Do straight trucks pull trailers?

That’s a rare set up, the City of Rocky River, Ohio in conjunction with Dinkmar Industries custom engineered and designed that set up.

 

Hostess Brands of old was known as IBC (Interstate Brands Corp.) prior to 2009. After they came out of bankruptcy during that same year is when they changed the name to Hostess Brands. Unfortunately they went right back into bankruptcy a year later and eventually shutdown. As of today, Hostess doesn't have a private fleet. Most of Hostess Brands products were sold off during bankruptcy (wonder bread, dolly madison, drake's cakes, etc.). Hostess now just sticks to it's original snack cakes like twinkies, cupcakes, ho ho's, ding dong's, coffee cakes, etc.

Wow...that brings back good memories . Drom's in the bakery industry were more of a west coast thing. We didn't have any of those on the east coast...although I do recall the repair shop where I worked at using a drom box to store tires. I didn't realize it was a drom box at the time until I looked at that picture you posted closely . Good times. Probably the best job I ever had.

 

Thank you Sho Nuff! Wasn't the IBC on the small print on the side of the cab doors, while the rest of the rig and trailer said Hostess, I think remember that detail when I would see them up on Donner Pass.

 

Droms were common out west in the 60's for sure.
A 1966 KW I bought used to run the west coast, before I owned it it had an 8 ft drom box and pulled a 40 ft van.

The son of an old friend still runs a COE Pete with a drom deck and pulls a step deck for Landstar. (I think)
Another old friend restored a 61 KW he found in the SW USA somewhere that has a deck on it.


In Canada, aside from fuel haulers, I don't recall too many truck and pup set-ups aside from Kwikasair, (Monfort North), and a couple livestock haulers I used to see out on the road sometimes, late 70's early 80's.

 

Deck space and trailer volume.
With a drom you can carry more freight volume wise.

 

Yep. You can see the IBC on the side door on these pics. That tractor is the same truck that I drove. It had air start...which was a pain in the . Volvo's were the only trucks we had that didn't have air start.

 

Were you able to continue on with the new company then, I read up on it, and it looks like a holding company got the Hostess side, and a another company Flowers Foods got the Wonder Bread side, after the final IBC bankruptcy in 2012.

 

Nah. Everything was shutdown for about a year or so. We were hoping another investor would buy the company but that never happened. Bimbo Bakeries at one point wanted to buy us out but they backed out. Everything was sold during bankruptcy. Wonder bread went over to Flowers Foods, Beefsteak went to Bimbo Bakeries, Drake's I think went to Little Debbie's, not sure who got Dolly Madison, and others that I forgot over the years. Everything was either closed or sold...from bakeries, depots, thrift stores, tractors, trailers, bread trucks, etc., and they permanently shutdown all private fleet trucking and delivery. I don't know who actually deliveries for them now. I think I heard Ruan might be contracted for them. Who knows

There was at one point right after the shutdown when everybody was stocking up on Hostess products thinking they would be an investment...a collectors item...because they thought that would be the end of twinkies. People were selling them on eBay for as much as $2k or more. I've heard they went as high as $30k, but little did they know that twinkies would be back a year later under new ownership. Everybody knows about the so called myth of how long twinkies shelf life is. If there was a nuclear apocalypse...only two things would survive...roaches and Twinkies lol.

 

Dromedary.

A box rear of cab for knick nacks. Sometimes explosive A which used to be rather common back in my time in the old lime green company trucks engaged in that kind of work.

 

I quite forgot the hysteria over that. The locals emptied our stores. You think they were better value than Gold and they were. For a time anyway.

A very long time ago in NE Baltimore stood a cattle farm, milk cows. They sold ice cream made on site Equal to Breyers back then or better if you bought before noon each day. You could stand on that farm and see miles of rolling terrain and happy cows grazing.

I checked the site recently and it's a absolute urban city, not a blade of grass for 20 miles in any direction.