Never Stand Still

We're going to do some glider kitting:
1988 Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ford L9000 can turn on a dime:

I guess back in the day they used to spin those things around!

 

I voted for single axle Volvos with low air shields but everyone wanted big and fancy Kenworths.

All I hear from everyone now is "Why can't our straight truck guys do that stop?"
I sit here and shake my head.

 

You can tell were all a bunch of east coasters because nobody mentioned In-N-Out Burger ha-ha ha-ha!, but your right In-N-Out does have a fancy fleet.

 

Here's an Ohio truck:

Were not fancy here in Ohio like In-N-Out Burger LOL.

 

@Mike_77
Tom Cat asked me what the deal with In-N-Out Burger was and this was my response what do you think:

What @86mechanic said,
Most of there truck fleet are these Peter Built Day Cabs that sleeper cab truck I posted was an odd ball as In and Out does not really run to many sleepers.

In-N-Out Burger is a very tight run operation there indigenous to the West Coast I.E. California and all there private trucks that deliver to there stores look exactly like the truck in the picture there all Peterbuilts chromed out and blinged out to the 9's. We used to be like them at GFS with our Volvo's back in the day, when Paul Gordon was still alive GFS had the cleanest and best equipment back when Paul and Jim Gordon were still around running the show, but some of that culture has been lost to the past.

However In-N-Out Burger is family owned they do zero franchising and they run there own trucks and own manufacturing and distribution center.

For the hell of it I looked into working for them just to see what there requirements were and I was qualified I had over 2 years of CDL A Food Service Experience but moving from Ohio to the west coast or "left coast" as many on here would call it is of no interest to me.

There entire fleet is made up of Peterbuilts like that one very non corporate where most companies would buy a bunch of Volvo's or Internationals or Freightliner Cascadias paint them white and call it a day In-N-Out really took the opposite approach.

There trailers are all lift gate equipped:

However from what it looks like there trailers all have a side door which means what ever bit of freezer they have probably at times unloads by hand out the side so probably have to hand truck that in with a two wheeler.

The place was started on some dusty road in the desert in California way back when and the idea was get in and out fast. However the hamburgers are all fresh the french fries are all made fresh out of potatoes at each real restaurant they cut and peel and slice the potatoes to make fresh french fries every day.

There popular burger is like a burger with cheese and 1000 Island dressing on it.
I tried to recreate one my self it's called "Animal Style" I don't know, a California person could tell you better then I could.

I used Kraft singles for the cheese a real restaurant so you all know would have used Land-O-Lakes Extra Melt Cheddar Cheese. Because it's meant to melt and won't "oil off".

The grand daughter of the originial owner runs the company right now the place is family run they are in Oregon, California, Arizona and Texas. However they only put restaurants with in a 500 mile circumference of there distribution centers which is why they don't run sleeper cabs, all there meat and potatoes and everything else is made fresh at there distribution center/manufacturing plants and then shipped on there own trucks to there retail restaurant locations.

They have a hamburger called the "double double" which I guess is pretty popular.

It's pretty much when you get down to brass tacks 2 thin beef patties cooked on a flat top grill



Then carmalized onions cooked in butter not oil and that's all cooked together and served with 1000 dressing on it. By the way everyone here is aware that McDonald's Big Mac the secret sauce is just 1000 Island dressing correct you all know that.

One thing that we sell a bit at GFS and it's pretty popular is Ken's Steak House Boom Boom Sauce the places like to buy that.

Anyhow, the Double Double is In-N-Out Burgers big thing and it's served "Animal Style" that's the cool kids way of saying it.
I guess they serve milk shakes and stuff so there trucks have to ship in frozen ice cream which would be the reason for the side door on there trailers:

I bet the bulk head is somewhere around where the letter I is on that trailer. Very little of there food is frozen it's not like McDonald's where the 1/2 the load is frozen. Or the public schools route I was on where 22' of the 28' trailer was frozen.

I don't know how long the trailers In-N-Out Burger runs are I doubt there 53' foot probably 45 or 48 if I had to guess.

I know in California Martin Brower was and probably still does runs doubles because of California's hostile trailer laws it is easier for them to run doubles.


The thing I don't know is how many McDonald's stores they can do on one route I think and do not quote me on this, but Anderson-DuBose can do like 4-5 McDonalds stores on a truck route.

In-N-Out is probably similar 4-5 stores on a route.
Those doubles have lift gates on them and side doors palatalized those pups can do like 700-800 cube which is pretty packed. Unless the freezer and cooler is floor loaded I don't really know truthfully how Martin Browers doubles operation works with the 28' trailers. However even the now defunct MBM was using 28' trailers in Southern California to do Hardees.
Anyhow that's the skinny on In-N-Out Burger.

 

So I was on LTL Enthusiasts a couple nights ago and someone took this picture and it's worth sharing:

This was a remake I don't know who this person in this photo actually is, but that doesn't matter, this photo was set up it was a staged historical remake.

I guess that trailer #499-8226 is actually still rolling with some of it's CCX Orange Colors and was built by CCX as one of there "long boxes".

I guess that trailer is still in service and that man in the picture put on his CCX gear to pose next to that trailer.

The comments on that photograph were priceless most of them were along the lines of:

That was when Gerald Detter ran CCX and it was actually a decent company not like the bean counting morons who run it now.

You get the point. Anyhow thought that was some fun history.