Old School Truckers

I don't know about parking your truck but i do recall the petro on I-10 in lousyanna,the name of the town escapes me as i type,would fuel your truck for you and wash the windshield and all that good stuff.The BarB west of dallas would fuel your truck as well.
my memory is crappy.wonder how i killed off all those brain cells in the early days? was it the 38 hour flights by myself from ga. to los angeles in that spring ride/sit in bunk w/a 350 come apart(although in reality the mechanical engines were just as durable as today's) with a 9 speed tranny that was turning 2100 at 75 mph in a 55 mph zone on interstate highway?
I used to pull the staples out of the log books to add/take out pages as opposed to carrying multiple log books.
yeah i do miss some of that type trucking.Probably because I was a young man and wide open and found pleasure in actually running w/another driver to and from whereever while talking incessantly on the citizen's band tranceiver.

 

Its funny but trucking has come a long way just since I have been in the biz!

I can remember taking all my cassette tapes with me in a brief case! I also remember taking my fm notebook with me comprised of every radio station I liked to listen to in each individual town and city. Back then you were constantly adjusting the radio to a good station as you were rolling down the road. Can't tell you how great satellite radio is!

Prepass, another sweet invention!

Yep, no GPS, you had your road atlas and notebook full of shortcuts and best routes! Course you also had to constantly hit the ol pay phone for directions. CB was also a good navigation tool as long as the other person wasn't playing games with you!

The age of computer enhanced trucks! I remember a piece of broomstick on the accelerator to keep the truck idling all night long!

Fuel in GA..... $.99 a gallon folks!!!!

Waiting in line at the truck stop with your phone card in hand for an available phone booth. Also phones in the booths at the truck stop restaurants. Phone jacks in the parking spots you could plug your land line into.

Getting special permission to drive your 53' trailer into New England or NYC!

Too many more to list, these are just some of the ones off the top of my head!

I'm really not even an old pro! This is all that has changed since 96' !!!!

 

26 to 40 inch steering wheel? Are you sure ? How about 22 inch steering wheel

 

I am going to blame it on snorting to many diesel fumes....or maybe old age....

I stand corrected, my post should have read "22 to 26 inch steering wheels"...

Thanks for the correction.....Terry

 

This is bringing back ALOT of memories. THANKS ALOT. Now I gotta go see my shrink again.

 

Yeah , and call in every hour with that "hot" load so they can keep track of you .

 

We deffinately are spoiled with all the technology.But back then it was alot funner then it is now.Drivers would be looken out for one another,have get togethers in trk stop parking lots,and I don't think they had to carry a log book.I think I would rather live without all the luxeries then having to put up with all the laws and companies in todays world.

 

I remember getting pulled in to a scale house in Iowa back in the day . It was the 19th of the month and I had not even started a log book for the month.

The scale master asked me if I had a log book and I told that I did then he asked if I had one that I had made any lines in and I told him no sir. So he told me to pull around back and bring in my new log book and 38.50.

He asked why I hadn't started a log book for the month and I told him that I had just leased on to this company on the 1st of the month and was just to busy to do a log book .

He then asked where I was going and I told to the Sara lee plant about 4 miles up the road . He laughed and said well you have time to do your log book up there! So he let me go without catching it up there .

He was right I did have time to catch it up at Sara lee because I was there 14 hours getting unloaded and reloaded.


Boy I miss them days when we all got along !!! LOL

 

Made me remember the time I got stopped and the trooper asked for my log book. I handed it to him and after looking at it he handed it back and said "This is the wrong one,I need your Thursday book."

 

I had been rear ended by a Ford van on I70 by colorado springs. I don't think I had touched my log book in a week when I went through denver on the way out to LA for produce.

I had about 5 minutes to produce 8 pages of logs with miles, locations, BOL entries and all before the troopers showed up.

I was still sitting in the cab when the first one pulled up, checked on me and said "you ok"....

"Yes officer".....

He just walked away....

I got out of the truck with logbook, insurance and BOL's and stood next to the door.

The officer saw me get out and came over, looked at my log book and said, "no problems there....."

he took the registration, license and insurance cards and went to his car. The logbook went into the cab.....

Nothing ever came of the accident because in the course of the next 2 hours, the CO HP had to round up over 3 dozen cattle on the interstate that night.

#### range law.

It was actually better for the guy who rear-ended me that we both had camera's and took a picture of the cow standing 2 feet from the hood of my truck on the interstate.