You missed my point. I meant that the transportation business goes on 24 hours a day. I have worked every hour of it at one time or another.
That was just a snapshot of how a typical LTL freight company operates — many specialized employees working together to provide fast efficient service. It was not uncommon for shippers to choose to ship small UPS-shippable items with us at a higher fee because they knew that they could call in a pickup in southern California in the afternoon and have it delivered in Arizona the next day.
Yeah but to continue to provide dependable service you can't have your people working 24 hour days. You want them to show up and work every day, day after day. 70 hour weeks were not uncommon but that would be over five days, not 3!