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koldsteele

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I was wondering if there are any truckers on here that remember a trucking company named International Transport out of Rochester , Minnesota ...

I had truck leased to them in about 87 to 89 before Schiender bought them out ...It was all owner operaters and most of the old hands had green and yellow paint ..This was a requirement years before my time ....

We where hauling mostly over dimension loads ...I'm not excactly sure about how many lease drivers we had i'm thinking about 500 ...

I started thinkin about this the other day and how good it was ...All involved where great people ,sotra miss those days ....Sad too see them bought out by Schiender ..Thats when I quit ...It was a the best company I ever had a truck leased to...:D
 
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Hey Koldsteele, I found on youtube some great videos by 1968spawn (freightliner fever) and DIESELFUMES that have lotsa shots of there older stuff. Try there, I bet they can help ya. It was real rare to see those guys come through my neck of the woods in the 80s as A kid but when they did... They knew how to dress em up I always thought. Don't know how much they spent on paint but my friends dads said they had POWER in em!
 
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your company was nicknamed "crayola" for the color and design on those cab over KW's they were running,
 
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Cool Tonka! I dig those ol Dbl bunks. There was one at Pleasanton that was reported to be the first Pete w A KTA600... Loved the I.T. trucks as a kid I am 38 and still do!
 
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koldsteele

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Tonka thanks for the pics brings back memories ...I'm not sure when there paint was not required I noted that letter was dated 1975 ...like I said I was leased to them in 87 to the collapse ...

I'm not for sure on this but I think they lifted there paint requirement when a company named C&H out of Dallas, Texas went under and alot of owner operators wanted to lease on with International Transport ...

I noticed in that letter the name Chuck Peters ..He was the recruiter when I leased on ..The pic of that 4 axle Pete bring back memories there where alot of KT powered and alot of 3408s 6x4 transmissons ..Thanks again for the pics ..

I took alot of pics when I was with them ..When I divorced in 90 some how all my srap books where gone :Banghead I guess she felt that would hurt more than anything...
 
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TONKA . Keep it coming man. JTL started A thread in forestry on log trucks . Seems like you have A library of archives of when the trucks were very much custom and unique! Where do you find all this history? This outfit was bitchin and the personal touches while not all my style I still think are cooler than the same ol 379 stretched out w plastic fenders!!!! THANKS TO ALL WHO POST!!!!
 
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koldsteele

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Tonka thanks man ....Those pics bring back the memories ....I noticed on the first page of that letter that a new truck in 75 was 40k ...Hard to figure now 40k dont buy a pickup truck...

Damm I wanna go back ....:D
 
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koldsteele said:
Tonka thanks man ....Those pics bring back the memories ....I noticed on the first page of that letter that a new truck in 75 was 40k ...Hard to figure now 40k dont buy a pickup truck...

Damm I wanna go back ....:D
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yeah man me too... rates wern't high but you could make a living trucking.... not like today with all these rate cutters out there.... i got some more pics i will post later.
 
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I was leased to C&H out of Dallas until '78. I left and went to Keen for just over a year and left there and went to F&B Truck Lines out of SLC. When I left there (over a woman, dumb me) I checked my revenue and I had made $6.00 per mile for every mile I had run the previous year. Willie Thompson ,aka The great white father, knew how to keep ya loaded and profitable. And then came the de-regulation and the ruination of the trucking industry. And as was said, those were the good ole days.
 
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Saw this thread a few days ago and it came to my mind right away today.

On my way home today from NY I swear I saw an old cabover Peterbilt with the similar green and yellow color scheme at a storage place. Truck looked like it's been sitting there for a bit. No plates and was able to see it easily on the Mass Pike. I'll be making the same drive next week. I'll try to remember to take a pic on my way home. If i remember correctly it was in or before the Worcester area on the Eastbound side but after I84
 
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koldsteele said:
I was wondering if there are any truckers on here that remember a trucking company named International Transport out of Rochester , Minnesota ...
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Yup. I drove for a guy who had trucks leased to them one winter in the early 70s. We were weathered out of the woods and I thought maybe it would be an adventure. I was right. I went places and hauled things that I'd never seen before. IT figured if we could get in on a trailer and tie it down it was a good load. Come Spring I went back to the woods but I sure saw a lot of the country (some of which I hope to never see again) in the meantime.
 
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