White Glove

[davekc]

>Not all W/glove runs will make you a millionaire as a member
>posted. Certain customers such as IBM, Prax Air,Lockheed
>Martin command huge discounts and do not pay the FSC.


We at Panther have had our drivers pick up regularly at Lockheed in Orlando, and they always have a fuel surcharge.
FedEx must be discounting heavy or running on older contracts. It is a shame you can no longer negotiate your rates like you use to.

Davekc

 

[RichM]

I believe FDXCC is probably running L/Martin and others with old contracts. I agree with Leo,time to put this thread to bed.

 

[Dreamer]

RE: White Glove SHEESH!

[font size="+1"]For those who took offense, go back and re-read, and look a little closer... as in below! [/font]

I understood what ya meant DD, as in the "professional" uniforms of the 'Canadian' White Glove, no insult to FedEx WG was implied.. in fact, I beleive that was precisely the point.. no would would confuse this gentleman's uniform for a FedExWG!!!!


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Dreamer

 

[ATeam]

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>>To the extent that "All men are created equal" I take your
>>meaning. No person is better than anyone else. But within
>>the trucking industry, the White Glove drivers I know are
>>anything but "poor slobs". Because they take their jobs
>>seriously, and because they do it well, they command the
>>highest incomes in the expediting industry.
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>when i first started reading your post, i thought okay here
>is someone else that gets it. well after the first two
>sentences i could see that you are one of those white
>glovers that have that "elitest" complex. i have met up with
>several of your kind on the road, and let me tell you it was
>not an experience that i would want to repeat.
>
>why does the fact that you provide extra services (for wich
>you are compensated)and that you have extra equipment on
>your truck to accomplish those extra services make you think
>that you are better than anyone else?

Extra services and equipment do not make us (my wife and I, speaking for ourselves alone here) feel we are better than anyone else. We provide them with great pride so the SHIPPERS and CONSIGNEES will believe we are better than everyone else. We want them to choose our services above all others and pay the higest price we can get. We believe ourselves worthy of the price and are willing to do what it takes to earn it.

The notion that posessing extra equipment makes one person better than another is ridiculous. If I own 10 ratchet straps and you own 12, does that make you a better person? If I own a $250,000 house and you own a $300,000 one, does that make you better? If you have seven years of college and law school under your belt and I only have a high school diploma, does that make you a better person?

The good-better-best conversation based on posessions or accomplishments is a fool's errand. No matter what you have, someone always has more. Comparing your posessions and accomplishments to others' or others' to your own in human worth terms is a certain path to unhappiness and frustration.

Being a good person is different than being a good football player, nurse, or truck driver. You don't have to have a title, trophy, or high-profile career to feel good about yourself. If you believe otherwise, you are living life from the outside in. Happiness comes from living life from the inside out.

 

[raceman]

RE: White Glove SHEESH!

I never paid attention to this thread until this morning. I was bored and bingo, gave it a full read.

I am going to throw in my two cents. There is no getting around the fact that we are all just Truck Drivers. Some drive and unload, some drive, some wear unifomrs and some wear shorts. Who cares. We are all people some $30,000 a year and some make $130,000 a year. Who cares?

The reason I did not even read the thread to begin with was I looked at Rob's picture, got his point and figured why read this after seeing the point of his POST, I thought where could this go.

My Lord it went right down the tubes to finger pointing. Someone in here pointed out that folks need to lighten up. Please do and if you can't then spend the energy on some real serious stuff like why we dont just wipe those suicide bombers and their leaders off the face of the earth instead of worrying about their feelings and needs.

This was just a picture of a truck and a guy busting his hump in the heat.


Raceman
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