MARKING MILESTONES Jerry Moyes looks back on the last quarter century


BY ERIC FRANCIS Contributing Writer


Jerry Moyes’ trucking experience


started early. “My father was in the trucking


business in Ogden, Utah, and as a young man, probably eight years old in 1952, I remember coming out and honking the horn of an England truck in our driveway,” said Moyes. As to whether he had permission to go


out and blow the horn, well, Moyes smiles and says he doesn’t recall. But there’s no question that trucking was already in his blood at that early age, and his youthful fascination turned into a lifetime vocation —and that vocation into a long association with the Arizona Trucking Association, including serving as president during its 50th anniversary in 1987. Today, Moyes has a clear view of


just how far everyone has come—the industry, the association and his own Swift Transportation—as the ATA celebrates its 75th year. “In 1987, we were just coming out of


the deregulation days and were still getting accustomed to running without regulation – we were still a Western carrier,” said Moyes during an interview in his office at Swift’s Phoenix headquarters. “The equipment still had a lot of room for improvement, but by that time we’d moved from being a flatbed carrier into a van carrier, and we had a very small reefer division.” “What I remember,” said Dave Berry,


who is a vice president of Swift, “is everyone thought 1,000 trucks [in the truckload industry] was the sound barrier. Most people thought you couldn’t manage a company bigger than 1,000 trucks.” But also during the mid-80s,


Jerry Moyes at Swift Transportation’s corporate headquarters in Phoenix. Arizona Trucking Association 2012 Yearbook


technology started catching up with the Continues


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