"Rooster cruiser" & "chicken lights"

Then gather around the campfire here for a little bit, sunshine . . . we all is learning.

 

I never had a whole Lotta lights but I had an 87 359 with the Navajo white 3406B took out the 15 over put a 13 double over swap the 370s for 390s there are few people on here they probably know what I’m talking about!
Leave Lordsburg somewhere past midnight and you’d always catch two or three of those chicken trucks ,course they’d all be hauling produce and hauling ###!!
Sure brings back a lot of good memories and a lot of fun.

 

Not talking about hauling live poultry.

 

That’s a real cluck cluck chicken truck come on

 

The rooster cruisers had a short window to get the fresh killed, fresh chickens to the market in the north. Now, just about every commercial bird has been frozen, so no need to rooster cruise in the night.

 

I think rooster cruiser was more like #### of the walk Showboat, bad to the bone type of thing I think it was kind of a maybe not a good thing when it first started!

 

Not true. Once the chicken is frozen the value drops.
As said, the birds are processed, boxed according to the customer and then loaded on the truck with shaved ice. As soon as those doors closed the refer was set to 28 degrees I would leave either Jasper Al or Enterprise Al Friday afternoon and had to be downtown LA monday no later than 4am.

 

When was this? I hauled Cargill and it was frozen. This was 2009ish.