Driving from coast-to-coast?

yea we do it all the time....lol from california to the new york island...miami to seattle. virgina to oregon.

 

One of my favs when doing 48 was Long Beach, CA to Jacksonville, FL then turn around and bang out a load from Savannah, GA and throw it off in Oxnard, CA. It was one of the best ways I found to turn and burn quick miles for an otherwise poor looking month before they relegated it to teams only within the cump'ny. I want to hear some stories from the hotdog sludge haulers that do Baytown, TX to Anchorage, AL and back again.

 

About 9 years back I was on a dedicated run from Boston to Seattle did it for about 6 months,those were the days.......

 

My hubby still runs from Riverside,CA to NJ in a less-than-week run.....

 

My normal route WA to NC...every week sometimes just for the heck of it I'll throw in Texas but usually if I go to Texas then it's up to Calagry.

Coast to coast is no big deal some have had the opportunity of doing it more often. It's only tough when you go from 75 degrees to 15 degrees in one day. Takes alot to get adjusted to in a quick time period. Unless your driving team you'll probably not experience that.

 

yeah, I can't even remember how many times i've had those types of runs. my favorite was from LA to jville,FL.

 

YuP!
Coast -to-Coast gravy runs.
Gotta love 'em.

I've had those runs from Fullerton, California (Hunt Wesson) to Jacksonville, Florida ----
Re-load somewhere in Georgia and back to
City of Industry, California.

Also ran a dedicated run from Fontana, California to
Norfolk, Virginia --- then to Northern California ---
and back to Fontana.
6,700 miles in 7 days.
Two days off and do it again.

GREAT money runs!

 

One of my lead drivers at Tri-State in the late 1960s had previously operated solo for Hale Distributing hauling fish from Bangor, ME, to Los Angeles. He drove an LJ Mack owned by a sugar daddy who let him operate as an owner-operator. In Los Angeles, he often re-loaded the same fish and delivered in the center of the country where he lived. Then, Hale domiciled him at their Brownsville terminal with loads to Los Angeles, and he could not get home. His wife mailed a map to the Brownsville terminal with an "X" marking his home. That is when he quit.

Willis Shaw drivers also operated coast-to-coast solo in those days.

 

Whereas produce haulers may have done more long-haul solo driving, the freight companies had teams and relays.

Longhaul trucking was well-established in the late 1930s and very well-established by the 1950s. Such companies as Consolidated Freightways were running from the Pacific Coast to Minneapolis daily. Pacific Intermountain Express was running longhaul in the late '30s between Denver and points east to and from San Francisco. Garrett Freightlines was running longhaul routes all over the West. Denver-Chicago Trucking Co. was running across the U.S. in the 1940s. There are many more: Illinois California Express, Watson Brothers running out of Omaha to the West Coast; Braswell in the Southwest.
On the West Coast there were West Coast Fast Freight, Los Angeles Seattle Motor Express, ONC and others doing 1,000-mile runs up and down the West Coast.
All of this was before the Interstate Highway system.