In 1989, when Stone-Street Quarries of Fort Wayne, Ind., sold its interests to Rockville, Md.-based Rockville Crushed Stone, the Indiana quarry was sorely in need of new haul trucks. At the time, because Rockville Crushed Stone was updating its fleet, Rockville's management invited Stone-Street Quarries operations manager Waine Phillips to choose a couple of trucks from the Maryland fleet. The consensus was that Rockville's trucks were several years old, but they still would be an improvement over Stone-Street's trucks at the time. "I went to Rockville, picked out a couple of Cat 769 (35-ton) trucks, and came back to Indiana," Phillips says. "But when the trucks were delivered in early 1990, my first thought was that I'd been given the wrong trucks."
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