Yellow | New tractors by KK

BS! White is the base color AT NO CHARGE! It actually costs more to DELETE the AM/FM Radio, which is a standard option, but then, we can't have those drivers being comfortable with a radio that is factory installed can we? And I see we still have those chain boxes! One of these days someone will wake up and hang those chains ouside on the hooks like we did at Roadway, where they belong.


Will youz guys stop it already with the chain boxes!!! They need them to have something for the magnets on the bottom of those old steel farm implement seats to stick to for your sleeper team partner to sit in, or your stupidvisor to ride along because he just knows you've been screwing him!:biglaugh:
 
Are those logos magnetic stick-ons?


No, if you look close enough you can see the little metal clips like the hazardous placards, like the ones that were on some trailers a while ago. That way in 10-15 years when yrc gets done trashing them, they can just send em over to Holland to use! Just flip the logo and wham bam, thank you ma'am!!!
 
I don't care how fast or slow they are , color, or features. I'll drive what they give me till the end of the tour, then I'll get another, and go again.
It don't matter , it's just what I knew it was when I got on 20 years ago
When it's a bad day I remind myself that I can quit any day I want to, I just can't hire on ANY day.
I'll be glad to drive one.
 
I just wonder if all the tractors YRC will lease will be twin screws?


If I was betting, thats where my money would go. yrc is big on screws!

If they have sliding 5th wheels and they go up far enough they'll just cut off the rear axle and seal all the lines up with duct tape. Won't be hard to do, they probably got tag axles or heavens forbid, they're all jiff-locs!
 
If I was betting, thats where my money would go. yrc is big on screws!

If they have sliding 5th wheels and they go up far enough they'll just cut off the rear axle and seal all the lines up with duct tape. Won't be hard to do, they probably got tag axles or heavens forbid, they're all jiff-locs!


Probably gonna' have a hard time finding a Roadway jiff!
 
I guess a twin screw beats those stupid jiff lock pieces of turd. Who's bright idea were those, anyway? Must be a Roadway thing.

I'm guessing you aren't old enough to remember the old CF Jiff Locks? They did it when I was a kid (at least), and I'm 57! I didn't know anyone else ever used them?????
 
I'm guessing you aren't old enough to remember the old CF Jiff Locks? They did it when I was a kid (at least), and I'm 57! I didn't know anyone else ever used them?????
The Roadway JIF loc was no harder to use then putting together a set. You just needed the experience around the equipment. I think most of the ones complaining are line drivers who weren't use to any dropping or hooking.
 
The Roadway JIF loc was no harder to use then putting together a set. You just needed the experience around the equipment. I think most of the ones complaining are line drivers who weren't use to any dropping or hooking.

With all due respect Mud, you've got to be kidding. I Jiffed/un-Jiffed sets back when I was at PIE and no way was it as easy as making/breaking a set. Certainly it wasn't the worst thing to have to do, but a bit more involved and messy (if you weren't EXTRA careful) than making/breaking normal sets.
 
I'm guessing you aren't old enough to remember the old CF Jiff Locks? They did it when I was a kid (at least), and I'm 57! I didn't know anyone else ever used them?????

How about those CF tractors which slid all the way under the lead trailer to became a straight job pulling the kite behind in order to run across Pennsylvania when the sets weren't allowed.
 
With all due respect Mud, you've got to be kidding. I Jiffed/un-Jiffed sets back when I was at PIE and no way was it as easy as making/breaking a set. Certainly it wasn't the worst thing to have to do, but a bit more involved and messy (if you weren't EXTRA careful) than making/breaking normal sets.
Other than dropping the fifth wheel onto the ground or forgetting to hookup the safety chains, I never had many problems jiffing or un-jiffing a tractor.
 
Other than dropping the fifth wheel onto the ground or forgetting to hookup the safety chains, I never had many problems jiffing or un-jiffing a tractor.


You obviously have never had the pleasure of doing one thats been covered in hard as rock ice, every knook and cranny frozen over. Putting the tractor in the heated garage and turning the heat up full blast and 3 guys hammering the ice off to get a driver on his way. Not to efficent and multiply that over half the system in the Winter.
Wonder how many comp cases can be traced to those PsOS.
If I recall, CF-Freightliner came up with that idea and even they gave them up do to so many injuries.
If yellow hadn't of bought roadway the jiff-loc would have put them out of business for sure! Ever think of the one good thing that came from the buyout is all the fingers that have been saved by getting rid of those goofy things.

PS: Hope they sold the patent to Fed-X! And Jeff bid the yard position!!!:biglaugh:
 
You obviously have never had the pleasure of doing one thats been covered in hard as rock ice, every knook and cranny frozen over. Putting the tractor in the heated garage and turning the heat up full blast and 3 guys hammering the ice off to get a driver on his way. Not to efficent and multiply that over half the system in the Winter.
Wonder how many comp cases can be traced to those PsOS.
If I recall, CF-Freightliner came up with that idea and even they gave them up do to so many injuries.
If yellow hadn't of bought roadway the jiff-loc would have put them out of business for sure! Ever think of the one good thing that came from the buyout is all the fingers that have been saved by getting rid of those goofy things.

PS: Hope they sold the patent to Fed-X! And Jeff bid the yard position!!!:biglaugh:
Hey I spent my time with Roadway out west in New Mexico. We'd get ice and snow but when the sun came up it would pretty much melt off. I left the harsh Michigan climate back in the seventies, there are no laws that I know of that are holding you to the east coast.
 
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Just like when the new truck's had speakers in them, some jerk will steal them. Same with the AM/FM radio's. Those will be stolen in time too.

Hanging chain's outside must have happened after 2002 because the chain's were kept in outside boxes on the passenger side of the truck's and on the back end of the Jiflock's in later years. I never saw chain's hanging on hooks when I was still working at Roadway. Would have made it easier to get them out and use them without all the tangled mess.
 
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