WELL LET ME ASK U THIS.....WHY DO THEY HAVE A DOUBLE HUB OPERATION IN MOST CITIES....ATL...DAL...KCY..MEM..HOU.AND SO ON. ISN'T ONE CONSIDERED A "ECONOMY" AND " PRIORITY" HUB? I'M NOT SAYING WE LOST A TON OF CUSTOMERS DUE TO THE MERGER BUT WE'VE LOST QUITE A FEW. BUT IN TURN DUE TO THE MERGER WE'VE GAIN ALOT OF FREIGHT FROM WHAT IS NO LONGER CALLED "NATIONAL LTL". SO I DON'T KNOW IF U RUN INTO A "ECONOMY" OR "PRIORITY" HUB.....BUT THE "ECONOMY" SEEMS TO BE ALWAYS THE BUSIEST OF COURSE.....BUT THEY STILL CLAIM THAT WE HAVE MORE "PRIORITY/NEXT DAY FREIGHT" THAN " ECONOMY" FREIGHT.....I'M JUST SAYING.....
If I've deciphered your SHOUTED answer, you're saying we didn't lose "a ton" of customers, just "quite a few", (and "so many" in your previous post). Yet you don't give any specifics.
You also don't address the fact that in the most recent fiscal quarter, we had operating income of $42 million, compared with an operating loss of $16 million a year ago, nor the fact that our yield (profit per shipment) was up 11%. But the merger was a failure?
Now, because I'm a nice guy, I'm going to help you and confirm at least part of your post: we HAVE lost "some" customers since the merger. Our average daily shipments are down about 7% from last year (85,000 per day versus 92,000) according to our earnings report from a month or so ago.
But when you see fewer daily shipments along with an increased yield, that indicates that a company has willingly walked away from some accounts because they were not profitable (or profitable enough). If both numbers were down, THEN you have an indication that things are not going well (fewer shipments and not making money on the ones we do have). As it is, it's a sign of strength.
Also, if you keep your ear to the ground, you might hear that out of those 85K per day, somewhere around one out of every three are Economy shipments. But that's just channel 4.
Why do we have a "double hub operation in most cities"? You'll have to help me out on what you mean by that, or what relevance it has to anything (although I'm not going to hold my breath). I only know of a couple Economy-only hubs - Mira Loma and North Harrisburg; maybe 10 or so "dual" hubs where they have separate handling cycles; and 4-5 "combo" hubs where the freight is mixed; the rest are Priority only.
So, let's look at the ones you listed: ATL-dual, DAL-dual (FTW is a Priority), KCY-dual, MEM (actually West Memphis)-dual, HOU-Priority. If you're trying to say that the Economy hubs are busier than the Priority hubs, well, there's only a small number of Economy hubs, which means a lot more freight moving through them, as compared to the 40-50 Priority hubs.
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