Old long gone Carolina Freight. Still see a few of their old silver trailers sitting around the country side laying low as storage trailers down here in these parts.
Friend of mine and ex co worker’s older cousin retired pretty dang comfortably from AbF 5 years ago after almost 35 years on San Antonio routes.
Ive always been curious about these trailers
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Those set back axle fords were some of the first I saw. Each one of those tractors was essentially painted three times to get the red white and black scheme. I always liked the reefers we had that had snow and ice cicles hanging of the Carolina logo.
You are correct, the paint schemes logos and detail painting was really something back then. I still see evidence of it when I run east on some of the dump bucket outfits.
If you note too, there is no exhaust stack on the power unit. Up until the last days most units were horizontal exhaust, we were always told Mr Beam didn’t want exhaust marks on his trailersBlue jeans, The Shadow, Trucker61016 and 3 others Thank this. -
Quit your day job and become a transportation historian. You should seriously consider writing an illustrative book.
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No I am dead serious. You are an incredible writer and story teller. You did this write-up of TNT (my old parent company that I work for) and I am like "I've worked for 10 years for this outfit and this dude knows more about my company than anyone in my company".
Start your own webpage, get a good domain, and you can 100% monetize this. Or at least do a paper book. Half of this forum willl back you.LtlAnonymous, homeskillet, Blue jeans and 3 others Thank this. -
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Speaking of which are their still any MS Carriers trailers around in the swift fleet? I know there were a number of survivors.
Also I bet if someone looked real hard US Foods probably has an Aliant trailer sitting in the back corner at a distribution center warehouse somewhere.
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