The good old days again !

                                                               

The picture on the left shows how we used to do our paperwork in a cabover, spread out across the "dog house".

The one on the right is what Consolidated Freightways ran all over the east until they declared bankruptcy and shut down in the "90s then reopened as CTI and is now XPO.

When I first started out of Columbus, Oh. C/F had a terminal there and sent several sets of doubles like that to their St. Louis terminal everyday. It was an 8 hour drive each way so the driver would layover at each end for their 8 hour break as they didn't have a bunk to take that break in.

At this time there wasn't many conventional tractors east of the Mississippi so most everybody drove cabovers or "COE", cab over engine. Eventually owner operators started buying the bigger "Large Cars" so that now even the fleets use them and you hardly ever see a cabover.

That just reminded me when I saw the pictures on the news the other night of the big pileup on I-80 in the snow. Going from Columbus to St. Louis and return on 40 and I-70 used to be treacherous in the winter and a lot of times those doubles would be loaded light so that the wind blowing out of the north, when you were running east and west, would blow you right off the road.

Many times their would be C/F, Roadway or Yellow trucks parked in the median all over the place.

Thank GOD that's over !   Keep on trucking, Dutch