Retro Flatbed Pics

I don't think its that new. Didn't they go to the rectangle headlights in 84?

 

Pulling this thing out of storage because of some of the great pictures. Also some great talk of old timers in here.

 

Truck porn. That COE in the very first picture rubbed me right.

 

Nice share. Enjoyed taking a look of the trucks I remember as a kid.

 

Good thread necromancy.

The COE's take me back to being a kid. Grew up on a Vineyard and for awhile we used our own drivers and rented trucks to haul grapes around California during harvest. Still remember getting to sit in my father's lap to hold the big old steering wheel in that Freightshaker COE. Probably what put the driving bug in my britches.

 

Great thread, thanks for bumping! Just a thought: If we all take pictures of our trucks and loads now, in 30 or 40 or 50 years people will say similar things about awesome the stuff is that we take for granted right now.

"I remember when Grandpa actually drove trucks! They had to strap that stuff themselves! No robots! No autonomous vehicles!" That's right, kid, and we drank real whisky and beer on the weekends, and had sex with actual women when we were randy, no robots.

 

At our yard we still 1 40ft stretcher that goes out to 86ft I think. They call it a sow belly its from the early 60s. From 1990 to 2002 my dad was a union steel hauler out of the NYC 282. Really don't hear anything about o/o union steel haulers anymore. It was stupid money back then. 380 mi round trip and if you got 2 back hauls of rebar you were hitting over 4 k on a M-F home nightly gig. 75$ in fuel to go down and back and not to mention the union bennies

My dad has a pic of a 110ft beam and his 9670 corn husker. They changed the face of midtown. Put the pendulum up in one of the tower's, trump maybe, did work on the Chrysler building. Pretty much most of the steel for the new highrises around mid town was brought in by my dad and a few of his buds.

He was over Brooklyn on 9-11 and watched them go down. CanRon was the erectors and their yard was pretty much right down the street in Binghamton. The next day after 9-11 2 of my dads friends took a load off steel down there to help out. Police escort and told to run as fast as the truck will go.

 

My dad bought this 71 F model mack from his dad when he was 21 back in '82. 237 w 5 speed no a.c. no power steering between him and grandpa they put like 2.2 million on it with 2 inframes.

https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/media/old-001.18477/full



https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/media/old-002.18478/full

Must of been like riding in style compared to F model lol

That corn binder had bc4 cpl 838 (315) the guy my dad bought it from had her set up to pull. She needed rods and mains every 250 k but it smoked the 444's and a his buds 425 cat, he would get so pissed knowing a 315 with some fuel going to her would smoke him on the hills. 9 speed direct with 3.55s she was only good for 66 or so.

 

Now THAT is funny!

I'm hopping back into an '05 Peterbilt 379 to go out flatbedding for a small operation. I'm pretty jazzed about it. I'll post up some pictures whenever I'm able to. This thread with those old trucks made my day today. One of my uncles is now in his 70's, but he still has an old '67 Kenworth that he takes out when his somewhat-newer Peterbilt is in the shop. If I can ever get some pictures of those, I'll post them up.

 

Man I'd drive any one of these trucks over a plastic aero truck any day. Screw creature comforts. As long as its got heat and power steering I'm happy lol.