My First Over Height Load - 14'2"

Reminds me of when I drove pilot car behind my brother in '79 (before they had regulations for pilot cars). We were hauling a 75' yacht from the port of Houston to LA. IIRC the height was 18' 6" and we were routed through the Texas panhandle. In several small towns the routine was to park before the town, walk into the local diner, and hire a few willing folks to lift the traffic lights over the yacht by walking them back as my brother inched forward.

The yacht owner rode in my pickup. When we settled in for the day in some small town after doing the "lift and walk" to get through the traffic lights, we parked in a wide spot. He opened up the wet bar and the entire town of 17 population showed up for a party. I need to figure out a way to digitize my old Kodachromes.

 

That was with a '74 Ford cabover with a gutless Cat. The trailer had hydraulics to lift the front or back about five feet to get over low clearances, like railroad tracks. AC was roll down the windows. Power steering was designed by Armstrong. That was the first truck I drove in '77. Copper lines for air, I remember because we replaced a 4" section of line on I-80 near Elk Mountain after explosive failure and warning claxons going off when I was behind the wheel.

 

Thinking about it more it was somewhere on 79 south of Washington, Pa.

 

Shoot, I was in diapers in 79!

 

Lmao!!!!

 

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