Product Description
This is a must have model for anyone that collects Monfort of Colorado or Tri-State Logistics as the tree companies are all connected.
After serving in the U.S. Army from 1945-47, Jack Shupe bought his first semi truck. In the late 1940s John Shupe bought and operated his first truck, and in 1951, teamed with his brother, Jack, to own and operate Shupe Brothers Trucking Company. The company’s blue and white trucks became a major contract carrier for Morton Salt Company in Salt Lake City; a major hauler of grain and feed for Farr Better Feeds; a major hauler of bentonite in the Glen Canyon Dam construction. The truck fleet expanded to include offices in Garden City, KS; Guymon, OK;Hereford, TX; Duncan, NE; and Billings, MT.
From 1970-76 John developed with Ken Monfort, the Monfort of Colorado Transportation Company, a 100 truck fleet that John operated. The left lane of the interstates became known as the "Monfort Lane”. The new orange and yellow trucks,which were geared to travel at the 70 mph speed limit, could pass most of the trucks traveling the same routes across America. John continued his personal trucking business at 2600 Bypass in east Greeley, under Shupe Bros Trucking,developing into a 100 truck fleet. In 1987 John took over a trucking company,naming it DSCO, Drivers Services Company, a 200 truck fleet hauling products across the country. "Trucks move America!”
Tri-State Commodities started in 1970 when Jack Shupe split from Shupe Brother’’ Trucking, a trucking outfit Jack had operated with his brother John from 1952 to 1969. In 1970, Jack Shupe bought his first truck directly from the Kenworth factory in Seattle. Gregg fondly remembers going with his father to pick up the truck, and then riding back home in it. From there, the company slowly grew to a fleet of 50 trucks, which operate in the states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Texas,California, Nevada, Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Tri-State’s trucks, which specialize in hauling grain, salt and similar cargoes, certainly get around. Their fleet also includes several dry-bulk tankers.
