Yellow | YRCW Fleet Age: Dinosaur Trucking And Results Of No CAPEX Spending!
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yes they are , our tractors are getting worse by the year. its hard to come by a decent tractor that was more common in my roadway days. sure you ran into crappy units but now they are all bout crappy . once in a while you get a decent tractor that was more common back in the day . this is a bomb ticking ....
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roadway77 if you had to guess, what would you say the average mileage is on the tractors you've come across? Over 1-million?
on average yes .
i have been told that if they put a new motor in they reset the mileage. i had one that had 95k on the odometer but clearly was not that new. when i was with roadyway out of say out of every 10 tractors 2 would be real ****ty, 2 would be like new and the 6 of them would be ok like 300k to 800k but drove ok to decent.
now a days i would say you are correct that the majority is around 1 mil and drive pretty bad. its once in a while you get a tractor that was ook by old standards now. this clearly cannot sustain itself for the long run. our trailers are hidious. some are rusting out to the point that the taillights will fly off. its deplorable :(
i have been told that if they put a new motor in they reset the mileage. i had one that had 95k on the odometer but clearly was not that new. when i was with roadyway out of say out of every 10 tractors 2 would be real ****ty, 2 would be like new and the 6 of them would be ok like 300k to 800k but drove ok to decent.
now a days i would say you are correct that the majority is around 1 mil and drive pretty bad. its once in a while you get a tractor that was ook by old standards now. this clearly cannot sustain itself for the long run. our trailers are hidious. some are rusting out to the point that the taillights will fly off. its deplorable :(
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Thanks roadway...sounds like a pretty beat up fleet
The mileage is not reset on a engine swing, The engine swings are scheduled for around 925,000, on the older tractors the the odometers only read to 999,999 then start over.
Lack of money means little new equipment and deferred major maintenance tasks, some of what should have been engine swings at 925,000 became P&D tractors instead with out the engine swing.
Trailers that should have been refurbed or replaced are let go, the tail lights fall out in the field and the roll of trailer tape comes out(getting harder and harder to find that tape must cost too much).
A lot of the blame for the condition of the L/H equipment comes down to the accounting system now used, previously at R the cost of L/H repairs were charged to L/H overhead, now they charged to the terminal that does the repairs and the emphasis is to push it down the road doing as little as possible so of course they all turn into big pieces of **** .
It used to be that we heard why didn't you fix xxx while you were working on it, now we hear why are you fixing that there's nothing on the write up about it.......................
Lack of money means little new equipment and deferred major maintenance tasks, some of what should have been engine swings at 925,000 became P&D tractors instead with out the engine swing.
Trailers that should have been refurbed or replaced are let go, the tail lights fall out in the field and the roll of trailer tape comes out(getting harder and harder to find that tape must cost too much).
A lot of the blame for the condition of the L/H equipment comes down to the accounting system now used, previously at R the cost of L/H repairs were charged to L/H overhead, now they charged to the terminal that does the repairs and the emphasis is to push it down the road doing as little as possible so of course they all turn into big pieces of **** .
It used to be that we heard why didn't you fix xxx while you were working on it, now we hear why are you fixing that there's nothing on the write up about it.......................
You can always request a Brigadier....
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Freightmaster1
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Forget the tractors and trailers! You got new hand-held computers! That's more important than rolling stock!
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I think they got 3 million miles out of some of them. That's a lot of chewing gum on the high beam indicator light.
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You can't push a dumpster with a new tractor.
Wind gripper rib sides. And no oil filler pipe. Unmuffled air start "whisper jet" for sure. Vinyl seat, too! Living large in the "McLean Lane".
I remember at Yellow, in 2000 and 2001 all of the other companies were griping when their air conditioners were not working. At Yellow we were still wanting to have a truck with power steering. Our entire fleet in knoxville did not have 100 percent power steering till around 2004-05 I think. It is amazing what luxuries you don't miss when you never have it.
"Sadder still to watch it die then to never have known it." -Neil Peart
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