As losses mount, Schneider shutters First to Last Mile delivery business

it was a stupid thing in the beginning anyway trying to keep up with FedEx ground door and JB Hunt's nonsense 2..

 

Hell I didn’t even know they had that division.

 

Increase fees from the choice program.......

 

Nobody cares. Thanks for posting.

 

aquired watkins shepard to set themselves up....

 

And then ran it into the ground.

Another Lofgren failure. In the video Mark Rorke sent out he mentioned van truck load and logistics, but not bulk. I'm wondering how much longer we will keep that division seeing as it has been under performing for a while now.

 

since the workflow change over?.......

 

Since long before that. About when Ethos left.

Poor planning, poor utilization and poor communication made both drivers and customers unhappy. Then the workflow transition made things worse.

It's just like our abortive attempts to get into flatbed and reefer work via dedicated accounts. It doesn't work the same as a VTL dedicated account, we can't surge in system drivers and equipment at need. You also can't just reschedule because a driver's backhaul didn't get him back on time (see reason #1 why we lost Miller).

There is a lot of potential is FTFM and Bulk, but you you need an entirely different gestalt to be successful.