Back in the day . . .

Santee SC LOL. Never used their services except one late night I woke the ole boy at the coffee shop to help with a little white line fever!

 

guys would ##### about armstrong steering then go put in power steering and buy a weight set to lift weights with to keep their arms strong. I loved armstrong for the line specially in the snow....

 

Back in the day you had R-E-S-P-E-C-T for each other and gave it back. You NEVER wronged a fellow driver no matter what.
Back in the day you helped a fellow driver if they were broke down, sliding 5th wheel/tandems, etc. you worked together not against each other.
Back in the day the Cops/DOT would cut you some slack.
Back in the day trucking was fun and you made some good $$.

 

Back in the day we didn't have a big dollar sign on our butt thanks to sue happy lawyers advertising us as the reason for their bad driving.

 

guys i just have been under a rock for the past 10 years ,i just dont understand what has happened to are wourld. why did it come to this. no radios .what the... how do we talk to each other?? NOBODY CARES ANY MORE??? something has to change .in 1988 the public understood .when we shut down the stores were empty. plumbcrazzy

 

Friday went to my first job days express in Indiana .talked with the owners wife .she was ready to put me back in the saddle until her governmental employed safety .ex. said he has no dac.or asacp report ? i looked at my x boss who thought me how to drive /live on the road and to respect our customer and he said he had over a 100 tractors setting empty .no drivers to varifie. what has happened?PLUMBCRAZZY

 

the days of deregulation are gone

 

I drove my first truck in 1977, went to full time driving hauling logs to start ,in 1981 after my navy tour. I started on a 5&4 long logger , took it up the mountain 15 mins after i got into the cab after some basic instruction. An hour later i brought my first load of logs down the mountain to the log yard. that 71 pete narrow nose did have a wigwag i saw every day, it also had a compression release on that old 335 cummins, i used it every morning to start it......

We even used an atlas or a real paper map to find our way back then.. .

Oh yes i almost forgot , 23 channel cb radios, most guys had not even bought a 40 channel yet and they just came out less than a year before i started driving..... My 2nd truck was a 1960 pete 15 yd dump, with a 262 cummins in it. You learned to shift with those low hp motors cause you had to........ The smallest i drove was a 200 cummins... When i drove a kta 600 my first time i was in heaven......



I started out in the coastal mountains of southwestern oregon and northern california. Driving on anything from flat to a 16% grade , and sometimes loading on a 25% grade , to be pushed and pulled out of those type of landings with the shovel and a d-8 so you didn't bust a rear pot or twist a drive line... So i learned in the old school of hard knocks , taught by the old timers who passed on their knowledge, they didn't tell ya to go to a truck driving school , I did the job my first day in the cab and learned as i went along. When i started no one hardly went to a truck school, you climbed in with an old hand who was willing to teach ya and let ya drive....

Ahhhhh , remembering the olden days lol..... Nothing like a trip down memory lane , to relax ya and put a smile on your face.......