Back in the day . . .

‘Olhand · Dec 30, 2013

‘Olhand · Dec 30, 2013

Thanx--was just tryin to copy paste the images on same page...so all could see how GOOD it was --back in the Day! LOL

killroy · Dec 31, 2013

'olhand said: ↑

YouACTUALLY got used to that CL Kilroy? I rode one for almost a year--and still dreaded every downhill curve--LOL--also the FIRST truck I ever drove w/power steering--got out of it and into a 359 and NEVER looked back LOL
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yea I did, back then I was half nuts anyway, and like you I saved enough driving the Ford to buy my first truck and it was a 359 as well, God I loved that truck. Wish I still had her. But that was 2 wives and many trucks ago. LOL

tracyq144 · Jan 2, 2014

marmonman said: ↑

I remember once going through the south bound! Florida AG check one morning about 3 am .
I had my buddy behind me in another truck for the same company.

When I stopped and the guy came out and looked I told him the guy behind me was a shady dude and he might want to look him over good .
As I pulled back out on 75 he hollered that the guy wanted to see his paperwork so he would be right back out .

I told him I would drag my feet and he could catch up to me .
I ran down to the rest area and hid until I seen him go by.
Then I pulled out behind him and chased him south .

I kept hollering where the hell are you I got to go !!!! Come on I can't drag my feet for ever ...
After about an hour of him doing as fast as that truck would run he hollered where are you I should have caught you by now .

I jumped out in the left lane and passed him . As I went by I said man you need to learn to look behind you I have been behind you the whole time !!!

He was so pissed off that he wouldn't talk to me for the next 50 miles LMAO !!! Man that boy was fun to run with !!!
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LMAO! God, those were the days!

Markvfl · Jan 2, 2014

I was channel surfing yesterday and saw an episode of "Movin' On". Corny as hell but brought back a lot of memories...

terryd · Oct 26, 2016

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We all have seen them, The newcomers to our industry, Misplaced tech employees or others that have lost their jobs in this so called recession who found a home after truck driving school with a large fleet and began their career in trucking. Bermuda shorts, Flip Flops, screwy looking headsets for their cell phones and laptops on their dash for whatever reason are all classic signs of the up and coming. On this particular trip one of them happened to have a C.B. and we talked for a couple minutes. On his way to California he told he wished he could just fly over Iowa and Nebraska, Its just so boring here. I told him why dont you just sit back and take a look around you a little bit, There really is a lot too see. He replied I dont see a #### thing! That turned on my memories.
I about 5 hours before had left Des Moines Iowa for Denver Colorado, By far my favorite run of all runs and has been for most of my working life. Now passing Grand Island Nebraska I began to ask myself why cant he see what I see?
I see Old I 80. in 1977, One of my favorite trips to see family in Colorado, I had the squelch turned down on the C.B. almost the whole way cause I didnt want to miss a single thing any trucker had to say. Had to of driven my mother nuts, It got funny when a couple of grain haulers were checking out my Mom and not hiding the fact they thought she was hot.
Labor day weekend 1980. The very first time I drove our truck all by myself fromPine Bluffs Wyoming to Exit 300 at Wood River nebraska. I remember telling my Mom "Nobody at school is going to believe this. She looked at me with a big grin on her face and said " Gary your Daddy would be so proud of you right now" Friends and family, You know how old I was then. My hands hurt so bad when we stopped but it was the biggest thrill of my life.
I see my Girl friend who is now my wife put up with me pre 1987 when we would go to Burger King On merle hay road in Des Moines on Friday evenings to watch Monfort of Colorados Friday push on I 80, Truck after Colorado truck heading to New York for Monday, They would always be through Des Moines On Friday evening like clockwork. I wanted to be out there with them so bad
I see the countless times my friends gave me their advice on operating a tractor trailer and let me drive almost always on I 80 in nebraska. I remember Hot Nuts showing me how to drive with my very first load of swinging meat by Grand Island Nebraska! In July of 1983.
I see Digbys Golden Arrow out of Denver Colorado, Remember?They put the arrow on the truck so the driver knew which way to go! Those awesome Jolly Rancher candy trucks with the big murals of the rocky mountains on the trailers. Or the Big Coors trucks with the long wheelbases and Curtis refrigerated from Greeley!
I see the legends too, Monfort of Colorado who had the left lane on interstate 80 nicknamed " The Monfort Lane" They were my heros! or Circle c beef company out of Colorado who did a pretty good job of keeping up with old Kenny Monforts trucks.
I see TNE express, Little Audreys Trucking, Best Refrigerated, ( the pretty red Kenworths ) Doc Radnors Midwest Coast transportation, and Noah Enterprises, All out of Nebraska.
I still See my friends heading west for Gradwell Transport and midwest Continental out of Sioux City Iowa and I see me at a young age trying to be like all of them.
I became a part of all this in 1987, Driving for Coors, The coors product had such a high demand in those days we couldnt seem to haul enough, I remember my wife, Just married for 3 months I dragged her kicking and screaming into this way of life, I remember her sitting next to me plugging in cassette tapes of Pink Floyd or The Scorpions or a tape a high school buddy made for me to keep me awake for just a couple hundred more miles, I remember my Wife holding my hand just because. I think she was just happy we could be together that much, I was too.
I see Blizzards and Tornados and wind storms along I 80 and I 76 that made you want to go home, And truckers that would stick together when the weather got bad and coach each other through so you could make your delivery on time.
I see Big old A model kenworths loaded with lights hooked to reefers coming out of Wyoming all alone late at night going to some ungrateful Eastern city and big old freightliner cabovers in various fleet livery with vans and flats behind them.
I remember the old Tomahawk truck stop in North Platte Nebraska, Now sitting under the Hampton Inn.I can still see their patrons, Truckers of course but then there was the locals, Ranchers whos faces looked like war maps but their eyes didnt look a day over 19 years old, Sioux Indians, The remnants of that once proud and fierce tribe now dressing in cowboy hats and wranglers.
I see my 3 year old Son peering out the passenger side window of my truck for miles and miles of Nebraska on one of our many hauls to Omaha or Des Moines. His Mom alway dressed him in those cute little osh kosh bibbies, I remember his gruff little voice saying I love you Daddy when I would stroke his hair. Now that little boy is starting to drive his old Daddy across Nebraska regularly. I LOVE YOU TOO SON.
I remember my little Girl doing the same thing except She would hold my hand and not let go until my fingers went numb, The difference was she would demand a hotel and a pool at the end of her day. Of course i gave in. The Holiday Inn At Ogallala Nebraska.
I remember a friend calling my wife and breaking down and weeping, They had just found his Dad dead in a rest area along I 80, He went to his sleeper and never woke up he said. I nod when I go by. He was such a good man.
I guess If you have a favorite place in the world mine would be I-80 in Western Nebraska and I-76 to Denver. Its the times and the people that made it such a special place for me and with a little imagination it could still be 1982 out there as very little has changed.
After my long pause on replying to the new driver I just didnt know what to say, I keyed up and said Ya I guess you are right. Just how I remember things.
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thanks for that post. I injoyed a lot.

Jack Smithton · Oct 26, 2016

terryd said: ↑

thanks for that post. I injoyed a lot.
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Beautiful. Thank you.

Rusty Trawler · Oct 26, 2016

I remember that super cheesy movie white line fever
Looking back, it was prophetic as hell!

Brettj3876 · Nov 12, 2016

Old 001 by Brettj3876 posted Sep 6, 2016 at 6:29 PM

Old 002 by Brettj3876 posted Sep 6, 2016 at 6:29 PM

My dads 1st truck a 71 F model with a 237 and 5 speed. That cornbinder was like a caddy compared to that F model. Back in the days when my pops was a union steel hauler

Lepton1 · Nov 12, 2016

Brettj3876 said: ↑

Old 001 by Brettj3876 posted Sep 6, 2016 at 6:29 PM

Old 002 by Brettj3876 posted Sep 6, 2016 at 6:29 PM

My dads 1st truck a 71 F model with a 237 and 5 speed. That cornbinder was like a caddy compared to that F model. Back in the days when my pops was a union steel hauler
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FIVE SPEEDS!!?? What did he DO with them all?

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