Favorite Truck Fleets (For Fun)

always thought Days Express' cabovers and muralled trailers were nice. Also Jessup transportation out of Indiana

 

Anyone remember NW Transport?

My uncle worked for them in the 90's. He's 80 now and I never miss the chance to hear him tell road stories. The same stories over and over again.

 

ANR was pretty big. I remember they bought a bunch of freight outfits, Garrett, Nuendorf, Knox, Centralia, but the big one was Advance out of Milwaukee, became ANR/Advance. They closed in 1998.

 

A good thing, gone bad. And sad.

 

So many good companies went under. I'm not going to start another union debate here, they are frowned upon, and even I have some time vested in the Teamster's, it was the best trucking job I ever had, but it was usually a strike that killed these companies ( that and de-regulation). Wisconsin had a bunch of great trucking company's, Motor Transport, Advance, Glendenning, Gateway, Gross, CW, ForeWay ( we called them Foreplay) all gone.

 

Are those 2 trucks from the same company? Reason I ask is the only Arrow (and Goldstar) trucks I see are yellow and pretty much only haul chips or lumber here in western Canada.

 

Yes, they are... here's the 'last leg' of their "evolution" before they shut down. ^^^<<<





If these are the ones you see, it's some sort of a 'recon' to sell some of their fleet; not sure why they use the 'Arrow' name, though.

 

@Mike2633 yes you are correct. . . they saved those people in quite a Christmas-y way. Kudos to Melton, for that, for sure.