By MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press Writer
BILLINGS, Mont. – In the multibillion dollar world of overnight package deliveries, Mike Overstreet knows his Billings-based company, Corporate Air, is at the “tail end of the dog” as a small FedEx contractor serving rural areas of the Rockies and Midwest.
Yet with FedEx engaged in a fierce Washington, D.C. lobbying battle with the industry’s other private sector titan – United Parcel Service – Overstreet worries his business and customers in 10 states could go down as collateral damage.
At issue is whether FedEx Express, the company’s delivery division, should be reclassified as a trucking company, like UPS, or retain its federally granted status as an airline.