UPS Freight Diary:

I think we moved from hijacking to armed robbery.

Yeah, them Overnite equipment were REALLY bad. I forgot what model they were, but I think they were Internationals. I avoided them trucks like the plaque. I'm pretty sure UPSF is getting new tractors soon. @Russian Rabbit probably knows more about it then I do.

I'm seeing 5-10 years for this...haha

 

Here it is I found it:
I guess UPS Freight isn't to hot for buying new straight trucks, Russian or Sho Nuff you guys ever drive one of those units?

 

Ha Ha, I can beat that. we still run an old ### Motor Cargo. I'll get pics when I go back in.

 

Not me personally, we didn't have any of those trucks. I usually used the Penske rental trucks with the EXTREMELY small liftgate. It wound up being a hand unload for the day the few times I did stright truck resi's.

 

This figure doesn't apply for drivers in palatine. I was told over the phone that they start you at $17.4 somthin for the linehaul guys

 

@Russian Rabbit Whatever happened to the daytime linhaul gig? I think you mentioned you're doing nighttime instead with less miles.

 

Actually around here in Cleveland the Overnite equipment isn't really all that common any more. In fact it's becoming rarer and rarer. I think they painted a lot of tractors because I saw a brown early 2000s Volvo like a 2000 Volvo painted UPS Brown and it said UPS Freight either they bought it used or repainted it. I can't tell you the last time I saw an Overnite tractor for the most part those are all re branded or painted.

That terminal in Richfield, I discovered a couple weeks ago and thought it looked cool so I went out and grabbed some pictures. I don't know anything about that terminal in Richfield as far as it's history it could have been Preston or Carolina both gone now. I don't think that was originally an Overnite built terminal, but I could be wrong.

The terminal in Cleveland used to be the Old Overnite Terminal always was that was Overnite they built it and then when UPS Freight got in there they took it over obviously. I think a couple weeks ago I saw a UPS Freight linehaul pulling 2 Overnite Pups haven't seen a set up like that in sometime. Gosh I haven't seen a Motor Cargo trailer out here in a very very long time.

I hear you on the re-branding were no different at GFS, about 2 years ago GFS decided they wanted to be Gordon Food Service and decided it was time to re brand the company. Well that can sure get expensive and what they ended up doing and this comes as no surprise is they said "Yeah were not going to bother re branding any of the trailers there's to many of them will just cycle them out instead." So for the next 10-15 years GFS trailers will still be around they will just decrease in numbers little by little by little and in 10 years most of the trailers like you see in my avatar will be gone. That's pretty common. Now tractors it's different, they re branded a good amount of tractors that run out of the warehouse. I can't believe they would re brand all the tractors, because why re brand them all when your not going to re brand the trailers especially because the tractors have a shorter life span then the trailers?

There was a rumor they were going to re-brand our tractors, but we have a bunch of 2007 tractors that are probably not to far from being sold so why spend money re-branding units like that.

I took my CDL test in a Freightliner FL-70 and a 45' trailer gosh was that thing pathetic I got on the highway and the inspector said "Go hammer down don't worry about it will be lucky to get up to 50."

 

I got all of you guys beat, as far as shotty equipment. Try pulling a POSTAL trailer.

Lets just say, if we were'nt federal, NO mail would EVER be delivered.