Remember This Trucking Company

[Truck Shop]

I took this picture in the 70's at Rye Grass summit I-90 between Ellensburg and Vantage Wa. This was a big trucking outfit at one time
International Transport. Cat stationary's on that 45' flat.

 

[RonG]

Nice load,we were still shooting film in those days,thanks.Ron G

 

[lamarbur]

Yep

they were known as "crayola" heading down the boulevard

 

[Truck Shop]

Yep

they were known as "crayola" heading down the boulevard

Why yes they were as a matter of fact, right along with Shirley Temple

 

[oldnotslow]

I remember that outfit. In the 60's I was in the service in Las Vegas. I worked in the bomb dump, and those trucks would bring in a lot of iron bombs (no explosives) to train the fighter pilots going to Viet Nam. TSM, Tri-State Motor Transport, out of Joplin, Mo brought in all our explosives. I think that's where my love affair with big trucks and driving first started. The pilots didn't get to drop high explosives till they could hit the broad side of a barn. I'll see if I can come up with some of my pictures of military trucks hauling live bombs through the narrow streets of Okinawa and Viet Nam. 60,000 lbs. of high explosives on a 40' flat, blowing the horn, going like hell, with orders not to ever stop till we reached the base.

 

[Oxbow]

I took this picture in the 70's at Rye Grass summit I-90 between Ellensburg and Vantage Wa. This was a big trucking outfit at one time
International Transport. Cat stationary's on that 45' flat.
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Some things do get better; look at all the license plates on the front of that truck. I got into trucking prior to IRP and IFTA, and what a pain in the posterior dealing with each state individually. No more "bingo" stickers!

Now if we can just get them to do the same thing with oversize/weight permits and regulations between states!

 

[Truck Shop]

Oxbow you should have been in the sign business. Lettering all the permitted states on the side of a cab was like lettering the reader board at the
local drive-in. Nevada with pickles and cheese hold the mayo!:bouncegrin

 

[Oxbow]

Oxbow you should have been in the sign business. Lettering all the permitted states on the side of a cab was like lettering the reader board at the
local drive-in. Nevada with pickles and cheese hold the mayo!:bouncegrin

Yeah you're right, I forgot about all the info we used to need on the side!