In 1982, Chuck Winston at Monfort Transportation, grain elevator office, hired me. I asked billy Zack Mitchell for a driving job, & was hired, Z&D trucking a contractor for Monfort of Colorado, hauling trailer loads of hanging meat, sides & quarters, boxed & also bins of meat. Zack respected John Shupe. I'm 71 years old now, & thank you for the memories. 5.29.2024
Remember The First Time you Saw The real machines that moved America 🇺🇸 Thanx for sharing this with us Great Content 👍 God Bless America 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸 And All the Truckers That keep America together ❤
Started working on trucks in 1982 I was still in high school. We only owned two trucks one was our wrecker which was a 1956 LJ hard nosed Mack. Our second truck was also a L series soft nosed single axle tractor which we loaned out to our good (regular) customers. The wrecker had a tri-plex the tractor a dual-plex, both were repowered with diesels. The wrecker with an ENDT 675 237hp and the tractor with an END 673. We were way up north in the mountains with lots of quarries and gravel banks and a lot of companies were still running old B models and autocars out of the 60s. My fondest memories are of building two trucks from glider kits that we bought used from Canada. They were both Mack R700LS. We custom built them for one guy to haul dump trailers. No friggin computers.
I broke down at the top of the mountain cabbage, Pendleton Oregon and got a ride down the mountain from a Monfort driver in a cabover K.W. I know they were not supposed to pick up passengers but that's when truckers were true truckers. Never forgot .just retired after 35 years of driving GOD Bless you great video
Riding with a Monfort driver down Cabbage had to have been a thrill and possibly traumatic! The conversation on the way down about that Waitress Flo didn't get to how fast those trucks could go in by the time you reached the bottom. Hammer down!
Good memories, good company and you had a common bond with the drivers of yesteryear . Everybody was on the same page mostly due to the CB radio. That's how the older drivers taught the new guys how to drive. Unlike today where nobody talks to one another
Many a time I was motoring out there in the “Monfort Lane” doing a good job (or so I thought 😁) I’d look in the mirror and move right . . . . And watch one of them hands motor on by ….. yep it was called the Monfort Lane for a reason !
I worked for Shupe and Yost back around 1981, 82? I was the local driver that delivered some of the the road Drivers loads and reloaded them. I Really enjoyed that job. Harvey Shupe and Mr. Yost were Very Kind to me. Best Wishes to all of the Shupe Related Drivers and employees. M.H.
I remember this trucking company. Monfort meats. I drove for Marten transport after I retired from the Army. I grew up in Colorado and Wyoming. As well. Living in Wyoming now
In 1982, Chuck Winston at Monfort Transportation, grain elevator office, hired me. I asked billy Zack Mitchell for a driving job, & was hired, Z&D trucking a contractor for Monfort of Colorado, hauling trailer loads of hanging meat, sides & quarters, boxed & also bins of meat. Zack respected John Shupe.
I'm 71 years old now, & thank you for the memories. 5.29.2024
Remember The First Time you Saw The real machines that moved America 🇺🇸
Thanx for sharing this with us
Great Content 👍
God Bless America 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
And All the Truckers That keep America together ❤
The Trucks and Men that built America
Started working on trucks in 1982 I was still in high school. We only owned two trucks one was our wrecker which was a 1956 LJ hard nosed Mack. Our second truck was also a L series soft nosed single axle tractor which we loaned out to our good (regular) customers. The wrecker had a tri-plex the tractor a dual-plex, both were repowered with diesels. The wrecker with an ENDT 675 237hp and the tractor with an END 673. We were way up north in the mountains with lots of quarries and gravel banks and a lot of companies were still running old B models and autocars out of the 60s. My fondest memories are of building two trucks from glider kits that we bought used from Canada. They were both Mack R700LS. We custom built them for one guy to haul dump trailers. No friggin computers.
Great photos! They take me back to my childhood with dad riding in his truck, seeing these trucks out on the highway.
I remember these trucks❤
I remember these ole' trucks.
I broke down at the top of the mountain cabbage, Pendleton Oregon and got a ride down the mountain from a Monfort driver in a cabover K.W. I know they were not supposed to pick up passengers but that's when truckers were true truckers. Never forgot .just retired after 35 years of driving GOD Bless you great video
Keep driving, if you don’t run you rust.
Riding with a Monfort driver down Cabbage had to have been a thrill and possibly traumatic! The conversation on the way down about that Waitress Flo didn't get to how fast those trucks could go in by the time you reached the bottom. Hammer down!
Good memories, good company and you had a common bond with the drivers of yesteryear . Everybody was on the same page mostly due to the CB radio. That's how the older drivers taught the new guys how to drive. Unlike today where nobody talks to one another
Brilliant pictures, I did read that the 'Monfort meat lane' was quoted as their trucks would run at very high speeds
I drove for Cactus Hill Ranch out of Windsor Colorado also Booth Brothers in the 70s and 80s, ran with a lot of those guys.
I remember those outfits, I had an uncle that drove for Booth.
❤this is just very cool. Thank you sir!
Many a time I was motoring out there in the “Monfort Lane” doing a good job (or so I thought 😁) I’d look in the mirror and move right . . . . And watch one of them hands motor on by ….. yep it was called the Monfort Lane for a reason !
I worked for Shupe and Yost back around 1981, 82? I was the local driver that delivered some of the the road Drivers loads and reloaded them.
I Really enjoyed that job. Harvey Shupe and Mr. Yost were Very Kind to me.
Best Wishes to all of the Shupe Related Drivers and employees. M.H.
THE W900S WERE A GREAT TRUCK TO DRIVE
Good old days, No miver
I remember this trucking company. Monfort meats. I drove for Marten transport after I retired from the Army. I grew up in Colorado and Wyoming. As well. Living in Wyoming now
Great song
See theres a lot of Kenworth in that lineup ❤️
Love your Videos ❤😊
Фотографии грузовиков братьев Шупе 1970-1984 гг
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Steinbecker Trucking also part of Montfort Trucking
How come Monfort trucks didn't have Visors on their trucks ?
Why are trucks built in the last 25 years have No Visors. With exception of the Ghetto Visors that Wheel Holders put on today.