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Quadrel Brothers Trucking was founded by two brothers after returning from WWII. Based out of Rahway, New Jersey, Quadrel Brothers was a specialized tanker hauling company with both liquid and dry tankers that transported everything from fuel and chemicals, to potable water and foodstuffs, though probably not in the same tanker trailers.

B. F. Leaman and his son Clair began his trucking business with a single Pierce Arrow truck delivering lime and milk around Lancaster County, Pennsylvania back in 1913. By 1930, they were successful enough to purchase Mileage Motor Corporation, and began hauling fuel oil in addition to the lime and milk. In 1933, the Leaman Transportation Company was formed. In 1961, Leaman merged his two companies with Chemical Tank Lines, forming Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, Inc. Following the merger, the company had 31 terminals nationwide and approximately 1,300 bulk tankers. Leaman continued to expand through acquisition well into the '90s, and by 1998, had the industry’s largest tanker fleet and most expansive service.

If you lived in the south during the '50s through the '70s, you probably saw more than your share of 'The Big R' tankers running down the highways. Ryder Tank Line was founded in 1954 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and provided reliable contract tanker service throughout the southern states for nearly three decades.

respect other drivers even ifthey don't deserve it

TAKES TIME TO REACH YOUR GOALS

WE ALL NEED A GUARDIAN ANGEL SOMETIMES

DRY VAN DRIVING IS EASY MONEY

EXPEDITE DRIVERS ARE ALWAYS MOVING GETTING IT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE FAST

In 1980's Friday The 13th, a young woman named Annie is trying to get from the fictional town of Crystal Lake to Camp Crystal Lake. She enters a diner and asks the locals how far the camp is, and ends up accepting a ride from a trick driver named Enos who says the camp is about 20 miles out. Enos drives for Elston Oil Supply out of Stanhope, New Jersey, and is heading out that way, and can take her about half way. He's also the last normal person Annie will meet in her short life. Along the way, Enos tells her about Barry and Claudette's murder, the boy that drowned in 1957, a series of fires later on, and the water going bad in 1962. He suggests that she quit, but Annie tells him that she can't, and he eventually drops her off in Hope, NJ.

THE AMERICAN EAGLE

GET THERE IN ONE PIECE

WE ALL HAVE TO WAIT IN LINES WHY NOT MAKE IT FUN

PROUD FLATBED DRIVING GRANDPA PUTS IN THE WORK

THOSE THAT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE WORKING CONDITIONS CAN ALWAYS QUIT

DELIVERING CARS TO DEALERS

MAMA'S TRUCKING

Thomas Jefferson Gay organized the Richardson-Gay Oil Company in Corsicana, Texas in 1903 with partner, W.D. Richardson, with a focus on refining oil. Gay sold his shares in the business in 1905 and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he founded Gay Oil Company in 1907. Gay continued to refine crude oil and manufactured a range of motor oils, but also got into producing gasoline. In addition to wholesaling gas and oil to services stations, Gay also began opening his own branded gas stations, and by 1926, the Gay Oil Company was operating nine gas stations in Little Rock and North Little Rock. Gay operated his namesake oil company until his retirement in 1938, leaving his son to run the show.

Founded in 1970 in Streator, Illinois, Luckey Trucking was a provider of dry bulk, liquid bulk, dry van transportation, warehousing, and logistics services to the chemical industry. Luckey’s operations included a trucking terminal, tank wash and more than 250 railcar locations. The company also operated warehouses that provided logistics services, and a network of six terminals located in Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO BE FEROCIOUS LIKE A TIGER IN THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY

In 1922, two friends formed a partnership to haul sand and gravel during the early Los Angeles boom. They started on credit, buying 15 dump trucks, but soon, the fleet grew to 26 units. In 1929, C&T added tankers to move petroleum. In 1936, they purchased Western which allowed them to move into dry freight, and then in 1956, purchasing Gillette Motor Freight had them changing names to Western Gillette Motor Freight and reaching Chicago and serving 1,400 cities in between. By the ’70s, the company had over 2,000 employees operating out of 52 company terminals in 15 States and a fleet of over 1,000 trucks. In 1976 the company was sold to Roadway, marking the end of Western Gillette, and C&T, as well as their signature 'sunshine service.'

PNUMATIC TANKER DRIVERS DELIVER BULK PRODUCTS

SUPER TRUCKERS KNOW EVERYTHING

Founded in 1888 with a team of horse-drawn hauling wagons, Matlack Inc. was based in Wilmington, Delaware. Matlack would grow to become the largest tanker line in America, becoming known as the "Pipeline on Wheels." From petroleum and chemicals, to dry bulk, and food grade product, Matlack Inc. had the specialized tanker trailers and terminal network to help get it where it needed to be. Sadly, after more than a century of doing business, the Pipeline on Wheels went into bankruptcy and was bought up and sold off in 2001.