Which Companies DO NOT Have Manual Trucks?

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  1. insipidtoast

    insipidtoast Heavy Load Member

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    Fedex Freight is the biggest ltl outfit!? Are you including Ground as part of that? I'm specifically talking about the open positions I saw on the Fedex Freight website. Ground contractors have ads littered all over craigslist and indeed.
     
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  3. USMC 3531

    USMC 3531 Heavy Load Member

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    Yes that's correct, Fed Ex Freight itself is the largest publicly traded LTL carrier in the U.S. and the largest overall in the U.S., and Estes is the largest privately owned LTL carrier in the U.S. but not as big as Fed Ex Freight if that makes sense.
     
  4. ‘Olhand

    ‘Olhand Cantankerous Crusty

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    I’m thinking something is very very out of wack with the listings....According to Transport Topics Fed Wrex Freight Is the largest....but they’re listed as having more than 9million power units..,,almost double Estes whose #2
    Double Yellow and OD at 3&4
    More than 4x Bullfrog
    Something seems off
    Not saying they’re not the largest
    But everything in my soul tells me 9million plus power unit would have to be across the Entire Fed Wrex brand
     
  5. McUzi

    McUzi Road Train Member

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    What are you talking about? FedEx Freight last reported 19k power units to the FMCSA Safer system.
     
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  6. jmz

    jmz Road Train Member

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    There aren't even 9 million trucks in the entire country, let alone at one company.

    Are you looking at revenue? FedEx Freight had $9 billion in revenue last year, while Old Dominion was a distant 2nd at $5.2 billion.
     
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  7. USMC 3531

    USMC 3531 Heavy Load Member

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    I think this is what olhand is referring to, its transport topics top 100 ltl carriers list, and not a very good one, pretty sure those are revenue numbers, but I dont understand why it says tractors lol. Screenshot_20230312_164845_Chrome.jpg
     
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  8. insipidtoast

    insipidtoast Heavy Load Member

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    USMC 3531 Heavy Load Member

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    My guess is bullfrog is ABF, some of the older generation drivers had nick names for different carriers, when I worked for Con Way western express aka CWX over 20 years ago some drivers would refer to us as circus waggon express on the CB, kind of like calling CF corn flakes ect ect.
     
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  10. ‘Olhand

    ‘Olhand Cantankerous Crusty

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    That was the point I was making....but the 9 million isn’t revenue..,.their revenue was way higher than that over 1billion Fiscal ‘22
    So it’s a wonderment as I like to say...but typically Transport Topics is a pretty accurate resource
    Which is why I made the comment I did
    And @jmz as of 2020 there were 161.5 Million heavytrucks registered in the US
    That includes public private and commercial U.S. truck registrations | Statista
     
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    jmz Road Train Member

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    Yeah it's just formatted weird on mobile. Add three zeros to the revenue figures to get the amount, so 9 billion for FedEx Freight as I said.
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