Yellow Freight closure thread

I drove for Central Transport in the the mid 90s if they held air you were good to go.

 

Saw something similar at Reddaway. My meet driver was complaining for four weeks straight that his steer and a few drive tires were running low. Finally the shop took his truck in on his ten.

Their solution? Brand new steer tires and moved his old steer tires to replace the two lowest drive tires. The two old drive tires ended up on a inter-company movement trailer to be recapped in SLC.

This was right in the middle of winter and he had to traverse both Lookout Pass and the Fourth of July Pass at the Washington/Idaho/Montana borders ...twice a night.

Believe me when I say this. He was in a state of pissed off that I've never seen.

 

Sounds like a Reddaway thing to do. When I was with them I had a trailer tire blowout at least every other week. As for recapped steers, also totally believable. I had my one and only steer tire blowout with them, but it wasn't the tread that failed. It failed along the bead. Tire was probably recapped to hell and back, and it finally said F this and left the chat at 60mph down a hill.

 

I have never "blown" a steer (knock wood). Had one go flat once while I was parked in a truckstop (I had picked up a nail at my last drop). Thats in nearly 40 years.

 

seems like a lot of wasted effort to fail anyway.....

 

I looked into them several years ago. Their equipment doesn't look quite as ratty as it did back then.
Maybe its just that I am in a different location now.

 

I saw 30-50 Yellow tractors at MK Truck Sales in Alsip yesterday - looks like asset sales are beginning.

 

Yellow Trucking Execs Pocketed $4.6 Million After Handing Out 30,000 Pink Slips - TruckersReport.com

 

And former Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg pocketed $62 million in stock and pension after the 737 Max crashes.

Welcome to corporate America