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FedEx Freight Diary (ala Russian Rabbit)

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by McUzi, Jul 17, 2019.

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  1. Dec 7, 2019 #381
    Russian Rabbit

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    i think this is not a good move, but you must do what you must do......
     
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  3. Dec 7, 2019 #382
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    Who knows. It may be the best thing that ever happened to him.
     
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  4. Dec 7, 2019 #383
    Russian Rabbit

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    It could very well be, but my points were:

    1) Why mess with a good thing: Rock-Solid, stable giant vs. possible flash-in-the-pan.

    2) Benefits? i doubt they can match.

    To me trucking, really everything, is all about risk-managment. Why screw with a good thing?
     
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  5. Dec 7, 2019 #384
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    And personally I agree with you. What he's done would not be a good fit for me either. But maybe his needs are different than ours.
     
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  7. Dec 7, 2019 #385
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    Exactly. You left a highly coveted job and it worked out great for you. Same thing for me too.
     
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  8. Dec 7, 2019 #386
    Russian Rabbit

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    Same thing with Senator Uzi. But a person is going to do what a person is going to do. This is sort of like when Capt. Decker at the end of Star trek one---he just went off----somewhere. He just went for it.
     
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  9. Dec 7, 2019 #387
    LtlAnonymous

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    True. Some guys would give a lot to work for ABF. I am less than fond of them, but I still understand that the job could work better for someone else.
     
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  10. Dec 7, 2019 #388
    McUzi

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    Risk management, is loss mitigation. Risk management is also, by relative definition, not growth minded. Risk management, would have also prevented FedEx’s ceo from taking the last amount of cash the company had to Vegas, dropping it all on the table figuring he was going to lose the company by the end of the week, and scoring big, allowing him to keep the company operating.

    FedEx is rock solid, no argument there... but only in the shipping/freight forwarding industry. When your portfolio of products consists only of methods in how to pick something up at point a and deliver to point b, you lose stability by virtue of being incredibly vulnerable to the economy as a whole. When you are a manufacturer of goods that are consumed by wide swaths of industries to include recession proof industries like health care, I’d argue that you are far more insulated to the ebb and flow of macro/micro economical impact.

    But, if my decision to leave proves to be a poor choice, I’ll have a bridge to walk across that wasn’t burned, should I need to. But, then again, I’ve never needed to return to a job/industry I’ve left.
     
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  11. Dec 7, 2019 #389
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    I work about 40 hours a week, 15-20 hours of that on the dock, and drive 400-600 miles a week on average. Gross around $1100-$1200. That is my story for at least the next year or two.

    The end.
     
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  12. Dec 8, 2019 #390
    McUzi

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    Transfer out to the barn in MA and make $80k+ on the lowest mileage run!
     
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