What's your favorite era of trucks

Mine would be when COE's ruled the world!!!!!! :smt038

 

My favorite era would be whenever the truckers began to compete with the railroads for longhaul freight. Longhaul trucking was well-established in the late 1930s and very well-established by the 1950s. Such companies as Consolidated Freightways were running from the Pacific Coast to Minneapolis daily. Pacific Intermountain Express was running longhaul in the late '30s between Denver and points east to and from San Francisco. Garrett Freightlines was running longhaul routes all over the West. Denver-Chicago Trucking Co. was running across the U.S. in the 1940s. There are many more: Illinois California Express, Watson Brothers running out of Omaha to the West Coast; Braswell in the Southwest.
On the West Coast there were West Coast Fast Freight, Los Angeles Seattle Motor Express, ONC and others doing 1,000-mile runs up and down the West Coast.
All of this was before the Interstate Highway system.

 

My favorite era of trucks would probably be the late 70's and 80's, those are the trucks that I remember as a kid

 

1960 to 1981. Truck driving was one of the highest paying "blue collar" job that a person could do. Most of the carriers were union, we either ran as a team or were set up on solo turns. Home time was great. Treatment for the most part was excellent. You had a few companies that were not too good to work for, but for the most part, drivers were treated very well with wages and benefits. Then came deregualtion and the JBs and the rest of the "cu-throats" and the rest is history.

My favorite truck was the Emeryville.

 

The early B Model Macks

 

I love those trucks, I grew up around Macks so I have always had a soft spot for them, I would like to restore and old B Model one day

 

It has to be the 60's and 70's ahh real trucks with real engines and trannys.

 

I still like the early Flintstone with 2-feet drive, good visibilty, tires as solid as rocks, etc. Don't make them like they used too..

 

:smt046 any kind that jb hunt uses you know if a big company is buying them they have to be good :smt046