Knight just bought Abilene Motor Express, the company I drive for. And I have one question...

If they are going to be under Knight/Swift’s insurance, I can see them turning the speeds down to 65mph. They are a publicly traded company, which the investors are only worried about the share price and being profitable. Hopefully they don’t ruin what was a great company.

 

oh they will...
1) cut back the speeds

2) ruin a now former great company

3) when the stock holders see a decline in thier investments/dividends, they will scream bloody murder.

 

Yes. They turned them up about 2 years ago. My understanding is that trucks registered and based in Canada are required to have limiters on them.

 

Things won't go downhill at all. Knight bought Barr Nunn back in 2014, and they still operate seperately from us. Swift operates seperately from us, but they have Knights policies in place.

 

No. And I’ve been inspected in Calgary and Toronto. Nothing was ever said.

 

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Hopefully this will turn out ok however it didn’t work out for Celadon when they were buying up companies. A lot happened with celadon besides acquisitions but they have struggled to maintain their business. Celadon was actually buying companies to get their customer base and could care less about acquiring the equipment or their drivers, hopefully that’s not what Knight is doing.