Yes the Fleetstar was the bigger brother to the Loadstar. Both good work trucks! You earned your iron butt path driving those @Spartanmetal .....
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I started in a Loadstar straight truck in ‘77. Company had 2, one had a 16’ box, the other 18’. I was driving both of them when we realized that 1 was registered under 18000 lbs, the other over 18000 lbs...that was when I got my class 3 license...after a nice policeman advised me I was driving out of class
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We did have a 1971 load star 5 ton, with a gas engine and a split rear end. If you weren’t careful the differential would lock up between gears and you had to get out and give it a whack with your tie down bar.
The only problem was that the parking brake consisted of a clamp that clamped around the drive shaft, so if your diff was stuck between gears you had no way to stop truck from rolling away.
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Well, somebody mentioned a 220 Cummins in a thread on a nice old Autocar somebody bought, which led me first to the H-Series Ford, then to the N-Series Ford, and then to this...
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