Delivery vehicles going away 100% at many locations. Contract carriers will be used if available locally. Otherwise reduced to a maximum of 2 vehicles. Coming soon.
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Drivers will be the first to be laid off as the contract delivery services take over. Merry Christmas
When I first saw this post I thought it was just a bs rumor. Today a car transport showed up st my store. No one in the fleet department called and my DM said he had no idea. Nice communication you jackasses!
Saw this in another post. Makes sense.
From my perspective in H/R, much of this is being driven by large payouts from at fault vehicle accidents and the dollars being awarded in medical liability judgements. In addition, there are more to come as those currently being settled average 2-3 years old. This is also what is driving the elimination of our fleet and the associated liability risk.
Two cars picked up today. Not a big problem as I only have 2 drivers at my store. Everyone else is ineligible to drive. I think we can smoke Amazon if we focus on DIY.
They are chasing proceeds from the sale. You should be able see it for sales on line for two weeks before it goes to an auction listing near you.
One of my cars was picked up today to go to auction. It's a 2017 with only 9,000 miles on it. What is going on??????
But let's consider the facts here. The savings is greater than the profit from the sales! Let's get back to our roots as a true retailer. Let the rejects from Circuit City, K-mart, and Radio Shack finish off this company in their true style!
My guess is that the uber delivery vehicles will double as ice cream trucks. Perfect.
Autonomous delivery vehicles that also do uber runs would be interesting, hell just make everything automated and see how that works out. Epic Fail !!!!
Can't wait to tell my accounts that all expect hot shot deliveries that we'll get them their parts as soon as we can find a willing Uber driver. Imagine their excitement!
By the way, are we also going to pay Uber to pick up cores defects and screw ups?
This is going to be fun!!
The store I work at has a new vehicle thAt has been parked for months that was never needed. Who makes these decisions? My DM is afraid to question corporate decisions. No wonder we are failing.
Sounds like less delivery reliability and more failure opportunities, GOOD LUCK!
DC drivers will be reduced dramatically when the CQ stores (including independents) only get a weekly DC delivery and pickup.
There are a series of pilot tests underway. One would eliminate company owned delivery vehicles and use Uber and Lyft drivers to deliver parts. The second is a part of the "availability transformation" where multiple stores will share fewer delivery vehicles, with one vehicle dedicated to store to store delivery.
Sweet, this should help kill off what little commercial business each store might have left, great decisions from great leaders, lovin it
Is this at the store level or DC level (CDL drivers who do nightly deliveries from DC) or both?
Apparently too much liability to continue maintaining a fleet. Maybe if hiring practices improved you wouldn't be paying out so many claims. There is no way contracted delivery drivers will be able to service commercial customers satisfactorily. Looks like another nail in the coffin for AAP.
sinking ship
We don't need them,we have no parts to deliver and no customers to deliver to.They get used mostly by the GM to get coffee and lunch