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Truck Blazing.
Staff
Goodyear Truck Blazes Trail, Creating First Interstate Trucking Route
One April morning in 1917, a group of Goodyear workers gathered in the chilly dawn at the company garage in Akron, Ohio. Before them stood an ungainly new truck, motor ticking quietly.
The truck was a 5-ton Packard, but Goodyear had designed the 10-foot-high, specially built body.
The plan was to establish the first interstate trucking route by making regular nonstop runs from the Akron tire factory to the company's tire fabric mill in Connecticut and return, a one-way distance of 740 miles.
Across the width of the truck, behind the driver's seat, was an enclosed sleeping compartment. Using a two-man crew, they would alternate driving chores while one rested in what was to become the first sleeper cab in the trucking industry.
Behind the novel traveling bunk, the cargo bed was loaded with a dozen spare tires, a compressor to inflate them, 500 feet of manila line, shovels, and a heavy block and tackle.
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