{"id":232,"date":"2011-02-25T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-03-31T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:19:29","slug":"gone-but-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2011\/02\/show-on-the-road\/gone-but-not-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone But Not Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I wanted to switch gears this month and share a little bit of the past with the 10-4 family.\u00a0 Maks Wood Products, a lumber sales company founded in Eugene, Oregon, became very noticeable during the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s throughout the western states.\u00a0 Sure, they had competitive lumber prices, but what really stood out were all of those ultra cool light yellow, \"\"<\/a>green and brown company rigs that hauled all that wood.\u00a0 Their goal was to sell lumber, and the more they could haul per truckload, the more they could sell.\u00a0 So, Maks Wood Products went to great measures to spec their equipment as light as they could without taking anything away from the \u201ccool\u201d factor for that era \u2013 aluminum frames and cross-members were a must all the way through the mid 1980\u2019s.\u00a0 Maks\u2019 trucks usually had dual everything, polished wheels from front to rear, and their trademark \u201cM\u201d in lights on the back of their trailers.\u00a0 Maks also had drivers who usually had no problem keeping the \u201cshiny\u201d stuff shiny, \"\"<\/a>while still getting the loads to their destinations right on time \u2013 no matter what they weighed out at!\u00a0 Maks Wood Products ran many truck and pull trailer combinations, but they also had a lot of semis (and even a few 40-20 maxi setups).\u00a0 Petes, Freightliners and Kenworths, both cabovers and conventionals, graced this fleet \u2013 as long as they looked good and didn\u2019t weigh much, they were welcome.\u00a0 Having such a fine fleet required an exceptional truck shop and, thankfully, Maks had that. \u00a0From complete engine and drivetrain rebuilds, tire work, body and paint and trailer repairs, Maks managed to handle all of it themselves \u2013 they even had the equipment needed to rebuild their own brake shoes!\u00a0 Maks Wood Products decided to sell their trucks in the late 1980\u2019s, but still operates a top-notch lumber sales business to this very day.\u00a0 I want to give special thanks to Jeff Patterson, who appeared in one of our past \u201cShow-On-The-Road\u201d features, for all of his help in rounding up these pictures.\u00a0 Jeff\u2019s first driving job after high school was for Maks Wood Products, and his first truck, one of the Peterbilt conventionals seen here, was purchased from them.\u00a0 Unfortunately, many of the old drivers that made Maks such a great company are now gone, and when they passed, they took their stories with them.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy looking at these old tattered photos as much as I enjoyed getting them all together.\u00a0 Maks\u2019 fleet of cool trucks may be gone, but I hope they won\u2019t ever be forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to switch gears this month and share a little bit of the past with the 10-4 family.\u00a0 Maks Wood Products, a lumber sales company founded in Eugene, Oregon, became very noticeable during the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s throughout the western states.\u00a0 Sure, they had competitive lumber prices, but what really stood out were all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-show-on-the-road"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}