CCJ Photo Gallery: Mid-Eighties Madness: Trucking in 1985

Dec 10, 2014

Updated Jul 1, 2015

By 1985, trucking’s Golden Age was over and CCJ’s sister magazine, Overdrive, had toned things down considerably. Owner-operators were still a huge market segment, though. And technology was starting to permeate every aspect of truck design and use.

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