have you been drug tested? what is your title at hq?Hello Brother, that's not true, it is not the lowest cost carrier, your customers friends are getting a good pricing because Yellow is the best positioned geographically to their business, low cost to get their freight and a lane of service. Miserable employees? , I don't think so... current employees do a fair share of work and overall still better than other places.
Damage rate?, all trucking companies have the same problem, it has intensified a little bit for the relatively new members.
Crap equipment?, Not true, a lot of equipment has been replaced with late new trucks, keeping some good old trucks too. Older trailers being recycle at a higher rate and fast.
Bad management?, some maybe, but, have to follow orders from higher up for reasons we don't know. Lousy Technology?, No the best one, but, it does the work.
Pricing is set by the markets environment and customers wishes.
Save your venom and bad wishes for something else.
YRC Freight | 2023 Phase 2 Utility Chops
- Thread starter Jeff
- Start date
- Credits
- 281
That customer I was talking about which Yellow will get from us in the change has us in the middle of Pyle and Pitt-Ohio. Pyle has a bunch of doors, we have a few and Pitt always had a ton of doors.
Pyle's presence has increased with a building expansion. Pitt-Ohio has always had the lions share of LTL there. Noticed a huge increase in Pyle.
Only a matter of time after the change until one of them gets out doors there.
Your dad told me that he had 3 kids.
Two were adopted, but he couldn't find anyone who would adopt you.
Puff Driver
TB Regular
- Credits
- 64
Regional Carriers in most parts of the country use double 28's
The Northeast being the exception, I guess property is too expensive or unavailable?? I am not sure.
However all the big nationwide carriers survive in the Northeast with Pups??
If they can do it??
- Credits
- 281
Yellow cannot afford the luxury of being as the rest of the national LTL's.
They have the opportunity to maximize northeast profits by following the system proven to dominate the northeast.
Labeling "super regional" is false advertising when your intent is to remain the same national carrier and bring a real regional in, and then change it to the same model which loses money, especially for Yellow.
Does the northeast have regionals which use pups for the road operations?
I don't think we do.
I don't know what the problem would be if we used only 45's in the Northeast.
We can get anything to our borders within 1 day.
Then you can do whatever you want with it
Day 1 - freight picked up, linehaul to Scranton.
Day 2 - freight sits in Scranton yard
Day 3 - pup finally hit dock door
Day 4 - freight stripped, and put on peddle run, double stacked.
Puff Driver
TB Regular
- Credits
- 64
You are dead wrong! Just spoke with on huge shipper and it was confirmed about pricing. The government handouts are subsidizing the freight rates. No other carrier has this luxury and Yellow still cannot develop a profit!!!!Hello Brother, that's not true, it is not the lowest cost carrier, your customers friends are getting a good pricing because Yellow is the best positioned geographically to their business, low cost to get their freight and a lane of service. Miserable employees? , I don't think so... current employees do a fair share of work and overall still better than other places.
Damage rate?, all trucking companies have the same problem, it has intensified a little bit for the relatively new members.
Crap equipment?, Not true, a lot of equipment has been replaced with late new trucks, keeping some good old trucks too. Older trailers being recycle at a higher rate and fast.
Bad management?, some maybe, but, have to follow orders from higher up for reasons we don't know. Lousy Technology?, No the best one, but, it does the work.
Pricing is set by the markets environment and customers wishes.
Save your venom and bad wishes for something else.
Damage Rate- Yellow is one of the highest in the nation an major reason they are hemorrhaging tonnage. Tell my the percentage of clams vs. revenue???
Equipment- I continue to see Blue former Roadway tractors. IF these were the very last power units to be purchased prior to the merger they are from 2007 at best or 16 years old. I have never seen a power unit this old at ODFL, R&L, Fed Ex Freight, Saia you name the longhaul carrier. Yea a few newer leased units but still poor equipment overall.
Bad Management- don't even try
Pricing is not set by customers, it is a cost plus model isn't it? . I guess except at poorly run carriers., That proved my point. You do not ask a customer how much they want to pay. Well maybe at Yellow you do, no wonder they are in the shape they are in.
I get it you are defending the company, but try not to insult anyone intelligence here...
- Credits
- 281
That ain't how we work.
Freight gets picked up on 45.
Freight goes to home terminal and gets loaded onto a stupid 53 with load bars.
Freight goes to a Velocity terminal previously established by Yellow in another COO. And then....who knows what happens?
It might arrive someday at destination terminal....too late to be stripped to make it out that day..
45 would have been taken straight from Scranton to Boston on the floor, skidded....on time.
No dilly dollying around with load bars nor Velocity terminals.
- Credits
- 281
We used to have an outbound boss who liked to go home at 11pm.
Our outbound was mostly always done by or around that time I think.
I think our farthest terminal was 6 hours away.
So by 6am most all of our terminals could have most of New Penn's freight. And 45's are faster to unload than trailers with load bars or stacked.
So it would be on the city trailers in a reasonably early time to hit the street for delivery.
The only stuff that sat in trap trailers was appointment freight. And it didn't sit at the terminal which picked it up or anywhere in between. It sat in a trap at the terminal which would deliver it.
It all came in and went right to the destination terminal and went right out on the street for delivery when it got there.
That's how it mostly worked.
The right way.
With the right rig.
Last edited:
Slave, that statement is the key to your misunderstanding of the big picture. You need to get your mind out of the regional rut and realize long haul freight is not handled the same way as regional freight. Yellow's farthest terminal from Scranton area is easily 3000 miles away, big difference from what you're used to.
- Credits
- 281
They're the one calling it a super regional. Not me. I know it's not.
Not super at all.
And not regional at all.
Stupid regional maybe.
Money loser, definitely.
- Credits
- 281
If you can't get it to our borders quickly. You're not gonna get it anywhere else quickly.
And they're not gonna get it out of our borders quickly under their system
You mean like the Banks, Airlines, Car Manufacturers , Housing Industry, Student Loans, that have all been bailed out by my tax dollars since 2008 up until this year. Sorry, your poor old sorrowful me song is not playing well here.
Wait until you don’t have it and you will know. I was forced to retire in 2013 due to health. The biggest shock was my health, vision, & dental insurance that covers almost 100% of everything. Not to mention our premiums were paid by the company as part of the contract. You literally can’t buy good dental insurance no matter what you are willing to pay. If and when you lose Central States Insurance, your world will change for the worse.
- Credits
- 281
If the government would not have bailed out the nonunion carriers and shippers and receivers in 1980....you wouldn't have ever had to bailout Yellow nor the pensions.
And if the government didn't allow VW'S and Datsuns in from our WWII enemies to bail out Wall St....you'd have never had to bailout GM.
And alot of that stuff is why housing couldn't be afforded nor healthcare provided.
China wouldn't be a threat to us at all had our government used our tax dollars to just give our industries away....and that goes for NAFTA too.
And if a bullfrog had wings he would not bust his butt. My point was, it is the U.S. Government who chooses who to bailout, when and where they want to, and there is no rhyme nor reason for it.
- Credits
- 281
That's for sure.
Somebody's getting a big bank account even bigger. That we can be sure of
Could you please post video of Slave hooking his set. Better yet, get one of him pulling apart his set before his first delivery. Hopefully he isn’t stuck with a gear from the 1970’s with the folding wheel on it.