DHL Out of Business in US

[Whine Lover]

What about ABX?

 

[~~~^~~~]

Fins, don't get your hopes up. FedEx has driven several freight companies out of business, and they haven't hired a single pilot unless they went through the normal screening process.

I have doubts UPS or FedEx will move to help out those pilots specifically... they don't have to.

True - I hope they land on their feet. The guys out of Seaboard and Flying Tigers did well at FredX and I wonder why FedEx doesn't return to the big cargo business. Tigers used to own that market.

 

[sqwkvfr]

"In other news, DHL announced that it does expect to make a small profit from the sale of it's book, "How NOT to expand your business into the American market."

I'm kidding, of course. The powers that be at Deutsche Post will never understand why they failed....despite their US employees and customers telling them on a daily basis.

 

[erichartmann]

What about ABX?

Who knows. My guess is ABX is done as far as DHL is concerned. DHL, may, I repeat may, continue to operate its international sort in ILN, and may use ABX to staff it. They may also return to CVG. If they have not reached a deal with UPS by Jan 30 they will no doubt continue to use Astar and perhaps a few ABX aircraft to service that business.

If ABX remains in business at all after Jan 30 (or post DHL) it will be reduced to about 10 aircraft operating out of MIA, LAX, and in Japan. Most of the pilots will be furloughed, as will most of the the other employees.

 

[Diesel]

I don't know I was never really suprised. Have you seen the vans that DHL drives? They all look like rape vans minus the circular window in the back like the A-Team had.

And their drivers... a pull over DHL fleece doesn't just make the uniform if you're wearing jeans or whatever.

As I was driving into work last week I saw a driver not even wearing a uniform and that was pretty standard based on my experience.

Fedex and UPS on the other hand are all the same, uniforms, clean trucks, designed for delivering packages and not causing an Amber Alert.

I always thought the germans knew about infrastructure and uniforms. Not sure why they didn't have the same standards over here as they enforced in europe.

 

[gator_hater]

My newspaper makes it closer to my front door than most of my DHL deliveries. One was a DELL and clearly marked as a PC left 2 feet from the gutter in the middle of the driveway. Sucks for the pilots (good luck guys), but their delivery business was a little shady.

 

[KigAir]

I don't know I was never really suprised. Have you seen the vans that DHL drives? They all look like rape vans minus the circular window in the back like the A-Team had.

In my area they don't have their own vans. They rent vehicles from Enterprise. Which I thought was strange.

 

[slaquer5]

My newspaper makes it closer to my front door than most of my DHL deliveries. One was a DELL and clearly marked as a PC left 2 feet from the gutter in the middle of the driveway. Sucks for the pilots (good luck guys), but their delivery business was a little shady.

I have to second that and not just once, many times. When I would call DHL I told them UPS Fed ex would eat there lunch. DHL had a sub par service

 

[Guam360]

I have to second that and not just once, many times. When I would call DHL I told them UPS Fed ex would eat there lunch. DHL had a sub par service

it is a shame, since they were the creators of the overnight package.

 

[9rj9]

There's a UPSstore, Staples, FEDEX kinkos around every corner. They should have hooked up with Starbucks.