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What was your first truck?

Discussion in 'The Welcome Wagon' started by BigDinny, May 5, 2012.

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  1. May 5, 2012 #1
    BigDinny

    BigDinny Bobtail Member

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    You can see from by profile I have been out of a "paying" seat for a long time. That said, I was born with a cetane rating rather than a blood type, and I still drive for a friend locally every now and then, just to keep the rust off. I learned on a 1958 B Model Mack (can't remember the number, although I think it was a 61) gasoline powered 5 and 2 hooked to a low-bed. Any of you old timers remember those days? Any youngsters ever here of a quadriplex? I thought I was in heaven when I got into a U Model 685 after being in a MB600.
     
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  3. May 6, 2012 #2
    d o g

    d o g Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Welcome to the site, BigDinny. The new kids now don't want to know about B-models, or R-models, or cabovers, or any of the 'good old days.' All they want to know is whether or not their big walk-in sleepers have a big enough inverter to run a microwave and refrigerator at the same time.
     
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  4. May 6, 2012 #3
    Cranky Yankee

    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    well after the farm tractors when i was 9 was a 10 wheel dump autocar with a quad box about a 30 inch steering wheel because no power steering then. i must be old
     
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  5. May 6, 2012 #4
    BigDinny

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    Transam pete: If you were on an old 10 wheeler, then you learned (hopefully not the hard way) to drive "thumbs-up". And dogknot, I think you are correct- from what I have read lurking around here and other sites, most new drivers seem to care a bit more about chrome than anything else. I suppose that is okay- I could not wait to some day have a tractor with a seat rather than a peach crate. Oh, for the days of ether in the breather at 4 a.m.
     
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  7. May 6, 2012 #5
    FLATBED

    FLATBED Road Train Member

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    First company truck was a 1965 Mack B model that had been well used prior to being AWARDED to me then a 1967 F MODEL , 69 R MODEL, first truck I owned was a FORD W series Cabover and 1st thing I bought for myself was an ARTIC SURVIVAL SUIT as I froze in that thing running to Chicago , NYC in the winter
     
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  8. May 6, 2012 #6
    spacetrucker88

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    the first tractor I bought was a 1967 F model mack with the 250 mack engine and the tri plex transmission,I could not make that thing go nohow
     
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  9. May 6, 2012 #7
    thedrifter

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    '58 international west coaster. 4x4 married woreout 220 with a DD pump and copper fuel lines. Yes I carried a flaring tool.1/2a can of ether every time you started it. A seat from a '65 mustang. Bolted on a coil spring from a pickup. Insulation was a square of asfault shingles so my feet wouldn't roast. You always tested the brakes before you wanted to stop. 50/50 chance you had any. A/c was both windows down and the windshield rolled open doing 48 mph. Inverter, weren't invented. Fridg. A big box in the kitchen at home. Sleeper, a piece of plywood you stole from the mechanic put across the seats.
     
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  10. May 6, 2012 #8
    JRP

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    95 t600. detroit and a 10 speed.
     
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  11. May 6, 2012 #9
    BigDinny

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    I was kind of hoping to get something started. I first went on the road (East Coast Regional) with Hemingway in their Silverways Division. Drove an 800 Series Ford cabover- 220 Cummins and 5 speed with 3 speed Eaton rears. Slow but what a nice gear box/rear combination- unless it sat over night in the winter. Took a while to split the rears until the oil warmed up. Moved on up to an old Branch Motor Lines(remember them) W1000- 250 and a 10 speed. Both tractors you froze your feet in the winter.
    Worked for a rigging outfit that had a 1940's Stirling flatbed. Inline Cummins with a compression release to get it started. A stick wedged on the treadle was the parking brake- a poor man's Maxi I guess.
     
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  12. May 6, 2012 #10
    Cranky Yankee

    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    at 59 i realize the old days are not so good please dont take away my fridge tv inverter or microwave. of course i would still eat at the resturants if they were not all fast food junk
    OMG anyone ran in new england back then remember SECONDI BROS????
    now that was a 1970's truck stop most everyone today run for thier lives thinking about anything like a showere there
     
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