Thanks for posting that old tri-plex.

Many a day I had a burned foot from the doghouse.

Thanks man

trucker18a....the pic with driver and truck talks about how the shop modified the tranny....i will reread it and try some it up....good to hear you in there....spent alot of time growing up in eastman georgia and some in doraville....tilley mill road area.....

the black and white pic....1961 b-67....and driver bill linch....mr linch says....unit number 9020....mr linch was retired when interviewed.....says splendid piece of machinery...this one had the new unishift.....the man at the shop...mr dugger...took the unishift apart and made some adjustment and made it perfect....linch ran from atlanta to albany....he put 400,000 miles in ole 9020.....in that time linch says he had one engine failure...and no tranny trouble....9020 came off the road and went atlanta city in....in 1981 it was restored......several b-67 at the time were still working local....9048 an all orange one....9024 the guys that are driving them now local say...there not getting older...they are getting better.....the freight colors were orange and white or cream and orange....the name on the doors says ghe atlanta georgia...i drove several a white motor co 1968 model cream and orange and a side wider mack dont remember year model orange and white....alot of gypsy divisions were black and orange....sorry if its long winded or if i repete myself...will try and post better so you can read it for yourself.........

I was down in Fitzgerald when I was driving for Power and Telephone Supply , late 1990's, Nashville, delivering to the EMC's. I had a Supply Warehouse at FIB, and a girl (woman, real eye candy, but 110% business) working the desk when I was on the road, and still have all the EMC business cards from all of Georgia with the Directions to the drop yards mapped on the back of them. Don't know anybody else that has this detailed a direction encyclopedia to Mid and South Georgia.

I saw what the Drought did not only to Fitzgerald, but Eastman, too: Standard Candy was Closed. Astor Foods put all that money into a Processing Plant "Everything except the 'Cluck' 'Squeal' or 'Moo'" in Fitzgerald, and then everything harvested was lost. I think the cutting down of all the Pecan Groves along GA #300 was the saddest thing I saw, next to the "World's Largest" Union 76 Truckstop being abandoned.

Damn didn't they have good grub?

Real hard luck story was Malone Trucking, and I recently read where Amoco closed their fiber mill near Lumber City, not a month ago.

Did a Search for Malone Trucking and found it was bought out, part of an Arkansas outfit now?, looked at the old yard with Google Earth, saw the Shop wasn't being used.

There are a few people down that way on the Newspaper Forums, the City Purchasing Agent for Cairo, Kermit (like the stupid frog), monitors the posts and sometimes, but rarely, I get a PM from him.

Thanks for the flop, got "Highway Hog" the old 'Double H' readin' the 'email

Trucker 18a,

The world's largest TS ; was that the OLD Perlis truckstop ? Seems I remember when they built that , they called it the world's largest .