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SIKOFITALL

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Sorry if this was covered and talked about already but are other centers very slow in freight volume as we are here in PA ?
 
SIKOFITALL said:
Sorry if this was covered and talked about already but are other centers very slow in freight volume as we are here in PA ?
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A lot of it has to do with the economy...down here in the south east our unemployment has decreased and our manufacturing has increased which has lead to us busting at the seams with freight. We exhaust our road extraboard and pull city drivers over to cover road runs on a daily basis....sometimes as many as 13-15 city drivers per day at the end of the month.

Of course, there are reasons for lower unemployment and increases in manufacturing down here in the south but we'll leave those reasons for that "other" thread!!
 
Don't worry. ...you guys will be getting a little bit busier. ... peak season is coming at ground. Word has it where I'm at there won't be enough of you guys to cover what's coming
 
Stimpy said:
Don't worry. ...you guys will be getting a little bit busier. ... peak season is coming at ground. Word has it where I'm at there won't be enough of you guys to cover what's coming
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Where I'm at, NOBODY wants to run any of Ground's extra runs....maybe they can hire some temp drivers.
 
I think it's because it's the last year for Obama , thank GOD. Everyone is waiting to see who's the next president is going to be. Every election year it slows down, come March it well be back to normal, so don't forget, vote for TRUMP !! Means more work for us
 
I get my stats straight from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.....

http://bea.gov/

Over the 12-month period ending in August (the most recent federal data), employment in North Carolina rose by 2.6 percent, or the 10th-highest rate of job growth in the United States and about 25 percent faster than both the national and regional averages. In the Southeast, only Florida (No. 3 in the nation) and South Carolina (7th) are adding jobs at a higher rate.
 
Redracer3136 said:
I get my stats straight from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.....

http://bea.gov/

Over the 12-month period ending in August (the most recent federal data), employment in North Carolina rose by 2.6 percent, or the 10th-highest rate of job growth in the United States and about 25 percent faster than both the national and regional averages. In the Southeast, only Florida (No. 3 in the nation) and South Carolina (7th) are adding jobs at a higher rate.
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United States Department of Labor shows 0% change in the last year.

http://data.bls.gov/map/MapToolServlet

Again US at 5.1% NC at 5.8%

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf

Local agencies don't say any different

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle...employment-rate-highest-in-nearly-a-year.html
 
North Carolina wages are not keeping up with the nation. The average weekly paycheck in North Carolina shrank by around $4 over the last year, while weekly wages nationwide grew modestly. This continues a trend of the last several years with North Carolina’s workers failing to receive the meager wage growth that has happened nationwide. The gap between weekly wages in North Carolina and the country has grown from around $55 before the Great Recession to around $100 in September. There are still more North Carolinians out of work than before the Great Recession. There were almost 270,000 North Carolinians looking for work in September, almost 50,000 more than before the Great Recession. The percent of employed North Carolinians is still near historic lows, as well as below the nation. September numbers showed 57.4 percent of North Carolinians were employed, leaving our state well below the level of employment that was commonplace before the Great Recession. In the mid-2000s, employment levels reached a peak of about 63 percent. The percent of North Carolinians with a job remains below the national average, as it has been since the Great Recession. - See more at: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2015...ind-the-rest-of-the-u-s/#sthash.uytg1DLP.dpuf
 
As for NC wages...according to the same report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the latest estimates of personal income through the 2nd quarter of 2015 (again, using the most recent 12-month period available) North Carolina ranked 10th in the nation, measured either in total personal income growth (4.7 percent in our state) or growth in personal income per person (3.7 percent). Personal incomes in North Carolina are growing between 12 percent and 15 percent faster than the national and regional averages.

http://bea.gov/
 
BIG10-4 said:
True that..but come March they should know who's who and what's what. All we know is no more Obama :19:
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Trump or Carson vs Hilary or Bernie does it really matter? None of the afore mentioned names will give a rats ass about any of us common folks. They say what is needed to get elected, then do what they want when in office. I'm not sure businesses can really predict the future with any of these talking heads!
 
It won't be long and you'll be on here complaining that you're working so much you don't get time to spend with your wife and kids and dogs
 
Stimpy said:
Don't worry. ...you guys will be getting a little bit busier. ... peak season is coming at ground. Word has it where I'm at there won't be enough of you guys to cover what's coming
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Ground runs suck ball juice and if they try to force those runs on me , I'm going out for a couple weeks then! It's BS simply because they only give the Fedex freight guys the lamest runs they have left.
 
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