lol. Haven’t heard that one in a while.
Lol. The Navajo trucks in your pictures are not from the same Navajo that you guys are talking about, the trucks in the pictures are Navajo...
I don’t buy the company line, I strongly suspect there were other long term motives. So rather then CF Inc pumping a bunch of money into a new...
I know many ex CF drivers who claim to have been suspicious about the leaderships motivations at the time of Conway’s creation. These concerns...
One other thought on this. It seems to me that the book reveals a certain degree of negligence on the part of the board of directors. I don’t...
I know what I’m about to say falls under the heading of industry lore and maybe even conspiracy theory... It is my belief that at the time that...
Those kind of numbers are not that uncommon in the trucking industry, it’s a hyper competitive business that produces thin profit margins in good...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The conventionals above are Freightliner FLD120’s. The FLC as seen below was the forerunner to the FLD. [IMG]
One other thing, the term “needle nose” generally refers to trucks from the 50’s through the early 70’s with small radiators (generally KW and...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] It’s a FLC Freightliner with a set back front axle. FLC’s could be ordered in set back front axle, and set forward front...
My thoughts exactly.
Not sure? I know approximately 10 years ago YRC still had some running around the PNW. The Roadway / YRC guys I talked with hated them. I was...
When the economy contracts (aka recession ) you will most likely see to many trucks chasing to little freight and rates will go down. It’s...
During the infancy of podcasting (around 2008) there was a ABF driver out of Albuquerque NM who had a podcast called ABQ trucker. I don’t think I...
Yes, building cars is a complicated process. West coasters like me know very little about that industry.
Good work. Now come clean mine! Lol
I helped one of them chain up his truck after he, myself and many others spun out on the Marquam Bridge in Portland, Oregon last winter after a...
One other thing noteworthy I can offer about USF is that from the mid 1990’s until the YRC acquisition it was fairly common to see USF Bestway...
[ATTACH] I don’t have any knowledge of TNT/USF beyond their basic history and industry gossip, so I stand to learn a lot from this project. The...
Yes. Notice how that trailer is flexing under the strain? I wonder how well these modern trailers would handle that maneuver? Notice that...