Great, great, great! Love this era of trucks. I will have to watch this a few more times and pause it to check out each truck in detail. It is neat to see what drivers did to customize their rigs back then.

Anything before 1991(D.O.B.) I really don't have a good memory of,but I love seeing these old trucks.They are the rolling museums of yesteryear of what America once stood for,reliability,durability,and built to last.I was told that there was great trucking unions way back then,but now days it's like your on your own.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

I was a union driver for a non trucking company with their own fleet. After 30 years we were replaced by non union little boys who didn't know crap about trucking. Aftr that, trucking and safety went to hell.

I could look at these old trucks for hours.

3o years of diesel trucking, this is the only way i can truck now --Thanks. KEEP ON TRUCKING!

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

If I could climb in a cabover I'd have to live in it. My hip doctor told me roofers and truckers get the most new hips and knees. Maybe I shouldn't jumped out of those trailers and used the steps on the tractor!

My daddy worked on trucks from this era, ohh the memories!

@stanisavzarembs3479

5 жыл бұрын

Какие машины ,какие красавцы !!! Viva USA!!!! Вы лучшие!!!

Excellent,,,But nothing like the sight of the ..Navajo..on rout 66 through New Mexico and Arizona...with ...twin pipes blowing black smoke

When I drove the driving was the hard part.....now it's trying to obey the million laws they change every day.

Yup those were the days of driving 2 windows down, if you're lucky 55 miles an hour & 2 sticks and manual steering and a 8 track and Johnny Cash. that was trucking. 💪

Back when we had Armstrong power steering

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

For this 180# trucker it wasn't easy in the middle of Illinois winters.

Saw a 65 Pete still hauling freight last night on I-70 in Colorado.

Awesome, those men had it hard back then, wooden seats, NO power steering, NO AC, etc! Heard stories from old timers, been a gear grinder since 1993...

@donaldbartram6315

8 жыл бұрын

Started back in 74 with a 67 DODGE CNT 900, 238 Detroit & 16 spd tranny. Drove Gimmy's, Dia-Reos, Brockways,B ,DM,& R model MACKS. A am/fm radio & A/C was runnin' high class back then. Just retired after 42 years.

@daveyboysheffield

7 жыл бұрын

Donald Bartram been there done that retired after 47 years.

@redtra236

6 жыл бұрын

I've driven some smaller trucks with no power steering(60's era pickups) but damn I can't even imagine trying to negotiate a parking lot at low speeds in a semi

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@redtra236 Drove from 1969- till middle of 1994. Steering and heat was fun, especially in midwestern winters.

My first truck was a 1973 GMC Astro cabover, then moved on to Freightliner conventionals 1982, 1987 and a 1988 with double walk in sleeper..

The old Jimmys were so bad ass !

I just remember that the company named momfort had it's own lane on the highway, they traveled so fast that you didn't dare get in front of them.

@oldmanfromoc7684

3 жыл бұрын

I heard they would pay speeding tickets? Charlie Bertolino had us a lawyer for a while! I had 30 speeding tickets in 3 years back in the 70s! I has rockets in my pockets!

@danieltorrens4954

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldmanfromoc7684 Some driver tried to give me some rockets but I knew what they were and didn't get involved with that, they make you a little crazy!

@oldmanfromoc7684

3 жыл бұрын

@@danieltorrens4954 No medicine is good medicine!

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

We called that the JB Hunt lane. Most had to drive 55 and stay alive.

Great pictures and the song was great

Love the old GMC trucks..

Thnx 4 sharing these cool ol trucks👍

Lindas e maravilhosas carretas do passado, sensacional!!!!

great collection..thanks

Great video, I notice a lot of the rigs back then all had driving lights, sure made a difference especially in the rain and snow.

1:11 would look awesome restored & with a custom sleeper. Beautiful old trucks.

i wish they still made these old trucks from back then i whould love to drive a kw w900a i love the old trucks too bad i never got to see one

I have to see this one now and then, it´s one off the best I ever seen!

Almost expectin Minnie Pearl to be standing on a runnin board somewhere in there. Nice ol trucks.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

She was singin a Teddy Bear song .

This one sent shivers down my spine.... =) Thanks buddy!!!

I do not think most of our modern truckers would fit in those old sleepers especially the crawl thru ones..The sleepers were a blessing over having to carry a piece of plywood to put across the two seats to sleep on or try and get comfy on the doghouse. My old C/O was nice wake up on a cold morning and I start the truck with out getting out of the bunk.

@cindytepper8878

5 жыл бұрын

Drivers didn't live in their trucks then. Everybody I knew would go out, and come back, if they were gone 4 or 5 days it was a long time. Maybe it was just because we lived near a large US Steel mill. Lots of guys ran local, and some maybe 600 miles at the most. And really the rates were good enough to deadhead home if you had to. A back-haul was a bonus, not a necessity

Nice trucks...GREAT song!

those old Montfort of Colorado paved the interstate from Denver to Chicago with all the speeding tickets they got ....lordy those trucks were fast......top pay too! 10 cnt a mile

@razzyd1237

5 жыл бұрын

Who can forget the Monfort Lane, those trucks were fast.

@donnebes9421

4 жыл бұрын

Razzy D123 pretty funny Montfort expected their drivers to get speeding tickets, or else you weren’t doing your job.

Very cool video. Some great trucks on show

Great video!

Beautiful vehicles!

I miss the old cabover semi trucks.

@ronmifsud6946

5 жыл бұрын

I missed the open road

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronmifsud6946 Me too! But in an anteater KW.

Awesome pix... Well done....

@rwb1955 Bob I love that KW!! There is a 69 Peterbilt down the road here for sale I think it would look sweet pulling a hopper bottom on the farm!

the 1952 I'H. cab overs were great I love cab overs better than any others

@johnlowe8418

7 жыл бұрын

Absolutly right. I have driven both, give me a long nose any day.

@brucethomas3100

6 жыл бұрын

MsJinkerson Oh Yeah, cabovers were great, especially in an accident, the driver behind the wheel was always the first on the scene. The driver in the bunk is generally the second to see the windshield as he/she goes through it.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

@@brucethomas3100 You're not supposed to have wreck.

I was a driver for 36 years , the hardest part about truck driving was learning how to stay awake while driving , and I never needed a rocket in my pocket

Back when trucks were real machines like the men who drove them now there all junk no matter what make

@certifieddirtyidle1594

6 жыл бұрын

Modern semi's look like a prius on steroids.

@chuckg2016

5 жыл бұрын

Great tribute!

Excellent stuff..

Nice old trucks. Bob Reimer drove many of these old trucks. He wrote The B Model Mack Song by THE COUNTRY TIGERS CANADA. Please check it out. He really liked the Macks but drove many others

@thomaskuzyk9802

6 жыл бұрын

ME AND MY RADIO KEEP ON TRUCKIN HOME by FLO AND CURLEY. DRIVE SAFE.

Great vid,good to see some of the old girls, :)

i love me some old Jimmys!

This makes my back hurt.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

Yea it did!

Love that Ringsby @ 0.37.

They even looked like TRUCKS back then.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

Now they are over sized Prius with a 5th wheel.

@sandsoftime1954

3 жыл бұрын

@@modeladenny1218 Funny stuff there, Denny

This is awesome

Real nice vid. I enjoyed it.

Must have been nice to have quality equipment and to not be constantly surveiled and tracked. Then get old and complain about how easy everyone else has it LOL.

@aircooledvw62

8 жыл бұрын

Children don't make policy. Its the older "safety/everyone's a winner generation that created this bullshit"

@josefastboats5874

3 жыл бұрын

john sample Not really.... It’s young stupid politicians who sit in an Office all day and haven’t done jack shit in their life’s grown up on mammy and pappys wealth that make up these laws. Real hard working politicians don’t make up these regulations. The EPA and Al Gore have ruined the Trucking Industry... Time to get them the hell out of our industry.

Glad you enjoyed the videos....

Some big gear there mate,nice..

I learned how to drive big rig in a bullnose mack it had a 5x4 trans a really Butt buster

thanks for posting

Very Very cool

I believe some of these classic trucks were pre-Jakebrake! Really cool vid!

Makes me want to drink a gallon of Joe and watch Cannonball!

0:27-0:30....old 1950's KW C.B.E. ....the true epitome of a bean-counter's truck. My understanding is that some Rocky Mtn.-based companies requested these, for maximum visibility and minimum weight. Drivers HATED them, companies couldn't get rid of the damn things due to noone wanting them..not too many of them left.

@americanpatriot3638

4 жыл бұрын

First thought it was an old yard dog...

my great uncle ran a variety of 60's & 70's trucks to haul fish at his wharf

50 GMC 650. 51 International live tandem kit . 5 on 4 Still going today on stock components, Except clutchpack, tires,generator,fluids,waterpump Edit...some dash wires and windshield wipers.

So damn Cool

Why do they let us save videos on playlists if we can't access them?

1:27, 1:34 some of my favorites!

Got to get a one stack mack with the window in the back lol

the truck (Pete) at 1:42 must have been great going west facing eastern an wind.

Man, trucks were smaller.

my father drove a auto carrier back and forth to Detroit from Winnipeg in the mid 1950's i cant remember for which outfit,but the truck was a gas job,horrendously short on power,we've come a long way since then

@JPCsTrucking thats a good looking truck.

A real piece of america

Add they where tough and friendly would wave to each other and gave the lights when you could pull back in.

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

Not the kids today. Too much pressure and not enough education.

what kind of diesels would these older trucks use? old detriots?

1st of all: WAY cool video! My dad was a trucker between the 40s-70s and he recognized a lot of those trucks! I'm actually looking for any International or Reo or GMC from 1953-1966 that has "Miss Doe" I-VII decaled on front hood. These were my dads trucks. Im searching for these to buy and give my dad as a gift. Any word or pictures would be helpful-we live in the midwest. Thanks Once again, COOL video!

Didn't some of these trucks try to run over Emilio Estevez in Maximum Overdrive? Sorry, these traucks are awesome. I'd love to have the ones in 1:00 and at 1:04.

@heatherrose2006 ..the old small cam 335 was a rocket ready to explode..it had a short life span..rarely did one make it over 100.000 miles in the rockies....thay ran good when they ran but were a maintenance nightmare..were hard on rod bearings and head gaskets...Cummins was pushing hard to get them out of their system..

Great photos but please get rid of the “fancy” transitions between shots. The crazy-busy transitions are super hard on the eyes and very distracting. They don’t add anything. The photos stand on their own.

1:43 that would be so funn!

HELL YEA!!!!!!!!!

Remember when trucks used to have several different license plates on them?

@amannybon

5 жыл бұрын

Or the "Bingo" Stamps plates.

Nice collection! What's the song?

I believe it's a Peterbilt.

O.M.G. NEED MORE PICS AND VIDEOS PLEASE ????

Peterbilt model #451.Only 39 built for Ringsby in 1957.

"I got a rocket in my pocket and the fuse is lit." Just what are you saying?

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

If you don't know you shouldn't be on this channel.

The blue truck at 1:30. Can someone PLEASE tell what that is?! That's my favorite body style so far from all the other classic trucks. That's the best classic semi I've seen so far. Can some please tell me the year, make & model of that truck? Surely appreciate it.

@frankfrazierjr.3216

5 жыл бұрын

@Taylor Williams that's a High Binder. Cabover International.

@davidmorris6155

4 жыл бұрын

IHC Cabover type

@nikothecat9985

Жыл бұрын

Yes it’s a 1950s international COE RDC-405

yea i heard if the got a ticket for like 10 over they got fired, but like 20 up they just kept hammerin

the 1st one actually looks like an early 70s kenworth

1:44 them are some funny looking whats the thing on top for (storage or sleeper)

@mintyman1968

3 жыл бұрын

Above cab sleeper. White Freightliner actually came out with the first model that had one.

It must have been hard being a trucker back then!

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

Some of us lived past 82.

1:45 awesome cab

@oldcroneysgarage9739

5 жыл бұрын

Just thinkin of an over pass when I saw that thing

@americanpatriot3638

4 жыл бұрын

If you ran into something on the interstate it seems like that cab would just fling forward from all the extra weight up high...

International High binder. A guy thhat I know has a fully restored one. look at my walcott video from this year and you will see it....

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

Remember whe Little America in Wyoming was the largest truck stop? Both on I-80 Me and Pepperridge Farms remember! I've been to both.

they made them like that with a bunk up top and a ladder to get up there

My favorite was the l model at 1:55

what truck was the one in purple and black

@nikothecat9985

Жыл бұрын

1950s international COE RDC-405

Days of yore when one knew what make of vehicle they were driving and not just like a cookie cutter look alike.This was a time when each truck had its own personality and the old companies were special like RYDER, CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS, PIE, LIL AUDREYS, ST. JOHNSBURY, NAVAJO, GARRETT, etc.

back when trucks and everything else for that matter were built to last.

curious to know if any of these old trucks are still around pluggin around still ....

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

Might see a few at The Chrome Shop truck shows at Wildwood, Fl on I-75 or at Walcott, Ia on I-80.

Cool video.I miss the old cabovers.They seem to be a thing of the past.One sees very few C.O.E's here in No Cal anymore. Is that a Pete with the sleeper over the cab at 1:43?

@nikothecat9985

Жыл бұрын

I’m late but it’s a 1950s Peterbilt 451 Cabover

most of those sleepers were referred as the coffin. barely enough room to climb in no creature conforts

@jbbradley2063

7 жыл бұрын

they were coffin sleepers cause when running double if your partner wrecked while you were in the sleeper most likely you would be trapped and not get out alive

lol hell yeah lets do it

And 1970s.

what kind of diesels would these trucks use?

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

A smart man would have used a CAT.

No flip flop sissies back then

@modeladenny1218

3 жыл бұрын

Where are the tankie tops and flip flops?

ahh where's the old 1955 pete 281?