How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

I know Wal-Mart their most recent quarterly earnings were not very good and they laid off a bunch of white collar front office people of course big companies bloat them selves with unnecessary management and front office people anyway so there’s that, but I think things are slowing down.

 

Last night was the first night I had 2 trailers actually worth something 16K in the lead and 13K in the back. Lately our loads have been smaller too.

 

I have a question so I see these white freight liner sleeper cab trucks that pull doubles and sometimes actually a lot of times single 28' trailers for UPS and they have UPS logos on the door are those guys like some kind of sleeper team drivers for UPS parcel? What exactly do they do. I see them on the Ohio turnpike anyway pulling single 28' trailers a lot actually.

 

Is FedEx Freight more organized and better ran then say Estes? I always heard Estes was pretty easy outfit to work for, but they weren't always the most organized.

 

I have a question and I know you guys can answer this. FedEx freight is the largest LTL carrier in the county on JOCs board of Class I LTL carriers they are the largest carrier in terms of revenue and freight moved. They were formed in 2001 when FedEx bought out American Freightways, and then continued to buy out Viking and Watkins in the years following the initial purchase of American Freightways. The buy out of Watkins and Viking was to continue moving west and building there westward Empire.

UPS bought out Overnite in the east and Motorcargo in the west and that is what formed what is the now defunct UPS Freight funny thing is UPS Freight didn't last as long 16 years UPS never really wanted into the freight business and was never serious about it in my opinion it was just a loss leader to compete with FedEx, but FedEx obviously I think there heart was way more into the LTL business then UPS, UPS's heart wasn't in it.

It's hard for me to get a gauge from the message boards, but over all FedEx Freight good or bad? Freighthauler 87 on YouTube, worked at Estes for 3 years and then went over to FedEx and said it was night and day different from Estes in terms of organization.

Now I know there was a nice guy on the other forum who told me he worked for FedEx Freight in the city I believe for 7 years he had work for Daylight Donuts and said they were very good, but the original owners sold the company out sold out the private fleet to JB Hunt or one of those types of outfits and he worked at Sysco in Oklahoma and then went over to FedEx Freight and what ever happened and happened and he wasn't real hip on FedEx Freight and he ended up quitting FedEx Freight and going back to Sysco which isn't heard of much but when you get some seniority in at Sysco especially if it's a union place you can jump between shuttle and city and that guy kind of did that. He would do a city route for a year, then jump to shuttle and do that for a year and then go back to city so on and so fourth. Anyhow that was one guys opinion he didn't like FedEx Freight, but he's not everyone the stuff I read on the boards is really just complaining I guess, just wondering what you all think what's fact vs what's just people complaining about work stuff.