A view of the Past, Vintage Photos

Yes the Fleetstar was the bigger brother to the Loadstar. Both good work trucks! You earned your iron butt path driving those @Spartanmetal .....

 

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

 

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.
Those were the days.

 

I lost my hydraulic brakes one day and actually returned about 20 miles to the warehouse using only that brake handle!

 

I think it's older than '80's. The round dash came out in '77 and I think it's a late 70's. What kind of trans is that? 6 speed with a hi/low split?

 

There was a guy in Wisconsin, pulled a milk tanker for Gullickson Transport out of Deerfield, Wis. ( near Madison) I used to see him everyday on the freeway. I think the guy had the same route for like 30 years.
Meet Leon ‘Butch’ Mueller and his 1971 Pete 358