Who has their hands in what companies?

PokerHerRed · Jun 12, 2014

Swift has affiliations with Navajo too. Jerry's daughter runs it. At least that is what I have been told. These people running these companies are members of a large religious organization out of Salt Lake, UT. I think we have heard stories of their family ties. At one point the main organization owned Swift when Jerry had so legal problems. The organization has banked rolled some of these companies at one time or another. At least these are some of the stories I've heard.

unloader · Jun 12, 2014

AfterShock said: ↑

Nor is it convincing
The Sons-0-Chester created their own Department of Corporate Damage Control to complement their Department of Insecure Security and Simulated Containment and both are burnin' the midnight oil researchin' stealth technology, --- at least that's the rumor from their Department of Bait & Switch. But one never really knows with those guys.

By the way, ---- an interestin' factoid some may not be aware of, ....... but, ....... would y'all believe that The founder of C.R. England & Sons, Mr. Chester Rodney England, married his sweetie back in 1916. Her name was Maude Knight.
Sound familiar?
Two sons resulted from their union, Bill and Gene

Meanwhile, in 1990, four cousins: brothers Randy and Gary Knight and brothers Kevin and Keith Knight founded a Phoenix, Arizona based Big truck truckin' company that they called Knight Transportation. The four cousins worked for another Phoenix, Arizona based Big truck truckin' company. Y'all mighta heard the name of that company a few times before, But if anyone tries to tell y'all that the company actually contains three names that combine. "NotSo" does not belong in front of Swift Transportation.
Randy Knight was even a part owner in Swift. But Jerry Moyes bought Randy's interest.
The name "Swift" (Transportation) was purchased from a descendant of the Swift Meat Packing family when the Moyes family bought the truckin' assets of Swift & Company. The three Moyeses and Randy Knight grew the business.

The Knight family and the Moyes family called Plain City, Utah home. A farmin' family that also lived in Plain City back 'round 1896, added another member to their family that year when their son was born. Chester Rodney England. By 1920 Chester was Big truck truckin' in a Model T. In 1940, Chester bought a used Kenworth conventional sportin' diesel power, and a used 35 foot trailer with a mechanical refrigeration unit that wasn't reliable.
Chester offered the first ever 72 hour coast-to-coast run. Robert Gould was the first driver that Chester put in a new 1959 Kenworth with a nose and told 'em not to come back 'till he got thar first. The east coast hadn't seen a Kenworth yet. Robert Gould became Chester's first east coast terminal manager. Rumor has it that Robert's nose appeared to have turned medium brown around the same time frame. One can only guess what caused that to happen.

Back to Plain City, Utah, where in the 1940's Carl Moyes was a Big truck truck driver for C.R. England. Then, in the late 1950's, Carl and his sweetie, Betty, started a small Big truck truckin' company of their own right thar in Plain City. They called their company B & C Truck Leasing, and after their son Jerry graduated from Weber State University in 1966, they relocated their company to Phoenix, Arizona.
Carl Moyes and his two sons, Ronald and Jerry, formed the company Common Market, and that company became Swift.

When Carl Moyes assumed room temperature in 1985, Jerry bought out his other two partners. In 1988 Swift bought Cooper Motor Lines, then went public in 1990. In 1991 Swift purchased Arthur H. Fulton Trucking. Swift purchased 11 different motor carriers in the U.S., includin' M.S. Carriers and 100% ownership of Trans-Mex of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. :smt028
OH!
Almost slipped my mind.
Central Refrigerated is another Big truck truckin' company under the England umbrella.

Off hand, I'd say those clans from Plain City, Utah that grew up together in that small farmin' town, managed to put together truckin' empires that all share the same thing in common. It boggles my mind when I think about the influence those clans have in the Big truck truckin' industry now-a-daze.
When folks opine that the mega big truck training companies are all the same, I used to question their reasonin' abilities. As it turns out, those Plain City pals just might have enough power and influence within the Big truck truckin' industry to affect which direction the industry takes on it's way to the future.
Those who think that the Sons-0-Chester don't have a clue how to run a truckin' company and wonder how they can stay in business, ............... I think it's time to re-think what'cha used to think you thought. :smt017
Ya reckon. :smt025
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unloader

EZX1100 · Jun 12, 2014

prime, knight, swift, england

wat about jerrick and new century?

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