How about when your leaving to go on a road trip with a old peice of iron and in pulls a city man with a brand new line haul tractor!Man that burns me up!He's running around town making P&D'S and you have to drive five hundred plus miles in something that should me in the smithsonian.
Ok, now I am confused. The agreement is that the equipment will be capable of 62, we are still responsible for complying with the law. There are places where the speed limit is 20. According to your argument they would need to govern the tractors at 20? On a related note, I looked at one of the rebrandable trailers in the ready line at STL last night. According to the registration, it is a Yellow trailer.hey guys in my neck of the woods the speed limit is 55
in yours it may be 65 so how can we have a national agreement telling us to break the law
governing tractors is up to the company it is their equipment
my understanding is that it is governed for safety reasons
Ok, now I am confused. The agreement is that the equipment will be capable of 62, we are still responsible for complying with the law. There are places where the speed limit is 20. According to your argument they would need to govern the tractors at 20? On a related note, I looked at one of the rebrandable trailers in the ready line at STL last night. According to the registration, it is a Yellow trailer.
Contractually, the A/C has to work to use in linehaul operation, regardless of year model... The older VN's (the 13's and the 15's up to 158__) have a "tattletale" mounted under the hood, on the firewall, on the drivers side that monitors the operating condition of the a/c system. There is a red and a green light on the "tattletale" and a legend on the front that explains what the light flashes signify (your looking for a slow flashing green light. Anything else, refuse it!). A really handy gadget to check when you're about to leave the barn and ride the range in mid-July...Also, the 60 series of tractors still have the ac running, but I doubt it's been recharged.
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There is a red and a green light on the "tattletale" and a legend on the front that explains what the light flashes signify (your looking for a slow flashing green light. Anything else, refuse it!). A really handy gadget to check when you're about to leave the barn and ride the range in mid-July...
When both show up, a Holland driver sneaks in a takes the thing-- that's who has all the freight anyway.....
I was curious and checked the numbers to see if it stayed in our system or not. 131000 series-- still Yellow. I'm curious about what color the dual use tractors are......Yellow's SwampHolly Orange, Roadway Blue, or Holland Orange, as many of the 50995 series are??????? That could be a hint of the future of the companies????????
Also mentioned was dual-use of the Yellow and Roadway tractor fleet, utilizing linehaul power in the city during the day, and city power in the linehaul operation at night! Maybe someone should explain to Mike that a lot of our city tractors would never make it running the road, day and night! Then there is the additional cost of licensing, maintenance, etc. Mike said it is critical to controlling fleet expense as well as the capital expenditure outlay of Yellow and Roadway.
placarding and mix matching equipment for dual company use is a waste of time
these companies pull other company's trailers all the time
would be just a waste of money to rebrand everything
ask ccx what it is costing them to repaint and relogo to conway
Roadway's blue is called George Washington Blue
most non unions don't govern their units at all
fed ex and conway blow by me all the time like i'm standing still
Yes, I had 13xxx with a messed up computer one night. It would do 75. It may have been capable of more, but I didn't want to speed (speed limit 75)Can the human heart still beat at speed above 68??
pulled a roadway your way 53' yesterday. its final inspection sticker from the factory read 5-22-07. looks as if yrcw is not going 100% on dual use trailers.