Either Rain Or Gloom Of Night

 

Motor Cargo Industries, Inc. is one of the largest less-than-truckload carriers. The Utah-based company provides transportation and logistics services to shippers primarily within the western region of the United States. Motor Cargo transports general commodities such as consumer goods, packaged food, electronics, computer equipment, apparel, hardware, industrial goods, and auto parts.

Dating back to a sparse 1922 Utah and only "two trucks and a guy," the Barton Truck Line was finally incorporated in 1954. During the 1950s and early 1960s, the firm shipped to several Utah cities. After Barton acquired Bonanza Trucking Company, it became a regional carrier. Upon close inspection of the fabulous 1959 illustration above for Goodyear Tire's Hi-Miler Cross-Rib tires, the trailer appears to have a Motor Cargo logo emblazoned. Odd, in that Barton did not change its name officially to Motor Cargo until 1973.

FWIW: The tractor depicted is a late 1950s Diamond T COE.

The Chesapeake Roller Coaster

 

On this date in 1964, the original 2-lane northbound Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (officially the Lucius J. Kellam, Jr. Bridge-Tunnel) was opened after 42 months of construction in the state of Virginia. The 2-lane southbound lanes were opened in 1999 making it a four-lane 20-mile-long vehicular toll crossing of the lower Chesapeake Bay, replacing the long-standing ferry system as the primary channel crossing. The crossing consists of a series of low-level trestles interrupted by two nearly one-mile-long tunnels beneath two Atlantic shipping channels, Thimble Shoals and the Chesapeake Channel. The manmade islands, each approximately 5.25 acres in size, are located at each end of the two tunnels.