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

That is an awesome shot,, BTW... playin hardball with physics...

 

I bet we were all hoping you would know. :^) Wonder if TNT still has 20 million in a drawer it forgot it had.

 

I don't know if this company has anything to do with usf Dugan but they are a small ltl player down here we hired a guy from there he said it wasn't bad just didn't pay much (15.50 all straight time no ot)

 

Yes. Notice how that trailer is flexing under the strain? I wonder how well these modern trailers would handle that maneuver?

Notice that notorious LA smog in the background.

 

I don’t have any knowledge of TNT/USF beyond their basic history and industry gossip, so I stand to learn a lot from this project. The one thing of interest I can offer is that the old KW pictured above was commonly seen running around Portland, Oregon with a lift gate trailer in the 1990’s. They also took the old KW to the big American Truck Historical Society show in Brooks, Ore each year. It seemed to have disappeared around the time of the YRC acquisition.

 

One other thing noteworthy I can offer about USF is that from the mid 1990’s until the YRC acquisition it was fairly common to see USF Bestway trailers mixed into USF Reddaway line haul sets in the PNW, the PNW was of course Reddaways service area. I was told by one of their drivers this was due to interlining and not a merger attempt.