Disney shakes up transportation management

[NYDisneyKid]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-bk-disney-transportation-shakeup-092109,0,2315909.story

 

[truck1]

Interesting reading.
They do that every so often to keep people from stagnating an area.The last time they did that was about 6 or 7 years ago I think.

 

[DISNEY FIX]

Hopefully this is a sign that Disney and Southwest will get their act together and expand their airline service to more than just POP. How is that going any word?

 

[mr&mrslightyear]

Oh i wonder if they will introduce new transport?

 

[boettj]

The article seems like more corporate maneuvering than anything else. Many companies do the executive shuffle to keep things fresh. If this were about the accident over the summer, it would not have taken Disney until now to make this move.

From my experience, the bus service has been in free fall the past 3-5 years. Maybe the change will look at changes for efficiency.



Thanks for sharing the article.

 

[truck1]

Oh i wonder if they will introduce new transport?

Doubt it. This is the internal transportation.It has nothing to do with the DCL busses and DME busses which are run by Mears. If Disney comes out with something new, chances are itll be run by an outside company.Probably Mears.Unless it has to do with parks and resort tranportation.

The article seems like more corporate maneuvering than anything else. Many companies do the executive shuffle to keep things fresh. If this were about the accident over the summer, it would not have taken Disney until now to make this move.

From my experience, the bus service has been in free fall the past 3-5 years. Maybe the change will look at changes for efficiency.


Thanks for sharing the article.

I agreee with the shuffling scenario, though a lot fo times when someone does something that could cost Disney money, they will wait sometimes before making a move, so it doesnt seem like they are guilty and it was a planned move.

Its been longer than that, busses has been in a free fall. When I was there from 95-2002, Disney Bus Transport made some decisions that had a lot of the drivers asking huh? What were you thinking?
One of them is the new busses. When you look at the seating capacity of the older RTS style busses(the ones that you step up onto not the low floor busses) they sat between 35 and 42 guests depending on how they were configured.Total capacity was between 65 and 72.
The new busses seat 15-20 and hold about 60, though more is possible due to the way they are set up.(usually with guest standing next to the back doors shich is a no no.) The biggest complaint besides why am I waiting for a bus for so long is Why am I always standing?Easy.Not enough seats.One of the reasons they claimed they went with the low floor busses was the wheel chair lifts on the RTS were alway broken. That was easy. They were never cleaned during pm and the tracks would gum up with dirt.The new ramps are even worse.Half the time the sensors that tell the bus that the ramp was fully retracted so the doors would close didnt work, or were dirty.So we would have to sut the bus down, shut the battereies off on the outside, then wait 30 seconds, the turn the batts back on, then restart the bus and hope for the best.

Then they actually had a good idea. They hired about 15 or managers from other areas.
I was a superbus driver and releif lead at Pleasure Island at the time.
One of the new managers came out for her training for a few nights.Found out that she had to skip her diriving portion of the training for a few weeks because she was not 21 yet. And she came from charachters.Had no management experience at all. And she was going to lead 70 drivers that the average age was in the 60s and most of them were retired drivers from other states.

 

[clkelley]

Yep, this has been a big topic on the Camping boards cause Fort Wilderness got one of the transportation directors.

How does a transportation director know how to run a campground????

 

[Brian Noble]

...or a hotel (as he's also the GM at WL).

 

[angwill]

If you noticed this was done to save money by combining more than one department under a single president with a VP under him. Part of the money saving plan now that the economy is bad. Sounds like more and bigger problems on the way with not enough man power to deal with the issues that arrise.

 

[boettj]

If you noticed this was done to save money by combining more than one department under a single president with a VP under him. Part of the money saving plan now that the economy is bad. Sounds like more and bigger problems on the way with not enough man power to deal with the issues that arrise.

I wouldn't jump to too harsh of a conclusion. Disney is known for moving their people around to different areas. Even when they are not an expert at something. The teams underneath them should insulated any major bumps in the road. Only when they start getting rid of the middle-upper management organization do you run into major issues.

 

[truck1]

I wouldn't jump to too harsh of a conclusion. Disney is known for moving their people around to different areas. Even when they are not an expert at something. The teams underneath them should insulated any major bumps in the road. Only when they start getting rid of the middle-upper management organization do you run into major issues.

I agree. Generally speaking, its the day to day hands on people that can make or break an executive. They can be your best friends or your worst enemies.