Road Runner

I asked around turns out Road Runner did what was called dock-to-dock LTL Jevic Transportation who's gone now operated the same way, so what does that mean?

 

No inside deliveries to offices is what it means for me.

If I have to breakdown pallet or use a 2 wheeler to cart it inside and then someone says "Can you put it over here in this storage room?" I charge extra for that!

 

@scottied67 can tell you everything you need to know.

 

It's sold as "load-to-ride" so the freight gets picked up at a customer, taken to a local terminal, and than loaded onto an outbound trailer that either goes 1) to another local terminal or 2) direct to the customer. Along the way, the trailer might stop at other local terminals to pickup and off-load freight as needed on the way to it's final destination. The idea is to avoid the breakbulks/hubs that most traditional LTL's use to consolidate freight.

Well, it all sounds good on paper. In general practice, it's somewhat ok long-haul LTL and a complete cluster#### for regional LTL as it usually leads to erratic transit times, damaged and lost freight. Roadrunner has very cheap rates, but as the old saying goes: you get what you pay for. Alot of customers I know won't use them because of the headaches and hassles involved.

A good deal of these breakbulk-free LTL's have gone out of business: Jevic, New Century, G.O.D., GI Trucking, etc. And good riddance !!!

 

Hotplate said it better than I ever could. I'm just leased onto them and run freight terminal to terminal. i have a thread over in the favorites, Beep Beep Roadrunner. Good bad and ugly

 

G.O.D about maybe a little less then 10 years ago I saw a tractor pulling one of there trailers down Abbey Road in Sheffield, Ohio and I thought there's an outfit I haven't seen in a long while it was someone in an old Ford tractor it was after G.O.D had folded they were just towing the trailer somewhere, yeah there gone now that's for sure. GI was bought out by Estes and Jevic they went under there terminal used to be on West 161st street in Cleveland, Ohio and then at the same time I know New Century they were the last to fold up pretty recently New Century had a couple other companies under them I still see trailers running around that say New Century, but I know those were just liquidated trailers that haven't had the markings torn off yet.

 

Scottied, I'm reading your Road Runner Beep Beep thread and it's not a bad thread doesn't sound like a bad deal, do have to have your own trailer or do you have one from Roadrunner? If I was going to go the O/O route Road Runner the job doesn't sound half bad to me. My problem is I don't really know to well how to play the OTR game I can manage time, but I'm not a log book pro.

 

What's going to be the final nail in the coffin for outfits like Road Runner is mandatory e-logs. Once those goes into effect, it's game over for alot of asset-light companies that rely on leased power to haul multi-stop LTL freight. XPO saw the writing on the wall, 5 years ago nobody would have ever dreamed that a 3PL would buy an asset-based carrier like Conway.

Road Runner tho has diversified itself over the years and they're backed by big investment houses so overall they'll probably be ok. It's just that the LTL side of the business is gonna take a hit.