No ELD's, automatic transmissions, air conditioners, driver facing cameras, flip flops, piss bottles, boneheads - and it was GREAT!
@g41thomas Жыл бұрын
Forgot to mention ignorant peterbilt drivers & White Volvo mafias!
@pointingdog7235 Жыл бұрын
Yes the good old days.
@Vickvineager Жыл бұрын
And not a turban suburban in sight. Must’ve been good times.
@lucasw28803 жыл бұрын
Nice video but they didn't show you how to wear flip flops at the receivers, or block the fuel island at the truck stop......
@porkchop3593 жыл бұрын
😂ain't that the damn truth!!!
@darrenhollinger46293 жыл бұрын
Shut up stupid
@jimrossi7708 Жыл бұрын
To many bonehead truckers out there today, drove for 42 years and I always was courteous to other drivers because that’s what he where taught by mom and pop back in the day !
@RichardMartinke6rji Жыл бұрын
I did my 30 at the fuel island last night! So did 2 other drivers when they saw me doing it! Why? Because I could, it was 3 AM and wasn't busy. Then I delivered got unloaded then did my paperwork and a 10 hour right at the dock door! All cause I could! I don't wear flip flops though
@pointingdog7235 Жыл бұрын
That was a kinder gentler time in this great nation. When people went to work and dressed like they gave a shit.
@jay-rus44373 жыл бұрын
I can remember going out on the road with my dad when I was young. Seemed so early, and I would go straight to the sleeper. Always had a smell that a semi had. Oil...diesel...sweat. Lol Would wake up and feel like we were a world away. Truck stop food. Change of scenery. Loading and unloading. Good memories for a young boy
@rnreajr91843 жыл бұрын
Eight hours to go 200 miles... Maximum speed 45 MPH... The only creature comforts were a heater and roll-down windows... Amazing.
@francomtz71152 жыл бұрын
Some heaters could not keep you warm I wore insulated coveralls in the seventies
@pointingdog7235 Жыл бұрын
A heater when? If you are talking about the summer yes it had a heater. Even a AM radio If you were lucky.
@wildestcowboy2668 Жыл бұрын
And the bottle of pills under the seat. Papaw said he never did drugs like the rest but did drink ALOT of times missing home....
@392nightrunner Жыл бұрын
6hours to get through west Virginia fully loaded through the mountains
@alanhaynie2152 Жыл бұрын
I’ve been driving for almost 34 years now. I’ve seen it all at least three times. I’ve been around longer than the CDL license. Didn’t have to have one when I started. Use to if you happen to find yourself on the side of the road broke down. You could count on every hand that passed you to holler at you on the radio and ask if you needed any help. Some hands would even stop and check on you. Not anymore. Most of the new drivers don’t even have a radio in their trucks. Use to be a brotherhood, like family. Help each other out and never take a dime for it. Nothing ever stays the same but it was a lot better back when the world was a better place.
@stuartloggins3691 Жыл бұрын
A lot of those old trucks were still on the road when I started learning in 1972
@CEOkiller Жыл бұрын
They were made to last…
@Wilson632 Жыл бұрын
That truck fairy ride was hilarious$2 bucks to cross. The fairy used about $20 bucks worth of diesel.😄
@johndamron84943 жыл бұрын
This is the documentary the trucking companies need to show new drivers who are learning today. The tactics used today are ridiculous and out of touch with the reality.
@CEOkiller Жыл бұрын
Notice, kids, no flip flops…
@CynicallyObnoxious Жыл бұрын
@@CEOkiller things change Im sure the horse and buggy folks where made I dont understand the facination what someone is wearing on their feet its their feet gets crushed then who cares people dont even wear flannel anymore and belt buckles are you mad about that
@cobra32893 жыл бұрын
Fantastic film, thanks for sharing.
@williambrockjr27363 жыл бұрын
MY GRANDFATHER DROVE FOR REDBALL EXPRESS FOR SOME 40+ YEARS WITHOUT AC AND POWER STEARING. I REMBER HIM DRIVING OLD CAB OVERS.
@jennifercapps1053 жыл бұрын
@Hello William how are you doing
@retrobilly1986 Жыл бұрын
How was his back after driving those old jalopy
@Johnny-jr2lq3 жыл бұрын
All the responsibilities that of which still apply to this very day....... yet we are treated like bums now we are considered disposable. We are expected to drive and know what all the others on the road will do before they do it. And when you can’t foresee what the common commuter is going to do. You the commercial driver will be held responsible you will be put under a microscope even MORE then you already are. And you will be expected to do this for only 5 dollars more then a burger flipper at McDonald’s. Good luck and safe driving out there my fellow truckers I’ll say a prayer for all of you.
@jaminova_19693 жыл бұрын
The CA AG just announced a path for citizenship for "essential" workers who are "illegal" aliens. Why aren't those jobs going to actual legal citizens 1st? The one thing that keeps me from driving a truck is the fact that the state and federal government keep trying to undercut the Independents and US based trucking companies. Selling out American workers is not what government is supposed to do!
@Johnny-jr2lq3 жыл бұрын
@@jaminova_1969 this BS is going to come to a head the government is WAY over stepping there boundaries. The reason it’s going on now is because they infiltrated our school systems. The younger generation doesn’t actually know how free they really are.
@jaminova_19693 жыл бұрын
@@Johnny-jr2lq Whad u say bout the younger generation? Sorry, I had my earbuds in and wasn't listening to you.
@Johnny-jr2lq3 жыл бұрын
@@jaminova_1969 I use to be really tuff on the younger generation. Because that’s how I was treated by my elders till I realized. These youngsters didn’t get a fair chance they are taught to act this way. In school by fruit cake freaks people me and you run into and scratch our heads on how weird and in the men’s case weird & feeble. So that’s why I’m not to tuff on them anymore I try to speak some truth and reality to them. Technically it’s our fault we allowed such people to teach our youth
@jaminova_19693 жыл бұрын
@@Johnny-jr2lq Interesting perspective. I run into some younger people who are actually kinda of decent, but having witnessed recent "staged" events, I have to question why they don't "Get it".
@marks.c47533 жыл бұрын
Nobody wants to haul to California now. There's no freight out.
@daniel556453 жыл бұрын
Tons of freight coming out when you work LTL
@Vickvineager Жыл бұрын
Commiefornia can sink into the pacific for all we care.
@brandoncostanzo72143 жыл бұрын
As a modern day truck driver, I wish I was part of this era. Modern day trucking has become nothing more than corporate whoremongering.
@kevinwilliams5525 ай бұрын
I can remember some of those being so cold in the winter you kept insulated Carhartt bibs on i had a 359 that would freeze you out
@renoholland70903 жыл бұрын
When Sedona was a small settlement in a beautiful area. Now it is an overcrowded tourist trap.
@justina249 Жыл бұрын
California scale these days wouldnt just wave at you. These Days. Pull it in the barn
@scotthostetler88003 жыл бұрын
200hp engine..oh man I am spoiled with my 650hp 6NZ and A/C. I thought I was tough..
@AS-bp7mn3 жыл бұрын
What, no pajama pants and flip flops! What kind of trucker are these?
@emeyer69633 жыл бұрын
Professionals back in the day.
@bryanmelton55383 жыл бұрын
THAT'S WHEN THERE WAS REAL TRUCK DRIVERS NOT THESE PUNKS ON THE ROAD NOW
@poweredbyrice57083 жыл бұрын
@Blue Jazz Proving his point and why America has fallen with a wimper....get a new mask coward
@ronlefty3 жыл бұрын
@Blue Jazz you can tell you too are brainwashed to actually believe the ignorance in your words. Total fantasy.
@CEOkiller Жыл бұрын
You put one of today’s Steering Wheel Holders in one of those trucks they wouldn’t know whether to shit or go blind… two sticks???
@telcobilly Жыл бұрын
No tatted up , obese, backward baseball cap super truckers
@NatureRecycleFlorida3 жыл бұрын
awesome old film
@bendover94113 жыл бұрын
Wonderful history!
@yuvegotmale3 жыл бұрын
When the truck entered Wash State I was thinking it would be at Biggs Jct Oregon on hwy 97..It did not look like Biggs , it looked more like the crossing at Vernita....interesting
@DavidSmith-fr1uz Жыл бұрын
Seems everyone was more trim back in the day. I am guessing they didn't have sugary treats tempting them to the point of addiction at every turn.
@Kgio-2112 Жыл бұрын
Food was fresh. Today's crap is filled with fattening shit to make it last forever on the shelf.
@micahrich5683 Жыл бұрын
It was the in feta means that kept them trim
@csxns3 жыл бұрын
How long ago was this looks like the 50's too me.
@vinyldash23332 жыл бұрын
Approximately 1952
@seanmoriarty4476 Жыл бұрын
Gotta admit I got some wood seeing those old Pete's
@ritchienegrea57793 жыл бұрын
This is my damn story till this day. Is what I did for last 28 years and still rolling. Regardless of the nonsense of today’s regulations bs. Equipment suck
@loafandjug321 Жыл бұрын
Little known fact, divorce lawyers were invented on the same day this video was released.
@oldrustycars3 жыл бұрын
Who keeps flashing on Duel? Just me?
@jimjonrs39323 жыл бұрын
He can't beat me on the grade!
@hardit3593 жыл бұрын
@@jimjonrs3932 'How can he go so fast..?'
@zfine14503 жыл бұрын
"The radiator hose!"
@truckermatt46032 жыл бұрын
40 hrs from la to Spokane Washington good lord you could do that in 2 drive sessions now lol
@jimjonrs39323 жыл бұрын
5 hole Alcoa's.
@SootyMangabey.3 жыл бұрын
What a time to be a driver
@Mrbest-cw9nn3 жыл бұрын
does he know how much oil is in that truck no because he didn't check his oil before he started it it's supposed to be a pre-trip
@JensSchraeder2 ай бұрын
America was sure great back then.
@hueyman624 Жыл бұрын
The line "Better than average pay", really? 0.14c for diesel and .09c was tax, back when it was good stuff too. Jet fuel to the military base, no. Those "fighters" were T-28 trainers and some T-34s too. All piston powered using 130/145 green and leaded aviation gasoline. Jet is Kerosene. The truck would have to be escorted. Even though I started in the late 70s, trucks were pretty nice even then. Today I have a 06 Freightliner with Cat power that is like a nice pickup interior, satellite radio, air ride everything, ELD so I dont have to keep track of miles ant its quieter than my pickup. I call it my "motor home with a trailer". I would not trust a minimum wage pump jockey to get near my truck.....even if there were still such a thing. I maintain my truck like an aircraft, because once you leave home, its just like flying, a component failure and tow bill is about as expensive as a crash. The big bridge crossing the lake is now I-5 crossing Shasta Lake just north of Redding. Funny how a road can be recognized 65+ years later.
@barrylaite7000 Жыл бұрын
Back when common sense, pride and professional courtesy was very much respected and adhered to…..not too much of that nowadays….
@bensanders73923 жыл бұрын
$2 ferry toll if this is 1960 would be equivalent to $17.77 toll. If this is 1970, $2 would be adjusted to $13.56 toll.
@Nikowalker007 Жыл бұрын
This is 1954
@emeyer69633 жыл бұрын
No Pilot's or Flying J's with lot lizards!Real food and no Subway's or Mickey D's.45 mph trucks.
@pointingdog7235 Жыл бұрын
I imagine that there were Lot Lizards in those days too.
@andysaunders3708 Жыл бұрын
Love the old Twin-Sticks.
@dennisrobinson75873 жыл бұрын
I didn’t think tachographs were around back then
@devally24323 жыл бұрын
Yes they were, but they were very primitive, blank wax discs , not detailed like the German ones we had in the eighties.
@pointingdog7235 Жыл бұрын
I remember my Father telling me about the insurance company would follow you and take what amounts to a video today of the rig you're driving with a speedometer in the video or movie and then once in awhile everyone gets called in to watch the movie and then catch shit from the boss for speeding or something else that was recorded by the narco insurance company.
@BarryWilkinson3 жыл бұрын
I'm not seeing a front turn signal on the freight or tanker tractors, were they not required back then?
@toughtittypdiddy46343 жыл бұрын
This was made in 1952 . Turn signals weren’t mandatory until 1968
@jennifercapps1053 жыл бұрын
@Hello Barry how are you doing
@392nightrunner Жыл бұрын
Arms out the window
@russvoight11673 ай бұрын
@@toughtittypdiddy4634this had to have been made in 1954 or later. That's the year the red oval was introduced
@hectorkingjr3 жыл бұрын
I liked this.
@dannobloomquisr88253 ай бұрын
Looking for the plaid sport coat.....😂
@jamesmassey-cc4ml2 ай бұрын
Looks like this was made in the mid 1950s, just before the interstates.
@garywing2745 Жыл бұрын
Love those old Peterbilts.
@bensanders73923 жыл бұрын
$150 tires? If this is 1960, that would be(adjusted for inflation) $1,333 a tire. If this is 1970, that would be equivalent to $1,017 per tire todays dollars. I dont think that they had FET added to the price of tires back then.
@francomtz71152 жыл бұрын
It had to be $ 50.00 a tire or maybe all 18.
@barrylaite7000Ай бұрын
This was back in’52👍
@loafandjug321 Жыл бұрын
15:24 Lol he just rolls right up to them while they're standing in the street like fools, and then they just dart out in front of him one foot from the bumper.
@donellmuniz5903 жыл бұрын
"200 hp engine", lol. My dad's first big rig only had a 150hp Cummins. It was around 1960, but the truck was about a 1950.
@andrewking97613 жыл бұрын
That 150 HP was a Cummins HB 600 from memory and the one in the red Pete looks to be supercharged, a 275 HP I think.
@allenleavell28473 жыл бұрын
Seems like everyone was skinny back in those days
@pointingdog7235 Жыл бұрын
Ain't it strange?
@danielpurcell73953 ай бұрын
@@pointingdog7235people ate real food in those days. Not this chemical filled poison we eat in today’s world. That’s why you got so many crazies too.
@deanpahl8591 Жыл бұрын
If truckers had to drive those trucks there wouldn't be any truck drivers today.
@gntdriver2840 Жыл бұрын
just before 12 minutes its almost identical to a scene from the movie Duel
@SOU69003 жыл бұрын
Any see a single jet fighter at that air base? I sure didn't.
@C4CHopeless3 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't have at Williams AFB, it was a pilot training base that used prop aircraft for initial pilot training. USAF still uses prop aircraft, the current T-6 Texan II, for initial pilot training. Pilots don't start flying jets until it's determined which track they're going, where they'll either start training in the T-38 Talon for fighters or T-1 Jayhawk for transport/heavy aircraft.
@jamessimms4153 жыл бұрын
Airman was like ‘WTF is this crap on my flight line?” Staged as I seriously doubt a civilian fuel truck would be allowed on a military flight line, especially in the 1950’s.
@392nightrunner Жыл бұрын
Mpg hasn't gone up much, mine averages 6
@yuvegotmale3 жыл бұрын
I see many System trucks in Wash State that are based out of Spokane....Iam wondering if this is the same company.
@yuvegotmale3 жыл бұрын
@BikerTrashDan Thank you...
@erikdevries92083 жыл бұрын
5 days from LA to Spokane? You won't last at that pace today.
@Musictroper76 Жыл бұрын
Too bad it still isn't that way.
@erikdevries9208 Жыл бұрын
@@Musictroper76 Yes, I agree. 5 days is human, and it ought to be like that, with speed limits set to 55 and drivers paid by the hour for all hours worked. That's how it once was.
@chriswright84643 жыл бұрын
Union jobs gone. Sad.
@user-su5sq5ib3i Жыл бұрын
What a nice old semi. Anyome know what make it was?
@russvoight11673 ай бұрын
Peterbilt
@joseph-mariopelerin7028 Жыл бұрын
in colors!! kinda...
@seanmoriarty4476 Жыл бұрын
Sizeable investment at 150 a tire. Lol
@PAUL_K Жыл бұрын
After this one watch Duel 1971
@ricardosantossantossilva23313 жыл бұрын
👍🇧🇷
@unknowndriver66523 жыл бұрын
Trucks and trailers look the same 50 years after
@bendover94113 жыл бұрын
Really, you stoned?
@janoskovacs113 жыл бұрын
❤️
@EDD519 Жыл бұрын
all of the trucking companys in the 70`s are not around anymore , !
@russvoight11673 ай бұрын
Schneider out of Green Bay is
@g41thomas Жыл бұрын
At which point trucking turned to be this junkie 🤯as is today?
@User20758 Жыл бұрын
They didn't show Anything that's neccessity
@TimHollis30063 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing what a white society used to look like. I couldn’t imagine a more perfect and safe time in history!
@jerryedwards4489 Жыл бұрын
the drivers of today needs to watch this,the wanna-be drivers today dress like shit,flip flops,pants hanging down to the knees showing his stinking ASS,showing up to the shipper,reciveing looking like they hadn’t seen a shower in a week,&that smell of shit& cigarette 💨,not to mention a scrounge beard,yeah-buddy a real truck driver💩💩💩💩💩👀🐖🐖
@poweredbyrice5708 Жыл бұрын
Agreed! Now everything is trash in trucking it is disgusting what has happened.
@bicyclenerd.93778 ай бұрын
Agreed and also very racist.
@stevenrobinson23812 ай бұрын
@@bicyclenerd.9377 no. It isn't that at all. It is the.............................................TRUTH. Sucks doesn't it.
@lankey69693 жыл бұрын
Where's the murder and the prostitutes? Fake.
@suziewoodruff53183 жыл бұрын
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@bendover94113 жыл бұрын
Huh?
@K-Effect3 жыл бұрын
Trains are better
@Bendigo13 жыл бұрын
Imagine a train trying to deliver to every store in town
@Bendigo13 жыл бұрын
@Car Freaknatic that would be a logistical nightmare. I understand your thinking behind your statement. I think you dont quite understand what is involved in transferring goods between trains and other modes of transport and storage. Trains are good for long distances and things that are not time sensitive. I would say anything over 600 miles would be a better number than 100 miles.
@danielpurcell73953 ай бұрын
You don’t know nothing.
@dalemoeser22823 жыл бұрын
DON'T DRIVE TRUCK 🚚 🤓 KIDS 🧒. SEVERELY UNDER PAID DEAD END JOB
@SOU69003 жыл бұрын
So you want the stores to be empty then? You're giving some bad advice there dude.
@dalemoeser22823 жыл бұрын
@@SOU6900 No a fence. Talking about. STEERING AND GEARING. NOW ADAYS. Was a GREAT CAREER 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
@SOU69003 жыл бұрын
@@dalemoeser2282 a fence?😕
@lucasw28803 жыл бұрын
@@dalemoeser2282 I hope you meant no offense, lmao. With a year or 2 experience, there are some drivers making six figures out there. You can also go on to own your own truck and become an owner / operator. I know some owner / operators making $150-$170k per year. You don't sound like you know much about what your talking about....Everything you lay your eyes on was brought to you by a truck....
@rzorNvme3 жыл бұрын
Quitters never go far. I’m making $25/hr + driving local in my home town. Anyone out there looking into being a truck driver you are all welcome to try your luck. Are you up to the challenge, the choice is yours. 👍