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<blockquote data-quote="bluehdmc" data-source="post: 506070" data-attributes="member: 18471"><p>The tipz used to be referred to as 2 and a halfs. The way it was explained to me is UPS (or anyone else) didn't pay for rental of the trailer for 2 1/2 days. Figure if you pick up a box on Mon load and put it on a train Tues going to say Florida, gets there Thur, if your lucky it gets returned Fri. There 2 1/2 days free, 2 1/2 days rental. The thing is we were in competition with other trucking companies for them. There still are Tipz boxes in railyards. I think UPS just committed to a long term lease and a lot of them got relettered as fstx, cfkz, etc. Instead of remembering all the alphabet z's, the ones we use all start with 8xxxxx. Now we have pkgz's which are 53 footers. The registrations for the friend's, c's, etc. still say "transport international pool" , which is a division of GE capital. </p><p>It's probably all some sort of tax thing. There is a yard in Newark, NJ where we pickup a lot of railboxes before peak and return them afterward. Then the trailers just sit till the next year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bluehdmc, post: 506070, member: 18471"] The tipz used to be referred to as 2 and a halfs. The way it was explained to me is UPS (or anyone else) didn't pay for rental of the trailer for 2 1/2 days. Figure if you pick up a box on Mon load and put it on a train Tues going to say Florida, gets there Thur, if your lucky it gets returned Fri. There 2 1/2 days free, 2 1/2 days rental. The thing is we were in competition with other trucking companies for them. There still are Tipz boxes in railyards. I think UPS just committed to a long term lease and a lot of them got relettered as fstx, cfkz, etc. Instead of remembering all the alphabet z's, the ones we use all start with 8xxxxx. Now we have pkgz's which are 53 footers. The registrations for the friend's, c's, etc. still say "transport international pool" , which is a division of GE capital. It's probably all some sort of tax thing. There is a yard in Newark, NJ where we pickup a lot of railboxes before peak and return them afterward. Then the trailers just sit till the next year. [/QUOTE]
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