You must be with Cassens. I'm an old car hauler myself,......'79 to '82 with M & G Convoy..........
Now there was good maintenance. Any Ryder shop in the country.......Anything you wanted,......within reason, of course......
Since each trailer had their own "personality" as it were,.......and it was all about how many different combinations of vehicles you could load,..........any sort of modification on a trailer,......cut pockets here,..put cylinders and a ramp bar there,.........you just whipped into a Ryder shop, explained what you wanted,...and went to the motel.......
I did that at Janesville,....got the shop to add a ramp bar,.....so I could load seven huge Cadillacs on an old Delavan....(modified for nine VW's...)....I think I was grossing just a little under 73,280 when I came swaying out of that plant....,...That ol' screaming 238 Detroit practically had a hernia.......but luckily it was all downhill from Janesville Wisc. to Pittsburgh......