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Re: Interesting stories of the 06 building season
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Originally Posted by Ben Piecuch
However, this whole shipping thing still baffles my mind. As a CT team going to the CT regional, our robot gets transported to the airport, flown to Tennessee, unloaded / reloaded, flown back to CT, and delivered to drayage 30 minutes down the road from it's original pickup point.
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That's how the FedEx express service works, but it's not true of their freight service. The heavy freight operation is divided into FedEx East and FedEx West (formerly two independent LTL shippers). Even the express service doesn't fly everything through Memphis, as they now have six other US hubs.
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