I don’t get it. Online ordering should be a boon to delivery companies. Think UPS, Amazon. Save gas.
I’ve been trying to figure this out too.
Seems like it was just poorly managed for decades.
yellow doesn’t really do retail delivery stuff. it’s LTL (less than a truck load) dock to dock type deliveries.
I had them deliver an engine once. I paid extra to have an ETA call made (so the site would be there, and someone could unload it).. No call was made, a pissed off driver called, screamed at me and said “I’m pushing this f***ing thing off the back of my truck!” he did, damaged the parking lot, and destroyed the engine. The site got it all on security cameras.
Yellow ended up paying for EVERYTHING. that was the last time I used them.
They have their own fleets, so companies like Yellow are shut out of a lot of that work.
All of this is happening while the US continues to import 3rd worlders who are allowed to get their CDLs, who then can and do undercut the amount paid to owner/operators. So Mr 3rd Worlder, with his brand new CDL, who lives in a house with 19 relatives, can take loads that barely pay anything because he doesn’t have to meet a mortgage payment or anything else, because all he does is chip in a few bucks at the end of the month.
Laying off non-Union workers tells you all you need to know.
Think UPS, Amazon. Save gas.
If they get the pay raise they threatened to strike for kiss savings good by.