What was under the tarp?Brought this flat bed load from Buffalo to Montreal back in the day. Just an example of the variety of loads we pulled.
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Oh, so you were in management at Maislin?PS - Any questions about Maislin, ask away. If I don't know the answer I'll just make something up!
that was the guy Steve McQeen was chasing in the movie Bullit
Trip's overnight gear of course.
That's some serious Caterpillar diesel power. I know you were wanting to try one out in that Louisville but it would not fit under the hood.Brought this flat bed load from Buffalo to Montreal back in the day. Just an example of the variety of loads we pulled.
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there city units all had power sterrng,i r emember picking up Gleason Works with flat beds for shipments over sea s. They hauled alot of Kodak and Xerox--inbound and outbound. They were a good company to work for. They made $$$ with the border crossing freight. A few of us ended up at yellow and abf after the closure.Wow, my old stomping grounds! How cool is this? I'm a little behind and didn't see this till this morning. Maislin was a fantastic job until the last few years before the end (1983). Back in the 1970's until the shut down, they were the most seen units on the New York Thruway. Maislin was the king of international trucking between the US and Canada in the Northeast until deregulation. I was a road driver there in New Jersey (East Rutherford then Kearny) from 1974 till the end. In fact I drove that very tractor (7176) many times. If I'm not mistaken it was the only one with a Cat engine instead of the 290 Cummins which was pretty much standard for Maislin road tractors. Didn't much care for the odd throttle response with the Cat engine as I recall. Lot's of good stories about Maislin as soon as I can get my memory working correctly.
PS - Any questions about Maislin, ask away. If I don't know the answer I'll just make something up!
50 years ago today, May 3, 1974, got called early in the morning for my first road trip at Maislin, an Albany turn out of East Rutherford, NJ. It was a flat bed load of pipe I took from the terminal at East Rutherford, NJ (now the site of the Met Life Stadium and racetrack) to our Albany terminal which was actually just off I87 in Colonie, NY. Albany/Colonie was where we switched loads with Montreal drivers who came down from Canada. Great job for the next 6 or 7 years till the final end came in 1983. Good times, good old days for sure.