What's the biggest P.O.S you've had to drive?

I had the wonderful experience to drive a 66 B Model Mack, With a 5&4 transmission, what a joy miss a gear start all over, jam the dang thing crawl under it with a 5lb hammer beat the day lights out of it.
A/C it had 255 a/c 2 windows down 55mph if you were lucky, Power steering are you serious, creature comforts, coffin sleeper, CUP Holder lol, AM Radio, best thing about this truck, no Matter how much grain you put in the shaker box she would pull it, might be slow but she would pull her tail off. This truck is still on the road today, being used by a company called Expert Movers out of Virginia beach, I saw it not long ago they were pulling an old Church with it, at about 2mph but she was still pulling.

 

For me it would to have been the 88 Pete 379. 310 Cat that ate Air Fuel Selonids like they were candy. Try having Haz-Mat on going to Balitimore and your forced to 68 with that POS. It also had 2.92 rears with a 9 speed Direct. So any thing bigger than a mole hill you shifted down.

 

Mine's not as impressive as you'd expect, but the biggest POS i've had to drive is a 2000 green Mack daycab. It's only 10 years old but it's had a very rough life. The AC barely works (thank god it works at all), the fifth wheel handle will not pull without a fifth wheel puller. Sometimes they make me drive it when they have a local load that requires a pump, since none of the good trucks have pumps, just PTO air compressors. It has a setup where some goofball put a chicago fitting on the brake air compressor to blow out hoses. WTF? LOL.

It's also a super 10 and im used to a 13 speed, so i grind a lot of gears in it.

Oh yeah, there's no antennas, the power mirrors only kind of sort of work, the drivers side window wont roll down, its nasty as hell, and apparently the drivers of it were deliberately being abusive to try to get a new truck. wtf? It even has some guys dirty socks in it.

But most of all, its the ugliest truck i have ever seen. I suspect the hose rack being taller than the roof is a big part of that....



but seriously, it really is the biggest POS i have ever driven. we had early 90s trucks in truck driving school, that were huge POSes, but this is way worse.

 

I have driven my fare share of junk. Lets see there was a U model 237 Mack 1966 with a 5 speed bolted down seat. the same company had an F model Mack with a push up cab 237 5 speed. no heat and they were always sending me to NC from FLA in the winter. And there was 1969 International Transtar 318 13 speed and couldn't keep from blowing out the muffler on the driver side. and you told the guys at the fuel island fill the oil and check the fuel. this is one truck that would never rust it always had a fresh coat of oil on the frame and under the cab.

 

sory to rabbit trail, but is that the outfit that moved the Cape Hatteras lighthouse?

 

Ford Cabover, 8v-71. No ac, no ps hole in the carrier (maybe) Ac unit where someone had tried to rip it off the top. No mattress...it seemed there were 5 trucks and 4 mattresses and any time you got your days off (once a month if you were lucky) you were greeted with a matressless sleeper. This meant you would have to steal one back or buy your own.

In the winter, you had plenty of ac because Detroits (Jimmy Diesels) couldn't keep water hot in cold weather so if you had the choice of spending the night in N. Dakota or pressing on 'til Guymon Oklahoma? I'm stopping in Guymon and going to face the east so the sun will attempt to keep the cab of my Ford (Fix or Repair Daily) with the GMC (Got a Mechanic Coming) two exhaust valves per cylinder diesel in it.

Did I mention the hole in the floor? Nothing like driving for family!

P.S. When the ac unit did work, it was just enough cool to keep your candy bars from melting....as long as you put them through the ac vent and close enough to the coils.

P.P.S. Dayton wheels, split rims and fix your own flats.

Boy do I miss the golden age of trucking. Could someone hand me that kill cable?

 

the truck doesnt look bad but the whole thing with the hose rack being the tallest part of the truck makes me laugh.

but its been horribly abused, sadly. It's had a rough life. I'll take pics of the inside next week.

And there's nothing like how worn out the transmission gates are.

 

Weren't those old Transtars with the detroits wonderful?