[flatbedder]

A Passmore&Sons will be shutting down on 10/31/2008. Just a few short years ago trucking seemed to offer job stability, now it seems a driver could be out of a job at any given time. I wonder how long its gonna be before all the Driver Training Schools will be out of business too, since the driver shortage oughta be gone due to all the out of work drivers

[Jumbo]

Aren't they owned by somebody like Prime or Swift?

[ELGAUL]

yes sir you are correct,prime bought them out about a year and a half ago..

[devildice]

So if Prime bought them out over a year ago, wouldn't that mean Passmore already went down????

[Orangetxguy]

Hmmmmmmm. Will Prime strip the Passmore name off the Petes, then slap on the Prime labels..or are there going to be some trashed out Petes flooding the market??

[Rev.Vassago]

Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

]or are there going to be some trashed out Petes flooding the market??

They'll just get lost in the mix of all the other trashed trucks on the market right now.

[Flashmann]

Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

Hmmmmmmm. Will Prime strip the Passmore name off the Petes, then slap on the Prime labels..or are there going to be some trashed out Petes flooding the market??

Yep....That's been happening over the past couple of months.......Prime bought ot Passmore 2 years ago and brought the owner in as a VP,agreeing he'd run Passmore almost autonomously for 2 years,at which time the Passmore name would change to Prime......I was at Prime,for a short time,(I know,stupid move),and the talk was all over the main terminal....

[Jackrabbit379]

Yeah, bad deal. Prime screwed up that once was a fine company.

[Jumbo]

Have been seeing some long hood Petes around Springfield with the Prime logo on them pulling flats.

[slodsm]

I have been seeing them running through East Tx with the Prime on the door for a little over a month now. Still red letters, just no more passmore.