Saia: From Humble Beginnings to LTL Powerhouse
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Learn about the journey of Saia, from its humble beginnings to becoming a powerhouse in the LTL industry. Discover how Saia, one time part of Yellow Corp, has grown and evolved over the years to become a leader in the transportation and logistics industry.
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My Grandpa Angelo Saia younger brother Louis Saia Sr. started the business just like you said.in 1924. That is the same story my Daddy told me as a kid then later in life one of Louis Saia Sr. 3 sons Johnny Saia told me before he passed All Louis Sr.children are now gone . Louis Saia III has quite a life story and a Testimonial on line. He was the CEO of Saia Motor when the family sold the company in the 1990's. He also is the Inventor of the Pallet Reefer .Louis Sr. three sons Vincent, Louis & Johnny expanded the business when they returned from WW2.
Grandpa Angelo and Louis Sr. Immigrated from Cefalu Sicily around 1916. Grandpa settled in my small hometown Lockport La. and became the Town Cobbler while Louis settled in Houma La. Uncle Louis had a huge garden and sold some of it at the French Market in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Highway 90 connecting Houma to New Orleans was not even paved. Houma residents knowing Uncle Louis was going regularly to NOLA would pay him to drop off stuff in NOLA or pick up stuff for them. I don't remember if I ever saw the automobile they converted to carry freight by removing the backseat, but somewhere I have a picture of one of the first trucks with one of Uncle Louis Young daughter on the fender.
Grandpa Angelo and his brother could barely speak any English.
That sounds like the real story. Thanks Joe. 🇮🇹
Wow, thank you so much for that. I do the studying to get the info but as you know, learning facts are not near as beneficial as hearing stories told to somebody by their grandfather. Those are the heartfelt facts that never make it to the online world. Please feel free to email me at finchresources@gmail.com. I would love to send y0u my number so we can talk. Saia is one of the companies that I love doing stories about because they clearly started from humble beginnings!!
Worked for Saia for a couple years in Georgia. Great company. I kept buying their stock over the years and it paid for the down payment on my house. Saia, the gift that keeps on giving.
first again
yellow was the grim reaper of the trucking industry. great video as always
Thanks for another trucking history video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I was with Yellow when doors closed. Started out with Roadway in 95.
You weren’t smart enough to abandon that sinking ship over a 30 year run?
Lot of people do not understand if you are union you are on a board. The longer you work there the higher you go up on the board. If you were to go to a different place to work even though it is union you continue your total years you are in the union but you start at the bottom of the board of the new place. I used to be a union steward for 710 Chicago.
@@Trashman702they never missed a check
Great content as usual. Thank you. My last run with Yellow was July 28th 2023 and they shut the doors July 30th 2023. Coming up on 1 year.
You did one with Saia Motor Freight, you gotta cover Palletized Trucking. Another truck affiliated to Saia.
Gr8 Vid & Info on this company!!!!!!😎🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🇺🇸📢📢📢📢📢📢📢🎥📹📽
Glad you liked it!
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Great video, sir.
I always love learning more about our industry history.
I just started with them great company from what I seen so far
That's great!! Good luck in the future!!
Yellow got control of Saia from buying Preston Corp. Preston Corp. owned Saia, Smalley Transportation, and Preston! When Yellow sold Preston Trucking Co. they maintained ownership of Saia. Who knows what happened to Smalley!
Great video,sorry I'm a little behind on your videos been at the lake for a while. Be safe
Welcome back!
Can do a story on American freightway that was brought out FedEx
Thank you for the recommendation, I will definitely look into it!!
Worked for Yellow in 88 through 91 as a casual to pay for my college
Worked for Roadway as well, at the same time lol
All are terminals were across the street form each other including CF
Good times back then, but the teamspters didn’t like me cause I busted me ass and made them look bad
Imho, the teamsters took down the big 3
SAIA isn’t entirely teamster controlled if any at all
Saia is moving into Montana as we speak
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Duluth, Minnesota or Georgia?
Georgia
im still waitimg for u to do this tennessee steel hauler video om how they started off soo amazing. sold out to daske. old mans kids ran tha business into tha ground n now daske sold us to tfi and its even fuccin worse😂
Thank you for the reminder.
@@truckingresources4240 thanks broski💪🏼💪🏼 lookn forward to it.
I have a couple friends that work for Sia and also work for Expo which both companies got the majority of Yellow Freight business I'm in The LTL industry so I follow this they both are hauling Freight for bends on a dollar now trailers are full but not much revenue😮😮😮😮😮😮 can't keep a business going for very long that way yellow found that out didn't they?😢😢😢😢
Saia=Non union YRC. XPO=non union CF
Unfortunately they are not union
That is their saving grace.
Maybe they choose not to be
Unions are a cancer in today's world.
That why they are still in business. Unions destroy companies. They make employees lardass crybabies
The saia employees are grateful too!
Bull Bull Bull. Jevic Transportation was making plenty of money but all the profits from Jevic were transferred to Saia. Got nothing good to say about Saia.
Jevic was finally torpedoed by YRC. I remember Jevic being for sale for pennies on the dollar before YRC finished them off.
I worked at the Carlisle terminal 32 years, to the best of my knowledge saia didn't hire a single one of us ,because we were teamsters, went in person to central transport in camp hill to apply for P&D driver told me that the company's position was not to any of us yellow freight employees