If I remember right, Midwest Emery and Little Audrey's were owned by the Ratner brothers, Milt and Dave.

Pirkle, out of Madison Wi hauled all that Oscar Mayer freight from Madison to West Coast. Was home to a lot of big riggers back in the day. One of the former owners is still involved in an LTL outfit that trucks Wi to West Coast.

R&D went Belly up in the late 90's here was the owneres problem when he did fold he had 100 drivers and 300 office workers. Called to amny cheifs and not enough indians there. Fitzimanns went under in the Early 90's during Bush the Firsts term. Schitgall folded in the 80's during Regan when the boss tried and died to go as big as JB Hunt Nass failed when Deregulation hit.

Little Audreys, Sam Tanksley, Monfort,Carretta and oh yes how could we forget Midwest distribution ...Damn these back some memories or am I just gettin old??

Yo, let's hit the Monford Lane and go for it !!!
Doubt many of the newbies know where to find the Monford Lane

Not Older,But Just Wiser, as they Say,How bout that B.J McAdams, A

frequent fixture & Flier out on the Old Blvd in The Day or,
Holiday Express from Esterville, Ia. or IWX Still rolling.

We can't forget Kroblin or Cross Country

My father driving for Midwest had a truck that he could IF needed could tell the Monforts to GET OUT OF THEIR LANE. 68 Cabover Freightliner with a 1693 Cat mated to a 6X4 and 3 speed Eatons in the back. Needless to say when he needed it it would MOVE IT MOVE IT. Saw one WARNING Rev he got for 147 in NV when they were still resonable and proper heck 3 am no traffic on the road cop was sleeping had the radar set for 140 only caught him when he stopped at boomtown for the 69cent ham and egg breakfast and to get fuel before going to San Fran.

147, huh?

In a truck.

Must have been hauling ping pong balls.

:roll: :roll: :roll:

Hey TF. Your gona have to trade in them 9" boots for some hip waders. :lol:

Just wanted to Point out that,

Top MPH is'nt determined by weight of

Ur load when running on level ground, it's
determined by Gear ratio & if or not if the
Truck is Goverened or not, be it ping pong
balls or 40,000 lbs of IBP Meat, top speed will
change when U start pulling The Grade. Anyone
remember American Farm Line's or Big Sky-Mon
tana, A couple of the Farm Co-Op 's, that pulled ex
empt commodities. Some of these Trucks ran the
Ol'e 1693 T/A Caterpillar Motor & they could run
triple digits without much problem. Along with Tom
Jerry Inman's Trucks. Gone but not forgoten due to
De-regulation in 1980. 8)