Trucking companies that you wished were still in business

Yeah, I think you're right. Craig is nowhere to be seen.

 

Haha yup, called my old dispatcher and said I should've stayed on the porch, lol.

 

That was after the insurance company had a cow. One of the supervisors had a speeding ticket framed. 126mph in a 55 zone from Ohio. My truck after was turned down would still do everything on the speedometer . Chased down a Ninja motorcycle one night . He could have left me anytime he wanted to. Pulled up behind him about 300 rpm past 85, and flashed the move over lights. He looked around to see what was wanting by. He saw that grille , him and his bike looked like it was made out of Jello! He pulled over and I shot on by . Dropped back to 85 and set the cruise , never saw him the rest of the night.

 

The good ol days haha, I remember they were large cars, didn't know how large they were until I was running with one of their drivers one night, and he told me 76. That was like early to mid 90's sometime, I thought about going over there, but drivers told me there weren't many miles so I never looked into it.

 

CTI in the 90s? LOL---y'all shoulda know Prater in the 70s early 80s---Now those were the Outlaw days---

 

Great Trucking company's and good jobs are long gone and so are the pensions that went with them !!! The pension funds are run by incompetent outlaws and are stealing our retirement pensions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Consolidated Freightways

Suwak Trucking

APA Transport

Matlack "Pipeline on Wheels"

St. Johnsbury

Associated Transport

Milo Express (Based in Oakmont, PA)

Wetterau Transportation (grocery)

American Freightways

Carolina Freight

Monfort

Parkway Food Service

Gulf (Neville Island Terminal)

Collins & Aikman

OK Grocery (now Talon Logistics)

Helms

K n R Express

The list goes on.....

And on....

And on....

 

I started in 86 driving a T600 Aerodyne Anteater for Days Express pulling reefers to the west coast. Awesome truck horrible company. Other companies from back in the day.
Harold Ives
Munson
Victory Express
MNX
KAT
Columbine Carriers
TranStar
Shippers Dispatch
Brown