Look at all the variety, even among fleet trucks. Back in the day, everyone had unique and memorable liveries. The trucking industry in general has lost its pride, and this video is the perfect look into the twilight of trucking as so many knew it.

This footage is gold jerry….,gold!

I wish we could go back to this 😕 so many cab overs and real, gritty trucks. Back when the most aero-dynamic truck was a T600 and that was it

You know it's the 90s when half the trucks are cabovers and diesel's just over a $1/gallon.

How pointless this video may have seemed when it was being filmed...but now it's a real step back in time.

@kp__truckin

2 жыл бұрын

Real history right here✌🏻🤙🏻

Smoke,sound,variety of real trucks,and not a single Cascadia! I Miss those days!

Great video fuel islands are empty people parked there trucks to go inside cat scale is not blocked and the parking lot has almost no trash in it those were the days

This is CLASSIC!!! I graduated high school that year. I’ve been riding in trucks since I was a baby. My dad dove a COE K100 flat top spring ride back in the day. Still have pics of it. Awesome

The begining of an end to an era.loved the footage thanks.

The days with no DeF and emissions lol

@BrandonBalderas

2 жыл бұрын

And all the smog you could eat lol

@bradjames6748

2 жыл бұрын

The Days with parking spaces and drivers who could park in them......

@dianneestell6554

2 жыл бұрын

And the driver stuck together and looked out for each other and had less accidents and them days

@dianneestell6554

2 жыл бұрын

And 1990 I graduated from custom diesel School I remember my husband went and got one of them cabovers and I hated it had to climb over the dog house but those days were the good old days had good dependable drivers that wasn't running into everything everybody got along had the CB on and let other drivers knew what was going on up the head looked out for each other had good parking had good food those were the good old days

@ThunderingDiesel

2 жыл бұрын

@@dianneestell6554 did truck stops smell like piss back then ?

Those were the days my friend we thought they would never end.Had my 359 exhd 3408. 6/4 Flat top.

@lukusgray1031

2 жыл бұрын

3408 with 6&4 truly old school! Corvette dash as well?

I was 23 when this was filmed, had been running 48 states for 4 years at this point.

I was driving a Kenworth cabover in those days. It was the beginning of the end for them and the trucking culture.

My back still remembers them spring suspension short wheel based cabovers I drove when I first entered the business back in the mid eighties. And all the crappy sections of interstate 80 with the frost heaves and damaged roads before they finally fixed them. My main thoughts in them days was got to get a hood out front and a longer wheelbase.

This Pilot Travel Center is located in Troutsville, Virginia..not Oregon. It is now a One9 Fuel Stop. The TA has been demolished.

@whatthehellol1610

2 ай бұрын

It's not Virginia.

@PeterGriswald

Ай бұрын

@@whatthehellol1610 You are wrong man! I used to go to this truck Stop all the time back in the 80's and 90's. It IS Virginia and that's I-81 in the background. And as a retired hand with 41 years OTR, I can tell you without doubt that NOWHWERE in Oregon has geography or topography like that!! None of the trees in this video are from Oregon as well. And maybe you'd like to explain this one as well. The road sign @ 4:01 reads Clifton Forge on it. Perhaps you can explain where Clifton Forge is in Oregon?

Started in 92, didnt get my own til 99. Hell out there now. Love me some cabovers! Thanx for this.

these were good days for trucking! fun and profitable

Great memories. Almost brought a tear to my eyes.

Cool video! Cabovers, diesel smoke trailing in the wind, cop car with a single bubble gum machine on the roof, soot stains on the trailer noses and drivers that were respected. So much has changed, most of it for the worse.

Cool video. Many fallen flag trucking companies in this video. It's amazing how much has changed since 1993.

@Montoya1991

2 жыл бұрын

Try since 2010 when most regulations started

@scudfarcus4343

2 жыл бұрын

@@Montoya1991 what regulations started in 2010? The trucking industry was deregulated in the 80s and early 90s.

@Montoya1991

2 жыл бұрын

@@scudfarcus4343 that was about the rate of pay for carriers from shippers after the fuel crisis which the contracts that were already set in place couldnt go up as fast as fuel prices did which is why we have to deal with broker thieves now days, im talking about the e logs/csa/insurance chokehold in truvking all thanks to obama except e logs of course. Mega carriers have been pushing those to get rid of the smaller carriers

@Chino-qm2kf

Жыл бұрын

​@@Montoya1991 ... Elogs were enforced under Trump. Remember he crawled up into a old dominion truck and acted like he was driving it like a R E T A R D?

@PeterGriswald

Ай бұрын

And ALL for the worse hand. smh

Awesome that is some great memories there. And all those cabovers don't see them anymore. Pilot fuel price $1.09 nice.

Thank you for sharing this. I started driving in 1991 For MNX and you got some good shots of some. Great memories.

@dianneestell6554

2 жыл бұрын

Those for the good old trucking days I started out at 1990 of March I'm retired now it's 73

@theoneandonlyboatcaptain7574

Жыл бұрын

My grandpa drove for MNX

Love the t600s

@aarongray1981

2 жыл бұрын

Always loved the t600s

Ah yes back in the good old days when all truckers had CB radios, trucks didn’t shift themselves and truckers were shown more respect, a lot of us old schoolers still have CB radios in our rigs in fact i have four in mine, Connex and Galaxy baby 😎

@kolian78

2 жыл бұрын

It looks like you're still stuck in those times. Times change, people changed,technology's changed, look around its 2022 outside, and what's the point with your 4 cb radios, you know they have them devices called smartphones with aps they say, quit the winning

@PeterGriswald

Ай бұрын

@@kolian78 Go back to Pakistan and drive! Allah awaits you!

They sound like real trucks and drivers had to shift them, the good Ole days

What I wouldn't have given to be old enough to be out there driving back then. I was born in March of 93.

This was the old TA in Roanoke, Virginia.

@mtcarrollrobb9942

2 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say. There's no hills like that in Florida. ;)

@jameswagoner3309

2 жыл бұрын

Richmond Hill, Florida

@biggevill1

2 жыл бұрын

@@jameswagoner3309 it’s definitely the old TA in Roanoke, Virginia. Look at the Pilot and the truck wash across the street.

@jameswagoner3309

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I didn't notice the mountains when I watched it the first time.

@362mg

2 жыл бұрын

Says its in Oregon in the title

113 a gallon for diesel... and it's definately exit 150, I-81 Troutville, Daleville Va... they had a pretty good steak sandwich in there...

@PeterGriswald

Ай бұрын

Damn! Someone else remembers that as well! lol

Wow! Thank you! Puts a lot of things in perspective.

Life was beautiful back then .

Brings back memories - I drove for a few years in the mid 1990's, started in September '93. Ran mostly the northeast with some trips south of the Mason-Dixon line, I remember seeing amany of those carrier's names on the Interstates.

@shogunatepena5302

2 жыл бұрын

Would you see a lot of truck drivers hanging out and chatting in the parking lot like in this vid? You don't see much of that anymore.

@foliveira8043

3 ай бұрын

​@@shogunatepena5302It must be because at that time there were no smartphones and chat apps with unlimited internet.

Awesome....back when Cabovers were very common

1993, good ol'days!

It's weird to think that a lot of the drivers in this video are now dead or retired. These must have been the days driving trucks for real!

@DaOldSchoolRapLova96

Жыл бұрын

I was literally just thinking that

Its good people took the time to video stuff like this. Fun watching the trucks. Yes a time when there were still CAT engines being made, no DEF or regen junk. Also no aerodynamic looking rigs other than the T600.

@aarongray1981

2 жыл бұрын

The freightliner FLD was somewhat aerodynamic

Back when a daycab driver could work 3 days a week (45 hrs) and make a good living.

i build wooden truck model replicas so i love your videos thanks for the inspiration

I remember doing this myself. I graduated high school in 91 and got my cdl in 95.

Look at all the cabovers!

@kp__truckin

2 жыл бұрын

And no sandal track pant wearin Fuckin clown wanna be drivers 🤣🤣🤣✌🏻🤙🏻

I would kill to live during this time and be a drive semis or even catch them, they seem so simple and nostalgic, no laws, no anything, just real trucks and real drivers hard at work

@natepisme

Жыл бұрын

And a lot of drugs. Which is why we are regulated like we are now.

@allrightsreserved3237

11 ай бұрын

I think you have the wrong idea… there were Laws, many of them as a matter of fact, 55 was the speed limit in ALL states and the highways were crap!!! There was a rhythm that’d last for days from the tires dropping off one slab of concrete to the next “thrum thump, thump thump, thump thump” all day long!!! The radios sounded like crap in those days so most of the time was spent causing trouble on the cb. But we knew where every bear was for hundreds of miles!!! Oh.. one more thing.. you were more likely to have standard steering than power steering. No gps, no cellphones. But truck stop food was still good!!! Truck stops were smoky loud places where truckers would be exchanging jokes and the laughter would fill the building.

@ricochetey

Ай бұрын

​@allrightsreserved3237 You have some good insight driver. Honestly as a a feller driving going on 5yrs now I'd take that in a heartbeat. I realized the other day sometimes I got days without interacting with anyone even at truck stops. Between cell phones and dead silent cb then you have trucks with over 100 computer control modules safety sensors and cameras I would happily go back to the sweet smell of diesel and truck stop laughter

Not a single flip flop, Pajama wearing person on site.

@kp__truckin

2 жыл бұрын

💯🤣🤣🤣facts

This truck stop is not in Oregon it's in Virginia on I 81

All those drivers talking to each other outside was great. Look at how wide the fuel lanes were. No trash on the ground. Black smoke, soot on trailers. No automatics. All guys in jeans mostly. Would of been neat to hear some of the conversations. My father was a truck driver at different stages in each decade from the 1980's through the 2000's. I got to enjoy riding in Mack cabovers and superliners, Freightliner FLD'S, early volvo aero trucks with cat motors, but not peterbilts, dad never drove one or bought one, so that's was on me at some point, which i did do. I'm glad i got to work for a company in the 2010's that had some 379's and got to experience that for myself. I had no idea when I entered the trucking industry in 2012 that, def that ruined the on highway truck engine market and that cat was gone. Then the epa ruined the glider market. Here now in 2024 I do it for a hobby, farm cdl 7 months out of the year. I run hard at times, which justifies my five months off. Still in a 379 flattop, 2004 model. Miss this recorded era, thank you.

The times when there wasn’t any Def or emissions, I wished I lived during that time, but my dad did, had a kenworth then later on Peterbilts

They plowed this truck stop to the ground been driving long enough to remmeber it and that right turn coming out you had to stay hard right to get the 81 excellent time capture

@kennethschultz4979

2 жыл бұрын

When it was a ta there was a pool in the back and I would go swimming when I was a kid on the road with my dad.

@MajesticRidez

2 жыл бұрын

@@kennethschultz4979 that was a long tome ago but I was young enough and now old enough to remmeber that

I live down the street from here. Its crazy how this area changed in the years. Pilot not there anymore. A freeway was built over them. The TA is still there. The truck wash is now a lovs and no truck wash is there. Its also packed with cheap motels, drug addicts, theft, lot lizards and all kinds of homeless in the area.

@retail.kid95

2 жыл бұрын

Is this in Wasco? If so the Pilot is still there and has been remodeled. The TA is now gone.

@matthewneyens6499

2 жыл бұрын

Where is this, it looks familiar from some angles but not from others. I run I-5 between Northern WA and Southern CA every week but can't place where this one is. Its not Troutdale is it?

@bootchop88

2 жыл бұрын

welcome to the shittiest and dumbest state in the union.

@benjaminacosta2582

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewneyens6499 yea! troutdale, Roanoke area, this is the old T/A,is no longer exist! Pilot is in front of this! now,in the angle of this footage is an empty field.

Love the old trucks!

Looks like the Roanoke Virginia area before they tore down the TA.

@benjaminacosta2582

2 жыл бұрын

yes! they are!

93 I was a year in, driving a scabover for Burlington motor freight outta Indiana. No to worry though… within a year I found out how much better it was to have a hood over at Direct Transport.

When trucks were trucks, wish I was born in the old school truckin days

1993 I was running for PST and that looks like the old JUBITS!

Great trucks

Look at all the COE (Cab Over Engine) trucks! I sure do miss 'em!

Musta been a huge camcorder lol, but the trucks are awesome

This is precious and poignant! You can see the genesis of the trucks of today but the trucks of yesterday are still plentiful. So many cabovers too! Different shapes and combinations... now they all look the same, bland and emasculated. I was thinking about the ability of the drivers and then the lilac 359 Pete comes in in the wrong gear and baulks at the turnoff, poor man.

I sure miss those days

The good old days with them nice engine 3406 cat n14 60 series ism no bs emission crap👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

This is awesome footage and definitely not Florida 😂. At first I thought it might be Wytheville Virginia a town with massive truck stops I’ve been through a million times going back and forth to Ohio. I miss all the cabovers they were certainly abundant in 1993!

@mattarrowwood6047

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Whites for a second...lol

I-81 exit 150. Troutsville Va and that TA is now just an empty lot.

@elchicanotrucks

2 жыл бұрын

How is it on VA when it clearly said on the video it’s Oregón lol

@ericcapek3805

2 жыл бұрын

@@elchicanotrucks the title is wrong, I thought so too until I watched a little more of the video, it’s definitely taken from Rt. 11, just off exit 150 “Daleville” on I-81, a few miles north of Roanoke. My first driving job was about a mile away at Lawrence. The Pilot is still there, although I think it has been rebranded now, the truck wash is closed down and has been for some time. The T/A is long gone too.

@mattarrowwood6047

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericcapek3805 damn really

@jimburdin

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericcapek3805 and that T/A used to be a Union 76 truckstop before that

@retail.kid95

2 жыл бұрын

Comparing imagery from Wasco and Huntington, Oregon as well as Troutsville..it was definitely filmed in Virginia.

Viaje en el tiempo, saludos desde el Puerto de Veracruz México

Back in the good old days, I was one year old in 93 😊

2003-2005 was that last 90s feel era and by 2008 it was a completely different time already

@ChromeChildren12

6 ай бұрын

Steven’s transport still had those t600 on the road at the time frame you mentioned

Beautiful

Wow!!amazing

That is not Florida. I've never seen mountains in Florida.

@mandysimmons2769

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I dunno Howie in the Hills is kinda mountainy. LOL.

@robo6984

2 жыл бұрын

hey don't forget Mt. Dora...for sure not Florida truck stop

Forgot about my AGE! 7I! Got a GREAT RETIREMENT and BENEFITS! Retired in 2OO9!

Looks Like the The TA In Roanoke, VA

@benjaminacosta2582

2 жыл бұрын

they are!

I'd give almost anything to drive back then. I can't even express the joy I get from watching this! Real trucks, real drivers, and look at all those cabovers! What a time. Now our bitch governor is wanted all electric and low emissions trucks on the roads, basically following the same path as California, and screwing over small companies.

@bradjames6748

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know your governor from a hole in the wall but how do you think your mother would feel hearing you talk about a lady that way??? I'm sure that she'd expect better manners from her son who she raised to be a gentleman regardless of his politics

@plumbingstuffinoregon2471

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradjames6748 My mom is the exact reason I talk like that. She's worse than me!

@dianneestell6554

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I started out driving in 1990 if March those were the good old days where the driver stuck together was there to help each other out if we needed it much safer drivers out on the road less accidents good old days and I drove one of those cabovers 73 years old and retired now

@natepisme

Жыл бұрын

These are the meth smoking drivers that gave us ELD's and drug tests. It's nice to put a face to the regulations we have now.

@natepisme

Жыл бұрын

@@dianneestell6554 much safer? If they where so safe then we wouldn't be where we are now with regulations.

Where was this? Some of it looks like Wytheville VA

The days you could see a sawed off pete on a regular basis

Back then when trucks 🚚 sounds awesome nowadays trucks quiet as a prius.

Once I've seen those two Maroon colored Millis Transfer KWT600's I knew for sure this was Virginia and not Oregon lol. This whole video is history! Much love to who have filmed this.

Awesome

back when trucks where trucks and we didnt have aerodynamic looking trucks

@Locutus

3 жыл бұрын

Were, not where.

I don't see any log trucks, or chip trucks. Probably not Oregon.

@benjaminacosta2582

2 жыл бұрын

A Roanoke old T/A, now is demolished....

No flip flop wearing drivers or automatic transmissions in trucks, the 1990's were great.

Just a beautiful day without a single Swift driver in sight

@kp__truckin

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no there was a swifty swift there 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣🤣

@sopamarucha2388

2 жыл бұрын

@@kp__truckin 🙄🙄😥

@renaldojason

2 жыл бұрын

2:52

The good years were back much further than the 1990's. I started to drive in 1990 and two years later we gave up $28.00 commercial driver's licenses, and paid three times that to gain a "CDL". Shortly after many companies went to Elog, Qaulcom, yada yada. Like much of everything else the failures were orchestrated by sinister people way behind the scenes, that desired to destroy our economy and whatever else was in their paths. FYI the cabover was not desired nor glorified, they were driven becuase thats all the big companies would afford. Now their nostalgic.

Definitely not Oregon. This was the TA that used to be in Troutville, Virginia. It was demolished a few years ago.

Keep watching because they are great videos but also wanting to see if by some miracle my truck would appear in one of these videos

I graduated highschool in 1992. Life was so much better then. Enter March 2020 and life has been horrible with government shutting us down to live free.

I remember it well 24 years old at the time

I’m pretty sure this is a TA in troutville Virginia which is now closed. The pilot is still there but rebranded as a one9

Did anyone notice diesel was $1.09 and gas was $.97 a gallon at that Pilot? There’s absolutely no reason it can’t be that same price today in 2024. Absolutely no reason at all.

ahhh i remember those days. back when you had to leave your house to buy toilet paper.

Gotta say I still hate those set back axle cabovers. Even in today's day and age Also notice trucks from the 70s and earlier 80s were mostly gone at this point. Nowadays people run trucks over 20 years old.

@thebandit979

2 жыл бұрын

I still see plenty of 80s model trucks where I live

That trk stop was in Roanoke Virginia

Oh wow a TA truck stop during the 90s

Look at those fuel prices and pretty rigs! Brings back good memories. How many of these fellas do you supposed stopped to use the pay pbone or send a postcard

@redneckguy2169

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I hear ya. Lots of places had phones right at the tables for drivers.

You got to give it up to the Japanese tourist thanks for the video I bet that camcorder cost a pretty penny back then.

Lot lizards were only a $1.25 back then...

That’s when trucks were trucks love the old days

man I miss those days people were nicer you could run when you wanted to run park when you wanted to park and plenty of parking

NO 53 FOOTERS?

@dallascowboysnumberonefan4863

3 жыл бұрын

Some were,u can tell by the length,and some were shorter obviously,but they just didn't have the '53 or '48 painted on the trailers back then.

It was nothing to see a cabover back then. They were still here, there and everywhere.

Those American cabovers. I remember them.

I drove a lot of miles in a cabover

Lots of cabovers.

Hmm! #keepontruckin 😉👍🏼

Wrong state but love the video