What makes FedEx Freight BETTER than UPS Freight?? - Page 11

Rat · #61 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by BusterNite

Your opinion is really out of touch. Its quite amusing how someone like your self with just a standard education thinks he understands the strategy of the worlds largest transportation company. We know you are just trying to get people going here, but, I am not that easy, You see, know matter what happens in the freight industry, I will soon collect my 30 year pension with the company. You really think that UPS will give up competing with its largest competitor? How did FedEx National get into the freight business only having package experience? I am still trying to figure out who you really work for?? and why you are so afraid of UPSF???

Now, try again and think!!

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Originally Posted by kb47

Just getting what they payed for and making money. We don't haul for free like you do.

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Originally Posted by BusterNite

I am not so sure this poster (Rat) even works for FedEx Freight. He sounds like an ex Overnite manager that could not adjust.

To begin with you have no idea what my education is so it rather over the top to insinuate you do.

Secondly I don't work for FedEx...my observations are my own opinion of what I have seen over the years regarding the equipment UPS Freight has on the road.

We are not hauling for free any more than UPS Freight...what make you think we are?...what makes you so afraid of Con-Way?....

I have no fear of UPS Freight....never have...just wondered why UPS Freight dropped the ball on updating and rebranding their equipment.

It just doesn't add up to the 'UPS' genre that I am so familiar with.

In the package they basically tell those peeps what color socks they can wear...doesn't seem to be that way in freight...so this begs the question...'why'?....why is freight any different in their requirements than package?...

Something is amiss in all this and I am curious...

UPS may have done their homework financially, but missed the boat operationally and historically in their purchase of Overnite. They bought a troubled company...that is a given. UP did all they could do to beat the stuffins' out of the folks at Overnite before selling them to UPS.

What UPS has done with it may be admirable but the question remains...'why the difference?'

Rat

River17 · #62 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by BusterNite

Yes, It would appear that rats post, which is what you posted really had nothing to do with the title of this thread other than to try and get a hate thread started. What did you expect when you posted this?

BusterNite

Since we have to leave the pros and cons
of labor out of this converstation, we could
find other ways that the two carriers differ
from each other. This could be found in other
areas such as transit times, equipment used,
technology used for tracking and loading
trailers, customer support and sales relations.
I'm sure I'm forgetting other aspects that
make these two carriers different from each
other or the competition in general.

BusterNite · #63 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by River17

BusterNite

Since we have to leave the pros and cons
of labor out of this converstation, we could
find other ways that the two carriers differ
from each other. This could be found in other
areas such as transit times, equipment used,
technology used for tracking and loading
trailers, customer support and sales relations.
I'm sure I'm forgetting other aspects that
make these two carriers different from each
other or the competition in general.

Ok, Try and see if you can make it work. I don't see a debate here. Just a bashing contest in the making and I am not the one bashing. The Ironic thing here is a UPSF driver arguing with a Conway driver in a FedEx Freight forum about UPSF. I do not want to bore the FedEx employee's any more. Continue on and see if you can make it work.

River17 · #64 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BusterNite

Ok, Try and see if you can make it work. I don't see a debate here. Just a bashing contest in the making and I am not the one bashing. The Ironic thing here is a UPSF driver arguing with a Conway driver in a FedEx Freight forum about UPSF. I do not want to bore the FedEx employee's any more. Continue on and see if you can make it work.

BusterNite

I thought you said you were a feeder driver
and not a UPS Freight driver. I must have
miunderstood one of your post.

BusterNite · #65 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by River17

BusterNite

I thought you said you were a feeder driver
and not a UPS Freight driver. I must have
miunderstood one of your post.

You misunderstood, I never said I was a feeder driver. I am a 29.5 year Road driver for UPSF.

River17 · #66 (**permalink**) 11-06-2009, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BusterNite

You misunderstood, I never said I was a feeder driver. I am a 29.5 year Road driver for UPSF.

BusterNite

Thank you for the correction.
So since you have so many years
with Overnite/UPSF do you feel
that things are better now as UPSF
or do you think things were a lot better
when it was Overnite and not such a
big company with new rules as it is today.