[PRCo] Installment 2 from John Polyak

[Dwight Long]

Wasn't the deal with the Thermodyne that they had a very limited number of gears to negotiate, whereas with a Detroit or Cummins you needed a road ranger?

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----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Schneider 
  To: Western PA Trolley discussion ; jrpolyak at juno.com Polyak 
  Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 4:33 PM
  Subject: [PRCo] Installment 2 from John Polyak



  Here is the second installment of the event this weekend … almost a hundred images of the truck show on Sunday.

  John, I personally like 88 and 89.  Why?  Back in 1963 I took a year off from college to get married and become a daddy.   Part of my employment was working in the dispatch office at Norwalk Truck Lines in Lancaster, some years before it was merged into Yellow Freight (a subsidiary of Yellow Cab) and that was then merged into Yellow Roadway Corporation.   When things were light in the office and I didn't have manifests to add up, I would sneak out into the yard and horse around with the yard jockey, who was nice enough to let me practice backing trailers into the dock.   Yes, I learned to get them into the dock without side swiping on on either side.   And I once had a chance to drive a rig from Reading to Sunbury and Williamsport.   So that when the state asked if I ever drove a semi, I said yes, and they gave me a Class A license.  I was not lying.   Now I would have to go to school.  Oh well.  Why did I like 88 and 89?   Because Norwalk had a huge fleet of those Mack Thermodyne tractors.  That is what I learned on.   

  For those who don't get it?   It's a man's thing, like crazy nuts running trolleys or buses in a museum.  

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