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Nobody knows the exact moment W.W. Estes turned the crank on his used Chevrolet truck in the small town of Chase City in Southside Virginia.

"Nobody alive remembers," said Rob Estes, grandson of the founder of Estes Express Lines.

This hasn't stopped Estes' heirs at the trucking company he began from throwing one heck of a birthday party.

Rob Estes, president and chief executive officer of Richmond-based Estes Express, and other relatives who run the family-owned company know enough about their grandfather's story to make it the cornerstone of a 75th anniversary celebration:

How in 1931 he seized a business opportunity in his hometown of Chase City, offering to haul cattle for nearby ranchers. And how W.W. Estes was available to move from farming into trucking, hauling livestock and farm supplies across southern and southwest Virginia.

"My grandfather didn't have a windshield on that first truck," Rob Estes said, posing with family recently outside Estes' headquarters. They stood in front of a fully restored 1931 truck with running boards and wooden truck bed.
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Yes they are here to make a stand and try to run with the big dogs. Everyones first issue is trying to find qualified drivers. There is not one company that needs drivers for their growth. Companys are going back to inside training from dock to drivers. The guy who gets the most drivers win big:bgroovy:
 
If it wasn't for all the money we gave YRCW, they be gone already.
 
You gave money back to yrc? Thats why they are still in business...maybe yrcw should pay you guys like estes does...no overtime paid until after 55 hours...and all your allowed to get is 55 and they will work you as close to those 55 as possible...with savings like that no trucking company would have to ask for anything back....they have their poor management decisions and losses covered...
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If it wasn't for all the money we gave YRCW, they be gone already.
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