On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller about the personal impact of the sale of U.S. Xpress to Knight-Swift.
FreightWaves’ Rachel Premack hears that produce season is going to be weak this year — and that’s bad news for truckers. Plus, she looks at the U.S. Xpress/Knight-Swift deal and the Big Mac cost of living index.
Is Nikola a real company or just a zero interest rate downhill phenomenon? FreightWaves’ Alan Adler’s answer may surprise you.
Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels dives into the topic of company policies or company guidance. Which is better?
Back The Truck Up’s SuperTrucker shares the secret behind trucking ads, tears down a “trucking guru” and cracks into trucking’s most unpopular opinions.
Plus, Darth Vader visits Walmart; Sleeping Giants sculpture docks in Palm Springs; and more.
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Man I hate to see us xpress leaving the fuller family . I started there working in the mailroom in 2004 and worked into operations and a bit of brokerage thru 2006. So yeah only a few years there but this company spawned the next generation of people for the next 40 yrs. Great job Fuller family. I hate to see you go !
I work for USX, I am not looking forward to any of this. We are getting no info, were only just told after the sale happened
I worked at USX many years ago, at the beginning of my driving career. It was a good company back then, always flexible with everything. The giants in industry have adopted a cutthroat approach for growth. It’s working for now, but this is trucking so it won’t be like that forever.
Appreciate the openness, Craig.
Interesting insight into this transaction.
Craig… Your trucks shut themselves off, giving no AC/Heat during the night….
No inverters… Period. As in no microwave, air fryer or a fridge….
What on earth are you talking about… What comforts, where…
Now that have a decade of experience driving, I certainly do not reminisce about those days.
The thing that's most notable to me about the USXpress story is the gulf between the perceptions about the deal of people in Craig Fuller's position, and that of the drivers who will be the most directly affected.
I was driving with Schneider when that company went public. Over a year's time, Schneider progressed from a personable family-owned company, where drivers were known by name, to a corporate climate where drivers were just numbers. I'm not complaining, just making an observation. The corporate progression is the inevitable result of any company that transitions from private to public ownership. While there are major financial positives for a company to go public, there are major social negatives at the same time. I chose to leave Schneider, and moved to a smaller family-owned company (about 200 tractors), where I still drive as semi-retired. While I could fully retire, I chose to still drive half the time (roughly a month on and a month off) out of loyalty to a company that is driver-oriented and desperately needs the drivers!
Should have focused on pay
Monopolies will crash rates for owner operators and that will crash what employees are paid per mile