Old timer question. Before cell phones and load boards

I was in the Air Force in the early 70s and I would do crazy things on weekends like be 400 miles from base sunday at noon. Well one time my car blew up (it cost $75.) and i was hitch hiking 310 miles way as the sun went down and it started snowing. Later that night a truck driver picked me up. I was running along the interstate in a blizzard to keep my feet from freezing in the middle of nowhere. I got in the cab told him where I was going and went to sleep. He woke me up later at my turn. He probably saved my life but he kept from getting written up for being late.

 

I was driving trucks with screamin' Detroits, and floatin gears on twin sticks when all of your daddy's were in diapers!!!

 

And all that in the 11 years that's shown in your INFO

 

honestly, I'm glad that I never had to be in a noise box like that. They sure do sound sweet from about a mile away though.

I'd love to try driving one just once just to see what it was like, at the end of the day I'm sure I'd prefer my 2 buttons on the shifter.

 

they were fun at the time , company I started with had some old GMC 9600 Conventionals and then some ASTRO 95's with the 318 DD and 13 speed road ranger , hear them on a cold day for miles

 

my blast from the past. Man I hated and loved that truck. Baked you in summer, darn near frostbite in winter.

a 1979 Autocar AC64T 56K rears, 18K front, Cummins NTC350, quadraplex twin stick.

Now for new drivers. You hook your arm through steering wheel to grab one stick . then while doing that you grab other stick and shift them together.

I drove the ol' man Mr. Clark nuts grinding.

 

Anybody remember the GMC Brigadier. Have dead axle attached to make a tandem trying to hook up a set of pups in a dark terminal with snow and be stuck every time you tried to get under the trailer. Probably still happens.

 

Yes the GMC BRIGADIER came after the GMC 9600 and the CHEV C90 , same basic truck design wise

 

Dang this thread slowed way down.