3 warehouses of Amazon. On Monday we can get 5 or 6 trailers total because of the weekend orders & Amazon doesn't do outbound freight on the weekends with us. Rest of the week about 3 or 4 trailers a day. All outbound freight with an average of about 40 bills per trailer. One of these warehouses is Menlo Logistics owned by Con-Way which is shipping large items for Amazon. This warehouse is located 1.5 miles from an Amazon warehouse (1.4 mil sq ft) in Whitestown just north of Indy. Go figure. It would hurt us in the fact that 4 or 5 people a night would not come in early on overtime to work the freight. From Estes terminal in Greenwood to Whitestown is about 30 miles. With Amazon very picky about being on time with our 4 pm pulls, Estes might find it difficult to be on time. A lot of us think we will lose this out bound freight but regain some of it back in 6 months or less because of service failures & or damage. This type of back & forth between Amazon & ABF has gone on like this for a long time. As much as Amazon likes pricing they like being on time even more. All of it will come back to us & more if Estes can’t produce the level of service we have given them in the Indy market. But if you have seen how they load these 53’ trailers on the outbound shift & the 300lb treadmills stacked 3 high on the floor, you can see why the dock guys won’t miss this freight @ all. Von.While I agree that many of the Amazon deliveries are a pain in the neck, back, and even lower extremities, they have probably kept at least two people employed at our shop during the usual slow times. Here locally we do lots of residential and Upack deliveries and would miss that volume in December. That being said, I know our dispatcher will not miss the appointment messes Amazon creates for our lone liftgate.