Good Grief......
Never said you don't know what you are talking about. Never said you don't deserve a spot on this forum.... Check my words......
This is merely my OPINION to answer your question:
Yellow/Roadway are merging to save tons of money on buildings( this means elctric bills, phone bills, the whole nine yards that building briing ). We are merging Vendors, such as the same propane company, Tire company, mechanic, etc. These espenses are fixed and a given. To reduce your fixed expenses , will save anybody's budget, (even the housewife's budget ) and give the company a lot of money back. This is "smart bookkeeping ....
At Daytona/Yellow EOL, Roadway has 6 routes, ( Palm Coast, Ormond Beach, The South, The West ,Sanford and the "city" Yellow has the 5 routes. All the same except for Sanford. Yellow used to have two Cocoa routes. ( Roaday has an EOL in Cocoa but was given to Orlando Yellow to service a few years ago. I won't be surprised if they take Sanford away from Daytona (45 minutes one way to get there) and give it to Orlando ( 20 miles away ) as they did with Yellow's Cocoa runs.
My first thought was that 6 out of 12 P&D will lose their job, the minute the construction is done and Yellow moves in. But other info I had been reading gave me an idea that maybe Daytona Yellow/Roadway will have 2 x 5 Routes = 10. One Yellow and One Roadway will go to the North, South,West, etc, and perhaps 10 men out of the twelve will have a job, and seniority is in the "background " on my thinking.
Whenever a company needed to cut expenses, it was ALWAYS in labor. Maybe the old ways of doing things are just that: The old way. And the maybe the new thinking is to NOT cut soo much labor, but to cut the jobs that we are paying out big salaries to, and even customer cares reps, and billing clerks. And find other ways to save money, like in our fixed expenses.... buildings, electric bills, vendors, etc.....
Yellow EOL,Daytona, still employs 2 partime billing clerks. The woman that retired and I took her place, here at Roadway, used to bill the bills. I don't. I use to fax them . Now, I send them Thru the internet( we call it IMAGE) to central billing at our breakbulk in Valdosta, as each trailer comes in off the street. So, the two Yellow part-time billing clerks will be losing their job, for sure.... Yellow still sends their bills for Records thru truckmail to Atlanta breakbulk. Roadway's image/fax machine sends it to billing and to Records at the same time. Modern office machines and Nextels will take a lot of jobs.
This merely what I meant when I said that you are retired..... And maybe Big Breakbulks have already been "doing " and using the modern technolgy, but there are many,many small EOL's that still work "in the stone age". My two managers STILL post the T cards on the board ! ( Waste of paper & ink )
Where's the savings?
Buildings, Management, and "back-office jobs. Maybe not as much labor as feared. 15-20 thousand jobs lost, might be a whole less Teamsters and more like management, fixed expenses, and back-office. The Ops manager at Yellow EOL was one of 400(management) to lose their job at Yellow, THE DAY BEFORE the "announcement".
The Roadway terminal is about 1 mile from the Racetrack. Over the years we have had lots of employees park in the yard and walk to the race ( so they don't have to pay for parking ) It had grown to be a huge nightmare there for awhile to try to conduct business, during the races. Especially the Feb race, where it is known as "speed weeks" -3 weeks of racing, not just the 500But the Speedway has worked alot of this out, and last year business went along pretty smoothly. I am here in Daytona because CF closed their Big Breakbulk, and my hubby got a transfer. 7 years later, CF went out of business. So, I may be "the greatest place on Earth to work", but We are literally 1000 miles away from our families. 18 years with CF, hubby had when they went out. He still drives a truck, over the road, but he'll never be a Teamster again... (The job is not there, and try to find another one)
