Doors are open....20131007_1754 - a photo on Flickriver

Doors are open....20131007_1754

I saw this T.I.P. (Transport International Pool) trailer in a warehouse parking lot as I was driving by, so I drove in for a close shot. Its doors were open (to air it out?). If one looks closely at the back end of the trailer one can see the shiny interior surface of the door, which is in the open position and tethered to the trailer's outside wall.
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"T.I.P." stands for "Transport International Pool,” a company that rented highway trailers to trucking companies. I worked for T.I.P. many moons ago, when it was part of Gelco Corporation.

When I went to work for T.I.P., I had never heard of it previously. Nor had I heard of the city in which it had its headquarters (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania). All I knew about the trucking industry was that “trucks transport stuff.” My employment there was a great learning experience. Terms like “kingpin,” “landing gear,” “fifth wheel,” and “hub odometer" became meaningful, as did the names of companies with which T.I.P. did business.

The aspect of the job that I enjoyed most was parking trailers in our storage yard, which was great fun once I got the hang of turning the truck’s wheels in the opposite direction of where I wanted the trailer to go.

T.I.P.'s logo is almost identical to the "TIP" icon appearing in federal income tax booklets.

Since I left the company it has undergone expansion, merged with other businesses, been split apart, been sold a few times, and been renamed as well. Searching for "Transport International Pool" in Wikipedia in 2019 goes to a page about TIP Trailer Services, but that firm operates only in Canada and Europe. Whether there is still a USA company that is the result of all that change is difficult to determine.

Taken on: October 7, 2013

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