How’s the LTL sector doing where you’re at?

I've never seen that, and I go into our central most hub in Indy every night. It must have been a special circumstance, or moving a new trailer from a manufacturer or something?

We do have a handful of sleepers, so if it was a white sleeper truck it may have been one of our system drivers. When our sister truckload company (Kelley) closed up, those trucks were rebranded and are now used by Dayton Freight.

 

So when a third party takes over your freight, we call them interline carriers. It has less to do about saving and more to do about the freight being out of your companies route. Depending how remote your company is, they will even turn over freight on the P&D side. I found a picture of our old interline carrier that I took a few years back. They are called NPT and pretty much everyone else turned their garbage freight over to them.

 

When OD bought Utah Wyoming out that left NPT as the only carrier that serviced all Of Wyoming daily. The bigger nationwide carriers will not interline with their competitors.
NPT also picks up freight to turn back to the carriers feeding them.

 

Yep, North Park Transportation.

 

I remember when UW set up shop in Reno and in Elko, they took over Motor Cargos old terminal on Depoli st in Reno, and the old CF terminal in Elko, I think it only lasted a year or two and then OD came to town.

 

I think interline is different from contractor linehaul. See it a lot in the west, some sleeper truck pulling of of the big LTLs trailers.

Estes, as an example, only advertised team linehaul positions out of PHX for a long time, so there were a lot of contractors out there pulling sets.

Saw a UPSF trailer being pulled by a OO the other day...

 

Estes use to use NPT for P&D in Montana before we opened up our 3 new terminals there. We probably still use them for some of our MT freight. Been to their Missoula terminal a fare amount before our yard was opened there.

 

Like @speedyk said, there’s a difference between handing it off to an interline carrier and contracting out a linehaul run. With FedEx, we service the vast majority of the country, and have our own drivers running to and from every single service center. If there’s a contractor running our freight, then there’s also FedEx drivers bringing freight along that same route.

 

The more I read into what you and @speedyk are explaining, the more I am getting a better understanding of the difference.

Now with me, the only experience I've had with third party is interline P&D and then sending linehaul out of Reddaway's region and across into our sister companies service region.

Anyway, I am guessing you are using contractors to haul overflow freight? Maybe cheaper freight? And thanks for clarifying things. I learn something new everyday. I stand corrected.