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best of luck we have commercial antique here also you dont even need a truck license here to drive them ,,,long as no HM and no working it for money i havent tryed to do anything with mine,,,but i have a clean title signed over 25 years ago,,,and it still isnt road ready yet,,,but im wondering if thier going to ask for a bill of sale ??????

One of my favorites was Did you hear about the Big R driver that left his wife?..yeah, he came home and found her sitting on a trash can eating a corn flake with a pie in each hand. I'll see myself out...

And Geoff I remember when caterpillar had to spend like $4 million on an Internet system because they were starting to fall behind somewhere around 98 I used to deliver it to them on one of my Freight jobs back then

Thanks for the chuckle Tom. Going down that list trying to remember the CB radio names we had for them. You ever hear of Red Ball and Navajo merging? ICC wouldn't let them have a logo of a blue eyed Indian with red balls! .....Hippy

Took some a little bit longer to go under than others really missed the pension. I missed mine by about a month of being vested it only woulda been around 200 a week since the company was gone, but that’s certainly better than nothing

I was leased to two smaller trucking companies that were both started in the '30's and both were in bad shape by 2000, they were great people to work with/for. The internet killed them more than de-reg, or the internet was the final nail after de-reg weakened them. Not sure which way but they were both doing well enough in the 90's when I was with them.

yeah a gone by era,,,,most of those companys paid real well and couldnt make it after deregulation ,,,,aaaaahhhh the good ole days,,,bob

You probably know the story on the red one, it's sitting down at P.L. Duncan's in Columbia, VA. The first time I looked at it was in 2009, looked pretty much roadworthy then. The last time I saw it was just a year or two ago and it had really gone downhill- a lot! Just from sitting, which is about the worst thing for a vehicle.

They were pretty big at one time. I kept these pictures that I saved at some point just because. The names that are no longer around bring back a lot of memories. Some of the names were impressive to me, just the name itself. I don't know why but I always liked Garrett Freight Lines, Western Gillette, East Texas Motor Freight, and others.

I think the "center cab" trucks were a short term solution to a problem solved in another way. They seamed to be around in the 60's and 70's and mostly gone by the 80's. They could get into old cramped mfg districts with load that a semi could not. Those districts were likely service by spur rail line in older times. (can you imagine trying to get the rail-road to deliver a few I beams?) With more stuff moved by truck, if you couldn't get a std semi in you either moved or remodeled so you could, making the center cab an obsolete item. They also had almost zero value on the secondary market. You can't really re-use them for something else. Urban renewal, flight to the suburbs and beyond for cheap industrial land ended the need for them. I don't think I've seen a truck later than the Loadstar made into a center cab unless it was that purpose built truck I saw on I-79 all those years ago. It was so unrecognizable as to who made the chassie, might have been CCC (Crane carrier corp), so hard to date it.

thanks for that tom,,,,i knew i wasnt going (TOO) senile i couldnt even find photos of garrett i used to see lots of thier trucks in california,,,all of a sudden they were gone

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l hope these are on the "Too be saved list". .....Hippy

LOL Looks like an Edison Motors model. .....Hippy

Ray Sidella is one. He moved a truck for me back in 2022 from Delaware to Pittsburgh. At the time he made weekly trips to the Midwest back to East Coast. I don't know if he gets on here anymore but his user name is @mack mhe9. If you send him a PM he will gat an email notification. I think I still have his phone number written down somewhere.

Some of the people at the South Carolina DMV tried to tell us the same about a weight limit. Between a friendly officer in the Diesel Cops and an ATHS member who works at the Main DMV HQ it was quickly straightened out. There are still a few local DMV offices who like to give a hard time, BUT we now know which ones to go to with NO problems. Mechohaulic, Matt, with the B-73 rollback, and Matt Phfail should be able to help you find a cooperative office.

Well its not a loadstar but an R series with the single man cab. Its crazy. I was not even looking for internationals and this popped up in my search. Kind of strange that I mentioned it yesterday and have not seen one in years.... 1968 International R190 Series Single Center Seat Dump Truck - Commercial Vehicles - Glen Campbell, Pennsylvania | Facebook Marketplace | Facebook

Cives Steel in Winchester, VA. used to have one. I had several International Scouts over the years. I remember when there was one "parked out back" up at Powell's Truck and Equipment in Lynchburg, the International truck dealership. Somebody bought it for the transmission or transfer case or something, didn't give much for it, seems to me it was a couple hundred bucks. Got whatever he needed then sold the 345 engine for more than he paid for the Scout to start with. A company in Lynchburg called Mrs. Giles bought the engine. They made coleslaw, potato salad, that type of stuff, and they had a fleet of Loadstars with 345's in them and one of them needed an engine.

A Conco maybe? Here's a Garrett model.