Quote:Golden Pig service began around 1982. An old SP Bulletin from ‘82 announced their arrival. The original Golden Pig trailers were Fruehauf's in the SPLZ 250000 series.
The "Golden Pig scheme" was the idea of former AVP Intermodal Joe Neal. We started receiving new 45' trailers shortly after he was appointed AVP Intermodal some time in the early 1980's. No already owned trailers were painted and decaled with the "Golden Pig" graphics just newly acquired vans. When new they were washed at Los Angeles 10 to 15 per day for about 6 months before the washing program was stopped. At the same time of the introduction of the "Golden Pig" trailers the SP also had bottled some "Golden Pig" sun tan lotion that we handed out to our customers.
Pig service ended around 1992 or 93
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