Originally Posted by tnkrdrvr

Perhaps at gateways, but doubtful. Brown and FedEx are roughly the same overall size personnel wise. Brown handles more overall packages and has significantly higher profit margins, largely because it flies a far smaller share of its volume. The big difference is almost everyone at Brown is unionized and has relatively good pension and healthcare benefits. Brown also struggles retaining folks at the entry level, but once they’ve been around a little they tend to stick. Non-unionized folks don’t have those incentives to stick around if they can make $.50/hr more somewhere else.