Anybody remember this ?

I did that in the late 80's with a company name of Midwestern Distribution out of Ft. Scott, Kansas.
We hauled food into NYC and garbage to Ohio. I think it was Xenia, Ohio to a garbage dump. The trucks we used were bare bone trucks and were ordered that way from Freightliner.
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Was that the company that was known for lease purchases and right when you got to where your head was above water they'd cut your miles and take the truck back? Dad always talks about some company from down that way that got in trouble for that back then, don't remember who it was.

 

That's what I heard. Leaseway bought the company for $20 million.

 

Yeah, "Dollar Trucks" they were called. I only worked there long enough to gain the experience to hire on with something better. Found a better job after about 3 or 4 months.
My hobby was filling out job applications for a new job.
I'd fill out those post card job applications at truck stops all the time. Finally, a boat company called me and offered a job, so I jumped at the chance. Hauled Pro-Craft boats 48 states and Canada for a couple of years, then bailed again for a flatbed outfit running 48 and Canada, then a couple years or so later jumped ship again for refrigerated trucking and really like that, so stuck with it for 18 years. I knew every pot hole from coast to coast and loved it.

 

That's what we heard during orientation, but never could find anything in the literature. Rumor was, he was some type of executive there and maybe part owner.
Back in the old days, Prime trucks ran 75 mph.

 

What happened to lease way, huge company, seemed to be in everything. Then gone.

 

I don't know. Seemed to have vanished. Maybe a car hauler outfit absorbed them.