Cannon Express

Apparently no one has noticed his absence.

 

I drove for them between October '95 and February '96...I remember the good ol drop and hook Walmart loads...I didn't make a friggin dime pulling for them. They had all thos funky safety and fuel bonuses.

 

I drove for them from 8/02/-12/03 I was making the best money since I started in 96 .37/mile when I left and ran my ### off. the writing was on the walls knew it wouldn't be long before they closed. the last 6 months there they cut freight lanes nothing west of I-35 north I-80 and east of I-75 I think then stoped the medical insurance. I left when they started borrow from payroll to pay there bills we got paid but would be a week later. the whole time there they sold off equipment. 5 months after I left they closed....

 

Im not sure but i swear i had that same truck number when i was there. I had 3 trucks in the 15 months i was there and each one was older then the last. When i started my first truck number was in the 700s that did 72mph.

 

Cool, do you have any cool stories about Cannon Express you’d like to share?

Cannons a 1990s era trucking company that was born and died kind of in the 1990s! Cannon is stuck in time as a 1990s outfit.

 

well I only worked there from 08/02 to 12/03. was after the founder left. at the time was making the most I have in the 6 years before when I left made 37cpm. but I saw the signs that it wasn't going to last much longer and 5 months after I left they closed.

 

I started with them The friday after thanksgiving 1995 & only made it three months. I had two trucks - the first was 828 & the second was 6366. In that three month span I traveled as far west as Utah & North into Canada. Everything I pulled went to a Wal Mart distribution center

Living on the East Coast they made sure my travel lane was Illinois to Texas for the most part - heard that was the norm once they found out your home state. They had a driver in Texas that his License had expired & they sent me to pick him up & bring him to the yard.

During our travels he told me that he had informed dispatch many times that he needed to get home to renew his license but they kept sending him further out. On the way to the yard I found out that I had a death in the family, & after bringing that driver in I was told they would arrange a load back home....I was on the yard for a week before they got a load going out (this is when I got my "new" truck) & it wasn't anywhere near home - that took another three weeks. Decided right then once I finally got home that would be the end of my career with them.

 

I did a small report on Cannon as a company it's a sub thread in my book report on Consolidated Freightways and Cannon Express uh they defiantly were not always on the up and up. They were kind of big for a smaller company. From what I heard really Wal-Mart was there only customer kind of. They had sales offices all over the country, but most of there eggs were in the Wal-Mart basket.

Cannon Express, Dick Simon Trucking and others all relics of the past now. Precious Memories.