- Defective equipment is infrequently fixed or replaced, making work needlessly difficult and time-consuming,
- XPO's OTR trucking sector uses double trailers, which are difficult and dangerous.
- Assignment of tasks does not always take into account the physical suitability of the task for the employee, e.g. people with back problems are sometimes assigned pickface order selection duty against their will and to the detriment of their health.