Memories for us old truckers

[Truck Shop]

 

[kshansen]

Well that sucks, I was waiting for him to run it through the gears going down the road!

 

[Truck Shop]

Well it is kind of a let down-pi$$ ant video at that.

 

[crane operator]

I saw the first part of the video in the shed, and thought "australia" with the small toyota pickup and the dust. Then he starts to climb in the cab, and I'm thinking "Why is he climbing in the passenger side?". Yep, I'm that dumb.

Its odd seeing everything on the wrong side in the cab pictures. I've never driven a right hand drive, I wonder how long it would take to get used to the shifter being over there. I find that I can't even steer with my right hand, even in my wife's little honda suv. Evidently my brain doesn't work that way anymore.

Nice looking truck- but a trip down the road would have been nicer than just out of the barn and back in again.

 

[Old Doug]

I saw the first part of the video in the shed, and thought "australia" with the small toyota pickup and the dust. Then he starts to climb in the cab, and I'm thinking "Why is he climbing in the passenger side?". Yep, I'm that dumb.

My first thought was it was so close to the wall he couldnt get in the drivers side.

 

[Truck Shop]

Any of you old guy's remember what a bingo card was?

 

[Truck Shop]

Note the upper licence plate on the left side, It had a place for a tab for any state you had permits for and there was a fuel card that corresponded with the plate that was called a bingo card
with a fuel stamp. And you had to have the tab in the right box because weigh cops would look for it there, if it wasn't in the right box on the plate you got a ration of sh!t for it.

 

[Mother Deuce]

Another couple images from my buddy’s collection.

 

[RollOver Pete]

Any of you old guy's remember what a bingo card was?

Had them on my Mack in 1989.

Speaking of remembering stuff...
How about " keep right except when passing" . I don't believe they teach common road courtesy in truck drivers school anymore. They certainly don't teach common sense.

 

[tinnerjohn]

I was a "glass guy" from 75 till about 3 years ago when my shoulders and back said NO MORE! Ohio had fuel tax stickers that were glued to the left bottom corner of the windshield. When they started using clear tape so we just needed to cut around the edge and tape it back on we thought we'd gone to heaven. Sometimes I could even reuse the old tape! John

 

[petepilot]

Any of you old guy's remember what a bingo card was?

remember them well. and I think I still have one of the plates stuck some where

 

[Old Doug]

Any of you old guy's remember what a bingo card was?

I thought how in the world could you ever get all this and figure it out.

 

[petepilot]

I thought how in the world could you ever get all this and figure it out.

very carefully

 

[Truck Shop]

Great advertising.

 

[Truck Shop]

Driving this in the southwest was probably like setting in a crock pot. The truck had no real speed and hot as hell in that cab, a true slow cooker.

 

[petepilot]

Driving this in the southwest was probably like setting in a crock pot. The truck had no real speed and hot as hell in that cab, a true slow cooker.

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those were the days.

 

[dieseldog5.9]

I was excited to see how they fit a V8 detroit under the hood, has anyone seen a b model with a mack V8?

What would the Navajo truck have, a 671 detroit?

Cool pictures either way.

 

[Truck Shop]

This LT sports a E9 Mack V8

 

[Old Doug]

Driving this in the southwest was probably like setting in a crock pot. The truck had no real speed and hot as hell in that cab, a true slow cooker.

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I would drive all day thinking when the sun went down it would get better.

 

[Truck Shop]

I would drive all day thinking when the sun went down it would get better.

I always run at night if I could, as far as sleeping I would stop atop mountain passes under some trees during the day.