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<blockquote data-quote="RPSman" data-source="post: 3363887" data-attributes="member: 51437"><p>Viking came with the purchase of Caliber, they were the only part of the Roadway Regional LTL group that survived the Roadway Express spinoff. Central Express was sold back to its original Texas owners and Coles and Spartan closed down. They did not buy Panther, they got an expedited carrier in the Caliber package, Roberts Express, now known as Fed Ex Custom Critical. The acquisition of American came after the Caliber deal, American approached FDX wanting to buy Viking to fill in the only missing part of their service area, the West Coast. Instead FDX bought American, and soon after, Watkins Motor Freight, who was operated separately as Fed Ex National LTL before being dovetailed into Fed Ex Freight. I do not deny that Fed Ex might have had LTL operations in bigger airports and logistics centers, but having pulled air freight out of Air Cargo row at Lambert International in St Louis, I know they didn&#039;t have anything there or in my part of MO. As there used to be a Ford plant in Hazelwood, they could have had a small &quot;back ramp&quot; operation for them. It has just been in the last 5 years that we have even seen the Fed Ex Multi Modal trailers in our part of MO.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="RPSman, post: 3363887, member: 51437"] Viking came with the purchase of Caliber, they were the only part of the Roadway Regional LTL group that survived the Roadway Express spinoff. Central Express was sold back to its original Texas owners and Coles and Spartan closed down. They did not buy Panther, they got an expedited carrier in the Caliber package, Roberts Express, now known as Fed Ex Custom Critical. The acquisition of American came after the Caliber deal, American approached FDX wanting to buy Viking to fill in the only missing part of their service area, the West Coast. Instead FDX bought American, and soon after, Watkins Motor Freight, who was operated separately as Fed Ex National LTL before being dovetailed into Fed Ex Freight. I do not deny that Fed Ex might have had LTL operations in bigger airports and logistics centers, but having pulled air freight out of Air Cargo row at Lambert International in St Louis, I know they didn't have anything there or in my part of MO. As there used to be a Ford plant in Hazelwood, they could have had a small "back ramp" operation for them. It has just been in the last 5 years that we have even seen the Fed Ex Multi Modal trailers in our part of MO. [/QUOTE]

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