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RandyB(MI)

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Here's where it all ended up. Borden Creamery in Mt. Pleasant MI. My other Grandpa (farthest to right) had a milk route/truck , later sold it to my Dad. Only vehicle we had when I was 3-4 yrs old. Got groceries in it and everything. They just resurrected that ole building accept for the huge brick smoke-stack (liability reasons forced demo.) Bet they all just loved winter too.
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Thats a neat pic. My father in law used to ship milk to a place called Pine Grove Dairy many years ago, he has a picture of him and other dairyman in front of the place. Its still here in town, but not used anymore. This is back when they shiped milk in those milk cans.
 
Brings back memories. Your milk hauler drove a Reo. You could hear that transmission's constant RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr for over a mile away.
 
Nice pix... Ours ended up going to a creamery in Sheridan (Carnation) and later Carson City, (MMPA).

Don"t remember trucks quite that vintage, however!
 
First few years milk was shipped in the stake bed trucks but wasn't long till found out that would not work. In summer the milk was not cooled enough to stand the heat till delivery and spoiled or in winter it froze and was no good if and when they got it thawed out. Those beds were insulated so in the summer what coolness was in the milk from cooling it in a water tank, no milk coolers at that time and also no electricity, so it would still be good when it arived at the plant. In winter they kept the milk from freezing in the cans. Cans are all we ever had up to when the dairy heard left in 1980. This is in Ohio. Have friends in Indiana that still use the running water to cool their can milk. Say the price of hauling makes it so they can not aford to sell milk. In that picture I see a Chevy, IHC, Ford and I believe a Reo.
 
Interesting. Here(central NY) Dad sold his few cows in the 60's when it was either that or go bulk. I would have thought our weather here was very similar to yours. Maybe our milk processing facilities were close enough no insulation was required?
 
Would you believe I drove one of those for 2 years? A newer one,but the box was the same. I hauled in to Carnation in Sheridan from late 73 to mid 75. My uncle worked in the recieving room dumping cans and weighing and testing milk for 35 years.
There's plenty of old pictures around here somewhere of trucks lined up like that at the Carnation plant. They used to be lined up waiting to unload and backed in side by side across the road where the grocery store is now.
When they got up to the boxes that held 90 cans on the floor,plus the ones on the deck,there was speculation that they would have to go to semis,but then along came the bulk tank and solved that problem in a hurry.
Those boxes were kinda classified as to the number of cans they would hold on the floor in increments of six. The smallest one I ever used was a 66 can. There were 66,72,78,84 and 90s. I hauled with an 84 for most of the time I hauled.
Art Skinner out of Ithica had the only 90 that was hauling into Sheridan when I was hauling.
 
They eventually passed a law here in Michigan that the cans had to be covered in transport. We live just a mile and a half from the plant and Dad always hauled his own as did quite a few local guys who didn't want to pay for hauling. We had to either put a topper on the pickup or build a box in the back. I rememeber a guy north of town who had a covered two wheel trailer that he pulled behind a 58 Chevy station wagon.
 
Very neat picture. I used to spend a lot of time in Mt. Pleasant in the early 70's, born and raised in Beal City. Dad still lives there.
 
I immagine Paul , Fawteen and I probably have some mutual aquaintences as I have lived around Mt.Pleasant/Rosebush/Shepherd all my life. Glad to see ya'll aren't getting bored with some of my family album photos. I think they bring memories for all so will continue to share some. You're all good people.
 
That could be. Not unusual for a hauller here to cover a hundred fifty miles on a route from start to plant and that would be 8+ hours.
 
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