Hustler of freight, self-proclaimed philosopher, aspiring freight historian, veteran (some call me Doc).
Cincinnati, OH
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Here鈥檚 Greenwood, IN complete with a Amazon contractor dropping bins out the back of his trailer on the surface streets
I thought my taxes were supposed to go towards fixing these roads, yet, they can still knock a tampon out of a nun.
Every Halloween my wife finds an excuse to make me wear full body tights.
This year's theme is Lion King... any guesses?
Fun fact: American drivers did the exact same thing after the 1956 Interstate Highway Act. Plenty of hands stayed on US-66, US-40, and US-30 until the fuel stops and diners finally moved to the interstates.
What interstate stretch still doesn't have enough places to shut down or amenities?
India is building US-style expressways to move freight faster. But many truckers still prefer older roads, where food, repairs and rest stops are cheaper. Aryan Gupta explains what鈥檚 putting the country鈥檚 $130 billion bet at risk: bloom.bg/4Bn5lr4
Chicago, July 1941. Looking west up the Chicago River from the Outer Drive Bridge (notice the Curtiss Baby Ruth sign on the right).
The trucking company was Keeshin Motor Express. Jack Keeshin started at 13 on Chicago's West Side hauling poultry for his Dad Albert with a horse and wagon. By 1935 he was putting canary-yellow trailers on Rock Island rail flatcars and running a 13-truck caravan from Chicago to L.A. in 4.5 days, beating the fastest rail freight schedule by 46 hours.
In November 1945, with 2,000 trucks and 17,000 miles of routes, he walked into his own board meeting and quit: "I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery. I want to have some fun."
馃摲 1941: John Vachon, FSA/OWI, Library of Congress | 2009: mindfrieze, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
