Estes Express Lines has reached an agreement with Daimler (Freightliner) to purchase 135 Yellow Corp tractors across the country. This comes before the proposed Equipment Auction Yellow plans to have this fall, but these units were not yet paid off/owned by Yellow Corp. This cash move again shows Estes’ commitment to the future growth of their LTL capacity.
Estes | Estes purchases Yellow Equipment
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steercrazee
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Wonder what terminals will be stuck with tractors that are not on par with Estes tractors? We got a bunch of crap from Central.
They’re all 2019 and 2020 units.
ED FORCE ONE
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So that's 1/2 tractor per terminal
Hope they start.....
ghostbommbb
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I bet they are trashed inside and out.
steercrazee
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Seen some in Knoxville behind shop. Dont look to bad, but looks isnt what pulls. Heard a driver saying they look like twin screws but dont have the power of a twin screw. One of the set of wheels in back is rolling free with no pull power. Dont know what that means but the driver seemed pretty sure he knew what he was talking about.
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Thats it a pusher axle. Ive never heard of them.We had at least one Volvo tractor, maybe more, with a pusher axle configuration.
I have seen that more often. Second axel is there to carry more weight. The second axle has no guts or looks like a trailer axle. Saves truck weight. And no power divider to blow up. Apparently common in Europe. In the conventional set up, only one axle drives anyhow. Usually the rear one
When the dead axle is forward of the powered axle it's called a pusher axle, when it's behind the powered axle it's called a tag axle.
I try.Ya know Tri, this is why we keep you around here at TB...
You've never worked for Ryder
Cousin Goober needs help at his garageI try.
And have a picture of me at the National TDC from 2003, in the permit book.