20 More Trucking Companies Every 1970s Driver Knew That No Longer Exist

Twenty more American trucking companies a driver knew by name in the 1970s, and that nobody can hire on with today. The last one on this list was the largest trucking company in America, and it was already dead four years before anybody deregulated anything. This is the follow-up to the first twenty. A lot of these names came straight out of the comments on that video, from men who drove for them. Companies covered in this one: Akers Motor Lines, Gastonia NC Graves Truck Line, Salina KS Riss and Company, Kansas City MO Ringsby Truck Lines, Denver CO Red Ball Motor Freight, Lufkin and Dallas TX Lee Way Motor Freight, Oklahoma City OK Thurston Motor Lines, Charlotte NC Hemingway Transport, New Bedford MA Campbell 66 Express, Springfield MO Maislin, Montreal QC Ryder Truck Lines, Jacksonville FL Bowman Transportation, Rome GA and Gadsden AL Tri-State Motor Transit, Joplin MO M.S. Carriers, Memphis TN Builders Transport, Camden SC Dick Simon Trucking, West Valley City UT Arnold and New Penn, Lebanon PA Watkins Motor Lines, Lakeland FL Arrow Trucking, Tulsa OK Associated Transport, New York NY If yours isn't here, put it in the comments with the years you ran and what happened to it. That's where the first list came from and it's where the next one will come from. Subscribe if you drove any of it. It's what keeps these getting made.