ABF | Mike Moss Gone!

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I had a 1977 Buick LeSabre with the odd firing 231 V-6 engine. Talk about a bastard engine, this was it. The same CID engine had in the same year 2 different firing orders of the spark plugs. I drove my Buick in to the ground. The motor leaked oil & the rings were so bad I actually put 90W gear oil in the crankcase hoping to slow the use of oil. It smoked so bad it would lay down a smoke screen like a WW II destroyer. It worked in the summer, but come that winter when it got cold, the starter could not turn the motor over due to the 90W gear oil. Stripped the wheels off & had the junk yard come get it. Loved the body style & the 4 doors, but the worst engine GM ever designed. von.

I always wondered who was responsible for that odd fire engine. I would wager that was like an illegitimate child, nobody claimed responsibility.
 
I always wondered who was responsible for that odd fire engine. I would wager that was like an illegitimate child, nobody claimed responsibility.
Kind of like the Chevy Citation. They made it for only 3 years. They actually did NO on track testing. Just made it & pawned it off on an unsuspecting American public. They should have had a concrete warranty. The first part to fall off the car & hit the concrete voided said warranty. @ best that car was an abortion gone south. von.
 
Kind of like the Chevy Citation. They made it for only 3 years. They actually did NO on track testing. Just made it & pawned it off on an unsuspecting American public. They should have had a concrete warranty. The first part to fall off the car & hit the concrete voided said warranty. @ best that car was an abortion gone south. von.
Don't leave out the Corvair
 
How about the Vega?.....or the AMC Gremlin?........or the inflammable Pinto?

You can't tell me those Detroit engineers weren't toking up on their lunch breaks......
 
Or the AMC Pacer,.........which a friend of mine aptly described as a cabover golf cart......
Wasn't that a 2 door hatchback? And the Gremlin was a hatch back I believe.
How about the Vega?.....or the AMC Gremlin?........or the inflammable Pinto?

You can't tell me those Detroit engineers weren't toking up on their lunch breaks......
Whatever they were toking on, it sure wasn't their ham & cheese their wife fixed. von.
 
So.....the upshot of all this,...is that Mike Moss was the "Chevy Citation" of ABF upper management ?

No proven track record, and gone in a couple of years when the engine started to sputter....

I don't know Mike Moss but I have known several lower level management types that just couldn't function in a union environment. Their hatred of organized labor & not being able to kick around hourly employees at will made it difficult for them to adapt to ABF.
 
Good thing you are talking about Canary and not me.
Hmm, I have underwear older than him.

Wait!......wait!........it says "59 year member of the Teamsters".....

Why,.....Brother Seabreeze,........that makes you older than......well......

That means you spent an awful lot more time on this industry than I have.......or pretty much anyone else on here has......

That truck on your avatar picture is an old International, right? I can't make out the company logo........

Good for you here, Brother.....I bet you've got some tales to tell!.

Uhhh.........you don't hold the patent for the fifth wheel device, do you?
 
Wait!......wait!........it says "59 year member of the Teamsters".....

Why,.....Brother Seabreeze,........that makes you older than......well......

That means you spent an awful lot more time on this industry than I have.......or pretty much anyone else on here has......

That truck on your avatar picture is an old International, right? I can't make out the company logo........

Good for you here, Brother.....I bet you've got some tales to tell!.

Uhhh.........you don't hold the patent for the fifth wheel device, do you?
Yep Canary, you are right and wrong
Right, I am older than dirt
I worked only 35 yrs.from 1955 to 1990 for the same outfit, Ryder Truck Lines, PIE Nationwide,
when they folded I retired, knew I would never find a job equal that one
Never had another except my one day Walmart Greeter stint.
Things have fallen on hard times with the Teamsters and trucking in general, but I know what we went
thru back in the fifties to improve wages and conditions and I will always be a Teamster.
Pro or non, you owe the Teamsters for what you have today.
Wrong about the truck, pusher axle White,220 Cummins, R96
Sorry I don't hold the patent for the fith wheel, but I really do hold a patent for the Blivit.
As for the tales, you will never hear any B S from me.
 
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