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  1. Mike2633

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    All of Frito's trailers are floor loaded aren't they?
    We sell a lot of there stuff at GFS chips are pretty light and while they take up a lot of space they weigh almost nothing and load and unload pretty quick at least in my experience.
     
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    They used to be mostly floor loads, but they have changed a lot since I left. Now they run a lot of product direct to the store on carts. When I worked there most product went to the warehouse and then the route trucks took it to the stores. We had a key to every warehouse and delivered any time without anyone needing to be there to assist. Was a great job at the time.
     
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    A stack of potato chips is light. The same height stack of corn chips, pretzels or crackers and cheese dip, not so much. In fact the loads we backhauled from a plant in Tennessee that distributed pretzels, crackers, salsa, cookies and such, we had to run tandem tractors on those loads.
     
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    Also if you are accustomed to bringing an empty or light trailer home for your layover and you decide to bring 40,000 lbs of cookies home one night. You may need to widen your driveway approach or get a pickup load of topsoil to fill in the tire ruts you make.
     
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    Been seeing more and more of these lately:
    B-Train steel haulers in Cleveland, Ohio
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    Cannon Express Part 1

    Cannon Express started out in 1974 as CR Kidd Produce thank you to @7UP for this most excellent information.

    Anyhow according to @7UP Clifford Riggins sold a couple trucks to Dean Cannon or Cannons wife actually and Cannon was now in the truck business kind of. Riggins had a couple trucks leased on to Willis Shaw Express. Which is part of the Comm Car Companies which you see real heavy down on I-95 in Florida hauling loads for Budweiser-InBev-Anheiser-Busch, which at one point also owned Eagle Brand Snack Foods.
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    Actually I have to go right now I think Comcar Industries killed Willis Shaw Express. I haven't seen one of there trucks in a long while.
     
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    I always find it interesting that what constitutes the maximum legal limits for A & B trains (amount of axles, length, weight limits, axle spacing and tongue length) varies greatly from state to state. As far as I know the B-train above is legal only in Or,Wa,Mt and UT.
     
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    Now that I think about it I haven't seen a Willis Shaw truck out here on I-5 in a long time. with that being said I don't think I-5 was ever a lane they did a lot of business on.
     
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    Same here, Cleveland is not a hot spot for Comcar Industries or any of there companies. Once in a blue moon you'll see a Comcar truck on I-90, but there few and far between. I've never seen WSE or MCT at our warehouse or at the food terminal or at Micelli Dairy or at Fresh Mark (Sugardale Bacon) so they don't run very heavy up here so I wouldn't be in the know on what's cooking with them. However it looks like Comcar Industries dual branded MCT and WSE and then just folded the entire thing into Midwest Coastal Transport so that's the end of Willis Shaw Express.
     
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