I saw a pic on Google of a Dayton Freight sleeper truck. I also been seeing a quite few of their sleepers especially near Lowell, Indiana. Is Dayton Freight doing OTR now or something?
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Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Chucky5502, Aug 29, 2019.
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We have a terminal in Lowell. You might have been spotting some of our system drivers coming and going from there. Those rebranded Kelley trucks are only being used because they had too much life in them to prematurely get rid of them. I would guess that once those trucks are retired all of our system drivers are going to go back to driving daycabs.FlaSwampRat Thanks this. -
Haha. I thought they were owner operators that are leased to Dayton Freight. I saw them in Tomah, Wi.
Seems like a good gig. Driving from terminal to terminal with a sleeper. You can just sleep at any Terminal and don’t have to worry about parking at truck stops. -
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sometimes given the hotel you're in it's nicer to sleep in the truck if they put you in the bed bug inn
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We also got a bunch of swing door trailers when Kelley shut down. Those aren't ever used for city peddle runs, but we do use them sometimes for linehaul and I think occasionally also for spotting trailers at volume shippers.
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when did they shut down Kelly? did they offer those drivers a spot at Dayton, or were they s.o.l.?
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I can't remember exactly when it shut down, but I'm thinking it was at least a year ago at this point. Apparently they weren't making any money and I think someone said they only had around 15 drivers at the end. I'm not sure how many came to Dayton Freight, but I know the Kelley guy who was domiciled at my terminal didn't. Some of them hated when they had to pull our extra linehaul trailers because of the forced nights and stricter schedules. Not to mention the fact that they were being paid much less to pull those trailers than we were. I thought it would be a no-brainer to walk into a good job, but apparently some didn't. Nighttime linehaul definitely isn't for everyone.Last edited: Sep 8, 2019
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