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10.00 VISIT T0 WADENA, MINNESOTA.
As per schedule prepared by Dale Bonde, it was this week of
the month on which I had to make a return visit to this area. The
two organisations I had to visit was namely Polman Transfer Incor­
porated, and Conex Co-operative Incorporated Trucking Terminal at
Wadena.
I arrived to Wadena on a truck on the 15th September late in
the afternoon and had a brief talk with the owner of Polman Trnasfer
Incorporated, Mr. Duane Polman. During this brief talk we had a
chance to review the various sections within the Polman's Transfer
Incorporated, and got a chance to meet the gentlemen in charge of
dispatch, and Workshop.
On September 16th I visited Cenex Co-operatives terminal and
covered the following areas as described briefly in my own words.
10.1 CENEX:
Cenex is a similar organisation to the former Midland Co-opera­
tives and to a great extent its operations is similar to Land O'Lakes.
The terminal here operates just like the Land O'Lakes, trucking
department at Fridley except that its warehouse is at St. Paul
Minnesota. Cenex however covers a wider area of operation (i.e.
fourteen northern states of the country), than Land O'Lakes Trucking
Department. Because of the wider area they cover, it is necessary
that they operate three terminals with the headquarters and warehouse
at St. Paul Minnesota. These three terminals are based on regions
as follows:­
(a) Eastern - Headquarters and is based at Wadena - This terminal
caters for transportation for products for member Co-operatives
within the Eastern region (namely Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinsis
e.t.c.). This terminal owns 90 trucks, 200 trailers of different
makes including refrigerated vans.
(b) Central states has headquarters at Willeston North Dokota and
caters for the central regions.
(c) Western state: has headquarters at Pasco, Washington State and
caters for the northern Western States.
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