My terminal in the past month brought in a cartage company to handle most of our residential/lift gate deliveries. Now we have a new bid with four day work weeks and very limited early start times. So I’m assuming they are paying these cartage company guys less and cutting our hours. We were balls to the wall for months and now we’re getting about 15-20 trailers per day cut off our operation for the cartage guys. It’s unbelievable.
FedEx Freight | Cutting hours
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Sure , they are far cheaper to use and they can't cry about why is that res on my run . They take it or leave it .
Streaker69
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No cartage companies here, but we're a bunch of savages that would make sure those guys think twice before bumping a FXF dock again. I think our management team knows that. We've had some 4-10s for a while and it's usually the older guys that take them. They don't care about the hours, but they're not ready to retire.
Freight has been getting moved all around the network. I'm curious to see where that goes, but city operations have been the same as they've always been.
Freight has been getting moved all around the network. I'm curious to see where that goes, but city operations have been the same as they've always been.
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You savage S69 
The good old days.
The good old days.
They were using cartage companies before i left XPO, so it's not just at FedEx
SIKOFITALL
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It’s an LTL company. What’d you expect?
Complaining about it on TB should help though
Complaining about it on TB should help though
Richard Cranium
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And now you know how road drivers have felt for some time, with the increases in rail, PT and power only teams.
We heard it’s just good business practices, deal with it from a lot of local people.
We heard it’s just good business practices, deal with it from a lot of local people.
It was good business in Charl.
When a pig trailer left the yard, the switchers recorded the numbers, if an extra board man didn't get out, he was paid the trip, no questions asked.
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Same crap , bring in the shinny wheels and call off 3 or 4 road drivers so they can sit at home not feeding their families .
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City & Road may argue here but it's the same Purple Flag flying on the boat .
No F-bdy Bs
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Well,
All ya'll did was bitch and bitch about the Direct service, and how ya'll didn't want to do it.
So, here we are.
All ya'll did was bitch and bitch about the Direct service, and how ya'll didn't want to do it.
So, here we are.
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Breeze , that's your girlfriend's underpants on the flagpole of your boat . God ! I tell you this every time we tie up to the pier ya got to get something new like the Smokestack skull & crossbones .
Maybe Dave will lend me a purple thong!
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Ohhh well live and learn . We have drivers that do exactly the same stops and area everyday and will cry a river of tears if you give them anything else than the little Butthole neighborhood that they been doing for 20+ years .
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There ya go , he's got the good heavy duty ones too Brother .
Ahhhh , just saying because a friend of a friend's friend told me .
That would be more of a spinnaker than a flag……
Almost had more bad news last night Smoke, mama came in from church, said I'm now an official Babpist breeder.
I said What in hell is a baptist breeder?
She said, greeter hon, greeter, you need to get your hearing aid checked.
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Can you still wear your black bib jeans ?
Maybe with a white collar shirt , that should fly !
HEY ! I think you get to carry your old hog shotgun
if you got to do that to protect God's turf .
Maybe with a white collar shirt , that should fly !
HEY ! I think you get to carry your old hog shotgun
if you got to do that to protect God's turf .
My white shirts have been in the closet so long, they pass for pale yellow.
Didn’t you say the last time you wore that outfit, people kept asking you to fix their refrigerator??