[mr48chev]

Honestly I don't remember being inside any GMC TF fleet truck in all my years of working on cars from 1962 up into the 90's.

There are a lot of 54 and earlier GMC trucks in this area because we had a local dealer in town selling them then. They were the International Harvester dealer for farm equipment and trucks and the Buick, Pontiac and GMC dealer in town. They closed out in the late 50's and the Chevy dealer took over the Buicks and Pontiacs.

The main fleets for 1 ton or 1=1/2 ton here have been hop trucks that haul the hops from the field to the kiln. Up until the mid 70's most of those trucks were AD Chev 1-1/2 tons. Now they are using newer but not new trucks with shortened chassis that look like light weight versions of the Shack shakers that drag mobile homes. They pull special made trailers from the yard to the field and back to the kiln and then drop the trailer and pick up another one and go again.

I'm going to say that fleet operators in that time frame were pretty much like most farmers in that time frame, frugal when it came to spending money on trucks as far as things that weren't doing a needed task for the job they had to do. The truck with the radio may have been the operator's personal truck or in a truck owned by an operator who decided that having a radio in the truck might keep his driver happy.