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 An artist’s rendering from a 1957 issue of TAB, Arkansas Bus and Truck
                                                    Association’s monthly publication, shows what trucks were expected to look
                                                    like in 1967. The caption reads:
                                                    TRUCK	OR	THE	FUTURE—Ten	years	from	now—in	1967—the	truck-trailer
                                                    moving	over	our	new	interstate	expressways	and	super-highways	may	look
                                                    much	like	this	artist’s	sketch.	Roy	Fruehauf,	President,	Fruehauf	Trailer
                                                    Company	told	the	Central	Motor	Freight	Association’s	annual	luncheon	at	the
                                                    Conrad	Hilton	Hotel	on	September	18.	This	1967	model	has	many	unusuals—
                                                    including	TV	cameras,	sliding	panel	doors,	radio	sending	and	receiving	sat,
                                                    inter-truck-trailer	phone,	airplane	like	controls.






















                                                         mcKee Foods hosts its annual Driving Rodeo in 1996





                                                         TAB cartoon
                                                        February 1955










           C.l. george (center) of
            George’s Inc. standing in
          front of a City Produce Co.                                  highway Safety booth sponsored by Great West
             truck in the late 1930s.                                 Casualty Company in 1940

                                                                       Arkansas Bus and Truck Association’s 25th
                                                                      Annual Convention Silver Bell Jubilee



















          Truck-Lite ads


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