I can relate to the EARLY DAYS . It was 1963 when i took command of a B 61 Mack pulling a fifty ton lowboy , when i first started driving it she was still a gasser and we were just starting to set up the marshaling yard for the start on a section of interstate the company won the bid on From the main shop complex to where we were hauling to was like 290 some miles , Only roads to get us there was OLD U S 62 that ran past the back of the shop , that little jont took anywhere between 11 to 13 hours one way and 8-9 back home empty . And the old DOG would give you around 3-3.5 MPG . The company was replacing all the OLD equipment with all new bigger faster stuff gone were the days of Hand clutch giving way to Power shifts And the days of the gas engine in the Mack came to and end when they stuffed in a 7-11 with a turbo . Back then we did not use escorts just flag and go head lights on and one little blinky light up on the roof . At best out on the few flats you might get up to a mind blistering speed of 50 MPH loaded but on the hills you would be down to 8-10 MPH and god help ya if ya missed a gear. And if ya did ya had best be real good at skip shifting . Now lets fast forward here to something more modern .With about the same weight of a 100000 setting on the deck and crusen up I 77 up Fancy gap foot flat on the floor left lane setting at 76 MPH passen freight boxes like they are parked with 740 Ponys under the hood and you just might have to flip the little red button on the shifter and drop down to 72 over the top . These young pup's don't know what it was like back in the day of darn near freezen to death on a cold winter day having to use and ice scraper on the inside of the windshield to keep the frost off with a buggy blanket wrapped around your legs or on a hot summer day while pulling a hill open the drivers door and standing out on the fuel tank because of the heat inside the cab . Yea i remember them days .
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