Daggett Truck Line is celebrating over 80 years in business. Daggett Truck Line, Inc. offers the best in transporation services, with over 80 company trucks and 40 owner-operators.

History:

D.W. Daggett arrived in Frazee in 1896 at the age of fourteen. He was an energetic young man who soon owned a livery stable. Among his early drayage contracts were hauling supplies and men to the winter lumber camps for the mill at Frazee. Later he began building roads using only horsepower.

Trucks became a natural evolution in this business with the first three trucks being purchased in 1919. They were used for hauling gravel in the summer, potatoes in the fall and pulpwood in the winter. By 1925, Vern was gathering livestock in the surrounding area and hauling them into the railroad yards in Frazee for shipment to South St. Paul.

In 1930, Vern began hauling this livestock into the new Armour Packing plant at West Fargo, N.D. He would then pick up a load of hay on the way home and sell it to the farmers in the Frazee area. An occasional trip to the South St. Paul stockyards would also be made.

The 1931 International A-2, pictured at the right, was never a working truck for Daggett Truck Line. It was purchased in 1967 from an Audubon farmer with only 36,000 miles on it.

D.W. Daggett and his son Vernon had a model A-5. It was a long wheel base single axle dual tired straight truck with a 28 ft. bed. Whenever Vern would load the truck full of cows, he always had tire trouble!


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