Question for the old time car haulers.

Jack Cooper sure does pay well but #### some of those trucks still have horses tied to the front still

 

They still have a few of the old white Allied Sterling's in Minneapolis. They are no longer White, but peach colored from all the rust running off the rack onto the body work.

 

In Jack Coopers defense, when I started there they had recently acquired a huge amount of business from GM that Allied gave up. They also acquired all of the Allied drivers who hauled the GM traffic and they acquired none of the rigs. Therefore they pulled every truck out of the weeds that they owned and put it in service. While they still have a lot of older rigs in service they have replaced a bunch in the last few years. If I were still a company driver I would take an older rig with a larger total compensation package than a brand new rig and less money. But that is just me and not all drivers are alike. I eventually got this rig and while it isn’t as nice as my Pete is was a very good carhauler.

 

I meant to address this... Used cars seem to move around much more out of sync than new. I'm guessing related to the various states of wear on the shocks. I know I leave a lot more room around high-mileage units than I normally do for new, just based on the motion I see on the headrack unit.

 

Well the quickest way to get fired was to have damages on any of the vehicles. It did happen at times, but it better not happen often.
The thing that got me is kids that liked to throw rocks at us.

 

I really like how you have safety cables, one of the guys I worked with fell off the upper deck and died.

 

They are definitely important in my opinion.