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Offline Kavik

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FEDEX and UPS using Penske Trucks
« on: Fri, 25 June 2021, 15:34:47 »
The past couple deliveries I've had, the UPS (and maybe FEDEX) guy rolled up in a white Penske truck. All I could find was a couple Reddit posts saying this just means the UPS trucks are in the shop and they've rented replacements in the meantime. Has anyone else seen this?
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Re: FEDEX and UPS using Penske Trucks
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 25 June 2021, 16:29:13 »
I have worked for a couple of (small-ish) companies with trucks, and renting trucks was common.

Even getting a brake job or a set of tires puts a truck out of circulation for half a day, and if business is good you can't have a truck down for that long.
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Re: FEDEX and UPS using Penske Trucks
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 25 June 2021, 16:40:12 »
corruption of the Highst Ordr.
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Re: FEDEX and UPS using Penske Trucks
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 25 June 2021, 18:21:47 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 25 June 2021, 16:40:12

corruption


After a few delivery disputes, we started requiring our drivers to take photos of their deliveries in place on the customer's driveway/yard/porch/doorstep/wherever.

At some point a few years ago there was a viral Youtube video of a driver setting a package down by a front door, snapping a photo, then picking it up and carrying it back to his truck.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: FEDEX and UPS using Penske Trucks
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 25 June 2021, 21:54:35 »
They've done this for years during high load times, typically Christmas.
Right now, like everyone else, they can't get new trucks and replacement parts to keep older ones running. Same with rental car companies. All these companies were running lean, expecting suppliers to keep inventory, they ran lean expecting manufacturers to have inventory, manufacturers expected up stream and down stream suppliers to keep inventory. Meaning no one had any spare inventory.

There's a show Amazing Engineering or something that a while back was touring a BMW factory and they were bragging how they had seat and engine deliveries 15 minutes before install into the car. The entire production line ran this way. One slip and it would all crumble and yet they thought it was fantastic because they had nothing sitting around waiting on shelves. This is how companies were running pre-covid.

This is why shippers need rental trucks and why tourists are using moving vans instead of rental cars. Trying to save that last penny to earn that corporate bonus.
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Re: FEDEX and UPS using Penske Trucks
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 25 June 2021, 22:28:01 »
Quote from: Leslieann on Fri, 25 June 2021, 21:54:35

to earn that corporate bonus.


All this "lean" **** and "just in time" delivery is the quintessential Republican wet dream.

The cascading collapse of worldwide physical and emotional infrastructure over the past year and a half is a stark demonstration of how resiliency and preparedness revolve around redundancy and backup. (aka "waste" in the Trumpian universe)

Stripping every system to the bone, worldwide, has been increasing in earnest at a frightening pace since the rise of the anti-democratic concept of "the government is not the solution, the government is the problem" started being championed by Reagan and his acolytes 4 decades ago.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: FEDEX and UPS using Penske Trucks
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 25 June 2021, 22:35:42 »
Watching IceRoad 2021, 

It's about trucks, you don't think it's gonna be exciting but it's actually pretty kewl.
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