This trip down memory lane is brought to you by an actual, honest to
goodness, real life Hess truck.
Seeing this truck caused a question to rise in my brain. Does Hess still
run a private fleet? I remember seeing trucks like this Freight-liner
FLD and Volvo's on the road all the time but they seem to have
disappeared in recent years. A few minutes on Google lead to a
disturbing answer. Hess announced
in March of 2013 that they plan to sell the portion of their company
responsible for refining and selling gasoline. Following the sale Hess
will be solely a petroleum exploration and research company. Retail
operations and storage facilities will be sold. What this means for the
Hess truck remains to be seen but it doesn’t look good. After all, if
you no longer have Hess gas stations where do you sell Hess trucks!
Maybe someone will buy the name rights and continue the tradition. I may
want to reconsider my previous statement on the value of the modern
collectible lineup.
As you can see from all these the photo's this truck wears the
location of local Hess tank farm. No doubt this Freightliner was at one
time an OTR truck now serving a second life as a plow. It still wears NJ
plates, the home state of Hess. I’m glad to share these photograph's of
this Hess truck as it soon may be collectible itself!
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