Jumbo Motor Express

although jumbo has long since closed, its logo is still eerily visible, ghosted on some repurposed trailer, or hanging on for dear life to a 40'​-er sinking haplessly in some northern farm field. i will always fondly remember cutting my trucking teeth here. i was never so happy as to show up at 6am to review the previous days trip sheets, to add up my total bill count, or to drop in at 7pm after the drivers returned to check out how many new clients shipped that day, or what new lanes i got. these were truly happy days. the drivers, dock crew and management were such a team as i have never since encountered. perhaps it was a reflection of a less connected world. one in which beepers ruled and cell phones, laptops, the web and social media were yet to be the driving force. i witnessed technology-creep happening in front of my eyes; starting in the mid-80's; from the pounding telex machine, to the $5,000 fax machine to a supposed job-killing computer, to 5 pound cell phones – it was all