McKevitt trucking closes down after 76 years

[Rigjockey]

Family-run trucking company ceases operations after 76 years, per reports

An Ontario-based cross-border trucking company ceased operations last month, according to reports. Thunder Bay-headquartered company McKevitt

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Honestly it is no great loss. Even in their heyday they did not have a great reputation. Probably one of the last companies to make the move from cabovers to conventionals. In the 2010's they were still running tachographs.
Not to mention the offensive color of their trucks.
Good riddance!

 

[Electric Chicken]

Honestly it is no great loss. Even in their heyday they did not have a great reputation. Probably one of the last companies to make the move from cabovers to conventionals. In the 2010's they were still running tachographs.
Not to mention the offensive color of their trucks.
Good riddance!

Paccar should have been like "no that is technically impossible."

 

[Electric Chicken]

A long time trucking company here closed but I can't find an article about it. They mostly did flatbed for a local prestressed concrete company.

Not really sure why they closed though. They seemed to be open then not all of a sudden.

 

[Rigjockey]

I used to call them McKevshit!

 

[Rigjockey]

The Google reviews are still up. 2.7 star rating and that's after they deleted the O/Os not getting paid.
The last review is... "Good U went out of business!!!!! Ha ha ha!!!".

 

[Rigjockey]

A long time trucking company here closed but I can't find an article about it. They mostly did flatbed for a local prestressed concrete company.

Not really sure why they closed though. They seemed to be open then not all of a sudden.

Usually they close due to a lack of money incoming.
Sometimes that lack of money comes from being unable bring in money due to a lack of drivers. Lack of drivers due to a bad reputation. Not saying this is the case for the company near you but, it would stand to reason when it comes to McKevitt.

 

[Phantom Trucker]

Usually they close due to a lack of money incoming.
Sometimes that lack of money comes from being unable bring in money due to a lack of drivers. Lack of drivers due to a bad reputation. Not saying this is the case for the company near you but, it would stand to reason when it comes to McKevitt.

Rumour from a couple sources on a broker/carrier forum I am on, is that the owners retired and closed the doors.

Apparently they tried to sell but were unsuccessful. They downsized their fleet significantly in recent years and their book of business and assets weren’t worth much. -
Hence the difficulty selling.

They were said to have hauled a lot paper loads back in the day. (From mills in Northern Ontario to receivers in the Greater Toronto Area, and Northern Mid-West States). LTL back into the North was their backhaul.

With the mills winding down and/or switching to rail, it had an impact on their business. - So it sounds.

 

[Duck]

They were said to have hauled a lot paper loads back in the day. (From mills in Northern Ontario to receivers in the Greater Toronto Area, and Northern Mid-West States). LTL back into the North was their backhaul.

Sounds like a good kind of dedicated run. If you can tolerate the cold.

 

[Rigjockey]

Sounds like a good kind of dedicated run. If you can tolerate the cold.

It used to be good to run up that way not so much anymore. I don't want to say that TFWs can't drive in the snow because they can't even drive on dry roads.
Last time I was up that way there were trucks in the ditch left and right. They put police tape on the mirrors to show the driver has be rescued. The truck will stay in the ditch until whenever they get around to towing it out.

 

[Duck]

It used to be good to run up that way not so much anymore. I don't want to say that TFWs can't dive in the snow because they can't even dive on dry roads.
Last time I was up that way there were trucks in the ditch left and right. They put police tape on the mirrors to show the driver has be rescued. The truck will stay in the ditch until whenever they get around to towing it out.

What's a TFW?

 

[Rigjockey]

What's a TFW?

Temporary Foreign Worker.

 

[Duck]

Temporary Foreign Worker.

"temporary"

 

[389 Hood]

What's a TFW?

Thanks for asking that. I had to ponder it awhile. The world is all acronyms anymore.

 

[Duck]

Thanks for asking that. I had to ponder it awhile. The world is all acronyms anymore.

Yeah. Listening to two military veterans talking will put me to sleep. I'm sure whatever they're talking about is interesting but when 90% of the words out of their mouths are acronyms, some spoken as letters, (like DNC) others pronounced as the non-existent words the acronym letters spell (like GOP) and then all the ranks & divisions & battalions and regiments and...

Yeah, they gotta dumb it down for the rest of us.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

It used to be good to run up that way not so much anymore. I don't want to say that TFWs can't drive in the snow because they can't even drive on dry roads.
Last time I was up that way there were trucks in the ditch left and right. They put police tape on the mirrors to show the driver has be rescued. The truck will stay in the ditch until whenever they get around to towing it out.

It's really fun running over 11 and 17 when you're 12-15 feet wide in the winter and you have oncoming trucks trying to run in your lane.

Another common tactic is running well under the limit when it's two lanes then finding all that pedal soon as a passing lane opens and you try to get past the mooks. Trucking sucks pretty much anywhere in Ontario. I could be gone anywhere in North America gone 2-3 weeks at a time and dread coming back to Ontario most of all.

 

[Rigjockey]

Yeah. Listening to two military veterans talking will put me to sleep. I'm sure whatever they're talking about is interesting but when 90% of the words out of their mouths are acronyms, some spoken as letters, (like DNC) others pronounced as the non-existent words the acronym letters spell (like GOP) and then all the ranks & divisions & battalions and regiments and...

Yeah, they gotta dumb it down for the rest of us.

The airport was a lot like that. APUs, GPUs, ETA, FMC, PAX, CANX, etc.
The first three are pretty obvious. PAX is short for Passenger(s) and CANX is Cancelled. FMC is a loader, it is just a brand of container loader.

 

[Rigjockey]

It's really fun running over 11 and 17 when you're 12-15 feet wide in the winter and you have oncoming trucks trying to run in your lane.

Yup. Plenty of videos out there of 11 and 17 of trucks passing on a solid double line in oncoming lanes and plenty of close calls.

Even in our YARD I had a guy in a highway truck try to pass my shunt truck on the right while I was stopped at a yield sign waiting for another shunter to complete their move.