How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

They must be very good BS artists. Probably blaming everything on the union while neglecting to talk about how mismanagement led the company to be $1.5 billion in debt.

 

I was told Saia getting rid of their teams, and start using contractors to pull the team freight. Team drivers given the opportunity to bump back into linehaul by seniority if they wanted on scheduled runs. Bottom drivers getting the axe. Only effecting terminals with teams.

 

“Hmmm our team operation is too reliable and cost effective, how can we make service worse while also costing us more money?”
- former Yellow executive, probably

 

If it means shippers move to OD for more reliable team service I won't be mad. I'm out of HEB Snickernut coffee pods and I need to start pulling freight to Dallas pronto!

 

I got cut on a friday. OHHHHH YEEEEAAAAHHHHH

 

Them $ 1 a mile owner operators are cheaper to use.
No insurance
No retirement
No fuel
No fixing broken truck

 

Cheaper until they fly down the Grapevine with flaming brakes and careen into a sea of cars like a bowling ball.

Imagine the stock devaluation when the news discovers "Big Company" contracted "Small Company" to save a buck

 

It’s unfortunate but we see almost daily the vast majority of the contractors pulling Amazon Prime branded trailers not being top shelf professional operators. I have thought for years Amazon would either stop using branded trailers or the cheapest contractor available, but it doesn’t seem like they are changing.

 

They sure don't care about their brand when it comes to transportation but legally their hands are clean whenever one of their contractors kills somebody. They usually issue empty statements about condolences then quickly follow up that contractors aren't Amazon employees. It would take a CBS kind of story like on Super Ego to shame them but in all liklihood that wouldn't change anything. Death and mayhem doesn't really cost them anything.