Amazon’s new plan

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  1. Old Man

    Old Man Road Train Member

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    Read the last paragraph, don’t think that idea will work

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    Under the collaborative model, any truck in the consortium would pull any trailer, and any driver would drive any truck, Ladd said. “This will ensure trucks are able to operate nearly continuously because drivers with available driving hours will be able to keep the trucks going,” he said.
     
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  3. Dna Mach

    Dna Mach Road Train Member

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    Yea have fun eating a quick lunch where some guy just pee’d in a milk jug five hours prior. There’s nothing more disgusting than slip seating.
     
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  4. Lunatic Fringe

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    So much wrong in one article. Yes, it was filled with the insane fantasies penny pinching managers have about getting drivers to haul their freight:

    1) Hire employees? Heck no! We'll set up suckers with their own companies (who only haul for us) so we don't have to worry about benefits, raises, breakdowns, fuel costs, etc.
    2) We'll slip-seat drivers so any driver drives any truck to minimize downtime. Drivers LOVE slip-seating in some else's NASTY truck and not being able to store items on the truck.

    They failed to mention the six in-cab driver-facing cameras and the in-cab plasma harvesting station that allows them to draw and store the drivers plasma so they can sell it.

    The key part the article did include: “I don’t believe Amazon will be able to generate anywhere near the needed trucking capacity” to keep up with increases in traffic. With a growing driver shortage and many baby boomers retiring out of the workforce I say good luck getting any drivers to put up with that.
     
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  5. D.Tibbitt

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    At this point they should just call themselves slave masters... why the hell anybody would want to haul that cheap #### for amazon is beyond me.... Sounds like they want to employ uber drivers and door dash , except give them a truck and turn them into amazons slaves.
     
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  6. Cali kid

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    Nothing new about that business model FedEx ground has been doing it forever now, in every aspect. From local daycabs, OTR teams, to final mile box truck deliveries.
     
  7. D.Tibbitt

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    The difference being fed ex is employees right ? Or are they all contractors as well?
     
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  8. Cali kid

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    FedEx ground is all contractors. FedEx freight and Express are employees.
     
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  9. Six9GS

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    Not that I have any temptation to drive for Amazon, but I just wouldn't do it. "My" truck is my home. Even though it is a company truck and I don't own (or lease) it, it's still my truck! I do my best to take good care of it and I have settled into it. I've been in this truck over a year. It'll probably take me a couple days to swap everything into another truck and get it stowed away and ready to run again whenever that does happen. Folks I work for know I'm rather attached to "my" truck (her name is Petunia, my Neice gave her that name!) and I know they will do everything they reasonably can to let me stay in "my" truck. It's a 2019, so still another year or two before they take her out of their inventory. Entirely possible I may be in her until then.
    All that said, she already had 166,000 miles on her when I got her. I've recently talked with my driver leader about when the new 2022 Volvos start coming into the fleet about perhaps nabbing a brand new one at that time. Idea being I could stay in the same truck for 4 years or so. I was just planting a seed. We'll see what happens. Presently, they are still bringing i. The 2021 models and there aren't any 2022's yet.
    Although it hasn't happened yet, one potential scenario that may happen is if my truck goes down for a couple days, they'll put me in a loaner truck, perhaps even a daycare, and keep me running and local until my truck is fixed. I can live with that! My truck did go down for about a week once, but it coincided with hometime. Only problem was, I was still about 600 miles from home. I solved the problem by just renting a car. And, since I used to rent cars fairly regularly at my last job, I was still a 'platinum' or whatever member of preferred rental car company. It only cost me $118 to rent a VW Jetta or Passat (don't remember which) for 8 days.
     
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    That's fine and dandy running OTR solo, but I doubt Amazon would setup shop that way. They will have teams running the longer freight and daycabs/box trucks running the local stuff. Much like how the LTL haulers run.
     
  11. Midwest Trucker

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    All they have to do is import a million new drivers who are used to living in dirt huts and driving sheep for $10 per week. I’d say they have the correct administration, billions, lobbyists to make that happen. Americans will be out and will be “retrained” to do other jobs just like they said Americans will be retrained from their fossil fuel dependent job.
     
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