Ol' MONFORT Drivers?????

Anybody remember the propane tanks that blew up on old 66 in AZ and wiped out the truckstop. Think it was Winslow. I can remember going by it and seeing what was left.

 

I remember the ol' Monfort trucks. Still hear the hammer lane called the "Monfort lane".

Got that right! I don't get passed very often. Not even in the mountains pullin' grade with a load.

Lead, follow, or get outta my way!

Never drug a reefer, just a bullrack 99.5% of the time. Up til 2 1/2 yrs ago, it was cattle only. Now I'm stuck with quite a few hog loads mixed in. Drop at plants from KS to PA. Tyson/IBP (cattle and hogs), Swift (cattle and hogs), JBS/Packerland/Mo-Pac, Dressed Beef, Creekstone, Farmland (hogs) and Cargill (cattle and hogs). Run to Tyson and Farmland mainly.

 

I hauled cattle for Karler Packing in Albuquerque. Would go to CO or NM and pick up a load, deliver in ABQ, hook on a reefer and haul swingin to LA, pickup a load of frozen food and go back to ABQ, grab a bull wagon. It was always, "We need these for tomorrrows kill." I planted enough logbook trees B/N ABQ and La to have a forest by now. Jess ran us, but treated us right too.

 

I'm back to hauling fat cattle locally as routine sale barn running to a Tyson plant. And typically only haul fat hogs for 3 different farmers. Feeder pigs (40-70#), feeder cattle (4 weights and up) and cows/bulls only occasionally now.

Have to haul feeder pigs on Monday. Gonna be a PITA with IL having posted roads right now. Have to put the load on 2 trucks, til we get to the truckstop. Then run the one group on to my rig, so I can take them down to MO. A lot of jacking around for a 190 mile haul.

Nice to see the boss out and running to see what we go through. My boss got a rude awakening last fall when I was running OTR with feeder cattle and he had to cover the sale barns. He's one of the hardest working people I know, and even he doesn't want to do my job. LOL He was like . LOL

I HATE hauling hogs. Especially when it takes 2-4hrs to load because they are sorting as we load and dinking around. One good thing though, it does help keep up the reflexes. Gotta be quick with the hogs. LOL

 

i remember the monfort trucks as well.


when i was a kid, my parents drove for circle c out of grand rapids i would go on the truck in the summer when school was out. i would see them all the time.


when i was a kid i would ask my mom " how come all trucks arent as fast as the circle c and monfort trucks?" lol
if memormy serves correct the circle c trucks were some of the few that could keep up with monfort trucks

 

i got a few pics of some of the circle c trucks put up in an album. i scan them if anyone is interested in seeing them .

 

Pappy, I drove for Walter Barnes out of OKC and did the Greely thing too but most of ours was Fats out of TX Panhandle to Wilson Pack, and lots of feeders out. I hauled a 53 ft single deck and it was illegal in KS. That was terror time usually coming back to OK as the KS weigh man got after us. Walters wife was an Armstrong and they had a bullhauling op too and one. Her daughter was married to one of the drivers and he and her and their baby went off the RR crossover bridge in Weatherford OK on I 40. They hit on the RR embankment and killed them and a load of fats bound for OKC. After that Walter drank the business under.I still get a funny feeeling in my stomach crossing that bridge E bound and looking down and can still see the truck smoking.