Charlotte,
When I was told about your comment, I thought well somebody didn’t read it, then I thought about it and read your comment, and yes somebody didn’t read it.
The first thing is I have to say IT IS NOT A RAG ON PANTHER, so let’s dissect it to understand what I am saying;
“The grass always looks greener on the other side?â€
This is a question thrown out there by Kevin, a.k.a. MarvinKWagner. His entire statement was so on the button about jumping ship, I copied to my things to my “remember and think about†file and will hand that out with Phil’s stuff.
But as I was trying to be in a humorous mood that day and didn’t want to post something I written the day before, I used his question as a spring board of sorts to get that humor out of me – you do know that means taking his statement and putting my spin on it, don’t you?
“To me it looks brown on the other side.â€
To me all of this, expediting is a simple issue of economics, everyone from the driver to the owner to the carrier all have a stake into a load to do only one thing – make money.
For me I am satisfied with FedEx, I am not happy I can’t contain myself or am I so displeased enough I am going to jump ship to another carrier – just satisfied which is the crux of the greener on the other side question, like why did the chicken cross the road – if you are satisfied, why change?
Oh and still no bashing of Panther but rather agreeing with Kevin.
“Not that tan brown like you haven't watered it in a week but that nasty brown just before the grass self-ignites and burns your house down.â€
This was to expand on the satisfaction of my situation and to say this, yes things do at times look good on the other side, but truthfully looks are deceiving and for some of us who have made changes and know in business changes costs more than money, things don’t always work out – just to reiterate what Kevin said about staying the course.
Understand there is no bashing of Panther there.
“I like my Green Ohio grass, it is a nice blend of Blue Grass and that greeny leafy stuff called dollars.â€
This is a tease of sorts about another comment that was made to me by another EO member a while ago, not a Panther bash at all but in addition to that, this means that sometimes it really does not matter what company you go with, every driver to owner to fleet owner has to determine what company fit THEIR business plan or life plan or what ever and in my case I am satisfied with FedEx, hence the Green Ohio grass blend comments.
The moral of my post is this –
It does not make a difference who could be considered number one in this business because there is no number one when you come down to it. It don’t matter how large the fleet is, or how many drivers one carrier has opposed to another – it all comes from the perspective of the person who is involved with a load. From the customers point of view it is who can take my package from point A to point B in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable amount of money. From the drivers point of view who can keep me running so I can make money and from the owners point of view it is who fits into my business plan.
I think Kevin said it best when you come down to it.
