Transport: Keeshin Caravan

At 6:13 a.m. Friday, Dec. 13, 13 bright yellow vehicles lined up on a Chicago street. Heading the procession was a sedan "scout car," followed by five huge trailers, each pulled by a different kind of actor truck. A second sedan, pulling a mall trailer, brought up the rear. At the heel of the first truck was a stocky young-looking man in a state of high excitement. Truckman John Louis Keeshin 'as excited because as president of Keelin Transcontinental Freight Lines, which in the past few months has spread its operations all over the East (TIME, Sept. 2),...

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