Mikes Book Club 2020: Old Dominion Helping the World Keep Promises (2011)

I have one on JB Hunt
Werner & Conway (CCX) too.

And this one won’t be of any interest, but DSNY and Obviously TNT and also Los Angeles Department of Sanitation those are all the major projects and there’s all kinds of rabbit trails that I go off too. Talk a lot about Con-Edison and a lot about municipal garbage departments. DSNY is the largest government owned trucking operation in the United States of not all of North America.

 

Kelles Transport Services!

 

Kelle s was/is small potatoes compared to the real Dick Simon Trucking Kelle s is not a huge fleet compared to FFE, Prime Inc or CR England and Marten.

 

Old Dominion 1970-1979

Hi guys, I haven't had an update here to this thread since awe geeze February of this year.

Anyhow, lets talk about Old Dominion shall we Old Dominion in the 1970s to be specific.

The 1970s while not a spectacular era for the trucking industry as a whole, still managed to have some companies that do well and Old Dominion was one of those.

Over all Old Dominion in the 1970s was able to make good profit dollars and buy out a few companies and while they ran into some trouble with expansion into the North East and the ICC trying to take away one of there major routes, from Richmond to Washington, they were able to work around all that and bought out a big truck company at the end of the decade that had 48 state operating authority and that helped an awful lot. They ended the decade with 48 state operating authority, but by that time the year 1980 was on the way and they had heard that deregulation was in the air.

 

Those were rough trucks back then weren't they? My dad owned an International Transtar flat nose truck late 1970s model and I remeber one time in 1991 we went out to Ashtabula in it and it just rattled and bumpped the whole way there.