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<blockquote data-quote="roach" data-source="post: 92386" data-attributes="member: 4482"><p>wily_old_vet - </p><p> </p><p>I agree - the initial post was bogus from the start - too many discrepancies. In fact, I started to post a reply to the original post, but thought better of it.</p><p> </p><p>However, there <strong><em>were</em></strong> quite a number of 1969 new hires who were feeder drivers from day one.</p><p> </p><p>1969 was the year of the East / Midwest link-up - a period of rapid growth for UPS. Just two years earlier, if you were a shipper in Toledo, OH, you could only ship to OH, MI & IN. Now you could reach most of the states east of the Mississippi.</p><p> </p><p>The link-up also brought about the formation of the double-40 network on the Ohio Turnpike / Indiana Toll Road. We didn't have enough drivers who met the criterium of the regulating agencies and therefore had to hire drivers from the street who did. Many of those drivers never did anything but drive feeders from day one until the day they retired. ( I don't think <em>trucker1946</em> was one of them though, since neither "Jack" nor "Jim" Kelley ever pulled double-40's for me <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Lol :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> )</p><p> </p><p>roach</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roach, post: 92386, member: 4482"] wily_old_vet - I agree - the initial post was bogus from the start - too many discrepancies. In fact, I started to post a reply to the original post, but thought better of it. However, there [B][I]were[/I][/B] quite a number of 1969 new hires who were feeder drivers from day one. 1969 was the year of the East / Midwest link-up - a period of rapid growth for UPS. Just two years earlier, if you were a shipper in Toledo, OH, you could only ship to OH, MI & IN. Now you could reach most of the states east of the Mississippi. The link-up also brought about the formation of the double-40 network on the Ohio Turnpike / Indiana Toll Road. We didn't have enough drivers who met the criterium of the regulating agencies and therefore had to hire drivers from the street who did. Many of those drivers never did anything but drive feeders from day one until the day they retired. ( I don't think [I]trucker1946[/I] was one of them though, since neither "Jack" nor "Jim" Kelley ever pulled double-40's for me :lol: ) roach [/QUOTE]
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