Estes Express Rumor THREAD

[Estands4Evil]

Originally Posted by Turned

I have been hearing ( just rumors no proof ) that extra board drivers will be in sleeper trucks and no more motels within a year. NO PROOF JUST RUMORS FROM A FEW DIFFERENT DRIVERS

Seems like there's already quite a few XB drivers that run sleeper units now. If they want to save $$.. maybe they should quit wasting their time with buying all the twin screws, get rid of the vans..and get serious about using pups. I understand the setup now gives a lot of flexibility, but it really just seems like we aren't all sold on being a 100% pup linehaul operation. What do I know though.

[rodedawg]

Originally Posted by Estands4Evil

Seems like there's already quite a few XB drivers that run sleeper units now. If they want to save $$.. maybe they should quit wasting their time with buying all the twin screws, get rid of the vans..and get serious about using pups. I understand the setup now gives a lot of flexibility, but it really just seems like we aren't all sold on being a 100% pup linehaul operation. What do I know though.

Do you guys haul very much truckload freight. They would need to keep there long vans if you do.

At FXF we only take shipments of 10 skids or less on 1 bill of lading. At least that's the way it was when I was P&D.

[Top Flight]

The Big "E" is buying out Yellow, Roadway, New Penn and Holland to capture the entire LTL market and this will probably put out all other companys, I also heard Beerboy is going to run the entire show now.


I got this 4th hand from a line driver who heard it on the CB so I am sure it is true!

[polarbeard]

Why would you want to get rid of vans and twin screws? Vans are needed for some P&D pickups and the twin screws are needed for the vans when they get single bill loads too heavy to pickup with 2 trailers. Myself I would rather have a twin screw for winter driving. You need single axle and twin screw tractors and also vans and pups .Why do you want to be 100% pups on linehaul?

[thebeerboy]

Originally Posted by polarbeard

Why would you want to get rid of vans and twin screws? Vans are needed for some P&D pickups and the twin screws are needed for the vans when they get single bill loads too heavy to pickup with 2 trailers. Myself I would rather have a twin screw for winter driving. You need single axle and twin screw tractors and also vans and pups .Why do you want to be 100% pups on linehaul?

my dispatcher just text me "your meet guy has a twin right? " looks like i'm heavy tonight

[Estands4Evil]

Originally Posted by polarbeard

Why would you want to get rid of vans and twin screws? Vans are needed for some P&D pickups and the twin screws are needed for the vans when they get single bill loads too heavy to pickup with 2 trailers. Myself I would rather have a twin screw for winter driving. You need single axle and twin screw tractors and also vans and pups .Why do you want to be 100% pups on linehaul?

I wasn't saying to get rid of the vans and twinscrews for the city ops. I could really care less what we use equipment wise for any part of the operation. Any arrangement has its advantages and disadvantages. I don't pretend to know what you drivers have to deal with out on the roads in the winter. It's also my understanding that you can have a slightly heavier lead box with a twinscrew.. even though the entire setup no matter can't weight more than 80,000. Just thought I'd throw it out there and see what sort of response, you, the drivers had to say. It does seem that our competition uses only pups for all if not the majority of their linehaul ops. These sorts of things interest me.. so I'm all ears on input from you the men and women out on the road.