What if it Snows?

Except in Trucking.

 

I have a Load very similar to the $847 overweight Load. Except this one is actually $38k. Or is it? Bills say 38k, and another for $22k I know it’s not 60k. Shipper said the 22k must be included in the BOL at $38k. Got the axle as far back as Legally can go. Dash guage reads about 53lbs. Same as the problem load read. They said they almost forgot 2 pallets. They put them on the tail on top of wide pallet. Something tells Me to weigh it. Hmmmm, scales should be closed soon. It may be 300-500 over on Trailer. But should be around 73-74 gross. Why bother? Unless to make it 34k, and over on bridge law. I’m not weighing it. What would you Guys do? Weigh or not? Total supposed to be 38,470. Tare weight full of fuel is 35k

 

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That was also the recipe for Bryan Bros,"Red Bird" Imitation Vienna Sausage. Go figure that.
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Down south thru LA, AR, TN, MS, AL, GA; where we were running mostly in the mid 50’s, just some diesel beginning to show up. Jack’s TS at Columbus, MS (AL line) only had one diesel stand in 1954 and it was off to one side on gravel.

Eagle, Deaton, and others; hauling steel out of Birmingham to New Orleans and O/O’s were using some LJ Mack’s’ with 200 Cummins. Dixie Hi way Express had started using 650 GMC Diesels. (Tidbit here---Charlie Deaton (from Itawamba County, MS) sold his Deaton Truck Line. Buyers did not ask or get a noncompete agreement. So old Charlie opened back up as B&M Express. Birmingham to Memphis.) Don’t fool with the old country boys.

In GA and running across to Atlanta, then northeast, there were the Autocars, 28 Whites (all Cummins), Sterling’s (original) and mostly run by the larger textile companies (Blue Bell, Dan River, Burlington Truckers. Guinguard Produce out of NC ran produce out of FL to northeast and over to Midwest. Saw them sometime in Grand Forks, ND at the potato sheds.

Most of the truck were still gas. The major makes were L190 IH, 22 White, 3000 White (Tilt cabs), GMC’s, some REO, Diamond T, occasional F8 Ford. Typical 5 speed (D or OD) with a two speed axle,10:00 x 20 rubber.

Most rigs were 4 axles, as weight limits were 56,000. For years, VA and KY limits did not allow for a tandem trailer. Were still low in 1950 to 1953. Hauling hogs out of E. St. Louis to West Point, MS. You ran out on IL#3 down to Cairo, inquired if KY weighing, if were took US60 on into MO and down thru Memphis. If not, US51 across to S. Fulton, KY, then US 45 on down. Sikeston scales were a #####; even back then, always something.
The little Mack in my avatar was a 55 H63, when I went to Beneke in 57. Purebred, all Mack. Five main and duplex. 10:0022 rubber. In 1957, the Beneke fleet was running 4 or 5 B61 Mack’s, all sleepers. Trucks on the Johnston Furniture Co. fleet were R185’s pulling S/A furniture vans. Jet Dog Food fleet was using R195’s IH with 34’ tandems.

From 53 to 58 longest trailer, I pulled was 34’. Came back from Army in 62 and learned how to drag more. Went into other work, but always had the old buddy who asked: Ya Want to run up to Tulsa with me Friday, “I will feed you and might let you drive a little.

Or the equipment company driver who wanted to know how to get that forklift out of the produce building up near the TN River. “I know you went up there and got it for the Clark dealer. Will you go with me and help me get it? Kept my hand in till the 4-heart bypass’s took the CDL.in 2011.

 

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Memories. I was a kid just out of school and our dairy farm had one big truck, an International Eagle. We could only afford one trailer and it happened to be a coal bucket. We used the combo for hauling corn to Western NY to feed the syrup plants and hauled hay down to Lancaster County, PA for the Amish. Stacking bales in that trailer was a science since you didn't have a whole lot of capacity. Multiple layers hanging over the top edge of the trailer. It kinda looked like the Beverly Hillbillies. Guys would come over the radio and joke about the fact that I wasn't going to get a lot of heat out of that load. Yuk, yuk, yuk.