TForce | The Unanswerable Question:
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But, but, but, we didn't haul capacitors!Smaller capacitors????
PIE didn't have the capacity to haul capacitors but they were able to condense loads to haul condensers. Not sure if it was done on a FIFO basis though.
The flux you say!! they delivered one for my car, undamaged.
Cuz your boss is an idiot, and you probably come back with one and an mt,lol
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You can put more in to pups compared to a van. 2x27=54 not 53. Also 2 pups can be broken faster compared to a van. Also more weight on 2 pups.
Learned something new, I always thought pups were 28'
not always; on a van i can legally put 49,000 on and still be under 80,000 . with 2 pups add up the gear tractor 2trls and dolly , don't think you'll get 49,000 in the 2 pups and be legal but you are right on being faster to break
One big thing that hasn’t been mentioned. Tremendous cost savings to operate a single axle in city verses tandem. 1/2 mpg savings in fuel alone plus tire and maintenance savings. Cheaper to buy. We were told when factor in entire life of a tandem verses a single axle including purchase price and resale value, you can operate 5 single axles for the cost of 4 tandems.
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Fun fact.. UPS never sells any used equipment, at the end of it's life it is stripped and destroyed..
Not sure of TFI's process.....
When UPS finishes with a truck, there's not much left to sell.
And you get more money .What don’t he understand.You just can’t fix stupid
I’d say he’s heading up to rifle to get his third trailer.There gone 22 years now Memorial Day weekend.Sexy
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But the freight on one of the pups he took out or brought back may not be going to either one of those terminals. Instead of breaking a 53 to take of freight and build another load to send on, just add a pup and send it on down the road.
i'd like to disagree about 2 pups being able to be broke faster than a van:
1) It takes more time to back 2 pups in (ASSuming you have room for 2....) vs. Van: Van takes like 30 secs after getting to the terminal. Boom. Done.
So by the time the second trailer is in, we've already got 4 pallets/2 bills off the van.
Not to mention the van likely got to the terminal quicker because there wasn't any hunting down and building my set-----which has taken me up to and beyond 45mins because some of the hubs are just chaos. So, the van was halfway home by the time i got all hooked up/pretripped etc. In this scenario, the van may be almost unloaded by the time the set gets to the terminal.
3) i feel that, If coordinated right, 4 forklifts can unload one van as quickly as 4 forklifts unloading 2 pups.
Admittedly, i don't have a whole lot of dock experience. But i have some.
Anyways, i don't feel there is any time advantage to using 2 pups. And, in fact, i feel there is a time detriment to using 2 pups vs. a van.
i will comment more, fully, on the weekend. They are working the stuffing out of me.....:(
1) It takes more time to back 2 pups in (ASSuming you have room for 2....) vs. Van: Van takes like 30 secs after getting to the terminal. Boom. Done.
So by the time the second trailer is in, we've already got 4 pallets/2 bills off the van.
Not to mention the van likely got to the terminal quicker because there wasn't any hunting down and building my set-----which has taken me up to and beyond 45mins because some of the hubs are just chaos. So, the van was halfway home by the time i got all hooked up/pretripped etc. In this scenario, the van may be almost unloaded by the time the set gets to the terminal.
3) i feel that, If coordinated right, 4 forklifts can unload one van as quickly as 4 forklifts unloading 2 pups.
Admittedly, i don't have a whole lot of dock experience. But i have some.
Anyways, i don't feel there is any time advantage to using 2 pups. And, in fact, i feel there is a time detriment to using 2 pups vs. a van.
i will comment more, fully, on the weekend. They are working the stuffing out of me.....:(
Very interesting prognosis. I have noticed the singles get better mileage, but I’d have to assume it wears out drive tires a good bit faster. I don’t work for TForce / Upsgf but the outfit I do work for runs tandems and singles and it seems like every time you go by a scale one of our trucks (normally a single axle) is pulled behind getting a ticket, but that’s thanks to the unorganized nature of the operations of the company admittedly. It is interesting to see the variety, a lot of the big name nationwide carriers run single axle almost exclusively but then you have RL that runs strictly tandems for linehaul work and quite a bit for local work as well. For southern regions it seems like those tag axle tandems would be the best of both worlds or even a lift axle but I really don’t know the break down and costs of any spec’d truck.
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The bottom line is they don't care what you think, they hired you to drive a truck not run the company, they don't want your opinion, just drive the truck and cash your check.