FreightWaves Haul of Fame: Consolidated Freightways was an industry leader for many years

[Freightmaster1]

FreightWaves Haul of Fame: Consolidated Freightways was an industry leader for many years

Consolidated Freightways was a leader in the trucking industry for decades, and also started Freightliner trucks. Read its interesting story in this FreightWaves Haul of Fame article.

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[chappey]

Great story

 

[Hookman]

CF built their own trailers, Road Systems was company, XPO owns it now in Searcy R Kin Saw. CF was innovative to say the least, they would rebuild trailer axles & put a new trailer on the axle and guess what, a new/old trailer that was considered old for tax purposes.

 

[abflocaldriver]

FreightWaves Haul of Fame: Consolidated Freightways was an industry leader for many years

Consolidated Freightways was a leader in the trucking industry for decades, and also started Freightliner trucks. Read its interesting story in this FreightWaves Haul of Fame article.

www.freightwaves.com

Smartest freight people, I ever worked with

 

[Stimpy]

Best job I ever had.

 

[matth37]

Worked at CF in Orlando FL. from 1978 untill the End in 2002 . I was proud to work there every day, Great Company . .

 

[yellow11]

Worked out of Omaha for 20 years. Some of the by employees in the industry.

 

[yellow11]

Best

 

[cityman]

Worked at CF in Orlando FL. from 1978 untill the End in 2002 . I was proud to work there every day, Great Company . .

What did you do road,city,dock ?

 

[seabreeze]

CF built their own trailers, Road Systems was company, XPO owns it now in Searcy R Kin Saw. CF was innovative to say the least, they would rebuild trailer axles & put a new trailer on the axle and guess what, a new/old trailer that was considered old for tax purposes.

https://imgur.com/4OQsWnH

So did this outfit, (Brown Equipment) built their own Brown tractors and Brown trailers.

 

[membersonly]

Road System trailers. Aren't they the ones that had passenger side dolly cranks and airlines. Oh they had Wedge brakes too. Triple AAA still runs some of them. They took the long CF metal signs cut them down flipped them and put Triple AAA Cooper logo on them. 24.5 wheels and tires.

 

[seabreeze]

Road System trailers. Aren't they the ones that had passenger side dolly cranks and airlines. Oh they had Wedge brakes too. Triple AAA still runs some of them. They took the long CF metal signs cut them down flipped them and put Triple AAA Cooper logo on them. 24.5 wheels and tires.

PIE ran some wedge brakes also disc and drum and also ran 24.5 tires.
If anyone came up with an idea, they were willing to give it a try.

 

[DCM_Doc]

PIE ran some wedge brakes also disc and drum and also ran 24.5 tires.
If anyone came up with an idea, they were willing to give it a try.

Navajo also had some wedge brakes. Navajo, like other freight lines going out of business, did very little if any maintenance. On most of the wedge brake rigs the brake blocks had not touched the drums in a long time when ABF acquired them. Freeing up stuck/frozen wedge brakes requires quite a bit of time & even then it was a crapshoot how long they would work.

 

[seabreeze]

Navajo also had some wedge brakes. Navajo, like other freight lines going out of business, did very little if any maintenance. On most of the wedge brake rigs the brake blocks had not touched the drums in a long time when ABF acquired them. Freeing up stuck/frozen wedge brakes requires quite a bit of time & even then it was a crapshoot how long they would wor. he said they were out of adjustment.

I ran out of hours playing with a DOT man and wedge brakes on a dolly in Darien Ga.
If they were in adjustment, I couldn't pull the trailers, when you could pull them, he said they were out of adjustment.
A city driver out of Brunswick brought another dolly while I was in bed.
The brakes were just fine before he started his games.

 

[DCM_Doc]

I ran out of hours playing with a DOT man and wedge brakes on a dolly in Darien Ga.
If they were in adjustment, I couldn't pull the trailers, when you could pull them, he said they were out of adjustment.
A city driver out of Brunswick brought another dolly while I was in bed.
The brakes were just fine before he started his games.

You probably have some Jifflox stories too.

 

[wongway]

Wow , them early days trucks gave new meaning to the Short Truck !

 

[Jeff]

 

[Jeff]

Thinking about making this shirt

 

[Hookman]

If you make it in fat boy size (2X) I'm in.

 

[Jeff]

If you make it in fat boy size (2X) I'm in.

Now I usually don't fire up the printer except on the weekends because of the maintenance and cleaning I will send you a message when I fire it up