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FedEx Freight | "Significant number" of straight trucks coming to FXFE

Can you imagine having to use 30 to 50 dock doors to unload these bad boys every night. No way a yard dog would be able to spot 50 straight trucks a night at the speed FedEx needs. How many facilities could give up that many doors and still maintain the numbers to get the outbound freight out efficiently and on their gate times...
 
Redracer3136 said:
They tell you "you don't get it" because your experience goes against their agenda!! The subject is pure speculation and they use this unknown to push their fear mongering...you see, The Welcher even started a thread on with same topic on the SEFL forum and it only took 3 pages for his real agenda to be revealed!!

Should be interesting to see what transpires....
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Don't worry Red. You might be able to get a job at SEFL driving a straight truck when Fedex fires you for the preventable rear end collision. If you weren't such a scumbag I'd feel sorry for you, but I don't. You got exactly what you deserved. Thank God you didn't kill anyone.
 
Richard Cranium said:
Until they start using them for line haul, IDGAF.
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Good point.
Canadian Flyer said:
:biglaugh::hilarious:
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Funny, but note Dick's "element of truth", below:
Dick Dastardly said:
They have purchase transport for that.
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All of this is driven by market conditions. Labor markets and customer expectations.

On straight trucks, customers need/want home delivery for everything, while generally tight labor markets encourage a widening of the driver pool. Not replacement, but widening.

On purchase transportation, customers are willing to sacrifice some speed in exchange for price. Company's response is to extend transit times (in select lanes), allowing more use of Purchase Transportation, thereby meeting price expectations in those select lanes. Wherever practical.

No one here is immune to what drives the market. When multiple market challenges are solved with a single solution, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure, it will happen.

I think we are beyond general speculating, at this point. The only speculation left is on the details, how measured, and how methodical, IMHO.
 
SwampRatt said:
Good point.

Funny, but note Dick's "element of truth", below:


All of this is driven by market conditions. Labor markets and customer expectations.

On straight trucks, customers need/want home delivery for everything, while generally tight labor markets encourage a widening of the driver pool. Not replacement, but widening.

On purchase transportation, customers are willing to sacrifice some speed in exchange for price. Company's response is to extend transit times (in select lanes), allowing more use of Purchase Transportation, thereby meeting price expectations in those select lanes. Wherever practical.

No one here is immune to what drives the market. When multiple market challenges are solved with a single solution, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure, it will happen.

I think we are beyond general speculating, at this point. The only speculation left is on the details, how measured, and how methodical, IMHO.
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PTS is also only practical in longer length of haul situations, and even then it can be a gamble. There's also the rail boxes, likewise a gamble.

Why a gamble? Because you're trusting someone else who doesn't have to care to move your freight for you. And you're counting on that other entity to have enough manpower to get the job done in a time frame that is acceptable.

As opposed to PTS getting held up at a truck stop because the driver quits, or a rail box sitting on a siding in Kansas for a month.
 
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