So when you ship by " Ground " it really means ground?
I wonder if overnight Air means overnight Air?
So when you ship by " Ground " it really means ground?
I wonder if overnight Air means overnight Air?
It really depends on the shipping company. I flew small contract air freight for a UPS feeder (think small planes to cities UPS couldn't fill a jet to). With UPS, when the jet to Louisville goes out of the main city, they'll fill it up. If air shipments fill it up, that's it. But if there is room on the aircraft, they'll throw certain ground freight on the plane, in order to use all the volume of the aircraft. UPS operates as a single company, air or ground, it all gets delivered in the same brown truck. FedEx on the other hand, only puts air on the airplane, doesn't matter if there is empty room on it or not. FedEx has different delivery trucks for air and ground shipments, so it's possible to get delivery of a FedEx Air and Ground package on the same day and get 2 trucks to do it.
Thanks for the lesson, ks.
I find stuff like this fascinating.
It really depends on the shipping company. I flew small contract air freight for a UPS feeder (think small planes to cities UPS couldn't fill a jet to). With UPS, when the jet to Louisville goes out of the main city, they'll fill it up. If air shipments fill it up, that's it. But if there is room on the aircraft, they'll throw certain ground freight on the plane, in order to use all the volume of the aircraft. UPS operates as a single company, air or ground, it all gets delivered in the same brown truck. FedEx on the other hand, only puts air on the airplane, doesn't matter if there is empty room on it or not. FedEx has different delivery trucks for air and ground shipments, so it's possible to get delivery of a FedEx Air and Ground package on the same day and get 2 trucks to do it.
Perhaps I'm splitting hairs here...but UPS does not operate as a single company; parcel which happens to handle air and ground are separate and apart from UPS Freight and Logistics. A UPS NDA package would co-mingle during sort with ground parcels while being unloaded from a pick-up vehicle and during loading to a vehicle for delivery; otherwise, they are in segregated sorts. To allude that UPS tops off their aircraft with ground parcels is somewhat misleading. My understanding was/is the only ground parcel(s) to make an aircraft load in or outbound from a spoke on the hub would be high value ground shipment which have received upgrade due to that. I can however see them exploiting contract flights with ground parcels to top load off maximizing their bang for the buck.
Why does every INGO thread turn into a faculty lounge discussion?
I'm sure they will try to figure out how to blame Indiana for the surplus of guns.
It has to be a inside job. There is no way you could find the one train car out of all those car.
Most UPS ground shipments between the west coast and the midwest move by train. CSX Avon Yard on the west side of Indianapolis sees some UPS trailers being loaded and unloaded, but there's a huge amount of UPS traffic through their hub and the big rail yards in the Chicago area. You can kinda see this if you track a shipment from the west coast. If there's a report from Los Angeles or Long Beach then the next report is Chicago 3-5 days later, that trailer probably moved by train. FedEx Ground, Schneider, and JB Hunt also move trailers by train as well as most of the stuff from Aisian importers.
If this was a UPS trailer that was hit, it would require very specific knowledge that a particular box from Ruger was on a particular trailer on a particular train. Or, it was just dumb luck that the thieves hit the jackpot.
Back in the 1970's, R.J. Reynolds used to ship trailer loads of cigarettes by train. The trailers would come up from Jeffersonville on one train and be switched onto another train headed for the east coast. The railroad police watched those trailers very carefully because the thieves knew the pattern of movements and would target the right trailers. But, that was a whole trailer of cigarettes, not one box in the mountain of boxes that are on a 45-foot trailer.
So when you ship by " Ground " it really means ground?
I wonder if overnight Air means overnight Air?