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Roadway Aquisition Letter 07/18/2003

I didn't know there were any more women hired there. Wonder why the guys didn't keep me up to date LOL I knew of the two who came to work in Akron after I'd been in Toledo for a lot of years. And I knew of the 2 in Indy, 1 in Chicago Hts, 1 in Nashville and a few other's in the system.

In Toledo there was one before me but she wasn't there very long from what I understand. And 4 more a couple years after I came back from layoff. But they left in short order. We also had Val who was a P&D driver. She worked out pretty good from what I've been told. So Roadway was getting quality female drivers, some who had many years with the company. I wonder how Yellow...OOPS! I mean YRC is doing in that regard.
 
I worked a while after the merge, as long as I could stand it, and didn't really see any female drivers from the Yellow side. Laura was a good driver.
 
Hi again...been off and on computer but not checking into blog groups. Laura hauled batteries when I ran coast to coast. I remember her from back then...in the mid 70's. Stormy worked out of 241 (Cinn, Oh) but quit to go to work out west. Big R wouldn't hire her back I guess so she went to work for Yellow way before the buy out happened. I never saw her working for them but used to run into the gal who worked out of the Yellow terminal next to the turnpike. She used to go by Peek-a-boo. She was fun to chat with and we used to joke about "window shopping" as Carol called it...checking out the guys in cars and truck's going by us LOL
 
SuperCourse said:
Shake and Bakes, Whisper Jets, we took a beating. Before those they had the old 72-73 longnose White Road Bosses with the rubber block suspensions. They might as well have bolted the axle right to the frame. But I must say, other than the suspension they were a good truck. Ran about 72mph and pulled halfway decent for a freight truck at the time. You're right we had a lot of fun, did a lot of drinking and womanizing. It was a different era. It's all business now.
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I remember stopping at Snow shoe, table in the back was never empty, drivers kept cycling in and out.
 
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