Reader and sometime Overdrive content contributor Don Christner, based in Wyoming, took all of the photos in the post at a military-supply store called Supply Sargent in Cheyenne. “The family has owned the property since the 1950s,” Christner says. “Behind the store is a fenced-in yard where they used to run a trucking company. The trucks are just what they’ve bought and sold and traded for that are left.”
The store, something of a veterans’ hangout, says Christner, he hung around this past Saturday afternoon for “about an hour before I asked them if I could take photos,” he says, figuring he had about a 50/50 chance shop owners would let him. But let him they did, for about an hour more. The Dodge cabover above he says seems to have been last licensed in 1974. “It’s probably a mid-’60s model, with a 335 Cummins with a 4×4 16-speed transmission, still wearing its work clothes and flying Hunt Transportation markings. It was definitely the most unusual and interesting truck there.”
The White Freightliners you see in the slider below were Safeway fleet tractors from a time when Safeway had a “very recognizable fleet of trucks out of Denver,” Christner says. “They have NTC 335 Cummins engines. A lot of drivers will recognize them.”
Another White Freightliner on the premises had “centerpoint steering,” noted Christner, “where you have to pull the steering wheel back to center after turning a corner, instead of just letting go of the wheel to let it center.”
The following two photos of this Cummins-powered Kenworth COE ended the shoot, he adds:
