Need some old timer advice please,

You’ve never heard of Penny Lane!!

 

My bad you said trucking company ha ha

 

Didn’t take that into consideration.

 

They are flat.... compared to where I live.

 

Um, I don't think so. We've talked about Monfort a lot, and they ran 1693 Cats and a set of clubs and 4 fuel tanks. They promised 2 day delivery anywhere in the US, and that meant hammer down and an automatic would never have taken that.

 

A simple google search of “Monfort Trucking Allison Automatic” yields plenty of reading.

 

Well, whatever, but I have a funny Monfort story, 2 really. 1st, there I was, , late '70's, struggling across I-80 in Iowa with a loaded R model Mack one night, 58, maybe 60 down wind, I sees a set of headlamps in the hammer lane, coming up FAST. I hear on the CB, "Don't move", and this freakin' Monfort truck roars by me, had to be doing 100.
Another thing, I have a friend in Minnesota, who saw an overturned reefer, and on the roof, it said "MONFORT, in big letters. Why would Monfort have their name on the roof? I speculate, and I heard rumors of this, Monfort paid off the cops, and the "bear in the air" would see the roof, and radio to the squads on the ground, a Monfort truck was coming. Anybody?

 

That clarifies things lol.

 

OK so does anybody remember Brisson used to haul a lot of beer for Coors!!
I think them and Monfort were competing for the same drivers a lot of the time!