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i vaguely remember that company.
SuperCourse did you ever hear of a Boston based LTL trucking company named Capitol Motor Freight? I think they had Maine terminals in Portland, Lisbon Falls and Waterville. My father worked out of the Lisbon Falls terminal back in the early 60s. I remember that the US Gypsum plant and the textile mill along the Androscoggin river were big accounts for them.
i vaguely remember that company.
dear god, yes, there were like as many companies as there are now DD's at every corner.Don't recall CMF. There were so many small carriers back then, it's hard to remember them all. It was a good time to be a trucker back then.
dear god, yes, there were like as many companies as there are now DD's at every corner.
Branch, St. Johnsbury, Yale, Carolina, among what i can recall right at the moment...i know Carolina got swallowed up by ABF.
Never knew Coles was taken over by roadway.
oh geez, i worked for RPS way back in the early 1990's? what a freaking job that was. glad i had up and quit when i did. literally, walked over to the neighboring trucking company and got a job on the spot...that was Highway Express, MR. Cochran who once founded/owned Overnite, started that one, when he sold out Overnite...It wasn't Roadway Express. It was Roadway Services which was basically Roadway Package Service. Then they put all these smaller regionals together to offer LTL freight. Don't remember what happened to them but eventually RPS was bought by FedEx and became FedEx Ground.
Surprised you remember Yale, they weren't that big. There were dozens of them up here in New England. Graf, Quinn, Wooster, Schuster, Monohan, Beacon Fast Freight, Burgmeyer, Lombard, M&M, Holmes, Hemingway. Was interesting times.
oh geez, i worked for RPS way back in the early 1990's? what a freaking job that was. glad i had up and quit when i did. literally, walked over to the neighboring trucking company and got a job on the spot...that was Highway Express, MR. Cochran who once founded/owned Overnite, started that one, when he sold out Overnite...
Did anyone experience Ivan Hofmann? He was vice president of operations with RPS, and then an executive vice president with FedEx Ground. When he was district 16 manager for Roadway Express, we referred to him as Herr Hofmann. Herr Hofmann would climb in our dumpster at the Albuquerque Roadway terminal with his suit on, and climb back out with a roll of masking tape that still had a little bit of tape on it. And bitch about it??Yea, when Roadway Express and Roadway Package were split up, the tyrants of management went to RPS. Like Dan Sullivan, the Fedex Ground guys probably remember him.
CaSuperCourse did you ever hear of a Boston based LTL trucking company named Capitol Motor Freight? I think they had Maine terminals in Portland, Lisbon Falls and Waterville. My father worked out of the Lisbon Falls terminal back in the early 60s. I remember that the US Gypsum plant and the textile mill along the Androscoggin river were big accounts for them.
Capitol had a terminal in central falls riSuperCourse did you ever hear of a Boston based LTL trucking company named Capitol Motor Freight? I think they had Maine terminals in Portland, Lisbon Falls and Waterville. My father worked out of the Lisbon Falls terminal back in the early 60s. I remember that the US Gypsum plant and the textile mill along the Androscoggin river were big accounts for them.
Capitol had a terminal in central falls rhode islandDon't recall CMF. There were so many small carriers back then, it's hard to remember them all. It was a good time to be a trucker back then.
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Capitol had a terminal in central falls ri
Capitol had a terminal in central falls rhode island
It wasn't Roadway Express. It was Roadway Services which was basically Roadway Package Service. Then they put all these smaller regionals together to offer LTL freight. Don't remember what happened to them but eventually RPS was bought by FedEx and became FedEx Ground.
Surprised you remember Yale, they weren't that big. There were dozens of them up here in New England. Graf, Quinn, Wooster, Schuster, Monohan, Beacon Fast Freight, Burgmeyer, Lombard, M&M, Holmes, Hemingway. Was interesting times.
My first union LTL was Eazor Express,they closed after merging with Danial's Motor Freight.
There was a wildcat strike when the 2 companies employees had to dove tail.
When I started with them I was assigned a brand new Ford cabover box truck for P&D.
I can remember pulling some of those trailers on interchange, before we started running north.
Coles, Hemmingway,Quinn and an outfit called Novick transfer, I thought was from New England, not sure.