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@Westernstarguy4900

Жыл бұрын

If you really truly love the LTL then there is your chance to get it and restore it

@jamessherry3450

Жыл бұрын

@@Westernstarguy4900 ààa no

@79tazman

Жыл бұрын

Check out the truck Wayne from Ol2stroker channel just got kzread.info/dash/bejne/paqqushxYJuohqg.html

@robbiemckinnon7901

Жыл бұрын

some early automatics needed you to use the clutch to start and stop, but would shift the rest of the gears for you once underway, without the use of the clutch. Weird.

There’s no “driver shortage “ in the USA but there’s definitely a shortage of driver compensation. Great careers with great pay and benefits don’t have to beg for employees. Every truck going down the highway has an ad on the back begging for help. That’s the first red flag to warn a person that something is terribly wrong with that career.

@DieselDoc78

Жыл бұрын

Well said.

@ksw501

Ай бұрын

Yup

I have wanted to see an LTL-9000 restored so bad. I drove an 87 model with a B-Cat. Loved it.

I'd love to see you restore an LTL, as they definitely are super rare nowadays.

@peterpower0495

Жыл бұрын

the Cl9000 are even rarer i have yet to see one in person besides one that i saw at an abandoned lot of trucks in NY. I wish i could find the place again

@Thunderchicken69

Жыл бұрын

There’s a first generation LTL with the round headlights and the old rounded style hood which is extremely rare near me, old man hauls logs with it, he bought it new around 76’, last I seen it though it was real rough, but still going

@mr.capythebara9384

Жыл бұрын

@@Thunderchicken69 Always makes my day to see an older rig still running today. It seems that the semi trucks of today have traded character and over good looks for efficiency.

@KR-hg8be

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.capythebara9384 I can't really blame the modern owner operators for that choice. If your on the road for months at a time a nice comfortable truck is a bonus and with fuel being what it is, every mpg less is really going to hurt.

@mr.capythebara9384

Жыл бұрын

@@KR-hg8be Well of course, I have no doubt that they're more comfortable, they just don't have the same style as a vintage rig.

I came across a guy with two LTL 9000. Both were on a jobsite and were in mint condition. He worked them every day. I made a point of stopping to talk to the owner and show my appreciation for his love for his trucks

Part of the driver shortage is the unwillingness of corporate to pay for QUALIFIED drivers. One of my drivers at work finally gave up a lifetime of being a road jockey to become an inside worker. Said they were cutting pay and hours. God Bless our Men and women of the highway, (as well as our folks in the fields, mining oil and farm,) as they are our life support. They support us, we need to support them!

I absolutely love Ford commercial trucks! The Louisvilles look great, but the LTL9000 is a cut above the rest in terms of styling. Good video once again!

You open the tachograph wind the clock put a round piece of paper in it and it records your speed and or RPMs so your company knows you're not over speeding the motor and you would usually turn it in with your paper log

@gac914

Жыл бұрын

There were "needles" that would make marks on the round card that would be inserted in the case, recording hours of service of sorts , ("movement" vs. sitting still,) and speed, (at least the ones that I worked on -- no tach hooked to ours -- just speedometer and a wind-up clock.) In somewhat predictable fashion, some drivers would physically bend the speed needle "down," with a needle-nose so that the recorded speed etched on the card would show lower than the actual speed being driven. In later models, they became electronic so the tampering got more difficult, and I also worked on some that were "eight-day" tachographs, which contained a series of cards for each day, and a knife in the tachograph would "cut" the tape keeping them together and start recording the next day, etc. Pretty crude by today's standards, but they served a purpose back in the sixties & seventies.

@tempestmkiv

Жыл бұрын

The ol' tatletale, goofy damn things!

@RealSteel319

Жыл бұрын

I heard some drivers call on my tattletale

@fuorisagoma

Жыл бұрын

In Europe it's still in use for trucks with more than 20 years old. As told there's a "pen" that writes on a special paper disc, but in Europe it doesn't record the rpm, only the speed and the driving hours. You cannot pass 9 hours driving per day with a stop of 1 h after 4h30, then 11 hours of nap

@ky.gambler5281

Жыл бұрын

@@fuorisagoma most trucks had 2 of them, tach and speed in my days..

That Ford was decked out ! The orange interior is the giveaway! Hope the next owner restores it!

You gotta love the old ford trucks they made some bloody nice rigs hi mark from Australia home your having a good day

the transmission was a Fuller Ultra Shift, it was actually a 9 speed transmission below the floor with no shift tower on it Mechanically it was the same but the computer shifted for you. You did have to press the clutch when coming to a stop and taking off. there is a video of @greg_a Peterbilt came with a ultrashift in it and they swapped it out with a 18 speed.

@justinakins3107

Жыл бұрын

Yea what i said sounds like my friends truck

@DieselDoc78

Жыл бұрын

Not to be a douche and split hairs, but it's an Autoshift. the Ultrashifts only had 2 pedals, whereas the Autoshifts had 3. There was an option Kenworth had, that included a console so to speak of that had a "cobrahead" (Eaton's words, not mine) shifter. Functioned the same as the keypad, but the lever moved and had the up/down buttons on the left thumb area. The fleet I used to mechanic for had a bunch, and I liked them, other than the XY shifters going bad on the Gen 2 trannies. For gen 3, they flipped the Y axis and got the electric motor away from the heat of the exhaust, and were pretty much trouble free.

@schoonymopar

Жыл бұрын

The school I attended to get my CDL used an later fld that had the same set. They used it to train new drivers for take off and stops as well as backing once you passed in that one you could move on to a full manual .

@andhotrodshop

Жыл бұрын

@@DieselDoc78 😂😂😂😂don't worry about it, I aint got time to worry about arguing over an automatic🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

@isaakwilson2727

Жыл бұрын

I have done so many clutch’s in the ultra shifts. What happens is the guys start off and second fully loaded and then burn the clutches out my advice is don’t buy an Eaton ultra or auto shift.

The early “automated” transmissions still had the clutch for starting and stopping, but shifted themselves.

@Mathewwoods178

Жыл бұрын

They still do

@weaselman24

Жыл бұрын

@@Mathewwoods178 current Eaton Fullers don't. I've got a clutchless behind my x15. I hate it but I didn't get a say.

@weirdfan88

Жыл бұрын

Drove an old international that had one and it was awful.

@ky.gambler5281

Жыл бұрын

Even earlier they had one that would auto shift the last two gears as in a 10 speed the stick stopped at 9 and the computer gave you the 10th. Hence most of the time you didn't have to downshift on slight grades.

@ED-jf6mb

Жыл бұрын

Those first autoshifts were absolute trash

Good old "Tachograph", it took a round carbon paper disc which two needles sat on and scratched out the engine rpm, and the speedometer speed onto the disc which was driven around by a clock work motor drive, from that you could tell the travelled distance, speed and gear range and time driven by looking at the chart and comparing it to a map route. D.O.T. loved these for checking on brake check stops and rest periods. Many times you would find the charts laying on the side of the road after and accident, almost unreadable because the driver removed the chart and stepped on it like a cigarette butt to make it unreadable by enforcement staff. Mechanics loved them because it showed if a guy was "hot dogging" the truck, over revving or speed shifting. Most of the time the key was removed before a trip by management once a new chart disc was installed so the driver couldn't get into it to change the disc. Old boys would drive a set "shuttle route" and have a spare disc or two and swapped out the disc for a "preused" disc with a "clean run" etched into the chart when they parked and take the new disc with them for "later use"..lol You could say this was the true precursor to G.P.S. tracking, guys who analyzed these could tell you almost exactly where the truck was at any given time from the chart disc and a map. Amazing old tech that was hard to defeat in the day.. Thanks for the video Mark stay safe & Cheers!

@gregoryj.m.8985

Жыл бұрын

The old tachographs we used had a razor in the housing that would put a tiny cut in the edge of the disc when it was put into the tachograph at the beginning of a drivers shift....it kept everyone honest in case someone had a duplicate key.They had tachograph magnifying scopes in the office in which to study the disc charts, and they used them regularly.

Peg would LOVE that old Fird!

That Needle Nose KW would look perfect at your place Mark! 😍

Mark, the title gave it away. I've been looking for a LTL9000 with a factory sleeper on it. I can't seem to find one. Looks like I might have to make a trip to Canada to find one. That would be a real sharp looking truck fixed up!

The Ford CL-9000 (COE) and LTL-9000 were Ford's last entry into the class 8 truck field. They were definitely the best of the Ford breed, well built, well designed and well styled. Ford used a lot of steel in their cabs as opposed to fiberglass and aluminum. They were sturdy, but steel rusts. Gotta agree on the woes of the trucking industry. It used to be a vocation in which one could earn a good living without having a college degree, and be quite independent. But from what I understand, it's becoming a hard job, working for the big shipping companies, and for not a lot of money. The days of the independent trucker, driving his customized home on wheels, is pretty much over.

@brianburns7211

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t they restyle the Aeromax / Louisville shortly before they sold heavy truck to Freightshaker/Benz?

@orlandomoreno5326

Жыл бұрын

Therez still some of us doing it the old school way. They cant shut down the Owner Op's even if they wanted. We make up 95% of the industry

That Ford LTL9000 is cool & the 1964 Needle nose Kenworth is so sweet.

Hi Mark, The Cummins in the KW looks like an NHK 220, this is the same engine as in my 1973 Foden S80, currently under restoration. Built at Darlington in the North East of England, these were the small cam 743 cu in (12.17 Litre engines) The Darlington plant is still woroking today.

Would love to see really any sort of a Ford get restored here! Especially that LTL9000!

I'd love to have that LTL9000, or even better would be a CLT9000 cabover with the 110" cab. I'm a Ford guy anyway, but just saying those were the best looking, most modern looking trucks on the road back in the day. And yeah, I was blown away the first time I saw one of those automated manuals. Had a lever rather than buttons, but still had a clutch pedal. I swore I'd never drive an automatic class 8 truck, and a 13 speed Eaton will always be my favorite. Have to admit though, now that I'm doing local, the i-Shift in the Volvo is nice to have in traffic. And hell, bobtailing I can keep up with traffic. It starts out in 5th and then will skip gears. Kind of freaks people out that a big truck can launch from a traffic light and keep up with them.

I love these trucks

Some of the first automatics were actually computer automated manuals. You had to use the clutch to put in gear and to take off. It was very possible to stall and when it broke, you had to crawl it back to the yard.

20:35 "Want a beer ray?" 😂😂

The Tachograph took a round sort of paper disk and recorded the RPM and that served as your log instead of a log book, you still had to wright on it where you stopped and that sort of thing, depending on the company you worked for, I used one when I was delivering Gasoline in a tanker

My first 'hood' was a 1987 Ford 9grand. 400Cummins Big Cam motor with a 10speed and 3:70 rears. It had a fairly large aerodyne sleeper on it. It was special ordered at a Ford auto dealership where the owner's son was a friend. He called me one day, yelling Help, Help!! So I went down there and traded in my 1983 International cabover. Had that rascal a tad over two years and 250thousand miles and not one problem. Traded it in at the big midwest truck show at Louisville for a new 1990 much customized Freightliner conventional.

I found an 87 LTL a couple years ago I use as a dump truck. Probably my most prized possession and never want to part with it. Big cam 400 Cummins....old school! You should make that your next project!

Hellow mark I drive a truck and watch your videos yes iam down in Tennessee

We were a MC between 2007-2011. Best part-time job ever! The brokers ate all the profits that were needed to continue operating and when fuel hit $5 per gallon, no one seemed to understand what a fuel surcharge meant. I would rather drive home empty before hauling a load that paid less than my cost to operate the truck.

Sweet truck that Ford.,,, please restore that old queen

The old LTLs were ahead of their time imo, the interior was much sportier than anything else back then

The old N/A Cummins had a good bark to them. Ran a 72 Autocar with a 220 "slightly" turned up. Screamer!

How you doing mark good to see you again buddy good luck

Like that 9000 buddy

Oh man I was hoping you'd by the ford, and the old needle nose next to it. Love the on the hunt episode's.

My first truck was an LTL9000 with a Western Star bunk on it. 350 Cat,13spd ,244inch and drove it dedicated local for a year and made good money and little downtime. The cab leaked air on a windy day so bad you might as well leave the door open. That soft spot on the cab has friends.

I am from 🇦🇬 grew up around heavy duty equipment since I was in pampers !love your channel dude.

I'm trying so much n so hard to finde a second hand one for long I'm keeping on asking so many people in the USA but no one wud halp me til today.i keep on watching ur videos I love it n I respect u alot for ur hard work keep on moving brother good bless u

Listen here.....I grew up in a 9000 late 80s - mid 90s. 350hp 3406. My dad hauled milk. Tough job back roads of maine in the wintertime. It would absolutely make my day if you redid one.

love the old Ford those were sweet truck back in the day 🤘😎

Just got back from a trip across the USA in a four wheeler. Coming back on I-80, you sure wouldn't think there was a driver shortage.

Love the Old LTL9000.

That was fun to 👀 the different 🚚's. Thanks, keep up the gr8 work.

love that ol' kenworth

Nice.truck

My dad had a ford ltl with a 60 in stand up bunk growing up amongst his kw cabover’s loved that truck!

Ltls are one of the coolest trucks built

I would love to see an LTL build from you. I love them trucks.

Had and 88 ford for 18 years never let me down

The fld 1st gen auto shift for taking off and backing up which was a better design I thought 👍👍👍

I drove a 78 LTL 9000 444 big cam cummins twin compound “ air research” turbos. 18 speed eaton. 4.10 Rockwell rears custom Mack camel back springs for heavy hauling! Mainly I bulled a coal wagon up in Northern West Virginia.. I retired in 2008.. the old girl is still on the road!

My parents had a LTL 9000 aerodyne when I was a kid. I was so hoping you would buy that and restore it. I love those old ford's.

that ford sold for just 8000?????? you should’ve bought it man…it’s a steal!!!!! i really like the styling on the older fords👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

That needle nose was minty!!

That last rig would be perfect for hosting Friends of the Road.

That’s so cool!

Some cool old iron there, enjoyed this On the Hunt even know I've watched it on Patreon already. Keep up the great work Mark and can't wait to see what next on Patreon and Snowman.

hi and thanks for your great show from the good old uk use to be a trucker thanks again keep up the good work

I LOVE IT !!!

Waving that hand from Dallas Tx....30yrs and almost 4 million miles. I'm only 52...But the ride is almost over. Ain't what it once was...8yrs to go and I'm out..if I'm lucky !!

Now that would look gr8 in your stable

In regards to the clutch pedal on the FLD, an Auto shift has a clutch pedal to start out with so you come to a stop sign you have to push it in, the Ultra shift has no pedal.

Beautiful trucks,thank you for the video.

If I'm not mistaken the reason that blue freightliner had a clutch pedal but an automatic shifter is because it's an early automated manual that requires the driver to still use the clutch pedal for starting the truck and stopping.

i really love your show thanks for sharing god bless u

Omg, I was truly awaiting 2 see that part done

For the freightliner FLD120sd, the clutch pedal on automatic that you found weird is probably actually one of the models that nobody really heard about. It's an automatic but you have to clutch in to put it in first and start going. Some company made those for some years and suddenly stop doing them. I don't know why, but they where pretty cool.

Awesome Ford! Love those trucks.

TY for the nice video.

15:50. I have driven quite a few trucks and the beige International Eagle interior shown here is, hands down, the nicest interior of any truck I have ever driven. It is the only interior I would want in a truck if I ever went back to OTR work. It was always nice to wake up in a nice bright interior, instead of these dreary charcoal/grey/blue interiors of other brands.

Thanks for sharing

What a fun On The Hunt! You found some real gems this trip. Although I never considered myself a Ford nut, those LTLs and CL9000 cabovers when dressed up sure looked cool. Curious what it would’ve been like to cross the country in one considering the cab wasn’t much bigger than an F150…

Omg how awesome

Hello I like what your teaching keep pressing forward.

Just wanted to say hi mark ,I enjoy your videos and can’t wait to see snowman finished your going an awesome job

You know what's my dream truck, a Hayes to participate in the Lesco show.

Love an LTL

Hello jeff I love your channel because it reminds me of when my dad and I used to work on trucks and go looking for parts for them..

those NA cummins sound wicked with a straight pipe

Twin sticks i think you should take on the challenge of restoring L 9000 one day we need it little by little many of us enjoy watching your videos from that long time with the pete so purchase one and put it down for a future project come on back

Great guy love the videos 👍

I was pumped thinking we were looking at the next project truck.. the fords are pretty cool.

I Love the look of those old square nose Fords. Would love too own and restore one some day

When I started driving in ‘89 everyone had those ratty 9000’s from the mid 70’s. Thats what I learned on, Cat 3208 naturally aspirated with a 5 &4. Gutless !! The Cummins powered trucks had the engine mounted on a slant towards the drivers side. I hated those damn trucks. Couldn’t wait to drive anything but a Ford. Last one I drove looked like that one, with square headlights. Had a Cat I believe, and a 5&4 double over. ( the last 2 gears on the main trans H pattern are reversed)

I am enjoying this episode . Love those old fords . Drove a few in my time my favorite was LTL 9000 425 kitty cat 13 speed pulling a LoBoy trailer. Lots of power

That LTL definitely had possibilities and it went for a good price. and that old KW was amazing, it's hard to find ones that are that complete. it still had the Sangamo tachograph, I haven't seen one those in a really long time. it looked like possibly a 290 Cummins, that was long before the formula and NTC engines. and it twin straights on it I'll bet that thing was noisy. and that Freightliner with the automatic, I'm guessing that a person used the clutch to start from a standing stop. that Peterbilt with the bull bumper on it was a 359. all the extended hood Peterbilt's are 379s. I didn't like the steering wheel on that particular one. some of those old cornbinders weren't such bad trucks. I drove an LTL 9000 for an Asphalt Paving company, it was a heavy hauler dump and pup with a three axle trailer and a drop axle on the tractor. it had a 3406B with an eighteen speed transmission. it was a runner it could easily run right along with any other truck out there. it was one of the best trucks I have ever driven.

LOVEEE that LTL 9... bad ass truck!

That LTL 😍😍😍😍

Love your videos!

Hi Mark Loving the video's on your trials and tribulations on restoration of the big girls, the Pete is brilliant, the Kenny is looking cool, plus waiting to see what happens to the cab over. All the best from Philip Burrows in Overton on Dee, Wrexham, Wales, UK.

that was a super good deal

I really enjoy watching your channel I was a driver for 25 years and I drove each one of the trucks your restoring I just love the big rigs. Keep up the great work 👍

Love that Ford

Great Video the LTL and Ol'Kenny were super and yeah for space you can't touch a Western Star inside super roomier especially on a long haul.

I drove L-8000s way back when. City tractors; still a favorite. Cat eight cylinder engines.

I learned to drive in an 86 ltl 9000 big cam 400 with a 13 in 1992. Good times thanks for sharing!!

love the ltl9000's

Mark, really enjoy these videos where you check out the different truck models and comment on the good and not so good features of the trucks.

I'm quite glad for modern creature comforts in the newer trucks :D

The truck I learned to drive on. My dad had one with a 400 big cam 3 and a 13 speed.. fond memories for sure