I see yellow ( yrc ) is moving.

I see a lot of the new Peterbilts out making city P&D .
A few Holland trucks going West on 10 last week decked.

 

We act like the government giving them money is much more of a big deal than a tax rebate, but it really isn't. It's all still money that flies out of our coffers and into socialist corporate America to be divvied up by entitled men who purport to be capitalists.

 

Yeah I know right? They spent the last two years whispering sweet nothings into our ears like how we are heros or essential.

Where are our bailouts? Where are our tax breaks? The only ones getting help are the ones that are the most incompetent at running things. Meanwhile not only are we getting screwed, but we are also chipping in to fund their golden parachutes. It's a completely inverted system.

 

I just did some work up in Johnson County, KS late last year, which contains Overland Park.

It's a "prosperous" area. The local community college has so much money that people fight tooth and nail to be administrators of it, actual election signs all over the neighborhood around it. The client I was working with was complaining about how much money they had, then they stiffed out of several days work. Large railroad with orange locomotives that can't make up their mind on the typeface for their logo.

So likely the office costs have gone up, and the wages for office help may be escalating.

And then one might look to see who pushed the ridiculous grant through, see if they came from TN.

Moving is easy, they're a trucking company. That's probably how that Reddaway trailer ended up in SC.

Socialism for the wealthy, capitalism for the workers, but keep telling the workers that socialism is bad for them. Or, if you want to use more modern language, the government is like a large mandatory crowdfunding agency for corporates. GoFundMe for them, Go****yourself for the workers.

 

Well, just a quick update on how our merger is coming along.

We have been officially Yellow for about two months. Efforts to make the transition smooth started weeks prior with some of our trucks and trailers getting rebranded with cover-up Yellow stickers obscuring our Holland equipment.

We used to be independent and separate but now we are independent but together. Let me explain.

Each company now flaunts the Yellow logo with a small caveat at the bottom stating which old company operates it. Example: our trucks say Yellow but there is some fine print at the bottom stating it is operated by Holland. I am sure Reddaway and New Penn are doing the same.

We still run independent pro stickers. The major difference is that all Yellow companies (that I know of) can scan in each others freight. In a good way, you can now send one company driver to pick up both Holland and YRC pick-ups. And yes, YRC dispatch will pass on their P/U to our dispatchers to pass on to us, which is a major downside for us since they have more freight than drivers. This screws us since you might only have one Holland P/U but also have to grab the crap that YRC has left sitting on that customer's dock for the past week. Trailers tend to fill up fast and we often have to forfeit additional stops of our own freight cause we ran out of room.

Here is where things get really really wonky.

In my region, Holland operates two barns out of SC and two out of NC. All the Holland freight we pick up goes back to the local terminals then sent out on linehaul to their respective destinations. Sound familiar? Well yeah, that is probably how your company also operates.

So what happens when Holland picks up YRC stuff? Well here is how it was explained to me. All the SC/NC (and possibly neighboring states) send all of YRC freight to Charlotte, NC via Holland linehaul. Then they consolidate all of YRC freight and a YRC driver pulls that consolidated freight to Atlanta so they can re-enter it into the YRC system and then break and sort the freight before sending it out via YRC linehaul.

The same is vice versa. Holland freight picked up by YRC goes to Atlanta before they run it up the Charlotte where it re-enters our linehaul system.

So let me give you an example to point out how this disrupts our system. YRC in Charleston SC picks up a pallet going to Jacksonville FL. Traditionally this pallet would go from the YRC Charleston SC terminal to Florida via linehaul. Pretty simple right?

So let's say a Holland driver is running Charleston and picks up that same shipment. That pallet is now going to the closest Holland terminal (Columbia SC) before they send it to Charlotte NC so they can send it back south to Atlanta before it gets sent to Jacksonville Florida.

The outcome is freight is stuck in Yellow purgatory, and what are usually overnight shipments now take 3-10 days ro reach their consignee. Shippers are livid and it's to a point where they see a Yellow branded trailer hit their dock they ask us if we are Yellow Holland or Yellow YRC. In many cases they will refuse to turn over freight from our sister company and force a separate driver to pick up the shipment. They much rather have their freight sitting an extra day on their dock than risk it going into our (or the YRC) system to be bounced around from one state to another.

Hope that makes sense

 

Well, YRC probably got a good deal on office space that made the move worthwhile. Tennessee and Nashville are known for giving generous tax breaks for a specified amount of time, for companies or corporate offices to move there. No personal income taxes in Tennessee.
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Dell Computer Corporation moved to Tennessee. Friend of mine works at one of the smaller facilities in Lebanon, TN.
The main facility is in Nashville.
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In your example, I can kind of understand why they aren’t sending the freight direct to Jacksonville, since there’s no Holland network that far south. A logical next step would be to add runs from Holland in Columbia to YRC in Jacksonville if there’s enough freight in that lane. But until that happens, why are they not at least sending it directly to Atlanta? I can’t wrap my brain around that part.

There’s just going to be so much wasted efforts between these companies until they actually merge the drivers into one network.

 

The main issue is Holland is only handling our sister company's overflow freight. We might only have 1/3 of a trailer of YRC freight. The idea behind sending it to Charlotte instead of Atlanta direct is to consolidate that freight with other YRC freight that was picked up in the region. So Columbia, Charlotte, and Spartanburg might have just enough overflow freight to build one YRC trailer to send to Atlanta.

But yeah, fo your point, ideally all the companies will just be Yellow and instead of two companies running in one area, you would have just one large company running one linehaul network.

Big worry from drivers is that we will lose customers due to the merger and the inadvertent and disruptive chaos that is being caused by all of this.

 

Yellow will go back to the" Shrink To Fit Model" something their very good at.
Pick and choose what they want to haul and dump the rest. Along with that and a few change of operations to move freight and employees around. Layoff who they don't need and close a few terminals .