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Amazon Poised To "Double Down" On In-House Truckload Program By Rolling Into Power Unit Purchases
Yahoo! Finance ^ | October 14, 2019 | Freight Waves

Posted on 10/20/2019 1:18:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 10/20/2019 1:18:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have never spent a penny on amazon so I don’t care what they do with their trucks.


2 posted on 10/20/2019 1:22:46 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But it relies on contractors to bring their own power units to the shipping relationship.

What language is this?

Bringing power units to shipping "relationships"?

3 posted on 10/20/2019 1:25:05 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: shelterguy

Yet here you are spending time telling us that.


4 posted on 10/20/2019 1:28:00 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Upshot: the totality of the shipping industry is incapable of keeping up with Amazon’s delivery needs.


5 posted on 10/20/2019 1:30:08 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So Amazon is going to purchase a vast fleet of transport vehicles...mostly powered by diesel fuel

How is that going to work when diesel fuel is no longer available when the "sustainable" Green Revolution kicks in....?

6 posted on 10/20/2019 1:31:51 PM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: RoosterRedux

What is a “power unit?” A watt, a volt, what?


7 posted on 10/20/2019 1:32:45 PM PDT by Fungi
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A Joule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule


8 posted on 10/20/2019 1:37:23 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ctdonath2

Yup, there is virtue signaling on our side too.


9 posted on 10/20/2019 1:37:55 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: metmom

I could use a few “jewels.” :)


10 posted on 10/20/2019 1:41:01 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Fungi

No idea what a “power unit” is. Perhaps the front part of a truck???


11 posted on 10/20/2019 1:43:45 PM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: metmom

That answer ergs me.


12 posted on 10/20/2019 1:45:28 PM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Virulent monopoly....
suck that community dry


13 posted on 10/20/2019 1:45:34 PM PDT by ptsal
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Weird headline. Power unit purchases. I briefly wondered if they planned to start generating their own electricity.


14 posted on 10/20/2019 1:45:50 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does that mean we are all going to replace the Watt with the Amazon or the Prime? They have a lot of power, indeed, to pull that off.


15 posted on 10/20/2019 1:47:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Drango
From the context, I'm guessing the tractor part of a tractor-trailer rig...

...but it could be obscurese for anything.

Note to the editors of the OED, AFAIK, this is the first use of the word obscurese, meaning a language intended to obscure, rather than to illuminate.

16 posted on 10/20/2019 1:49:33 PM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: ctdonath2

I enjoy informing people that I have never spent a penny on amazon and yet somehow I survive.


17 posted on 10/20/2019 1:50:18 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: null and void

Then you must dyne alone your most honorable Nullness. May the Void be at your side.


18 posted on 10/20/2019 1:50:22 PM PDT by Fungi
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Our family alone must make up for ten of yours.

I love it. I rarely have to set foot in a store, I don’t have to drive all over town, what I need is in stock, the selection is a hundred times better than any store, and it usually arrives in a day or two.

I just went to Home Depot and Lowe’s to buy some garage Gladiator storage things. They were in the stores a couple weeks ago, but are no longer in either store. Did the purchase on Amazon last night.

Rolling, rolling, rolling; keep them ”power units” rolling. Amazon Prime! Head ‘em up, move ‘em out, Amazon Prime.


19 posted on 10/20/2019 1:52:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Fungi
"I brought my own power unit, Dude...what's a shipping relationship?"


20 posted on 10/20/2019 1:52:24 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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