What concerns me is looking at this from a practical point of view.
If Conway Now were running a sufficient number of loads in relation to their fleet unit size, they obviously would not have sold out. So, it may be safe to assume that the number of loads Conway was running, compared to the number of units in the fleet, was a low ratio (loads=units). This ratio apparently was not advantageous enough for them to keep the company.
Now, If Panther II is assuming and absorbing this low ratio (load=units) into the fleet, I do not see any way that the present Panther II contractor will not be affected in an adverse way. Also, it causes even more unease to think that Panther II is not going to retain all of these Conway Now customers, causing the load=units ratio to drop even further. Is this move going to cause Panther II contractors to be sitting longer on layovers? Also, what about the [possibility] that the average Panther II load per unit ratio went from 1.5 loads for every 3 trucks, to 2 or 2.5 loads per every 3 trucks?
On a separate note, what about the fuel surcharges? I have never worked for Conway Now, but I am told that their fuel surcharges are extremely low, averaging in the area of .10 cents per mile. Is Panther II going to tell these new Conway Now customers that they are going to have to pay a higher fuel surcharge to use Panther II? Or are these low fuel surcharges going to be passed on to the contractor?
On a much separate note, I have been told that “N@r#ma*†still owns 25 vans on with PII. And that he is canceling loads already assigned, and is also transferring loads from other cargo vans onto his personally owned vans. If this is happening with vans, is it also happening with straight trucks…? Two separate people have told me that this has occurred, both loads were going to Laredo, TX from Detroit. What about it…?
