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Show EaUh Freight Lines Moves This IVeek h lev Some On South Entrance; Ki Site To fMelTay For flew Store Sometime this week the Uirt Freight Lines, which is a , i of Inland Freight Lines of V Lake City, will move into :"ew warehouse and offices w the south entrance to Roose-l: Roose-l: LP 1S an announcement J? last Friday by A. Fred Wo, vice-president and gen-3 gen-3 manager, who was in the ,.? listing with arrange-nts arrange-nts for the transfer. wl6, Inland acquired the 2 franchise from the Ster-:' Ster-:' transportation Co', in 1946 : danged the name to Uin- "eight Lines, the company ;fflj?aintained its office and M TSe n the corner of Sec 'HrS.0uth and Main Streets " the Home Lumber Co. :tf,erTal months ago the own. :oa:!ntah height, Mr. Dip. ia his partner and president J"eo,C0mpany, Ray Lilenquist, j efea into a contract with ths Je ,nney Co- to build a ithL "dding on the corner -ilweir present office and warehouse is located. This was the excuse they needed to' begin immediately to build a new building on their property on the south entrance to Roosevelt. On July 27th, ground was broken for the new, modern freight depot and offices by Martiri Campbell, Vernal contractor. con-tractor. Location of the new building was in a swail directly be'low the old Utah Highway Dept. sheds, and before it could effectively be used for the purpose pur-pose intended, a tremendous amount of filling in had to be done. One would not recognize the transformation that has taken tak-en place in the area hundreds of yards of fill dirt was hauled in by truck around the building, build-ing, then after the construction was virtually completed the rocky hill lying east and north has been cut and the whole terrain ter-rain smoothed adding a much more attractive approach to the city. Size of the warehouse is 40x72 and the office is 13x23. A coal stoked furnace has been installed and two spacious rest rooms provided. The warehouse is so constructed that trucks can load and unload from three sides and five trucks can be (Continued on back page) i Uintah Freight . . . (Continued from oaee 1) housed in the building. It is of brick and concrete construction, being wholy fire-proof. Manager of the Roosevelt division di-vision of Uintah Freight Lines is Merlin Sullivan, and local employees em-ployees include Mrs. Pearl Pack, office clerk; Karl C. Betts and Keith R. Todd, truck drivers , The company maintains offices offi-ces and warehouses in Vernal, with Rondo Sullivan as manager arid at Duchesne, where Edward Kielbasa is the manager. They are now organized so that they, are able to give day service from Salt Lake City to Denver, i via the Basin. Uintah Freight, operates to' Rangely, Colo., where they connect with the j Bee Freight Lines, whose franchise fran-chise allows them to operate from there to Denver. Interesting is the success story of the two owners of Inland and Uintah Freight Lines as told in the October issue of the "Chicago Shipper," a trade magazine designed for, the shipper, ship-per, industrial manager and motor mo-tor carrier executive. It's the story of a humble beginning with a model T Ford truck in 1927 until today they have 5,500 miles of franchise highway high-way operations and 200 pieces of mfrdern equipment operating from San Francisco to Rangely, Colo., via Ogden and Salt Lake City. |
