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Alexis Fire Equipment Company (fire trucks, 1947–present) Alkane; Allianz; AM General; American (1911–1913) American Austin (1929–1934) American Bantam (1935–1941) American Coleman; American LaFrance (fire trucks) American Truck Company (2003–2007) American & British Manufacturing Corporation (fire trucks, ?–1919) Athey; Atterbury ...
A common property-carrying commercial vehicle in the United States is the tractor-trailer, also known as an "18-wheeler" or "semi".. The trucking industry serves the American economy by transporting large quantities of raw materials, works in process, and finished goods over land—typically from manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers.
1996 Nylint Celebrate the 50th anniversary and relays a Limited Edition Freightliner 18-Wheeler. In 1996 the Nylint Corporation would celebrate 50 years in the toy-making business but also lost their founder Bernard Klint, who died on September 2; his wife Grace died a year earlier on October 24, 1995. The company was left in the hands of their ...
The company was founded in the early 1980s by two Lansing brothers, Brig and Jon Sorber. Using an old '66 Ford pickup truck [ citation needed ] , they performed moves to earn extra spending money. Their mother, Mary Ellen Sheets , obtained the sketch for the logo for their new company from Sharleen Humes Johnson of Warren, Ohio through a mutual ...
Conventional style cab tractor A cab over semi-tractor Tractor with an end-dump trailer A FAW semi-trailer truck in China A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms - see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth wheel. Other terms There are a wide ...
It was founded as Brockway Carriage Works in 1875 by William Brockway. His son George Brockway later turned the carriages into a truck manufacturer in 1909. The first trucks were high-wheelers. During World War I, Brockway built 587 Class B Liberty Trucks for the military. After the war they produced a new range from 1-ton to 5-tons.
The company was founded by Consolidated Freightways (CF) of Portland, Oregon, as a non-union spinoff, for LTL hauling. In 2009, Con-way Freight reported revenues of over $2.6 billion. [ 4 ] In 2015, Con-way Inc., including Con-way Freight and sibling company Con-way Truckload , was acquired by XPO, Inc. , a primarily non-asset logistics company ...
Allied Van Lines is an American moving company founded in 1928 as a cooperative non-profit organization owned by its member agents on the east coast of the United States, to help with organizing return loads and minimizing dead-heading (i.e. operating trucks without shipments loaded on them).