We were all shocked. Rumors flown around that Buster Brown was making overtures to get into LTL and they wanted to buy us. What’s interesting as well is GI Trucking was our non union sister company in the far west. Red Arrow was Union in the Texas Oklahoma area and Estes was our interline carrier for Virginia and parts of the Carolinas. GI was NOT an interline carrier and had full view of freight moving through the entire system and was privy to pricing, etc. ABF thought they’d keep all or most of CFCC’s customer base but by not buying GI, it opened the door for them to start going after freight and approaching Estes to take a significant part of CFCC’s customer base away from ABF. Now you have Estes and GI together
The terminal I was at at the end was a small End Of the Line barn as was the local ABF barn. The Union agreed to dovetailing the seniority lists rather than put the CFCC guys at the bottom. My barn had six guys on the board the ABF barn had 7. However, there was not enough work to keep all 13 busy and in the end 5 were laid off, 2 CFCC and 3 ABF. Great times going into work with the guy that just bumped your buddy off his job. I was bottom of the barrel so o knew I was gone but some of the guys that got laid off had 10+ years seniority. In addition we worked through the last National Freight strike which I still havent figured out. Was told that CFCCwent to the Union and said if they go out there will be no more CFCC. So ABF, Yellow,CF, and Roadway along with some other smaller Union outfits were on the picket line and we were working!
Ive always been curious about these trailers
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Saia bought out a bunch of old gray UPS Freight trailers.. I'm willing to bet some of them were old re-branded overnite trailers. Saia is rebranding them to spiffy old-new saia trailers with "scan this qr code to apply" decals on them, I'll see if I can take some pics later
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So word is that UPS Freight never really loaded freight like most LTLs do and that even in the overnite days overnite didn’t run doubles quite like everyone else. As least that’s what I read on the other forum so take that for what it’s worth.
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Mike you probably need to take a vacation to North Carolina and visit the Carolina Freight Museum. I haven’t been there but I have seen many pictures and videos and it looks really nice.
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