Guys With Trucks

Motor mechanics, truck drivers, truck builders -- it's amazing when you stop to think about it, how many of our relatives were and still are involved in the transportation industry. Let's hear it for truck guys:

Above is William Reynolds Alcott who drove for Standard Oil, or Standard Motor Gasoline as it says on the side of the truck.  I thought I had a date for this photo, but can't find that at the moment.

Below is a great picture shared by Arleen (Yager) Ryan of John E. Carroll who drove the first U.S. Mail truck in Northumberland, Pennsylvania.  This photo is dated July 1926:

Trucks are in our DNA, I guess.  Here in Aunti Claud in my hub's restored 1942 Dodge:

 

Got any photos of cherished old vehicles?  Share!  --cds/ck