Swift/Knight is buying U.S. Express

Was Variant a previous merger with USX? I see their trucks everywhere and they're always pulling USX trailers. Was just curious.

 

No, it was a spin off experiment that went wrong.
One of the (now ex), muckety mucks thought he could run a trucking company by computer alone. He was wrong. Now he's gone.

 

Although Swift was huge, their stock was cheap, making them relatively easy picking for a company with deep pockets.
Plus the fact that the Knights were pretty familiar with the Swift operation made it a relatively painless "merger" to complete .

 

I believe that there was some 'family' kinda thing going on as well......saying that Moyes and Knight had some sort of familial relationship

 

Basically jerry moyes is related to the knight family..that’s how i think it happened..

 

They do..they’re all related even to the england family..look up plain city ut and you’ll see how they all go back to early 1900’s

 

Wow I never knew that. I just knew to stay away from em and that's why I went to Werner instead lol. Relationships and networking does wonders

 

They called it the "optimizer" and they really had their drivers thinking they were a separate company. I told them all to look up the DOT number on their door and see who actually employs them.

 

Is variant even truely defunct? Still see a bunch of the grey cabs with Variant decals pulling USX decaled trailers.

 

Not really. I think they're just going to slowly roll it back into USX. It never was a thing to begin with. It was USX with a different name on the door.