I've never seen that, and I go into our central most hub in Indy every night. It must have been a special circumstance, or moving a new trailer from a manufacturer or something?
We do have a handful of sleepers, so if it was a white sleeper truck it may have been one of our system drivers. When our sister truckload company (Kelley) closed up, those trucks were rebranded and are now used by Dayton Freight.
How’s the LTL sector doing where you’re at?
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So when a third party takes over your freight, we call them interline carriers. It has less to do about saving and more to do about the freight being out of your companies route. Depending how remote your company is, they will even turn over freight on the P&D side. I found a picture of our old interline carrier that I took a few years back. They are called NPT and pretty much everyone else turned their garbage freight over to them.
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We use North Park too.
There’s another in my neck of the woods who covers the Virginia portion of the eastern shore for us.
If they didn’t, we’d need at best one of our drivers to cover half of it and another out of Richmond to cover the lower half, about 3 1/2 hours away for each. -
I think interline is different from contractor linehaul. See it a lot in the west, some sleeper truck pulling of of the big LTLs trailers.
Estes, as an example, only advertised team linehaul positions out of PHX for a long time, so there were a lot of contractors out there pulling sets.
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Now with me, the only experience I've had with third party is interline P&D and then sending linehaul out of Reddaway's region and across into our sister companies service region.
Anyway, I am guessing you are using contractors to haul overflow freight? Maybe cheaper freight? And thanks for clarifying things. I learn something new everyday. I stand corrected.
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