He can send trucks in to haul packages to another airport.
Until recently, Mr. Furst worked weekdays hauling packages, picking up loaded trailers in New Jersey and driving to terminals in Ohio, Virginia and Connecticut, where he often parked and spent the night in his sleeper.
In a conference call, the company's chief executive, D. Scott Davis, said U.P.S. was "making good progress" toward concluding a 10-year agreement with DHL, the Deutsche Post express unit, to haul packages by air for DHL within the United States and among the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The money will be used to scale the business and build out autonomous industrial systems that will be able to haul packages hither and yon or drag ore or mud through a mine.
A big rig hauling packages for the U.S. Postal Service flipped over east of San Francisco early Monday, killing the driver and spilling the load across a highway.
The film centers on a group of storks who have transitioned from baby delivering to hauling packages for an e-commerce behemoth.
We found a similar situation with some long-haul packages.
Fontenla-Novoa, who will chair the joint venture, said the transaction was a "significant consolidation opportunity" in a market altered forever by low-cost airlines and increasingly slim profit margins on short-haul packages to "commodity destinations".
"Coming back from Chicago on I-180 at 4 30 a.m., a car passed me, and he had the dome light on and was reading a magazine on his lap". said Jenny Zinkel, 31, of Peoria, Ill., who hauls Federal Express packages in an 80,000-pound truck.
The commission, the European Union's executive body, objected to the 1999 Airtours-First Choice deal because it said the combination would reduce the number of significant competitors in the British market for short-haul package tours from four to three.
