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That's cool. I wonder how much more of a pain tarping was back then compared to with modern tarps. I wonder if the guys doing it complained less too.

 

Well the sad thing about the one in Grismby was, the trkstp. bought out the bar to make more parking as it was always full.
Sad thing was most of the guys were next door.. The food was better better looking staff and the barber's chair was fun to watch guys get stupid with their money to get strapped into that thing and the ladies would swing from the hang man's noose just mere centimeters from them. lol

 

I'd think oiled canvas tarps might have been it.
N idk how it was back then as I wasn't around to say for sure...I would think it would be "oh you don't care to cover the load? Well, hope your walk home is a dry one friend" lol

 

An old trucking song that comes to mind mentions a 'canvas covered load'. That would make sense.

 

Heck I used canvas tarps in the mid 80'.. 1980's before a certain poster makes any comment....haha

 

My father donated a book to the prison library so I could read it. I'm struggling for the name... It was about a young fella that bought a jalopy (in the 20's/30's) put a body on it n got to trucking. Dry goods, coal, farm necessities, lumber- anything that he could.
Ended up making his own tag axle on his second truck, from the rear axle from his first truck.

One of the chapters regarded the main character getting a job to haul a load of furniture to a man in town with a furniture store. The man was known to be a chiseler.. So after our protagonist drives all night, hand loads and stacks very carefully all the furniture, ties it in with rope, tarps it in canvas, and drives 10 hours back- the furniture store owner points out a spot of watermark in the dust on one of the new tables. Wants to pay half price for the amount agreed upon for the load.

Protagonist makes a deal: I'll polish this table to better than sparkling and you pay me the whole rate.
Then our hero polishes that table so pretty that the furniture store owner is obligated to have him polish the rest of the load bc the polish job makes the rest of the pieces look poorer in finish.
"No trucking to do today, so I have to make it along the way"

I think back on that book every now n again. Pretty insightful in a lot of ways, to business in general, personalities and plenty specific to trucking.

Making the most of what you have, whenever you can. Always hustling. Overcoming odds of nature, human neglect, mechanical failure, thievery and corruption. Never losing sight of the goal.

True story. Author wrote it about his neighbors son, whom he admired for his perspicacity.




Funny what "oiled canvas" stirs in my mind.

 

I HATE Toronto with a passion. I wish that something catastrophic would happen so Toronto would disappear. I've driven in Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Indy, Chicago etc. I would gladly trade any of them if I never had to do Toronto again

 

Any idea on author or title?

 

Nothing is coming to me. Written a good long time ago.

May (or may not :/ ) have the name of the lead in the title

 

That's interesting. Prison library?