In the early days, many trucking companies started out with one truck or even some horses, and a few tough folks kept hauling through the Great Depression and WWII. As roads improved, many of these companies became large operations with ample semi-trucks, trailers and places to haul. This book is a concise history of the pioneers in trucking and how they grew their truck empires. From the east coast to the west coast, most of the companies started out very small regionally and with acquisitions and mergers became the big names in trucking hauling all over America. Each company includes a history, maps of their truck lines and a photo or more of their fleet or rigs they used at an epochal point in their history. Ron Adams has been collecting truck literature and photographing trucks for over 40 years and has a vast knowledge of the trucking industry and has made a name for himself in truck books.
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In the early days, many trucking companies started out with one truck or even some horses, and a few tough folks kept hauling through the Great Depression and WWII. As roads improved, many of these companies became large operations with ample semi-trucks, trailers and places to haul. This book is a concise history of the pioneers in trucking and how they grew their truck empires. From the east coast to the west coast, most of the companies started out very small regionally and with acquisitions and mergers became the big names in trucking hauling all over America. Each company includes a history, maps of their truck lines and a photo or more of their fleet or rigs they used at an epochal point in their history.
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Ron Adams has a collection of well over 10,000 truck images, many never published, although he has had a number of books published. He has been collecting truck literature and photographing trucks for over 40 years and has a vast knowledge of the trucking industry.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Long Haul: American Trucking Companies (Paperback)
This book is based on Mike Terebecki's nine volume set The Trucking Pioneers. Therein lies the problem with this book. Visually it looks good and benefits from the larger format chosen by the publisher. Content wise it copies Terebecki's book except for Adam's breakdown by region.Probably has better marketing which means many more will see these photos and histories. Still, because Adam did not expand on the earlier books mentioned, ie more and different photos of the equipment and more detailed history, this book is mediocre in content and can only be recommended in a lukewarm fashion to trucking history buffs. Grade C or 3 stars.
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Great effort but I would like to have seen this done in regional volumes rather than nationwide. The only short coming I see is the number of importatnt carriers that were around that were left out. Regional coverage would have also left room for more that one sample photo for each carrier. Maybe there will be a second volume.This, despite some ack of coverage, is an excellent effort covering an important segment of our transportation system.
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