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Even considering the highly favorable U.S. LTL market, the performance is still remarkable considering that UPS Freight struggled to be profitable.
TFI reports remarkable turnaround of UPS Freight in Q2
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Even considering the highly favorable U.S. LTL market, the performance is still remarkable considering that UPS Freight struggled to be profitable.
Rome wasn't built in a day, good start!Interesting to say the least. Time will tell, after only 90 days at the helm they got the OR down 8-9 points is impressive to some, questionable to others. How much is smoke and mirrors is yet to be seen. Give it a year then I will be more confident of the "numbers".
I imagine the conference calls are a butt slappin', high fivin', you da man, feel good fest, party all day clusterf$#%.
Am I glad the OR is down? Absolutely. The Company has to make money to be the Company, a lot of good people here depend on it to live a decent life.
Now, what is in it for us?
Low starting pay is problem #1. Competition paying $25 and up to start.
Morale is issue #2. Stop beating a good mule, he works best when content. Forcing a driver that spends 9-11 hours behind the wheel should not be required to do hub dock work. P&D drivers with heavy oversize residential deliveries putting their safety on the line must be addressed.
My congratulations to my Brothers and Sisters who make this happen everyday in spite of our management. You deserve the credit, after surviving the Big Brown Monster for all these years and sticking to it maybe we can get back to the basics of LTL.
Be safe..............
TFI confronts unprofitable truths in UPS Freight turnaround
TFI International’s hard line on unprofitable UPS Freight legacy business is helping accelerate the LTL carrier’s turnaround – and it’s just getting startedwww.freightwaves.com
If UPS wanted to be in the LTL business, they have enough money to buy personal people who can run an LTL company. JMOUPS doesn't know LTL.
If ups would've focused more on learning from experienced freight people and less time with job threats and write ups could've been a beast in LTL.UPS doesn't know LTL.
Bedard said TFI is having a lot of conversations with shippers that it views as not paying enough. He pointed to one recent negotiation in the current quarter with a major account that the carrier was servicing at a loss.
“We were running this account with a 120 OR,” Bedard said. “What were we smoking when we gave the rates to this guy? … So July 1, we address the situation with the shipper. We address a lot of situations like that.”
It's amazing that a company can actually make money when they start charging people to ship it!Interesting to say the least. Time will tell, after only 90 days at the helm they got the OR down 8-9 points is impressive to some, questionable to others. How much is smoke and mirrors is yet to be seen. Give it a year then I will be more confident of the "numbers".
I imagine the conference calls are a butt slappin', high fivin', you da man, feel good fest, party all day clusterf$#%.
Am I glad the OR is down? Absolutely. The Company has to make money to be the Company, a lot of good people here depend on it to live a decent life.
Now, what is in it for us?
Low starting pay is problem #1. Competition paying $25 and up to start.
Morale is issue #2. Stop beating a good mule, he works best when content. Forcing a driver that spends 9-11 hours behind the wheel should not be required to do hub dock work. P&D drivers with heavy oversize residential deliveries putting their safety on the line must be addressed.
My congratulations to my Brothers and Sisters who make this happen everyday in spite of our management. You deserve the credit, after surviving the Big Brown Monster for all these years and sticking to it maybe we can get back to the basics of LTL.
Be safe..............
Interesting to say the least. Time will tell, after only 90 days at the helm they got the OR down 8-9 points is impressive to some, questionable to others. How much is smoke and mirrors is yet to be seen. Give it a year then I will be more confident of the "numbers".
I imagine the conference calls are a butt slappin', high fivin', you da man, feel good fest, party all day clusterf$#%.
Am I glad the OR is down? Absolutely. The Company has to make money to be the Company, a lot of good people here depend on it to live a decent life.
Now, what is in it for us?
Low starting pay is problem #1. Competition paying $25 and up to start.
Morale is issue #2. Stop beating a good mule, he works best when content. Forcing a driver that spends 9-11 hours behind the wheel should not be required to do hub dock work. P&D drivers with heavy oversize residential deliveries putting their safety on the line must be addressed.
My congratulations to my Brothers and Sisters who make this happen everyday in spite of our management. You deserve the credit, after surviving the Big Brown Monster for all these years and sticking to it maybe we can get back to the basics of LTL.
Be safe..............