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

1978 U model Mack.
1.Negative=no power steering ,Positive=very large steering wheel builds strong arms.
2.Negative=rusty cab,Positive=Increased air circulation in cab.
3.Negative=No heated or motorized mirrors,Positive=Who needs mirrors in N.Y.C.?
4.Negative=very little horsepower,Positive=Who needs horsepower in the N.Y.C. metro region.
5.Negative=rooftop a.c. unit never worked.Positive=Window cranks worked fine for fresh air or smog,whichever you like better.Had a small bucket taped to the unit to collect the water that leaked into the cab.
6.Negative=No air ride seat.Had one,it broke.company put in an improvised bench seat.Positive=none.
7.Negative=No am/fm radio,Positive=I learned how to sing.(badly)


Aside from the tractor it was a good job.Good pay,benefits,good hours(home every night)and very friendly dispatchers.

 

'75 Ford Grenada I bought new.My last Ford ever.

 

We have an old Mack from the early 60's that is used once in while for in town trailer moves between plants.

Mark

 

when I first started driving, I worked for a 7-Up bottler. The truck was a Int'l 10 bay sideloader. It was assigned for the downtown route (which I had). The front bay was jammed closed, the sideloader locks didn't work (usually had 3 or 4 cases of pop stolen everyday), the exhaust had two leaks, two of the other side bay doors would regularlarly come of the tracks, the stereo worked but only if I tapped it a few times with a pen. The handbrake release was broken, required the use of visegrips to release it.

my current company, when I started I drove a late 80's Int'l daycab, originally it had spring ride and they converted it to airride, but it did have an airride seat. The floor plate around the shifter was loose when I got in, within a month all the bolts were missing so it would vibrate around on the floor. I could look down and watch the highway go by (which wouldn't have been bad in the summer, too bad I started driving it in November), sometimes the stereo worked, sometimes it didn't, all depended on the bumps in the road, one speaker, that I had to crank the radio to hear, the A/C had long since quit, the heater worked most of the time, 2 months into it, the power divider blew out while driving, limped back to the yard with it.

One thing I've noticed, everyone is complaining about Macks, but just remember, you can't kill them. There is one farmer we deal with who has two early 70's COE single axle Mack's, he uses one around the farm and the other one to shuttle trailers to/from town. The one, the odometer quit working at 1/2 million back in '80 and it's still on the road, spring ride, rusty as hell, but it still moves.

 

Hmmm, my last Mack was a '00 CH model that currently has 1.2 million on it, I put the first 978K on it before we traded it in. The first Mack I drove for these guys was a '94 CH, I put 180K on it (it already had 400K on it when I got the keys in Dec. '97) before they upgraded me to a '96 CH. That '94 is still on the road, we were the 2nd owners, it's now on it's 3rd owner since we got rid of it in '00. The person who bought it after us put a wet kit on it and ran dirt for 3 yrs before losing it, the next guy had it for 2 yrs and lost it, the current owner rebuilt the engine at 1.6 million and drives it daily in the area hauling containers or dirt as needed.

 

I drove an International Fleetstar some in the late 70s while I was still in the Army.
I think it was an early 70s model. There was a knob on the dash, and underneath it said, "Pull for wet roads".
Apparently it deactivated, or at least took braking pressure away from the front axle.

 

with no power steering,no a/c trying to deliver pipe on streets that were made for small cars.

 

Put up with it?

I was the happiest driver on the road...Just to be out here driving trucks and gettin' paid!
Those old trucks were cool and interesting and they made me a much better driver for just having driven them.

I wouldn't trade those days for anything.

That's the way all trucks used to be...

 

Yep! You really learned to turn in tight places and in cities with that Armstrong steering! You learned to use every inch of area needed to back in, turn a corner and drive down the street!

An ocasional shower in that right turn when the water from that roof mounted A/c poured down your neck and back kept you awake or scared the crapola out of you the first couple of times!!

Yes, the switch on the dash to cut the air pressure to the front brakes which never seemed to actually matter for wet driving conditions until it stopped raining , the roads dried up, you forgot to switch it to dry and some moron pulls out in front of you and you hit the brakes and you start to jack knife because you don't have full pressure to the steers! A definite pucker maker!.

Air powered wipers like in the Army! Long rainy days and that swish swish would lull you right off to Z-land!

All the holes in the floors that kept it cool in the summer and froze your feet and legs off in the winter!

There are more but I'll let others show their age! ROFLMAO!