You know a company has been around a long time when...

[Malaki86]

I just got a copy of my companies centennial publication (1899 - 1999). Some of the pictures in it are amazing. I'll scan some and post asap.

Anyways:

The phone number on the side of the truck: 8
The number of horses needed to move a 22ton bank vault door: 18 (9 teams)
The year the owner finally stopped using horses: 1940

[Kranky]

I just got a copy of my companies centennial publication (1899 - 1999). Some of the pictures in it are amazing. I'll scan some and post asap.

Anyways:

The phone number on the side of the truck: 8
The number of horses needed to move a 22ton bank vault door: 18 (9 teams)
The year the owner finally stopped using horses: 1940

So, what you're saying is that they were "teamsters" until 1940?

[JewelsnTools]

Looking forward to seeing those! The truck's number was "8"???
Suddenly, I don't feel quite so old!
Jewels

[Malaki86]

Looking forward to seeing those! The truck's number was "8"???
Suddenly, I don't feel quite so old!
Jewels

The telephone number was "8".

I've got a short day today (at least that's how it's planned) and hope to start scanning some pics in this evening. I'll definitely post them.

[JeffTheTerrible]

The year the owner finally stopped using horses: 1940

So what? The Amish have been around much longer, and they still use horses.

[JewelsnTools]

Thank you, M, for the correction.
I officially feel old...and illiterate...now.
Still looking forward to seeing them, whenever you get the chance to post them!
8)

[Useless]

The year the owner finally stopped using horses: 1940

So what? The Amish have been around much longer, and they still use horses.

I was up in Pennsylvania a few months ago, and I came up behind an Amish buggy that was painted WHITE!!

VERY unusual!!

As I drove past it, I saw a sign on the side of it, which read:

SWIFT

[Drew10]

Malaki....what company do you drive for????


Useless...that was funny.

[Malaki86]

W. S. Thomas Transfer - Fairmont, WV

I read one thing in the booklet that made me chuckle. During the depression, my company moved a family to New York City. I guess in that time, something like that was very rare. It took over a month for the round trip and had write-ups in newspapers all over WV about it.

[Malaki86]

See the rest here:
http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x...6/WS%20Thomas/

I'm still scanning/uploading.

[Rev.Vassago]

The horses must have been going on their 34 hour reset.

[Malaki86]

Nah - they were across the river helping here:

[JeffTheTerrible]

I was up in Pennsylvania a few months ago, and I came up behind an Amish buggy that was painted WHITE!!

VERY unusual!!

As I drove past it, I saw a sign on the side of it, which read:

SWIFT

But I thought they were all Mormons?

Funny thing that.. when I did drive for Swift, I was always hesitant about driving through northern Indiana at night, as the roads had no shoulders, and those Amish buggies would always be half in, half out of the travel lane. Their being painted black didn't help very much, in spite of the orange triangle on the back of them.

[Useless]

The horses must have been going on their 34 hour reset.

Could be, Rev!!

Another possibility is that the horses were shut down behind the chicken house and placed out of service because they fialed to meet anti-pollution standards!!
:dung:

[JewelsnTools]

Those photos were very cool. 8)
You could just see the deep pride those fellas felt about the work they did, and in the company they worked for. It was nice to see.
Did your company do anything like t-shirts or ballcaps with that centennial emblem on them?
Quiet as it's kept, that's something to see...sort of comforting, too, since there's a serious level of stability in a company that's ridden through the storms that one's been through!
Thanks for sharing those. Very cool.
Jewels

[Malaki86]

I wasn't there during the centennial, but I think they gave out shirts, caps and jackets. They also put the centennial logo on all of the trucks they had at the time. I don't think they're putting them on our newer trucks, though.

[Roadhog]

The phone number on the side of the truck: 8

I can remember as a kid, our phone number was 5-digits. We called our operator by her first name..:P
A long distance call was real special, and I remember we use to have to shout...like people do now on cell phones.

[Drew10]

roadhog said:

We called our operator by her first name..

You didnt happen to live in Mayberry...did you? 8)
Operators name was Sarah...Right. :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIlM2...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9YaH...eature=related

[ct77]

The year the owner finally stopped using horses: 1940

So what? The Amish have been around much longer, and they still use horses.

I was up in Pennsylvania a few months ago, and I came up behind an Amish buggy that was painted WHITE!!

VERY unusual!!

As I drove past it, I saw a sign on the side of it, which read:

SWIFT

I thought the reason the Amish painted their carriages black was because they did not want to be confused with SWIFT trucks, they cant back very well either by the way which gets me to thinking do you pull the left reign if you want the buggy to go right while backing

[Rev.Vassago]

I thought the reason the Amish painted their carriages black was because they did not want to be confused with SWIFT trucks, they cant back very well either by the way which gets me to thinking do you pull the left reign if you want the buggy to go right while backing

Just be happy they aren't painting them Werner blue. They'd be tearing the legs off their horses.