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XPO | Rebranding ramping up shortly.

Got to love it. I worked for a company that sold and the new company painted over the old logo and spray painted the new name on the trailer. I was furious, but then realized that I was paid as much to drive for them as I was paid for the old carrier. Go Figure.
 
I've always said that the shinier the wheels are, the less the driver gets paid. (Not in all cases, but it's accurate most of the time.) A set of shiny wheels and chrome all over doesn't pay any of my bills. I do want my equipment to look respectable.......but just keep my wheels rolling and that paycheck from bouncing, and life will be good.
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dalesr said:
Funny how we have a shop with a truck wash in Springfield and we aren't doing any of this. Like you said, pretty sad looking stuff if you ask me. We had a mechanic quit recently and they are not allowed to replace him. That one less mechanic has screwed up everyone else's schedule. Now the shop will be locked up tight, literally, every day from 1:30-3:00pm with nobody there. Won't affect me on linehaul, but I'm sure someone will need something at that time, smh.
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We have had reductions in our shop also. Heads rolling up top is one thing. This effects safety. Not a pleasing thought for most drivers.
 
Northern Flash said:
I've always said that the shinier the wheels are, the less the driver gets paid. (Not in all cases, but it's accurate most of the time.) A set of shiny wheels and chrome all over doesn't pay any of my bills. I do want my equipment to look respectable.......but just keep my wheels rolling and that paycheck from bouncing, and life will be good.
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More offensive to most drivers is that we have not seen a new allotment of tractors this year. We are racking up the miles on some of these trucks.
 
icuicp said:
And where are Tony Brooks and Bradley Jacobs? They sure seem to have went to a low profile.
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Jacobs just did a series of massive town hall meetings in the UK. Unsure about Brooks. Although he should be neck deep in rebranding right now.
 
For those of you that have yet to see what the rebranding looks like, well here ya go.


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dalesr said:
Like I said before, hopefully the nice new white stickers will fade. I think we are just trying to save a few bucks on this massive project. Somehow I don't think that savings will trickle down to us?
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Yes it will, in the form of new equipment and work. I do think the rebrand shown above is heads above the other carriers out there who have merged in my life time of trucking. Why spend way to much on an old trailer, just to trade it in, in a year or so. I think you all will do just fine. Five years from now you will have all new and shiny equipment. :1036316054:
 
Some of you guys are complaining an awful lot. Would you rather they cut your pay and send all the trailers back to Road Systems to be rebuilt just so they look shiny?

FedEx is still running trailers that you can see the old AF lettering bleached into the side of the trailer. A coat of paint would just flake off in 6 months.
 
Canadian Flyer said:
Some of you guys are complaining an awful lot. Would you rather they cut your pay and send all the trailers back to Road Systems to be rebuilt just so they look shiny?

FedEx is still running trailers that you can see the old AF lettering bleached into the side of the trailer. A coat of paint would just flake off in 6 months.
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It's okay , I'm sure it's just venting. There was a lot of build up to the rebranding so the expectation was for fast and smooth.

We don't want to be a patchwork of multiple brands , colors and styles of equipment that's dilapidated and poorly maintained. We see enough of that already.
 
Maltman said:
I assumed, I did not get close enough to read the unit#. Still had plastic on the seats though
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I have no clue what the upper management will do in regards to tractor purchases , but it FEELS like there has been a change since Con-way became XPO. After all , buying tractors is a huge capital expenditure , I can see why XPO would alter the purchase schedules - especially if they look around at the competition , our fleet looks pretty decent. Even the old Sterlings.
 
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As we see the so called smart people that are running XPO have show there brain power with this rebranding.
Let's take god know how may trailer out of the system to rebrand. Do any of these idiots know that it is the end of quarter, end of the month, and before a 3 day weekend. They were real smart taking 40+ trailer out of our local system and now everything is all screwed up. The one night FAC were so hard up they took trailer that were half done or had no marking on at all.
The upper management has show that no one have ever run an LTL company and it sure is am expensive learning lesson. All they need to do was wait about a week or two then have at it.
 
icuicp said:
A 2017? If so , great.
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Seen a brand new road truck at XDM last week..the unit number was xxx-5xxx. A 2015?...These trucks were ordered by Con-way and sat at the factory for months waiting for the right color decals. So I was told by a mechanic.
 
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