DECEMBER 2005 WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO...
Morosa’s Mixed Fleet
of Bull Haulers
Story and Photo by Truck Historian/Author Stan Holtzman

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Seen here in this 1957 photo is an early 1950s Kenworth cabover owned by Morosa Bros. Livestock Transportation out of Bakersfield, California. Both the KW emblem on the front and the individual chrome KENWORTH letters that normally appear on the sides have been removed, which leads me to believe that this was the KW that E.B. Manning was using to haul their cattle prior to the Morosa name being added. Colors of the Morosa fleet were light brown with a red stripe that ran through both the truck body and the pull trailer. The fleet of Morosa Bros. trucks consisted of mixed makes, from Kenworths to Internationals, and sets of doubles as well as trucks and trailers, like the one seen here. Morosa’s trucks could be seen at many feedlots, ranches and packing houses in most of the Western states. This truck had just finished unloading some cattle at the L.A. Union Stockyards in Vernon, CA. I do not know why or when Morosa Bros. faded into the trucking sunset.