YRCW article

Exactly. If you pay me enough for my house, I will gladly sell it to you. I couldn't care less if you bulldozed it to the ground and put a brothel on the property. What grinds my gear is how the regionals have to keep retightening our belts because another thing YRC screwed up on. I am driving a POS 1996 Freightliner. It breaks down so many times that I got the tow company on speed dial on both personal and work phone.

They tell us we are not expected to receive any replacements in the near future... Yet the YRC barn down the road just got themselves brand new off the factory trucks. Their old trucks are 15 years newer than what I am driving. Seriously... WTF?! My cut in pay is what bought them their shiny new equipment.

 

1996 Freightliner, it's one thing if your Gully Transportation and have a competent rebuild plan in place are are in the business of rebuilding Freightliner FLD's and totally specialize in that because you know that truck inside and out, but it's a totally different thing if your YRC. The USF Holland terminal here in Cleveland gosh I think most of the stuff is all gone now, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had some old TNT Holland tractors still around. They have plenty of Sterling's that god have to be beyond there last leg.

Sounds like a lot of robbing Peter to Pay Paul.

Holland here though did get some newer Freightliners not many but a few.

 

For a moment when I saw that pic, I thought the driver was pulling a rocky set. But those aren't legal east of ND?

 

They can run them on the Turnpike UPS parcel has however they are not very common. I did see UPS parcel running a rocky mountain doubles set on the Ohio Turnpike. However that's not real common. Triples and Turnpike Doubles are only allowed on the turnpike toll road. Regular doubles are allowed all over and the most common.

USF Holland around here runs a lot of 53' trailers, however they do have some turnpike doubles running on the turnpike, but they are mostly 53' single trailers.

Regular doubles are the most common here on the toll roads and regular roads, however you do see some triples. Ohio-Indiana you can run pikers. Pennsylvania turnpike though is a whole different ball game no fancy creative sets on that road pretty much regular 28' doubles and that's about it.

Most of the piker operations are actually flat bed steel haulers like Falcon Transport of Youngstown, Ohio picking up coil steel in Chicago and pulling it to the GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio Falcon runs a lot of flat bed doubles. Now, they used to run dry van doubles too, for there auto parts, but they have seemed to stop that.
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/brian_kuchay/july2003/bk_falcon_cabover.html

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/brian_kuchay/may2003/falcon_ih.html

 

Triples and turnpike doubles? *Yawn*


Sad thing is... That is seriously how many trailers worth of freight I deliver each day.

 

Offen wonder how YRC stays open!

 

Talk about your 1%... We need to fix SS before they bail out the Union!

 

I've got a friend at saia who told me awile back the sales people at saia are telling YRC customers to go with them now before YRC finally drowns .
I don't like to see old companies go under and sure don't like the screwing YRC drivers are getting but it don't look good considering that freight is soft now .

 

Sad thing is all the regional companies are profitable. If YRC sinks, we won't have 1/3 of the customer base we have now.

Word around the campfire has it that UPSF is looking at buying all of YRC to compete against ODFL. But that is just a ongoing rumor.