Talk:Ryder

POV?

This article sounds like it was written by Ryder. Can someone please make it a little less POV? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.192.3.47 (talk) 17:17, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

What is POV?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.72.98.110 (talk) 16:09, 2 December 2006

See [[1]] "> NPOV (POV) article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.11.186.233 (talk) 02:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I've more or less completely rewritten the article. Hopefully it's better now. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 03:40, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

James A. Ryder

The article says that James Ryder retired in 1978. That's incorrect. He sold his share of the company and started JARtran (James A Ryder Transportation), which did not succeed. The reference to the retirement is from the company, and perhaps from their perspective he retired, but that's not what the word retired means. I'm not going to edit the article since I don't want to track down sources, but either the article should be updated to include this, or perhaps changed to say "retired from the company." Here's an article that covers part of it: https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/14/business/jartran-is-confident-but-it-faces-hurdles.html

Hagrinas (talk) 13:11, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Does anyone know why the James A. Ryder article was deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.72.98.110 (talk) 16:11, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't seem that there ever was such an article, unless it was by a different name than either "James A. Ryder" or "James Ryder". —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 01:15, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Expand

I tagged this article with {{expand}} after mostly rewriting it. There was a lot of junk that needed pruning, and in any case, the content was rather small compared to other large businesses. I'm going to try to expand it a bit myself, but this article isn't in my main area of interest; I usually just do infoboxes for companies. Hope someone can help out. I think the article needs all-around expansion, but here are some particular areas:

• Company history: Everything thus far is from the "official history" page. Specifically I think there should be coverage of the post-Oklahoma City bombing and post-1993 World Trade Center bombing era.
• International involvement: Personally, I had no idea that Ryder had business outside of the U.S. I think this is something that should be expanded and elaborated upon.

Maybe there's more, but I can't think of anything at the moment. I'll add whatever comes to mind. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 03:47, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

There's no mention that Ryder rented trucks to consumers throughout the 1970s and 80s, until about 1998. Those trucks were yellow in color [see http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jeffrey/dpics/20020713-moving-kynthia/08-ryder-truck.jpg]. In the mid-90s Ryder introduced the white trucks for corporate rentals. Maybe 3-5 years later, in 1998 or so, they abandoned the consumer market. Rental lots that had trucks in both colors now only had white trucks. Not a smart move in my book; they were the #2 competitor to U-Haul in Florida and in Philadelphia. They should have spun it off and signed a deal to keep the yellow trucks on the lots and available to consumers. The trucks were newer and in much better condition than U-Haul. Dtvjho (talk) 00:50, 7 October 2010 (UTC) Ryder abandoned the iconic yellow color to distance itself from the Oklahoma City Bombing, in which its yellow consumer rental trucks were used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DredRum (talk • contribs) 17:56, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Pacific Intermountain Express connection

Didn't they have some kind of partnership with Pacific Intermountain Express for a while? I've seen trucks with both Ryder and P.I.E. on the trailers. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 20:15, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

No, different company. There was an issue with the name that was settled long ago. See: chicagotribune.com