It's been a great off season in Vol Nation and it's definitely high fives all around for Coach Lane Kiffin. But I ran across a blog at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporting that UT seems to be ignoring QB prospect Nick Montana, son of legendary NFL tosser Joe Montana.
The posting focuses mostly on what Nick Montana liked about his visit to UGA. But writer Michael Carvell also asked him about his interest in Tennessee. Here's some of what he had to say:
"Tennessee hasn’t offered, but I’m still thinking about them. I haven’t really heard from them in a while." (Click HERE to see the entire post.)
Say what? You're a football program in desperate need of rebuilding, especially at the quarterback position, and you're blowing off one of the nation's top prospects?
Unless they got Jesus himself lined up to play QB (and we know that's not possible because he already plays at UF), it makes absolutely no sense at all.
Which brings me to the Orange tractor trailer pictured here. I have often wondered why the Yellow trucking company drives Orange trucks. Why not just change their name to Orange and be done with it?
Like Tennessee's apparent lack of interest in Montana, it makes no sense.
Jeff
They are Yellow no more. They merged with Roadway Express and are now called "YRC". Not sure when you will see the name change on the trucks or the new livery design.
ReplyDeleteWell, i guess that's one way of solving the dilemma. But I wonder: did they EVER have trucks that were actually yellow? and even so, how and why did they come to drive Orange trucks?
ReplyDeleteHere is the answer to the Yellow name, orange truck question. According to Greg, at http://ltl-trucks.fabpage.com/index.html :
ReplyDelete"Yellow originally started as a taxi cab company which is where they got their name. However the owner got his foot into the LTL trucking industry and changed it to "Yellow Transit." Because Yellow had/has a big concern on safety, they have done tests to see what color is best seen on the road during the day and night. The test results gave the shade of orange that they are still using today. They have adopted this color known as "Swamp Holly Orange" and I believe they even have a copyright on it just as UPS has a copyright on their shade of brown. I hope this answers your question. I do not know what YRC will have the new colors be but right now the Yellow rigs are still Swamp Holly Orange."
Greg has a cool site about Less Than Truck Load frieght carriers. Though, it cover more then just orange truck.