Trucking -- Oregon

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Oral history interview with Florence I. Budlong conducted by Roberta Watts on February 3, 1978. Budlong discusses her involvement in the trucking industry from 1942 to 1969.

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Columbia Truck Express was a trucking company with routes from Portland to Seaside and Rainier, Oregon. Record book, 1938-1946, includes articles of incorporation and minutes.

Abstract Records and memorabilia of Consolidated Freightways, a trucking company based in Portland, Oregon, including scrapbooks kept by employees Arthur Bremner and John Youell, loan applications, and 1990s correspondence about the company's history. Consolidated Freightways was founded as Consolidated Truck Lines in 1929. In 1956, it moved its headquarters to Menlo Park, California, but designated Portland as the base for its operations in the western United States. The company ceased operations in...

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Records of the Convoy Company, an Oregon business originally established in 1930 as a subsidiary of Consolidated Truck Lines, which specialized in shipping automobiles by truck. The company became independent in 1941, and was sold in the early 1990s. The records in this collection include employee lists and directories, information booklets, promotional materials, company calendars, and a small quantity of correspondence.

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Collection consists of papers of O. Edward Dagner, an automotive engineer and maintenance specialist of the Office of Defense Transportation, Portland district, 1942-1944. The papers include correspondence; truck operating cost estimates, particularly for logging truck costs in Oregon and California; and speeches, including radio broadcasts of the Office of Defense Transportation.