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mysticobra said:
I realize it's an old post. All I said related to that time.
They moved us into a Y terminal.
I was razzin ya.
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Roadway Albuquerque's first terminal was a group of flatbed trailers chained together. It had a roof but it didn't cover the entire dock. When it rained the freight and new casuals got wet.
 
mud said:
Senior citizens can post wherever they like.
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I'm living proof of that statement ! :biglaugh:
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albag said:
I started in 1988, there were only a few left in the system, I took my road test in a jiffed up White Road Commander. I had NEVER worked in freight before and had to ask why there were 2 fifth wheels!!!!! :biglaugh:
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I always told people that we drove 96 ft trailers across Texas and the southwest and the 5th wheel nearest to the cab hooked to a floating kingpin on the trailer.
Lord the people who believed it!
 
life62mph said:
I have been wanting to start this tread for sometime now. I wanted to have a place the roadway people could post. Not about who is better. Just some where we can reflect, vioce our concerns and the likes.
Just for our elves.
I quess what I'm mean its ok for you to look but keep your comments to yourself. (I know good luck with that one). I'msure we can argue just fine ourselves.



I would hope maybe someone from Yellow would start their own Tread, It would be an Honor to read what you really think about us. I think we would all be supprise. I know most things a said in other Treads are just said to get a reaction.

I hope I am not braking any rules on here.

I have questions?
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I'll contribute to your post . Ok first off I'am a Yellow driver or I should say retired 11 years ago Yellow driver out of Chicago {city }. I 'am very much an old school guy after 44 years most of that at YFS . I knew many of your city guys from the Roadway 51st street terminal . Yeah they where a great crew very likable bunch . Having said that was the way that terminal treated those employees . Seams like the managers there really road rough shot . They handed out warning letters like candy . They Had a bounty out for those guys . Had spotters on the street checking to see if the drivers where really working checking if ya chocked the wheels etc . anything that they could write ya up for . One of my best friends was a city p&d driver out of Escondido Ca .He said ya thats their business strategy ,guess they think you'll work harder if your in fear of your job . Now is or was it that way all over or was it just a few terminal ? BTW I got out before the merger glad to be gone .
 
First job I did was on a 69 Ford C900 477ci gas engine and a fuller 6 speed 3 on the bottom 3 on the top, it was fenced and sat out on the line over a year I got to get it running, tune up, radiator, hoses, put a clutch in it, wheel seals tires(10x20 daytons). This was in the fall of 1981 it blew a motor in Feb 83 and got sold and replaced by a 1387? 8.2L 5spd/2spd.............................. ah the good old days
 
Wrench97 said:
First job I did was on a 69 Ford C900 477ci gas engine and a fuller 6 speed 3 on the bottom 3 on the top, it was fenced and sat out on the line over a year I got to get it running, tune up, radiator, hoses, put a clutch in it, wheel seals tires(10x20 daytons). This was in the fall of 1981 it blew a motor in Feb 83 and got sold and replaced by a 1387? 8.2L 5spd/2spd.............................. ah the good old days
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Yeah. They gave me that one,13874, to pull light rails. Could only get 46 mph out of it too....
 
Old School Guy said:
To the Joe , I remember driving those old Super Power Whites and also had one of those old round nose stainless steel Fruehauf trailers . Man those old Whites were hot in the summer and loud . They were old even then but we still had a few that were still in service . I was a city driver for Akron Chicago for a few years back in the day in Chicago . That one picture at the terminal looks like an early 50's model Auto Car and also that terminal looks like the 51st. street and St. Louis ave. terminal in Chicago
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Yeah I to worked for Akron Chicago (THE ACTION LINE ) around '65 and I did to drive those old Super Power Whites with the tiny mirrors . I had to take one of them up to Morton Grove for a pick up . . I remember that tractor it was a 1942 no grill 1 head light looking up the other one looking down . But my regular tractor was a compact White with a Perkins diesel and a city flyer . BTW I saw the picture you speak of but that was a Roadway terminal on 51st . Akron Chicago was at 7735 west 59th.Summit old Chicago Express terminal b/4 Mc Lean buy out and before that was 42 street and Springfield ave and before that around 32nd and La Salle St . Chicago.
 
imported_bmcotter said:
I miss my 342 and everything that it was before March 1, 2009. Period.
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I worked there for 17 years until 4/15/09. Had to make the trip across town for 3.5 years after that. I miss the 342 terminal. Went there one day when Wal-Mart was renovating the office. They knocked down so many walls I could not even find my old office. They tore sown the dock breakroom except for the TOM's office. Even took out the fuel tanks & fuel islands.
 
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