70mackMB Posted Thursday at 02:42 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:42 AM 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted Thursday at 03:53 AM Author Share Posted Thursday at 03:53 AM Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted Thursday at 09:57 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:57 PM Hippy, Thank you for those videos. To ALL::: If you ever get to Bangor ME put the Cole's museum on your "to do list".... Everything from a railroad locomotive to bicycles hanging from the ceiling!!! Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Thursday at 10:44 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:44 PM wow that was great,,,,,especially that shop and the platform operation,,,,thanks for that,,,,,bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted Thursday at 11:48 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 11:48 PM 1 hour ago, Brocky said: If you ever get to Bangor ME put the Cole's museum on your "to do list".. The RXR station is the one where A J Cole started his freight business with horse and wagon. .....Hippy Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted yesterday at 02:45 PM Share Posted yesterday at 02:45 PM That’s how my grandpa started … after watching that freight operation clip I’d completely forgotten back in the day hardly anything was palletized we were still hand jiving many boxes including cases of oil uuuuuurrr in the 80s … these days almost everything comes on them and shrink wrap things are a lot faster now and a lot less lifting 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseliner64 Posted yesterday at 04:28 PM Share Posted yesterday at 04:28 PM 1 hour ago, mowerman said: That’s how my grandpa started … after watching that freight operation clip I’d completely forgotten back in the day hardly anything was palletized we were still hand jiving many boxes including cases of oil uuuuuurrr in the 80s … these days almost everything comes on them and shrink wrap things are a lot faster now and a lot less lifting Yeah Im with you there.When I started driving in '82 there was still a lot of hand loading/unloading.....hand balling it was called over here.....no need for a gym after emptying a 40ft trailer🤣 Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted yesterday at 05:18 PM Share Posted yesterday at 05:18 PM lol yes even as a driver ive had to do quite a bit of it back then,,,,ans 10-4 on the GYM workout lol.bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago About every time I'd deliver around the Norfolk- Virginia Beach area in the 80's I'd go to Portsmouth and get a load of fertilizer going back to Lynchburg. You backed up to the dock and they'd run a conveyor onto the trailer and load bags of fertilizer on the floor from the front of the trailer to the back. I'd tarp it and take off to Lynchburg, never put a strap on anything. Heck, we didn't even have straps then, but nary a bag of it ever moved. I picked up a load of Comet rice in a van in Stuttgart, Arkansas one time that was loaded on the floor too, but I had to unload that myself. Had 3 stops in New York City. I had to put it to the back of the trailer anyway, but at the last 2 stops they put a conveyor in there for me so it wasn't too bad. The rice was in 20 pound bags, and there was either 3 or 4 bags in each box, I don't remember now. I was in my 20's then, so it didn't bother me. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brocky Posted 9 hours ago Popular Post Share Posted 9 hours ago 11 hours ago, other dog said: unload that myself. Had 3 stops in New York City. I had to put it to the back of the trailer anyway, but at the last 2 stops they put a conveyor in there for me so it wasn't too bad. The rice was in 20 pound bags, and there was either 3 or 4 bags in each box, I don't remember now. I was in my 20's then, so it didn't bother me. AHHH! The pleasures of delivering to grocery store warehouses and produce markets 3 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Oh yeah and then there’s that they want everything knocked down to two or 3 feet high break the shrink wrap restack build pallets to thier demands Glad I’m done ha ha 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted 6 hours ago Author Share Posted 6 hours ago Floor loads out of Boston, floor to ceiling of candy. Augusta Me, floor to ceiling of paper towel-toilet paper-tissue paper. Amarillo Tx, box beef from IBP. Some where to some where, coffee in burlap bags! NYC (Staten Island?) Proctor&Gamble soaps and the MFers put the 50lb boxs of Cascade in the nose! (Loaded with a clamp truck) .....Hippy 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago The good old days I guess sometimes they weren’t good. I almost went to work for ronstiens sugar I’m sure you remember them. I know that’s not spelled right they had all R model Mack’s but their pay was lousy hundred pound bags. I’m sure that job was a lot of work also. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Rohtstein Corp: "The sugar Rohtstein Corp: "The sugar people." people." Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago had to look them up,,,,seems thier still out there and still running macks Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76137-coles-express-gmc-tank-van-interview-video-maine/#findComment-585620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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