Unless things have changed, most of the old two speed rear axles were electric ( Pull up & push down plunger type switch with wires attached to...
Smart business owners usually keep a couple of aces up their sleeve and they know when to play them. The business owner in this case could have...
A decent running 350 detroit would run away and hide from a 270 cummins all day long...My old man owned a couple of late 1960's era car haulers...
Clean MVR's were non existent back in the day of the double nickle. Seriously..
I'm not quite sure how Mack trucks or their toughness got into this conversation but I frequently drove as much as 150 miles per day "off road" so...
Never drove a Mack, but I spent a lot of time driving trucks "off road" and I could see both drives churning even when the interlock was in the...
Believe it or not, a couple of turbine powered trucks parked next to my truck late one night back in the 1970's. I was never an over the road...
Back in the stone-age, power dividers automatically ( without engaging ) sent power to both drive axles whenever one drive axle lost traction....
I heard.................. there were some gas turbine powered trucks operating up in the pacific northwest back in the 1970's. It was more of a...
We used to call em crateliners
Truckers should have pedals installed into the trucks floorboards which when pedaled hard enough and long enough would unleash an additional 100...
My choice for best old school truck would be the first new truck i ever drove, a 1977 K/W conventional, a truck & pup. It was strictly a work...
A beginning truck driver hitting the road with the full support of his ball & chain back at the home twenty will probably do okay. The smallish...
What your saying sounds reasonable but I gotta tell ya. From a drivers point of view, I neither saw nor felt or heard of any substantial...
How the brakes operate versus whether or not the drums were any good ? Is that what you're saying ? All the trucks with airbrakes that I ever...
I don't recall any problems with drum brakes back in the 1980's or the 70's or the 60's .........They worked just fine. I left the biz in 1989,...
Our company bought three new trucks equipped with disc brakes all the way around back in 1982. Nobody wanted to drive them because they'd scare...
I'm not real knowledge on motors, but way back in 1980 we got some new crateliner conventionals powered by the 8 v-92 with 9sd trannys and they...
I worked for fry's as a refrigeration mechanic up until a couple of years ago when I retired. Great company to work for with pay and benefits at...
Back in the olden days we had hubodmeters and odometers. They rarely if ever displayed the same per trip, or, per shift milage.
