Stan Koch & Sons

Da weed!

 

My head just exploded again.

 

Stan Koch (Cook) is from Minneapolis MN. They are distributors for rope and belts, at least that is how they started. The small village of Cosmos MN had Bowling Alley and a Creamery both converted to warehouses. Randy runs the deal now, he used to operate the Gambles Store in Cosmos in the 70's. His mom used to bottle toilet cleaner and ship it out to Farm Stores. I delivered and picked up from them when I was working for the Murphy Motor Freight Lines agent in Litchfield MN. They bought a few trucks in the 80's and started hauling their own stuff and it grew to where it is today, major carrier, flats, vans, they haul Recreational Vehicles from Polaris, boats from St Peter MN, and advertise looking for drivers in Marshall MN, most likely hauling for Schwans Foods. They also haul generators on drop decks for Onan.

 

Do you know if it's a decent company? I've seen their ads and it looks like it might be interesting.

 

I have talked to some of their drivers and they are happy. One was hauling Polaris atvs in a dry van with ramps. The other had a tri axle step deck hauling Onan generators. He said Onan controlled the loads, basically Koch supplied driver and truck. The only negative thing I have read was posted on a message board.