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Yellow | RIP Mike Wickham,1/20/2015

I remember visiting the AGO once or twice, his office door was always open and he always came out to say hello and talk with you. As previously mentioned in here, he learned the job from the bottom up. Today, too many want to start at the top and not be told how to do anything.
 
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J.P. Delaney made some interesting videos. Always with the stuffed yellow dog in the background.
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Oh Yea. Get the Yellow Dog! Or my personal favorite about the crew that would show up at your Terminal on motorcycles acting like a biker gang while they audited the place!

Classic!
 
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A good quote from Mike Wickham on page 313..after Roadway Express was spun off at the end of 1995..."If we can't make it," Wickham told the Teamsters," nobody in our industry can. This is an opportunity for us, the Teamsters and Roadway, to write a positive chapter in what has been a very negative book." Roadway Express was spun off DEBT FREE!

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I can remember shift meetings at Roadway Express, back when deregulation was causing LTL companies to file for bankruptcy, that Roadway would never ask us for concessions.
Because asking for concessions would mean they as a company were doing something wrong.
 
Mike Wickham was as many have stated a true industry leader with integrity. While I met him only a few times I worked on some projects he started. Three things I will remember about him. He never lost his fondness for Roadway employees even years after he left. He worked to create Motor Freight Carriers Association to make sure union companies could continue to fight in what was becoming a non union industry. Finally, he flat out loved trucking and was more Main Street than Wall Street. Rest well great industry leader, there are no more late deliveries.
 
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