Memories for us old truckers

[Truck Shop]

1963 Warner Swasey-AKA Duplex, with 1963 Holmes 850-40 ton unit. 230 Cummins, 5X4.
For sale $30,000, low mileage always a tow unit. Will compete with a 60 Ton unit built in
2024.
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[Truck Shop]

 

[mowingman]

1963 Warner Swasey-AKA Duplex, with 1963 Holmes 850-40 ton unit. 230 Cummins, 5X4.
For sale $30,000, low mileage always a tow unit. Will compete with a 60 Ton unit built in
2024.
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Reminds me a lot of an old Hendrix. Any relationship between those two companies? Just a thought.

 

[Truck Shop]

Reminds me a lot of an old Hendrix. Any relationship between those two companies? Just a thought.

Zero--just look alike. Budd sold that cab design to anyone, and only so much your going
to put into a grille/hood to make much difference.

 

[Truck Shop]

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7332507522089176362

 

[cfherrman]

One thing is for sure if you hit a deer with that old truck you won't know it, the new model...

 

[OzDozer]

Isn't that an IH "Comfo-Vision" cab, built by the Chicago Manufacturing Company under contract to IH?

Apparently the "Comfo-Vision" cab was actually designed by a Diamond T engineer, and when Diamond T heard IH was planning to design a new cabin, Diamond T offered IH the design, and told IH they would buy the cabs off them, if IH chose to run with it.
IH did take up the design, and then sold the cab to anyone who had the folding readies.

 

[Truck Shop]

What are we ozdozer the proof reader for hef? The only way a person could post so much
intricate material is setting with piles of books around the PC. BUDD built the first cabs
along with Some ford trash. Knew a guy who worked for BUDD on the assembly line way
back when.

 

[OzDozer]

TS, you ain't seen the multiple cabinets I've got full of information about nearly anything ever built. Plus 26 years of BS-ing on forums and picking interesting peoples brains, adds up to a big pile of information.

My first truck in 1967 was an R-190 with the Comfo-Vision cab, 406 gasser (thirsty ol' b**ch that was!), 5 speed, 2 speed rear axle, 1 mpg loaded, 2mpg empty! But how I wish I had it now!!

 

[Truck Shop]

I knew a guy like that once---he was my dad----and he was full of sh!t.

 

[BSAA65LB]

And being a Duplex chassis, likely crude for even the standards of the day…….

 

[Truck Shop]

And being a Duplex chassis, likely crude for even the standards of the day…….

Hendrickson and Corbitt weren't much better--.

 

[Truck Shop]

I knew this guy----aka Phart Sack Eddy. I've told the story of Phart Sack many times and most
thought the story was untrue. I was digging through old news stories and found this article
about Phart Sack running over the scale house which verifies the story. Really we just called
him Scale House Eddy.
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[skyking1]

I knew this guy----aka Phart Sack Eddy. I've told the story of Phart Sack many times and most
thought the story was untrue. I was digging through old news stories and found this article
about Phart Sack running over the scale house which verifies the story. Really we just called
him Scale House Eddy.
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Somebody killed my scale shack where I figured out the 120 position on the tilt trailer. I found out later it was never closer than about 500 pounds to reality at best.
We presume they got ticked off after getting a ticket there, and they returned and backed into it and knocked it right off the foundation. That was the end of that!
It is closed now, torn down and the pit filled with rock.
It was a bummer as it was only a few minutes from the house.

 

[525isx]

Somebody killed my scale shack where I figured out the 120 position on the tilt trailer. I found out later it was never closer than about 500 pounds to reality at best.
We presume they got ticked off after getting a ticket there, and they returned and backed into it and knocked it right off the foundation. That was the end of that!
It is closed now, torn down and the pit filled with rock.
It was a bummer as it was only a few minutes from the house.
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Elk Plain- mountain hwy ! I hadn't been that way for a long time and as I got there, SURPRISE , no more scale !

 

[Truck Shop]

The two closest state scales are on Hyw 12, one just 1.5 miles out of town to the east,
and the one at Wallula Junction--both scales are inoperative. Heading west on 12 from
Idaho there really is no port-of-entry scale, until Bullfrog I-90 Cle Elum. I-82 Plymouth
north is one. Now if in Oregon-there are several.

 

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[stinky64]

Probably still safer than hungover teamster behind the wheel. That should be an interesting application when the snow is piling up in front of the dock.