Roehl buys a reefer division

[Jumbo]

Roehl Transport has purchased Wisconsin based reefer carrier Blume Farms Transport and renamed it Blume Refridgerated. Is this a move other carriers have made? To go from a flat and van trucks to adding reefers?

[BanditsCousin]

I have noticed a few Swift trucks pullin Swift reefer vans lately.


Things that make you go "Hmmm?"

[BigWheels]

If the powers that be and the number crunchers think that there is money to be made by starting a new division then why not.

Of course there are plenty of train wrecks where companies got way off track of their original goals/objectives.

Based on the following careerbuilder.com job post, Roehl is hiring in the midwest and Texas for the refrigerated positions:
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeek...L79LYH26P0BN49

[Uturn2001]

Swift has had a small reefer operation for quite some time.

To answer the original post, yes there are many companies that have added other forms of trucking beyond what they started with.

Knight, which was a van company, added a reefer division just a couple of years ago, and I have worked for a company that had van, flats, and reefers.

[ibamars]

I used to work for Roehl. A friend of mine who has been with them 2 years just told me about this. From my understanding they are looking for drivers for this division.

Apparently the problems with the old company was they were shipping to Florida alot but couldnt get the drivers back home. I guess they were sitting a little bit. Roehl does alot of pickup down south. they have freight coming out of Palatka FL (GP) if not there then they will usually route you to Georgia or Alabama to keep you moving. I used to deliver in Fl once a week with Roehl, so I know where they used to pick up. This might not be bad gig seeng as you can pickup frozen foor or dry frieght.

[BanditsCousin]

Even United Van Lines has a small flatbed operation. We also have temperature-controlled van for special commodities and our own car-carrier fleet.

Gotta be diverse. 8)

What's Graebel got????

[BigDawg]

I have noticed a few Swift trucks pullin Swift reefer vans lately.

some of Swifty Reefer freight is for Wal-Mart outbound freight to the store's not all but most of of it,Wally will not allow Swift's name be across the side of the Van but can be on the roll up door that is what a Swift driver told me.

[Jackrabbit379]

I have noticed a few Swift trucks pullin Swift reefer vans lately.


Things that make you go "Hmmm?"

Hmmm.
Yeah, I have noticed that myself. Maybe, they are old Skunky trailers? :P

[ibamars]

Heres a crazy idea I had.

meanings for Swift

"see what i f!@#$% up today"
"sure wish i finished training"

what if we add something like

"see what i froze today"

im sure its gonna happen. some swift driver hauling paper towels ot toilet paper or even worse mayonaise or ketchup or how about some soda. That would be funny if he froze the soda and then when he got to where is delivering it was all frozen and the cans or bottles broke due to the expansion of the frozen product

[Jackrabbit379]

That would be ugly. :shock:

[coastie]

Well Isn't a Trucking company goal to move Goods? If so would it be best if they had the equipment to haul whatever a customer wanted to be moved? Rather it a Flatbed Load, Dry Van, or Reefer? MAny Companies has Reefers you may not realize. ATS, Flatbed/DryVan they have a Fleet of Reefers also. it for one account they have.. While Driving for ATS Dry Vans I was in St Cloud and got called by my Dispatcher. A Reefer Driver was out sick, and they needed a load pulled. I bobtailed to the next Town and hooked up a load and with to St Paul, Emptied out and deadheaded back. I'm one who'll Pull a Flatbed, Dry Van or a Reefer. I like them all.

[freebird]

Apparently the problems with the old company was they were shipping to Florida alot but couldnt get the drivers back home. I guess they were sitting a little bit. Roehl does alot of pickup down south. they have freight coming out of Palatka FL (GP) if not there then they will usually route you to Georgia or Alabama to keep you moving. I used to deliver in Fl once a week with Roehl, so I know where they used to pick up. This might not be bad gig seeng as you can pickup frozen foor or dry frieght.

One problem pulling paper out of Palatka with a reefer would be the weight of the loads......they do like to get as close to max as possible!

[dieselgrl]

Swift's been running reefers for years - there was a ton of them the last time I saw the Salt Lake City terminal when I was running for them.

As for Roehl... huh...that's interesting, but I find it even more so that they didn't suck them under the Roehl fleet name. I'm somewhat surprised they're trying the reefer side and not just expanding their van division.