Re: Truck Driving

Posted by the tractor vet on June 07, 2007 at 15:46:14 from (75.19.120.54):

In Reply to: Re: Truck Driving posted by Two Stick on June 07, 2007 at 12:40:21:

Well lets see here lets go on back to 1964 and a B60 Mack with the big old theromodin GAS burner twin screw with a 5 and 4 pullen a 50 ton rogers lowboy with a D9G setting on the deck Blade and ripper attached pushen somewhere close to the 46-50 ton mark on the deck pullen a long hill on a nice HOT summer day the big stick in 2nd. the littel stick in lo Lo and thinking about droppen to 1st direct but oh that would mean that i would have to get back in the cab and the door would close and i would have to take hold of them two sticks and even thru your gloves they were HOT as back then when ya got her in the gear that you thought would get up over that hill ya would open the door and step on on the fuel tank and with the right foot flat on the pedal and one hand on the wheel you would drag up over the hill at maybe 10-12 MPH and the heat comming off that old engine was unreal . Now that old girl had no air ride seat and no power steering and other then a hand brake no parking brake and a set of spring if ya wanted to call them that that even with a ( on she rode rough . then there was the old Fords White Dodges and the rest of them old trucks that ya fryed in the summer and froze in the winter or the old crackerboxes Oh yea them old trucks would SEPERATE THE MEN FORM THE BOYS . Around 68 trucks started getting better and by 77 they were realy getting nice as long as they were a conventional. Never had a like for a cabover but did drive a few . Till the day i came out of one and my foot slipped off the step and i came down on the ft. axel hub and tore my back up . spent quite a few years haulen coal over some of the worste roads one could find . But i would have to say that the FUN years were from the 70 to 80 as the guys that i ran with we did not look at it like a job , it was a adventure and it was sorta the OUTLAW days Run heavy run fast and the money was there i usualy ran monday thru friday and when i went on the road with my new truck i was pullen a Coal bucket running 27 states and the freight was there and so was the BIG bucks as we had no freight that paid less then 1.75 a mile on a legal load . I hauled feed Salt out of Cleveland O. to points west and hauled either reason sand or scrap back , one round was almost 4 grad. and run two a week .

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