Never Stand Still

@DougA your right Never Stand Still is a hard read that's why I'm trying to do my best, the book is choppy and I'll tell you what not that I am the best but I am not a Harvard or Yale either, but some these executives are quoted a lot in the book and oh dear lord, these are all college educated people and I'm not talking Jr College I am talking, the Harvard's and Yale's of the world and these guys as far as grammar and sentence structure are awful.

The editors of the book constantly have parenthesis in the quotes, because these executives command of the English language is so bad. You've probably heard better English on the CB back in the day.

Evey time I enter a post on this thread I am hoping I have it all which is why I am constantly referring back to someone like your self who actually lived it, because the book is readable, but it's a hard read it is choppy the way the book was put together chronilogically could have been way way better it's not the way I would have done it they refer to years out of order which is my biggest beef with the book, the info and subject matter of the book is fine, but the mechanics of it are very very choppy. Of course your right the book was written by management about management so naturally there going to make them selves look good and they could talk more about the drivers and air plane pilots and mechanics and sales people and all of them they briefly talk about the CF sales structure, but they don't spend to much time on that, mostly it's good info, but it's also a lot of management patting them selves on the back.

Another one that I read 99% of, was The Wreck of The Penn Central that's another business book and Never Stand Still is easier then The Wreck of The Penn Central, but The Wreck of The Penn Central that one is tough and to make a long story short with that Penn Central made some very very bad investments had terrible management was not competitive at all totally neglected there railroad business and boom that was that.
It didn't help that on Merger day when the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with New York Central the Pennsy only had like literally a million dollars in the bank which for a business like that is absolute chump change.

 

CFs hub and spoke system 1982

 

Sounds like they had one heck of a culture going on there LOL!

 

Rollins was in business at the time and CF had a bunch of other business well in the 1960s CF CEO Bill White wanted to sell off some of CF's business that he didn't really like and one of them was there truck and trailer business. Rollins bought CF's truck and trailer rental business from them, however Rollins was already in business prior to that.