1. UPS Freight
UPS Freight is part of the largest United States transportation company UPS. This division is based in Richmond, Virginia and represents a division that is in charge for global freight delivery in more than 200 countries worldwide.
The UPS history is well known, they started as small messenger company and today they are the largest transportation company worldwide with more than 15 million daily deliveries.
United Parcel Service is the largest trucking company worldwide that covers not just USA and Canada, they are also serving more than 220 countries around the world.
The UPS fleet mainly is contained of the regular “package car” used for daily packages delivery. Besides this “regular car”, UPS in their fleet are having more than 6,000 tractor-trailers called “feeders”.
These UPS trailers are with different lengths. The smallest-shortest trailers called “Pups” are 26 feet long. This company as well is having longer trailers called “Rails” which are with the length of 45, 48 and 53 feet long, a variety of trailers that are allowing all kind of cargo transportation.
UPS is taking care for the image of the company, so these “feeders-tractors” are painted in brown and the trailers in gray – the trademark color of UPS.
UPS is not just keeping their name with the look of the vehicles, they are as well choosing one of the best manufacturers of their tractors. The “feeders” fleet is mostly made by Navistar or Mack, and some of them are Ford, Sterling, and Freightliner.
With the “feeders” you can transport variety of freights, such as:
