In the early '80's, before I had my learner's permit to drive a car, my Daddy was sleeping through the night behind me, as we trucked up and down...
Look up "dromedary truck".
Remember the goofy show in the mid 70's "BJ &The Bear"? What was his saying? Oh ya that's right, "A dollar a mile, anything, anywhere no questions...
The way I did it was, pull the kingpin. Wind down the dollies, until you hear the air in the bags start to dump. Pull the tractor forward about a...
One of the earliest memories which I can recall, is of my Mama holding me on her hip, as we watched Daddy back the truck up the driveway. Growing...
I beg to differ. The tires on the rear differential will always wear faster because the rear differential is constantly driven and if a wheel...
This is pretty much the method that I used, except I would heel to toe measure from the end of the trail to two or three feet before whatever it...
Behind the U-joint on the front of the front differential is the power divider, through which runs a shaft to the U-joint on the back of the front...
For 4 years, I ran local around Chesapeake, Va. pulling end-dump and equipment low boy for a land clearing company. Then I moved to Phoenix and...
'96 or '97, I got stuck behind the (at the time) U.S. largest move on I-80, West of Salt Lake for about four hours. It was a 3,000,000lb autoclave...
Driver? How do you wear your boot out, using a tire pressure gauge? ;-)
My "story" was not a lie.
I had a model of an Alaskan Pipe Line K-dub. It had a headache rack and chains.
No, YOU didn't say I was lying but the individual a few posts down from your question did. I guess I was hoping someone would ask how it was done.
Contrary to some opinion my "story" is not a lie. How I a.d several other drivers would haul poles of that length on a 48' flat bed was to drop...
I started driving in Oct. '81, running team up and down the eastern seaboard for an owner-op out of Ct, .for $15 a week :-) I was 16 years old and...
Most likely, the original owner probably spec'ed truck for a dromedary truck-tractor operation for high cube requirements such as baked goods,...
