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1984Sideways said:
If you want a tidbit of awesome. Consider this.

Wind out a old 300 NTC and get maybe 6 something miles to gallon if the wind is right. Maybe. IF you get going fast enough to make any kind of place today sometime. Late. With that little engine the blessed fuel at 90 cents is not the problem Its the ******* coolant at 10 dollars a gallon.

Fast foward about 40 years technology in trucking with a big 515 S60 Detriot and tick over at 1500 or so skosh 50 one way or the other and still get 7 something miles to gallon with a automatic. Sometimes more. But its not worth the trouble.

I had a old 425 cat the last of it's kind before the E cats showed up. If you were careful at 1800 in terms of adding fuel you could run that old thing forever on very little fuel if need be.

All you had to do is listen carefully. When she starts to be musical under that doghouse you are in the sweet spot and cannot run any better than that. Today's truck engines just whine like a abused weed eater on too much string.

Or take her to 2300 or so to do battle with old man gravity. Its something else. Even if you lifted the tonnage straight up over a hour, only 30 or so gallons is burned in that time. About a little bit similar to what you might burn doing 50 miles. So it does not matter back then in the old iron.

Its when they started slowing down the new computer engines trying to get us to shift at like 1200 to 1500 or even smaller ranges and so forth... there is no point in trying to keep a schedule anymore. Not today. Maybe tomorrow.

If you had a older V8 format mack, tuned cummins or even a fat detriot and want to play.. you sang out here kitty kitty kitty on the radio. First to the top gets dinner.
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New engines in fleet trucks sound like struggling and chugging , still some owner ops around with a power plant on wheels
 
ED FORCE ONE said:
New engines in fleet trucks sound like struggling and chugging , still some owner ops around with a power plant on wheels
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Yep, we had the old 175 or 200-hp power plants, or less that blew a lot of smoke and flames from the stack.
All you did was change gears.
They won't compare with what you guys run today.
You can pull larger loads uphill than we did on level ground and get better fuel mileage
 
No F-bdy Bs said:
Looking like you guys may be pulling more Ground trailers than ever,
,,, or none. This could develop into a serious issue. If customers catch wind, they'll seek other means early to avoid their products being held in purgatory by FXG.

Contractor model went from the darling, to the problem child in a short time.


Outliner thought. Amazon could absorb Ground, and it wouldn't make a blip on their expenses

www.cnn.com

FedEx partners threaten to halt holiday deliveries

People hoping to get their holiday shopping delivered on time could be caught in the middle of a growing battle between FedEx and thousands of contractors who deliver most FedEx packages.
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FedEx announced that all Operating Companies will be merging into something called Network 2.0.

The timing on all this is highly suspicious.

The terminated contractor was based in Nashville, whose Freight terminal has been really really slow, from what I have been told.

Anyone care to guess what the emergency contingency plan is?
 
truckingBORED said:
FedEx announced that all Operating Companies will be merging into something called Network 2.0.

The timing on all this is highly suspicious.

The terminated contractor was based in Nashville, whose Freight terminal has been really really slow, from what I have been told.

Anyone care to guess what the emergency contingency plan is?
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doesn't matter what the emergency plan is. fedex will find a way to f**k it up. i gaurnteeeeeeeee
 
Any trucking company suit becomes a royal ass when its time for a firing.

When you have been fired enough as I have, its no big deal.

I had one employer who fired all of us a thousand times. Kaboom yer fired with spittle, passion and profanity that borders on assault and abuse. You are sent packing post haste.

Sun comes up the next morning. Phone rings. Its angry boss yelling, DAMN IT YER LATE> WHERE YOU AT!? GET TO WORK.

Welp. Right. Off we go. Grab a bag of eggbacon sammich and cheese and a few other things for a tenner as you drive by the roach coacher in the morning on the way. They learn to set aside the order and coffee because you be coming.
 
truckingBORED said:
FedEx announced that all Operating Companies will be merging into something called Network 2.0.

The timing on all this is highly suspicious.

The terminated contractor was based in Nashville, whose Freight terminal has been really really slow, from what I have been told.

Anyone care to guess what the emergency contingency plan is?
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Like they are trying to free up capacity for something OR sell sell sell!!
 
No F-bdy Bs said:
FedEx net worth as of August 24, 2022 is $58.75B.

Amazon net worth as of August 22, 2022 is $1357.19B.


You haven't been paying attention.
15yrs ago, Amazon was selling books. They're 240x the size of Fx. They have the cash, liquid, and credit to do anything.
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You gotta remember Amazon's bread and butter is their cloud services...their packages are their play toy...
 
truckingBORED said:
FedEx announced that all Operating Companies will be merging into something called Network 2.0.

The timing on all this is highly suspicious.

The terminated contractor was based in Nashville, whose Freight terminal has been really really slow, from what I have been told.

Anyone care to guess what the emergency contingency plan is?
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Got a link to this?
 
Maverick902 said:
You gotta remember Amazon's bread and butter is their cloud services...their packages are their play toy...
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Ya know whats really immersing to me is a ware house full of robots.

Imagine say 5 acres of open prestressed poured level cement floor under a roof. On the floor is a series of lines painted with exacting precision. Essentially a grid. The roof is a forest of wireless routers above.

On that 5 acres ride little robot boxes. They are self aware. When they have low battery, they drive over to the battery room and charge themselves. (Remember the old forklift batteries space? Those took up half a acre in some places and go through a disgusting amount of batteries to keep the place in forklifts and jacks.)

anyway once fed, and out onto the grid. they sit and wait for a order to fetch a pallet of something or collect a few boxes. Drive somewhere else on the grid and dump the appropriate stuff into the appropriate bin or another robot to pass the stuff along.

Now imagine a few acres of robots working around one another. Its almost a ballet. All of them deciding for themselves what to do. Usually they display a green light. Alls well. NOW once in a while one will go rogue. And start jiggling or disrupting the group effort.

Human minders then have to race to that particular bot and tame it fast.

They dont need to pay people to mind all these bots. They could actually charge admission for the public to come sit and watch the lot do their thing.
 
BIG R GUY said:
Amazon doesn’t want to,own, a trucking company. They only want contractors. They sucker many into lease purchasing tractors at some DC’s.
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No F-bdy Bs said:
FedEx net worth as of August 24, 2022 is $58.75B.

Amazon net worth as of August 22, 2022 is $1357.19B.


You haven't been paying attention.
15yrs ago, Amazon was selling books. They're 240x the size of Fx. They have the cash, liquid, and credit to do
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Has Amazon announced plans to begin 3rd party parcel and freight delivery? Not sure what market you live in, but the 6 Amazon warehouses here can’t find enough people to contract for delivery and linehaul so they’ve been using UPS (among many others) and the post office.

You’re right. Amazon is bigger than FedEx but they have completely different businesses that have a common denominator, a truck. If it was otherwise, Amazon would have purchased XPO, AAA Cooper, etc a long time ago.
 
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