Originally Posted by
Sotonsean
I've not come across Consolidated Freightways before although Zantop DC8's were once fairly regular visitors to London Gatwick Airport during the late 1980's early 1990's.Regards Sean
Consolidated Roadways was the largest trucking company in the USA for many years, and Freightways was their air freight side. I don't think they operated in their own right, but subcontracted other freight carriers. For some time they also owned Emery, who did their operations. They went bankrupt in the early 2000s, then re-emerged, and finally were merged into UPS.
Zantop was one of the big US freight operators based in Detroit, doing much work for the major automobile companies taking parts between factories. Kalitta, still very much around, is another. Besides the car company work there is a huge amount of dedicated air freight in the US, civil and military, lots have consolidated into FedEx and UPS in recent times but still lots of other operators, who regularly subcontract work between each other.