Yellow | LTL capacity ‘fragile’ as carriers realign networks: Yellow CEO

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The reorganization, which began last year, is expected to be completed by mid-2022, as Yellow brings all its trucking subsidiaries onto one technology platform and restructures its network. “We’ve already got New Penn and YRC Freight together on the Yellow technology platform,” Hawkins said. “We’re moving Reddaway over as we speak, and then Holland will be over by the end of the year.”


The process requires a merger of four hub-and-spoke LTL terminal networks, and the creation of a new super-regional network that drives freight through “velocity centers” and uses “connector” terminals to send long-haul freight across the continent. “It’s great to have small carriers in individual markets but when you can bring everything to the customer in one package, they reward you for it.”


Hawkins expects that by the end of 2021, Yellow will operate about 309 terminals across its brands, down from 322 currently and 370 a couple of years ago. “That’s really about as small as we can go to handle the volume and meet customer expectations,” he said. Hawkins insisted, however, that this is not a repeat of the merger of Yellow and Roadway in 2009, which closed hundreds of terminals.


“We need to protect our capacity and make our network more fluid so that shipments can exit the network faster, and we can create our own internal capacity with the doors, the tractors, and the employees that we have now,” Hawkins said.
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Shrinking our way to profits. the only thing that won't shrink is the number of cubicle lemmings in KC. I'm applying for deputy director of wheel chock management and integration. we're going to color code the wheel chocks. orange for yellow, yellow for holland,
light black for box trucks, dark black for shiny wheels, silver and black stripes for outside carrier box trucks, gray for fork lifts, robins egg blue for yard horse's.............
 
And barcode every rock and gravel on the drop yard outside. Potholes get a human worker to monitor it, Drivers who run over or into the hole rather gets docked in pay to replace front ends torn out. While the pothole monitoring employee is summarily replaced.

Drivers who fail to pretrip and dig out gravel that later flat tires can be traced by the new barcode system.

This post was written in the spirit of satire. I once witnessed a real life State of Maryland encounter with a pothole one spring time. Its two by three feet in the pavement about a foot and change deep. Cars were tearing out wheels in this monster so they complained.

Two foremen in white hats showed up in two state pickup trucks. Followed by four crew cab dump trucks with 16 crew. More trucks deposited barreks, cones, backhoes and other implements of paving. Flaggers closed the roadway. All four lanes of it. More supervisors showed up to deal with the utilites in the way, one set of gas and the other for electric. The water department showed up locally to determine its ok to dig that pothole out more.

All of that from 8 am exactly to 12 noon. Lunch took 1.5 hours. At about 2:30 the first Jackhammer set of two watched by 20+ supervisors leaning on shovels roared to life.

4 days later that hole was fixed. Took another day to check everything as happened on day one.

5 whole days on one little pothole.

That's ok. It only took us 20 years to invade and occupy another Nation with people not even born on 9-11.
 
before ROADWAY purchase YELLOW FREIGHT had over 620 terminals ,, i’m sure Roadway had 100s more terminals then too
now with all the rest ,, the best 300 terminals
we are growing by leaps and bounds
 
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