Household Fleets Carry on Truckin’ after 70, 80 Years – Fleet Administration
The yr 2022 marked Heavy Obligation Trucking’s a centesimal yr of overlaying trucking. Because the yr wraps up, along side that anniversary, we requested our readers to submit tales about their trucking firms that even have stood the take a look at of time. Listed here are three of those household fleets, which lately celebrated not less than 70 years of trucking:
Leonard Schuetze in about 1960 along with his White 7000 and Kentucky trailer.
Picture: Schuetze Transportation
In 1950, Leonard Schuetze began Schuetze Livestock Transportation in West Level, Nebraska, along with his spouse LaVanda. He had served as a truck driver within the Military throughout World Conflict II and was capable of put these driving expertise to make use of in civilian life.
Over time, Leonard drove their truck throughout Nebraska and surrounding states whereas LaVanda answered the telephone and dispatched masses.
Schuetze Livestock-Transportation cabover vehicles.
Picture: Schuetze Transportation
Collectively they raised 4 sons, who all realized to drive truck. Two sons adopted Leonard into the enterprise. Leonard hauled cattle into his early 80’s after which supervised his sons till his passing at age 93 in 2014.
Sons David and Gary nonetheless serve their trucking prospects, persevering with this enterprise into its 72nd yr. Immediately they run three cattle vehicles.
Schuetze’s fleet of White Freightliner cabover tractors with matching Hobbs trailers. The corporate shortened the entrance bumper on the tractors after a driver hit a deer and couldn’t steer, giving the vehicles a particular look. They used this fleet by means of the ’70s and into the ’80s.
Picture: Schuetze Transportation
A newspaper clipping from 1989 notes that fifty years beforehand, in 1939, “Lloyd Penrose, accompanied by Walter Kotz left Parkers Prairie, Minnesota] on Saturday for St. Paul, the place he took possession of a brand new Ford V-8 tank wagon.
Penrose Transport round 1940.
Picture: Penrose Transport
“From there he left for Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, the place he loaded the truck with gasoline and was again in Parkers Prairie at 10:30 Tuesday evening. Penrose, Kotz, Roy Geithman and Don Lyons will haul three a great deal of gasoline every week with the truck, which holds 3,750 gallons. The spherical journey is one thing over 1,200 miles.”
Immediately, the fourth era of Penroses is working the enterprise, which operates 5 energy models below Penrose Transport.
Penrose Transport round 1940.
Picture: Penrose Transport
In 1939, with three used tractors, Henry, Eddie, and Roy Barnes began Barnes Truck Line. The corporate thrived and have become one of many largest trucking firms on the East Coast earlier than it was bought to Previous Dominion Freight Strains within the late Nineteen Seventies. On the time of the sale, Barnes Truck Line was working over 500 tractors. Louis Barnes, Henry’s son, continued to run the corporate for Previous Dominion after the sale, till 1980.
A restored Barnes cabover tractor.
Picture: Barnes Transportation
Louis determined to begin his personal operation and based a brand new firm, which shortly grew from 18 tractors to over 250 and was bought in 1991. Louis’ sons, Keith, Scott, and Patrick, have all been within the trucking enterprise since graduating from college. All three have labored at each their grandfather’s and father’s firms.
After Louis bought his enterprise, the three sons shaped Barnes Transportation Providers Inc. with three used tractors … simply as their elders had accomplished.
Barnes Transportation, with its fourth era now working for the corporate, is working roughly 285 tractors.
Picture: Barnes Transportation
Immediately, Barnes Transportation, Wilson, North Carolina, with its fourth era now working for the corporate, is working roughly 285 tractors. It added a brokerage agency, Barnes Options, in 1996, which presently handles an extra $2 million of freight per yr. In 2017 Barnes added the Heavy Haul and Specialised Division and in 2020, the corporate grew once more by including Barnes Hauling; a Dump Truck division.
