20 Trucking Companies Every 1970s Driver Knew That No Longer Exist

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  @neilpuckett359 · 7 days ago

  What's left out of the narration is that these driving jobs paid solid middle-class wages with benefits. You could have a wife, 2-3 kids, afford a house, decent car, save for the kids education, vacation. And when you retired a nice pension.

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  @marshallherron8255 · 7 days ago

  Retired Yellow freight 1986/2015,loved eavery day

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  @stevejoramo8013 · 3 days ago

  Yellow Freight 1986 to 2002, then YRC from 2016 to 2022.  Made money, learned a lot, but enjoying a nice retirement.  Drove out of Burnsville MN, terminal now owned by XPO.  When Yellow bought Preston, they got Saia also, spun off Saia and now Saia is still operating.

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  @larryb3988 · 7 days ago

  Yellow Freight / YRC from 2000 till 2010 and Started at ABF Freight 2012 till 2022 and retired on 10-4-2022 life is good 👍

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  @markpalsgrove902 · 6 days ago

  My first freight  company was Tucker Freightline, I went to Transcon in1979 , then went to Ryder/PIE in 1984 and over to Consolidated Freightways in 1986. I retired in 2017 with ABF!

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  @jasonwilliams6794 · 7 days ago

  Appreciate the knowledge

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  @bobfrye5731 · 7 days ago

  Pilot Freight Carriers based in Winston-Salem. Layed off February 1982.

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  @BradJames-f9w · 7 days ago

  Canadian Freightways (consolidated freightways Canadian division)never went out of business ,it became a division of the trans force group of companies

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  @nickmariotti4241 · 7 days ago

  Roadway started RPS (Roadway Package System) in 1985 to compete directly with UPS.  They used independent contractors instead of employees as a way to prevent unionization.  RPS proved to be fabulously successful while Roadway Express continued to struggle so the parent company, Roadway Services, spun Roadway Express off and thereby got rid of the union.  The remainder of Roadway Services became Caliber System and shortly thereafter, RPS was sold to FedEx, who had long wanted a ground operation to compete directly with UPS. So, instead of building one from scratch, they bought RPS, and renamed it FedEx Ground.  Although FedEx recently has begun de-emphasizing the Express and Ground names as part of their "One FedEx" initiative, the Ground network still exists and is actually supplying the lion's share of revenue and profit to Federal Express Corporation.  And Roadway, of course, is no more.

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  @greenbeenie2 · 7 days ago

  THE ONLY THING I SEE CONSISTENT WITH THE CLOSINGS IS "UNIONS".........SAY WHAT YOU WANT, BUT THAT IS THE "ONLY" THING THAT IS CONSISTENT......I REMEMBER ALL THESE COMPANIES...GROWING UP AND DURING MY DRIVING YEARS.........

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  @The_American_Attic · 7 days ago

  Part two is up on the channel now. Twenty more of them, and most of the names came straight out of this comment section.<br><br>One correction while I&apos;m here. Several of you said Navajo is still around, and you&apos;re right. Navajo Express runs out of Denver today and traces back to 1934. The acquisition happened but the name didn&apos;t die with it. That one&apos;s my error.

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  @nickmariotti4241 · 7 days ago (edited)

  The transportation business is very dynamic. There have always been lines going out of business and new companies coming up. You&apos;ve got relatively new companies like SAIA that didn&apos;t exist decades ago now hauling loads that these companies that went out of business used to haul. &nbsp;Also, Malcom McLean much more important for having invented containerized freight. &nbsp;Truly changed the world.