Corporate Air Bleeds Purple
07-05-2010, 07:29 PM
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Corporate Air Bleeds Purple
This whole thing just gets more and more interesting. Here's a story from the perspective of the little guy.
From Associated Press:
BILLINGS, Mont. — In the multibillion dollar world of overnight package deliveries, Mike Overstreet knows his Billings-based company, Corporate Air, is at the "tail end of the dog" as a small FedEx contractor serving rural areas of the Rockies and Midwest.
Yet with FedEx engaged in a fierce Washington, D.C., lobbying battle with the industry's other private sector titan — United Parcel Service
— Overstreet worries his business and customers in 10 states could go down as collateral damage.
At issue is whether FedEx Express, the company's delivery division, should be reclassified as a trucking company, like UPS, or retain its federally granted status as an airline.
If FedEx loses its special status under a measure now before Congress, its employees could more easily unionize. That in turn could drive up costs for the Memphis, Tenn.-based company, forcing it to trim services in rural areas where costs are highest and profit margins thinnest, said shipping industry expert Satish Jindel.
Bill could cost FedEx service to rural areas - Business - U.S. business - msnbc.com
BILLINGS, Mont. — In the multibillion dollar world of overnight package deliveries, Mike Overstreet knows his Billings-based company, Corporate Air, is at the "tail end of the dog" as a small FedEx contractor serving rural areas of the Rockies and Midwest.
Yet with FedEx engaged in a fierce Washington, D.C., lobbying battle with the industry's other private sector titan — United Parcel Service
— Overstreet worries his business and customers in 10 states could go down as collateral damage.At issue is whether FedEx Express, the company's delivery division, should be reclassified as a trucking company, like UPS, or retain its federally granted status as an airline.
If FedEx loses its special status under a measure now before Congress, its employees could more easily unionize. That in turn could drive up costs for the Memphis, Tenn.-based company, forcing it to trim services in rural areas where costs are highest and profit margins thinnest, said shipping industry expert Satish Jindel.
Bill could cost FedEx service to rural areas - Business - U.S. business - msnbc.com
07-06-2010, 02:59 AM
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This is BS. I flew, in a past life, for a large Part 135 cargo outfit that flew for UPS. I flew to many small to very small destinations. If Brown can do it, why can't Purple do it?
I still remember dropping off boxes to a brown lock box in Eureka, NV. There was a runway, but no taxiway, a very small ramp about the size of 2 BE-99, a hangar that was falling to pieces and a large, brown steel box.
I still remember dropping off boxes to a brown lock box in Eureka, NV. There was a runway, but no taxiway, a very small ramp about the size of 2 BE-99, a hangar that was falling to pieces and a large, brown steel box.
07-06-2010, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by jonnyjetprop
It's a blantant attempt to get folks scared about the right of workers to unionize. FedEx is trying to avoid having their drivers unionize. UPS drivers are teamsters and they seem to be doing just fine.
07-06-2010, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by jonnyjetprop
1. This is BS. I flew, in a past life, for a large Part 135 cargo outfit that flew for UPS. I flew to many small to very small destinations. If Brown can do it, why can't Purple do it?
2. I still remember dropping off boxes to a brown lock box in Eureka, NV. There was a runway, but no taxiway, a very small ramp about the size of 2 BE-99, a hangar that was falling to pieces and a large, brown steel box.
2. I still remember dropping off boxes to a brown lock box in Eureka, NV. There was a runway, but no taxiway, a very small ramp about the size of 2 BE-99, a hangar that was falling to pieces and a large, brown steel box.
Originally Posted by jonnyjetprop
It's a blantant attempt to get folks scared about the right of workers to unionize. FedEx is trying to avoid having their drivers unionize. UPS drivers are teamsters and they seem to be doing just fine.
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07-06-2010, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by HercDriver130
I thought most of the ground Fed Ex drivers were independent contractors anyways.. I know they are around here.... as I know several of them.
Are they pi$$ed at the world and can you tell them by the black thundercloud floating over their heads?
Last edited by vagabond; 07-06-2010 at 04:06 PM. Reason: grammar and spelling ;)
07-07-2010, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by vagabond
This whole thing just gets more and more interesting. Here's a story from the perspective of the little guy.
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