Talkin' Trucks With Mike:A History of the TNT Companies

Mike2633 · Aug 13, 2022

@R. Buron

TNT had a division in a couple cities here in the US called TNT Distribution Services, what was TNT Distribution Services? What did they actually do? Did they deliver product to customers brick and mortar stores or did they deliver big ticket items to house holds? Were they doing final mile services? What was TNT Distribution Services?

R. Buron · Aug 14, 2022

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@R. Buron I've been doing some reading in your book and looking on the internet a little bit, but TNT (under Australian ownership) because that's the era of TNT I am interested in, only mentions in passing about TNT Waste Control. Which was like the garbage truck division of the company, I know they were only in Australia and what did TNT Waste Control do? Did they pick up and dispose of biohazard waste from hospitals? Did they collect regular municipal garbage? Even TNT's corporate promotional films the one's I could find really don't mention TNT Waste Control very much and I've only been able to see one small fleeting second in a company film of one of TNT Waste Controls garbage trucks. I know in the early 1990s TNT sold off the Waste Control division because around the early 1990s the company was big and vast and far and wide and had some many other companies and sub companies and affiliates and sub divisions they were really like General Electric in a lot of ways just had there hands in everything, but some of it was just to much and to far away from the core business and the Waste Control was to far from the core and they sold that unit off and then shortly after started restructuring and basically set up the structure which formed TNT Freightways which was basically the sell off of TNT's LTL companies in North America because in 1997 TNT's license expired and TNT Freightways dropped the TNT name and became US Freightways which was around for what 10 years maybe before they were bought out by Yellow Roadway Corp, but in that 10 years Reddeway and Holland were the only survivors Redstar parishes in the early 2000s and the rest of the TNT/USF Collection all got merged or put under and basically it was Reddeway in the west and Holland in the east and now that's pretty much done as Holland is now Yellow and that whole thing makes very little sense, but whatever. What's funny is the remnants from TNT company last 25 years after the company sold off.
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TNT Waste Control provided a complete range of solid and liquid waste collection, transportation and disposal services to the domestic, commercial and industrial markets throughout Australia.

PS: I have few photos of their trucks. I could send you the photos if you give me your E-mail address through the E-mail address of the book website t-a.anythinganywhere@videotron.ca

R. Buron · Aug 14, 2022

Mike2633 said: ↑

@R. Buron

TNT had a division in a couple cities here in the US called TNT Distribution Services, what was TNT Distribution Services? What did they actually do? Did they deliver product to customers brick and mortar stores or did they deliver big ticket items to house holds? Were they doing final mile services? What was TNT Distribution Services?
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The division operated a shared user network offering consolidation and distribution sevices in the New-York, Chicago/Milwaukee, Denver and Los-Angeles markets. TNT Distribution served the retail sector.

http://barraclou.com/truck/tnt/freightways/distribution_services.jpg

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