{"id":681,"date":"2011-05-01T08:13:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T12:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2011-05-01T08:13:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T12:13:35","slug":"waynes-photo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2011\/05\/show-on-the-road\/waynes-photo-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne’s Photo Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve always been a believer in the old saying, \u201cDon\u2019t forget your roots.\u201d\u00a0 For many of us, those \u201croots\u201d usually include a few old photo albums or dusty shoe boxes filled with faded and torn photos from yesteryear.\u00a0 This month, I wanted to feature a short-lived but cool small fleet from the late 70\u2019s and early 80\u2019s named Standard Forest Products out of Springfield, Oregon, and I knew there was only one person to call for the pics and info \u2013 Wayne Johnson of Cheshire, Oregon.\u00a0 Back then, Wayne drove a yellow 1979 Pete 359 short hood, straddling a KTA600 Cummins \u201call factory\u201d powerhouse, as well as a dark grey 352H (which also had a \u201cK\u201d in it) for Standard.\u00a0 As it turned out, Wayne\u2019s photo album included pictures of all four of Standard\u2019s cool and rare old rigs, but that was only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Wayne began his trucking career in 1974 driving an old Freightliner cabover for Rex Myers, a local moving company.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t take Wayne long to have that truck cleaned up and lookin\u2019 good, but the term \u201clookin\u2019 good\u201d really came into play in 1976 when Wayne started working for Standard Forest Products, hauling lumber between the Northwest, Salt Lake City and L.A.\u00a0 That kind of gig could have kept Wayne happy for years, but in 1980 Standard sold all of their trucks.\u00a0 From there, Wayne went to N+N Company, pulling vans and hauling paper products throughout the western states for owners George & Hazel Nelson \u2013 but that wasn\u2019t even the best part!\u00a0 George Nelson\u2019s side hobby was a white Detroit-powered 1965 Peterbilt drag truck that he raced at drag strips and on the Bonneville Salt Flats.\u00a0 Wayne has always cherished the friendship and bond developed with the whole Nelson family and even after 1986, when the paper haul was lost, Wayne still helped the Nelsons with all of their racing ventures, and he even got to run the Pete race truck at Bonneville!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Due to the lost haul with N+N, 1986 began with another cool job for Wayne.\u00a0 Moving over to Aerodyne Trucking, Wayne got to drive their awesome white 359 long hood with a 3408 Cat and a 20-speed Spicer trans, pulling a reefer, between the Northwest and L.A.\u00a0 But when the freight got slow, Wayne found himself sitting around on the road quite a bit, and with two young daughters and wife Kathy waiting for him at home, Wayne decided to move on and find something new \u2013 but he sure did miss that 3408-powered Pete!\u00a0 Mt. Hood Timber Products became Wayne\u2019s next home in late 1986, where he found himself driving one of their rockin\u2019 Kenworth K100\u2019s.\u00a0 Back then, he helped blaze the trail by managing to haul over-length (maxi) loads of beams on truck and pup setups equipped with logging-style bunks with telescoping drawbars between the beds.\u00a0 It was the ideal way to haul this type of freight before 53\u2019 4-axle trailers became the mainstay in the Northwest.\u00a0 However, like many of Wayne\u2019s other jobs, this one also ran out of fuel in 1988.\u00a0 But when that door closed, another one opened.<\/p>\n

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Wayne\u2019s next job turned out to be a keeper, and has been his home for the last 23 years!\u00a0 Rexius Forest By-Products, founded in Eugene, Oregon over a half century ago, has treated Wayne like a million bucks since the day he climbed into one of their trucks.\u00a0 A lot of thanks go out to Arlen Rexius and the whole Rexius family (and company) for continuing to give Wayne the pride and fun that all great truckers should have for all of these years.\u00a0 And, of course, the greatest thanks go out to Wayne\u2019s wife Kathy, their two daughters, and now their grandchildren for being, in Wayne\u2019s words, \u201cso tolerant of my passion for trucking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Whether you are a truck owner or a top-notch company driver like Wayne, you probably love what you do \u2013 and you probably have a photo album or two to prove it!\u00a0 We would like to thank Wayne and his family for sharing these pictures from the pages of his photo album, and for showing us all a glimpse back at the good \u2018ol days of trucking.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always been a believer in the old saying, \u201cDon\u2019t forget your roots.\u201d\u00a0 For many of us, those \u201croots\u201d usually include a few old photo albums or dusty shoe boxes filled with faded and torn photos from yesteryear.\u00a0 This month, I wanted to feature a short-lived but cool small fleet from the late 70\u2019s and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":684,"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-681","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\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}