A Page From Russell MacNeil's Photo Album
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| ATI (American Transport, Inc.) Millard, NE use to bring meat into Springfield. This KW was layed over at one of the many motels along U.S. 5 in W. Springfield during summer 1974. | A clean but unidentified IH 4300 unloading at the Springfield farmer's market in summer 1974. | Lorenz International (don't know where from) with what looks like a Rollins Lease Transtar delivering to Lewis Beef Co. in Springfield in summer 1974. In-between my cook's job at the Westfield Hojo's and mowing grass sometime's I'd make two trips a day over to U.S. 5 in W. Springfield looking for trucks to photograph during summer 1974 since it got dark so late and light so early. |
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| I found this tough looking Pete 359 who had leased on with Spector Freight System's steel div. layed over at the Country Court Motel on U.S. 202 on Westfield's N. side early one cloudy morning in summer 1974. That was indeed a good find so close to the house I grew up in. | Big L Discount Health & Beauty Aid Stores was an Eastern Massachusetts concern that I have no idea what became of them. This new Transtar was parked across the street from the Mass Pike Exit 3 entrance road in early 1975. | This was the only opportunity I had to shoot this oddball Mack for St Johnsbury which pulled "pikers" Turnpike Doubles across the Mass Pike. I blew it and moved the camera, (that's why it's all blurred) sometime in 1974 while at their W. Springfield terminal off of MA Route 147. Perhaps some ex: St J folks or fans can enlighten all of us about this experimental setup. |
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| A clean and snazzy but unidentified Chevy Titan delivering a load to the Springfield farmer's market in the summer month's of 1974 using this IGA Grocery reefer box. | Spector Mack COE pulling a St Johnsbury trailer | Spector Pete COE |
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| Betz Laboratories from PA stopped on N.B. U.S. 5 across the street from the Marquis Texaco Truck Stop in W. Springfield in summer 1974. | Plantation Foods out of Waco, TX was parked in Valle's Steak House lot along U.S. 20 near I-91 in Springfield in summer 1974. | Al's Produce, Inc. Haines City, FL at the Springfield farmer's market in summer 1974. |
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| Not exactly sure where I took it at in California, but I'm pretty certain it was along I-5 perhaps South of the I-5/CA 99 split sometime in the late 70's/early 80's. | I think this is a great picture because it shows your basic no frills International Transtar hooked on to a well used but still solid and functional produce box. It "paints" a real world down to earth picture of how a trucking life truly was for so many hard working drivers back in the early to mid 70's. Still another shot taken at the Springfield farmer's market during summer 1974. | Teledyne must have opted for this set back front axle KW in order to better negotiate the highways in the North East. He had just come out from paying his toll at Exit 4 of the Mass Pike and I was pulling up to get my ticket when I shot him on a "slow fly" hoping I wouldn't run into the cars stopped in front of me getting their tickets one evening in summer 1974. |
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| A contract hauler (looks like HFL or NFL Transport, Inc.) pulling for Vining Broom Co. from Ohio at the Westfield Hojo's, summer 1974. | Agwy from their Geneva, NY facility layed over at the Westfield Hojo's in fall 1974. Agway had a big distribution center a few miles from Howard Johnson's so rigs from many of their divisions would always be parked there while their drivers slept. | Interesting paint scheme on this gray & green White Freightliner that the owner had leased to Scott Truck Line, Inc. from Denver, CA which I shot in the dead of winter in early 1975 at the Pioneer Valley Refrigerated Warehouse in Springfield. |
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| A good ole Pete covered in road salt spray that was leased to Midwest Coast Transport, Sioux Falls, SD at the Springfield farmer's market in early 1975. | IBP (Iowa Beef Packers) from Dakota City, NE came to Western Mass reguarly. This Pete COE was at the Valley View Diner in W. Springfield in summer 1974. | Unidentified White Freightliner waiting to either load or unload at the Pioneer Valley Refrigerated Warehouse in Springfield in summer 1974. He was kind of tucked in by the entrance trying to stay out of everyone's way it looked. |