Carryfast:
But they still don’t seem to have worked out that a demount wagon and drag outfit is more efficient on some jobs (not airfreight though) like their competition over here has. Was surprised to read that all the trailers are airfreight rollerbeds ? instead of seperating airfreight and ground based transport operations ?.
Nice one BJ
Carryfast, you’ve run out of pills again haven’t you, time to call the District Nurse
For inter depot trunking Fed Ex and all the other LTL (Less Than full Load) carriers, like UPS, use a double trailer set up comprising of two 28’ box trailers with a dolly in between them, these are then run single by day cab city trucks doing the deliveries and collections, in exactly the same way as a set of demounts on a wagon and drag would be
I used to work for FedEx when they were in the UK originally before their pull out. (Around 92 I think.) I used to work for what was then called FedEx International, and I was based at Leeds. At the time the freight used to fly out of Birmingham to Brussels, and then onto it’s country of delivery. Any freight from the south used to fly out of Stansted.
It was one of the best jobs I had, and that was because our section was a small knit team that got on with each other very well, and our team leader was a great guy. Last I heard he has shacked up with one of the girls that was on our team down Enfield way.
Carryfast:
But they still don’t seem to have worked out that a demount wagon and drag outfit is more efficient on some jobs (not airfreight though) like their competition over here has. Was surprised to read that all the trailers are airfreight rollerbeds ? instead of seperating airfreight and ground based transport operations ?.
Nice one BJ
Carryfast, you’ve run out of pills again haven’t you, time to call the District Nurse
For inter depot trunking Fed Ex use a double trailer set up comprising of two 28’ box trailers with a dolly in between them, these are then run single by day cab city trucks doing the deliveries and collections, in exactly the same way as a set of demounts on a wagon and drag would be
I know about the ‘others’ but when I read the post I got confused by the fact that they use seperate dedicated divisions (and depots) which seperate ground and air.Because when he said ‘all’ the trailers are rollerbeds I thought he meant the whole Fed Ex fleet until he explained it all. If you’d looked closely you’d have seen the question mark at the end of my post so I’d already guessed that I’d got the context of the post wrong but just wanted to find out for sure in case it was them who needed the pills not me but the nurse said it’s ok because the question mark shows that I’m actually still sane. Having said that I’m only used to seeing air freight and ground transport all operating out of the same depots which is some of the reason for the confusion.Hope my defence explains that as usual there’s a method to my madness .
Carryfast:
But they still don’t seem to have worked out that a demount wagon and drag outfit is more efficient on some jobs (not airfreight though) like their competition over here has. Was surprised to read that all the trailers are airfreight rollerbeds ? instead of seperating airfreight and ground based transport operations ?.
Nice one BJ
Carryfast, you’ve run out of pills again haven’t you, time to call the District Nurse
For inter depot trunking Fed Ex use a double trailer set up comprising of two 28’ box trailers with a dolly in between them, these are then run single by day cab city trucks doing the deliveries and collections, in exactly the same way as a set of demounts on a wagon and drag would be
I know about the ‘others’ but when I read the post I got confused by the fact that they use seperate dedicated divisions (and depots) which seperate ground and air.Because when he said ‘all’ the trailers are rollerbeds I thought he meant the whole Fed Ex fleet until he explained it all. If you’d looked closely you’d have seen the question mark at the end of my post so I’d already guessed that I’d got the context of the post wrong but just wanted to find out for sure in case it was them who needed the pills not me but the nurse said it’s ok because the question mark shows that I’m actually still sane. Having said that I’m only used to seeing air freight and ground trunking all operating out of the same depots which is some of the reason for the confusion.Hope my defence explains that as usual there’s a method to my madness .
There’s no escape for you “Carryfast” is there!!! By using the words Sane and Madness in the same post and actually reffering to the nurse that “looks” after you have eradicated all previous doubt that you actually are a “fruit and nut case”.And if the nurse is suggesting that you are sane you must have baffled her with BS as well!Cheers Bewick.PS I’m going back onto my own thread —I only landed on here by mistake!
newmercman:
For inter depot trunking Fed Ex and all the other LTL (Less Than full Load) carriers, like UPS, use a double trailer set up comprising of two 28’ box trailers with a dolly in between them, these are then run single by day cab city trucks doing the deliveries and collections, in exactly the same way as a set of demounts on a wagon and drag would be
Carryfast:
But they still don’t seem to have worked out that a demount wagon and drag outfit is more efficient on some jobs (not airfreight though) like their competition over here has. Was surprised to read that all the trailers are airfreight rollerbeds ? instead of seperating airfreight and ground based transport operations ?.
Nice one BJ
Carryfast, you’ve run out of pills again haven’t you, time to call the District Nurse
For inter depot trunking Fed Ex use a double trailer set up comprising of two 28’ box trailers with a dolly in between them, these are then run single by day cab city trucks doing the deliveries and collections, in exactly the same way as a set of demounts on a wagon and drag would be
I know about the ‘others’ but when I read the post I got confused by the fact that they use seperate dedicated divisions (and depots) which seperate ground and air.Because when he said ‘all’ the trailers are rollerbeds I thought he meant the whole Fed Ex fleet until he explained it all. If you’d looked closely you’d have seen the question mark at the end of my post so I’d already guessed that I’d got the context of the post wrong but just wanted to find out for sure in case it was them who needed the pills not me but the nurse said it’s ok because the question mark shows that I’m actually still sane. Having said that I’m only used to seeing air freight and ground trunking all operating out of the same depots which is some of the reason for the confusion.Hope my defence explains that as usual there’s a method to my madness .
There’s no escape for you “Carryfast” is there!!! By using the words Sane and Madness in the same post and actually reffering to the nurse that “looks” after you have eradicated all previous doubt that you actually are a “fruit and nut case”.And if the nurse is suggesting that you are sane you must have baffled her with BS as well!Cheers Bewick.PS I’m going back onto my own thread —I only landed on here by mistake!
I’m not surprised that you only landed here by mistake as 53 footer roller beds and yank wagons are way out of your league.Although having said that maybe you could try to convince his guvnor that an old Atki rigid and unit with a Gardner in it and using flats and just handball and rope and sheet all the airfreight would be better than using the Freightshakers that he does’nt seem to like very much .But having said that I had to call the nurse in because newmercman almost convinced me this time that I’d actually lost the plot for a minute.
Perhaps one of you guys can explain why - every day - all day there is a FedEx truck parked in our road in Redditch. The curtains are drawn and he has a chock under the NS wheel so I assume he is asleep. I do give him a cheery toot sometimes but I have never seen the driver.
Carryfast:
newmercman almost convinced me this time that I’d actually lost the plot for a minute.
Note to self: Must try harder
If you mean must try harder to understand my posts you’d be right .By the way ‘not all’ demount operations involve using the boxes for daytime/local deliveries.It’s often a case of using boxes just like using trailers for trunking and often the trailers are even left with their boxes but the advantage is the ability to use one vehicle to do a trunk run which involves multiple depots.And even where the prime mover is used for both trunking and local deliveries the load carried during the trunk run won’t be the same load as the one carried on the local job.
Santa:
Perhaps one of you guys can explain why - every day - all day there is a FedEx truck parked in our road in Redditch. The curtains are drawn and he has a chock under the NS wheel so I assume he is asleep. I do give him a cheery toot sometimes but I have never seen the driver.
He probably does the run from the hub to the depot in the mornings, has his daily rest
and then picks up the days collections from the local depot and back to the hub…
Carryfast:
newmercman almost convinced me this time that I’d actually lost the plot for a minute.
Note to self: Must try harder
If you mean must try harder to understand my posts you’d be right .By the way ‘not all’ demount operations involve using the boxes for daytime/local deliveries.It’s often a case of using boxes just like using trailers for trunking and often the trailers are even left with their boxes but the advantage is the ability to use one vehicle to do a trunk run which involves multiple depots.And even where the prime mover is used for both trunking and local deliveries the load carried during the trunk run won’t be the same load as the one carried on the local job.
No I meant try harder to convince you that you’ve lost the plot
I know what you’re saying about how the demount system works, it’s not so much the boxes, but the fact that the prime mover can be used as a 4 wheeler during the day on multidrop and at night it can do the trunking too, same happens over here, except they use one trailer instead of two for multidrops and then join them up in doubles or triples for the night trunk using the same tractor unit, for once you’re making sense but I know you’re going to spoil it by insisting that the tractor units have a two stroke V12 in them
Carryfast:
newmercman almost convinced me this time that I’d actually lost the plot for a minute.
Note to self: Must try harder
If you mean must try harder to understand my posts you’d be right .By the way ‘not all’ demount operations involve using the boxes for daytime/local deliveries.It’s often a case of using boxes just like using trailers for trunking and often the trailers are even left with their boxes but the advantage is the ability to use one vehicle to do a trunk run which involves multiple depots.And even where the prime mover is used for both trunking and local deliveries the load carried during the trunk run won’t be the same load as the one carried on the local job.
No I meant try harder to convince you that you’ve lost the plot
I know what you’re saying about how the demount system works, it’s not so much the boxes, but the fact that the prime mover can be used as a 4 wheeler during the day on multidrop and at night it can do the trunking too, same happens over here, except they use one trailer instead of two for multidrops and then join them up in doubles or triples for the night trunk using the same tractor unit, for once you’re making sense but I know you’re going to spoil it by insisting that the tractor units have a two stroke V12 in them
Six wheeler actually in this context and it’s no good without having a box on the back which in this case was only used for trunking.7.5’s and vans for the multi drop work.However I can only dream of what it might have been like if we ‘had’ have used yank prime movers with 900 horse V12 Detroit Two Strokes and 13 speed Fullers in them,without speed limiters,instead of Merc 2534’s limited to 85-90 kmh .
Carryfast:
However I can only dream of what it might have been like if we ‘had’ have used yank prime movers with 900 horse V12 Detroit Two Strokes and 13 speed Fullers in them,without speed limiters,instead of Merc 2534’s limited to 85-90 kmh .
Carryfast:
However I can only dream of what it might have been like if we ‘had’ have used yank prime movers with 900 horse V12 Detroit Two Strokes and 13 speed Fullers in them,without speed limiters,instead of Merc 2534’s limited to 85-90 kmh .
I knew you wouldn’t let me down
If it’s got to be a four stroke then it might as well be a good one.
Was surprised to read that all the trailers are airfreight rollerbeds ? instead of seperating airfreight and ground based transport operations ?.
