Does it mean anything or not?

nothing really unusual about it. my company is a private fleet but has agreements with several others (swift, heartland and now knight as well) to pull their trailers......for various reasons I.E. they have our freight on them that the other company was pulling anyway, we don't have trailers in the area and need one for a backhaul, to reposition to another area ect ect.......imagine the shame of the above trip.....lol....me as an Ashley driver having to drag a swift trailer around

they in turn allow us to use some of their yards as drop lots.

there are many reciprocal agreements going on out here.

your company may be looking for additional lines of revenue/business and found one

 

Probably nothing at all. Company A has empty trailer, loads freight on it, company B has power unit available, company A is busy, Company B hooks up and delivers load, as per reciprocal agreement already in place.New agreements are made all the time.

Once again, it all comes down to supply and demand.That runs the trucking busines.

 

Sometimes, when a trailer is dropped, another company may take it, through some sort of agreement. Then they may get a load drop that, for you to pick up. Done so many times with just about every company. Sometimes too, a company needs an extra trailer, as they are short some, and they call around for trailers to short term rent, then sometimes again, get a load, drop it, sometimes they drop it empty.

A company I used to work for, never let us into NYC. We would drop the trailers at a company just near the GW Bridge, what's that, Fort Lee? Then they would take the trailers into NYC, for us, for a fee, and then the next time we had a NYC load, we drop that off, pick up the other one. They had through the agreement, use of the trailers as well.

 

Right before Christmas I saw a little convoy of owner operators (or smallish carrier), first two had UPS trailers and the third had a Swift trailer. I wonder who got the short end of that stick.

 

The UPS haulers.

As Swift looks great behind a real pro driver!

 

Nothing weird about it. My wife and I drove team at Arnold and hauled a Forward Air trailer. Was a huge FA customer and Arnold sent us there as a power only run.