FedEx Freight | UPS to start layoffs
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Razorblade
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Your point is well taken. Amazon uses the contractor model that has made FedEx Ground successful.
However, I do not see Amazon jumping into retail delivery. Their business model seems to be centered around servicing their online sales and doing it better, faster, cheaper than an outside carrier. Taking on non-Amazon parcels would drastically change their working model.
truckinforcash
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Fortunately Amazon can’t hire any teenager off the street with a regular class c license and no endorsements if they ever start doing LTL.
I think in the world of CDL drivers, amazon will have serious difficulty. Ground will likely see the bigger challenges. Express? Much more difficult to match that network. Freight and the above mentioned CDL drivers, hazmat, drug tests, etc. ? Bring it on...
I agree to disagree on Amazon getting a never ending pool of CDL drivers of all kinds. Our government will see to that. Cheap foreign labor vs the lazy couch potato we need to fill the seats. Every Canadian truck seams to be a foreign driver vs the French Canadian that used to driver here. I see more and more of the same filling the over the road driving jobs.
If companies need hazmat endorsement the government will relax standards somewhat to get foreigners in the trucks.
Amazon just like FedEx has the funds to buy and start up anything they wish. FedEx only exists by buying freight companies started by someone else and bought out by Fred
If companies need hazmat endorsement the government will relax standards somewhat to get foreigners in the trucks.
Amazon just like FedEx has the funds to buy and start up anything they wish. FedEx only exists by buying freight companies started by someone else and bought out by Fred
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GirthQuake
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Yeah I’m sure Amazon will be all over those sort and segregate food warehouse deliveries. They gonna start delivering 2500 pound oilfield valves? Nah…
Do they not own Whole Foods now…..
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They sure do. There’s one store within 50 miles of me. There’s about 12 walmarts in that same distance.
Just saying, don’t underestimate a company that was no more than books on tape not that long ago
Sam Walton was just a little Arkansas store at one time
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Do they Gator ?
Mrs. SS won't go there and she can't take me in grocery
stores because I wig when some old lady just ripped and
fondled the banana pile then after 15 minutes she picks
up the first ones she pulled off a bunch to put 2 in the bag
in her cart. I went off on one of these banana handlers
and the store manager asked me to leave. Yea after I stuff
a few bananas in your ass. Mrs. SS. was trying not to laugh
and just pushed her cart down another aisle. She was still
laughing when she came back to the truck.
Mrs. SS won't go there and she can't take me in grocery
stores because I wig when some old lady just ripped and
fondled the banana pile then after 15 minutes she picks
up the first ones she pulled off a bunch to put 2 in the bag
in her cart. I went off on one of these banana handlers
and the store manager asked me to leave. Yea after I stuff
a few bananas in your ass. Mrs. SS. was trying not to laugh
and just pushed her cart down another aisle. She was still
laughing when she came back to the truck.
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Me too..... And they all had messy endings....I never had one man !
I'm the kid that liked picture books
Streaker69
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I agree with this and there's also the selling of memberships. It's big business for them.
Teamsta II
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The turnover at Amazon is not sustainable.
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Well I wasn't going to go there but remember the tree fort we had as kids.
Whenever you checked out a Tree Fort Book it would come back all stuck
tougher with a dry , hard , smelly sock on the 3rd page. Finally I had to tell
the other guys "That's NOT STIMPY'S can of SunDrop Pop that he claimed
Big Dave knocked over when they were looking at it. I think a Hot Moms
#2 edition. I was a good kid and stuck to looking at the Human Anatomy
Science books.
Just saying , some childhood things just stick with you forever.
SMOKESTACKsteercrazee
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I know Swift gets made fun of a lot, but from what i have observed on the road they drive better than Amazon drivers. Amazon is the new Swift in opinion. Ive seen them nearly run people off the road not checking their mirrors or something and just come over. When i see them i try to keep on high alert.
Cab Lizzard
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Between Houston and Port Allan La one would think that the tow company's are hauling for Amazon these days.
Either broke down or in the ditch next to a Fred X contractor.
Either broke down or in the ditch next to a Fred X contractor.
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All part of the learning process SMOKE, glad to hear you stuck to your studies.Well I wasn't going to go there but remember the tree fort we had as kids.
Whenever you checked out a Tree Fort Book it would come back all stuck
tougher with a dry , hard , smelly sock on the 3rd page. Finally I had to tell
the other guys "That's NOT STIMPY'S can of SunDrop Pop that he claimed
Big Dave knocked over when they were looking at it. I think a Hot Moms
#2 edition. I was a good kid and stuck to looking at the Human Anatomy
Science books.
Just saying , some childhood things just stick with you forever.
steercrazee
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I tell you the people delivering in the small vans to homes are just plain stupid. U.P.S and Fed Ex are way better. Amazon just toss your boxes out on the ground or sit them on the end of my porch that's not covered in the rain. U.P.S and Fed Ex always sit them in front of my door under the covered portion. Just lazy. My porch is open and the covered part is only 10 more feet away.
