Found this neat video

pretty cool yes not sure why they say good old days not sure why ppl say trucking used to be fun

 

I hear so many of our younger drivers complain about how our trucks are underpowered. Our trucks are 475-485 HP. I think it's funny when I think back to when the 290 Cummins came out and how awesome it was to have 290 HP. Some of the young guys today have no idea what it was like, they would have never made it back then. Air wipers, no heated mirrors, power steering was a luxury that most didn't have. I didn't even have a washer pump, it was a bubble on the floor that I had to pump with my foot to clean the windshield. Manual slacks, unless you were lucky enough to have wedge brakes (that sometimes auto adjusted when they were new).

Thanks, now I feel really old.

 

Probably lifted all those pics off Hank's to make the video. Oh, and had to use the obligitary pan out effect to it's fullest!

 

Great video op,thanks for sharing it.

 

That was trucking back in "my day"! It is amazing who is still around and who isn't! I used to drive for an O\O for International Transport. Haven't seen Pacific Inter-mountain (PIE) in forever. Thanks for posting! Many old memories there!!

 

No jakes and your codriver gets out of moving truck on a 8% grade and actually outruns truck uphill as a joke .. Spring suspended seats no thanks I'll stick with modern trucks .. A run from Calgary to Vancouver takes 12 hrs or so with a average truck now used to take 18 plus speeding everywhere you could .. Maybe these are the good old days but we just don't know it yet lol

 

I bought my first tractor in 1976, and about 1:45 there is one, a White Road Commander. Note the percentage of cabovers, which in the video is skewed a little high. Most of the pics were before 1985, the STAA act of 1982 removed the overall length law on the National Network. We now know that the trucking industry used that for the camel nose under the tent and 53'/ conventionals go everywhere. Lots of line haul stuff there too, which is no longer representative of the supply chain now.
As far as being the good old days. It wasn't.

 

I remember many times pulling in the low side of a transmission running across 40 / 48 which is now I-68 through Maryland on my way to Boston. Seen quite a few Mack cabovers in the video, we had a F700 at Machinery Hauling but I never drove it, 237 if my memory is right. Drove many trucks with 270 / 290 / 300 / 315 / 335 855's in them, then got in the 350 / 365 / 400 / KT450 Cummins and 375 / 400 / 425 Cat's and thought I was sucking the blacktop up behind me. Power steering? yep, that was a plus for sure.... Can you imagine the young guys of today in a manual steering truck???? That would be worth buying a ticket for. Nothing against any of you younger truckers but, unless you have spent time in a truck with no power steering, no A/C, seat wore so bad you put a jacket "in it" to keep from setting on springs, then you really don't have much to complain about other than the DOT, or dumb drivers and dispatchers.