TeamsterGrrrl
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T Grrrl, have you ever heard one of the anti truck citizens say get rid of trucks send it all by rail! Makes sense to me! After all the steel wheel is the cheapest method per ton at present to expedite freight,also the least polluting. Keeping that in mind, where in you're backyard shall we put that siding!!asshole. And who will pay for it you and I of course we've been paying for the subsidized railroads for decades! In addition to my 3 million miles of trucking I have four years as a freight car repairman at one of the only self supporting railroads in AMERICA.the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RR.in Mckees Rocks Pa. The P and L E's number 1 customer was Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. So when the major steel companies took the profits the United Steel Workers generated and bought new state of the art mills in China,Brazil and elsewhere( under a different name of course) Our railroad went under.You almost would have to be a railroader to understand the abysmal condition of our railroads and their roadbeds and infrastructure!
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Teamster Grrrl, my best friend and trucking agent when I was an o/o had an old " Twinkie truck" A road commander white (road commode) was a single axle ex Hostess bakery truck. 250Cummins,10spd r.r.Was probably over specd for most bakery loads.
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There we're 2 different RCs. The first was just a new name for the boxy 7000 series cabover built in the early 70s. The second was the rounded cab that came out in the late 70s and was shared with the Road Boss conventional and Expeditor low tilt. After Volvo took over in the early 80s the "Road" names disappeared and they were just called Volvos.
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Teamster Grrrl, my best friend and trucking agent when I was an o/o had an old " Twinkie truck" A road commander white (road commode) was a single axle ex Hostess bakery truck. 250Cummins,10spd r.r.Was probably over specd for most bakery loads.
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Hostess White Road Commander? If it came out of the Continental Baking side of the company, it'd be rare. They bought some White 5000s in the early 60s with NH220s and some were repowered with 2 stroke Detroits. Continental had some White Compacts too, but I think the last Whites they bought were in the 60s. Could have come from the Interstate Brands side of the company- They had a few White/Volvo cabovers from the 80s and 90s. Interstate was a lot more diverse a fleet, they let each bakery buy their own trucks and thus had a lot of oddballs. Continental did central purchasing for all their bakeries, so they bought a lot of identical Frieghtliner, Ford, International, and Kenworths in orders of up to 200 units. Continental and Interstate merged in the 90s and ended up with the "Hostess" monicker.
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