O' Reilly Auto Parts, FCA & Dairy Fresh Foods and New Werner Trailers?

Hi guys,
This morning I made a journey to Detroit to pick up a Magliner that I can use at work to do more work with trying to increase my productivity.
Anyhow, saw some interesting trucks out on the turnpike today and also out on I-75 in Detroit and I wanted to ask you guys some questions and see if anyone knows anything about these fleets, because I'm always looking and always interested to see what's going on.

For One:
O' Reilly Auto Parts, on the Ohio turnpike this morning I saw an O' Reilly Auto Parts truck and it had maybe a 48' trailer and a lift gate and on the lift gate it said NOW HIRING CLASS A CDL DRIVERS CALL 1800-Whatever it was I for get and same on the side of the trailer there was a little sign that said now hiring CLASS A CDL DRIVERS blahh blahh blahh and I thought hum, O' Reilly Auto Parts I wonder what they are like to work for. Truck was a newer Freightliner Cascadia Day Cab looked fairly nice and on the door of the truck it said O' Reilly Auto Parts US DOT #XYZLMNOP. So any of you guys ever do Auto Parts for O'Reilly I thought O'Reilly was a JB Hunt Account and just so happened to be one of those accounts where JB Hunt provided the tractors and drivers and O'Reilly hired them to pull there trailers, but guess not O' Reilly is there own private fleet.

I mean the fact that the trailers are lift gate tells me there pulling pallets off with a pallet jack probably not finger printing to much and there probably not really backing into loading docks either, because the trucks have lift gates so it's probably not really an awful gig, you know probably 12-15 stops a day, but it's all O'Reilly auto part stores which probably makes it nice. I don't know this for a fact, but Auto Parts are probably not super duper heavy sure there are some auto parts that can be heavy, but there are probably others that aren't so bad. Car batteries I would guess and break components are probably the heavies things.

Second:
FCA which I assume stands for Fiat, Chrysler America's which is Fiat-Chrysler's private fleet. I see there trucks a lot up around Detroit and Toledo area (I know Toledo, Ohio has the Jeep plant) what does Chrysler's fleet haul? Where are they coming from and where are they going? I know it's a UAW truck driving job and I think the Chrysler trucks are loading out of Windsor, Ontario, Canada because one of the trucks had a Canadian flag on it, but they drive those grey trucks and you can tell where they painted over the part on the trailer that said DIAMLER. Most of there trucks are Mack and Peterbuilt which I found funny because isn't Freightliner part of Fiat-Chrysler or did they break away? I mean working for Chrysler's private fleet might be a good job there's not a whole lot written about it anywhere.

Third:
Dairy Fresh Foods of Taylor, Michigan. You can tell Dairy Fresh Foods is a Michigan based truck fleet, because they run equipment that well is not totally the norm kind of like another Michigan based company that's a major broad line food service company that also ran a lot of drop axle Volvo and Sterling equipment years ago that wasn't quite the norm either.

Anyhow Dairy Fresh Foods seems to be a fairly big interstate operation, I see there tractor trailers here in North East, Ohio quite often, however they also run a pretty big fleet of drop axle straight trucks. I see all the time straight trucks with the rear axle lifted up off the ground and I'm going to ask as dumb as this sounds because I see there straight trucks on the turnpike fairly regularly, but does Dairy Fresh Foods have shuttle drivers who shuttle straight trucks from the plant in Michigan back to drop lots in the various states they service? Pretty much like what a hiker is for Pensky or Ryder maybe a lot has 6-7 trucks parked on it so the route guys go during the day run the routes and then at the end of the day they come back to the yard park the trucks and 6-7 shuttle drivers come in drive the empty trucks back to the plant and pick up the loaded ones and drive them back to the yard. I mean like Smith Dairy here in Ohio has a lot of tandem axle Peterbuilt Straight trucks, but they have little Satellite warehouses across the state like a 53' will come from the main manufacturing plant and drop the trailer at the little warehouse where it will be unloaded and the straight trucks and 28' trailers and 32' trailers will be loaded and off they go on there routes. I wondered if Dairy Fresh foods maybe did something like that? However from the looks of it, it seems like they do a lot of truck hiking.

Also is Werner changing there trailer color? I saw two Werner trucks both pulling white trailers with swinging barn doors. Usually Werner has the white trailers, but there roll doors and are usually for a dedicated account, however maybe these trucks are for a dedicated account too, but if not is Werner ditching the blue trailers? If so I don't much care for the new white trailers I liked the blue ones better.
Okay I'm done thanks for reading.

 

Magliner is a company that makes 2 wheel hand trucks, you know material handling stuff, 2 Wheeler's, U-Boats stuff like that. I have a Magliner fold down that I used to use to delivery liquor with. I bought an up right or more standard dolly today to help me with my regular work, because sometimes a fold down doesn't always work and you do not want to double handle everything.