Old School Truckers

Coin Laundry, local deliveries for GE appliances in San Diego C.A. 48 foot box with a tail gate, and a tractor without power steering. Most physical amount of work I ever have done in the cab, backing up that truck. (med 80's) If we had snow and more wet weather might have been easy.

 

the 10 wheel dump autocar with a 2 stick quad box good times. Even out on 95 snow plowing in a convoy of 10 trucks i still never had the right gear. Fortunatly I was young and dumb

 

Trucking is still like that here in Canada. I remember the old days as well and have nothing but fond memories of it. Today it's just a job, and the fun is gone. Now I'm just putting in time till I retire. Only a few more years left, and I'm done.

 

don't forget the w/w fluid was a rubber dome you pumped with your left foot, and with a left and right air wipers, you had one going 60mph and on barely moving.

 

back in the days the scale houses would only care about weight you were over weight you wrpte a check and kept truckin. Was running the virginia scale one night on a road no bigger then your driveway cop pulls me we stopped right there on the road.He says what you doing back here boy so i says going to visit my gf He says dont you know it's all blackies back here so in my innocent voice i replied are you prejudice officer. $1700 check later i drove away still grossing 107000

 

Well I was one of the Lucky Idiots that got a Walking Beam with the Rubber blocks in the SOB. Called my First truck boss got it CHEAP and ran his trucks til they either Broke the engine Blocks or the Frame Which EVER CAME FIRST. My 1st rig in 1993 was a 71 IH 4070 Transtar with a 290 Cummins 4X4 Rubberblocked Walking Beam and I loved the SOB. He even had Older trucks like that 62 Emeryville with that 238 Detroit in her. Hell he even had a Crackerbox Jimmy in the fleet that got dragged out for Harvest at the time. That give you a clue on what he ran.

 

85 mack superliner with a very stout mack v8 and double over 18 pushing her the walking beam suspension of course wit deluxe state og the art arm strong steerage systems. Top that off with a mansion of a coffin sleeper on the ba which ever side you fell on, you slept on......

 

old fred said if you meet a man driving one of them macks and he waved at you, he was over revving, lugging it, or he had three hands.

 

I wish i could buy one of those spring ride seats now for my bronco.