gosh durn it,dale. gotta get ottawa to put propane gas on them thar trucks they make so mr. strickland can give me a 10.00 a week raise.--- hank hill, the propane man.

Im not hank and i enjoy it

Gosh dern it Dale bring my shuttle truck back over here. I need to change the LP tank.

I tell ya what, this is something Bobby oughtta watch. Well alright boomhower! Where’d you find this gem?

Yep!

Go Cummins! Remember the Hummin Cummins 45 from the 70’s?? Every kid in town used to play the heck out of them. Did you ever meet J. I. Miller? Thank you for helping to make our town a great place to grow up!

Employees lost that pride and loyalty around the time employers started treating them like disposable slaves. Employers get what they pay for and if they're paying shit wages on shit schedules they're gonna get shit work and high turnover.

@Sir Honks-Alot notice what you don't see in this video and that tells you why the company and it's employees are so cohesive.

I hear you. But pride is never a good thing.

@@yourallbrainwashed Wrong. Pride in your work is a very good thing. The lack of pride in the workplace is one of the reasons that the United States has been on the decline for the last 20 years. It’s also why may manufacturing jobs have moved overseas.

Yeah. Now they build shit to break on purpose. They also make it more expensive to repair the old item than to buy a new one!

Indeed! Now it's the other way around. You risk losing on profits if you make more durable products. Smh!

And maybe even a bigger issue is you risk losing shareholders if your profits aren't continually increasing.@@dahnteyog

He'd make C.E.O instantly nowadays.

Obvious BS. Of course upper management gave him their blessing. When the employees revolted, they took their side and fired the manager as a scapegoat.

Agreed.

some rank and file need to learn this also.

The chinese companies are almost all doing this and it pays off.

Employee loyalty is at an all-time low due to corporate greed. It's almost always a better "deal" to lose a little profit in exchange for more loyal employees. A loyal employee will go the extra mile without hesitation because they know their company "has their back". When the company treats you like a number, there is no loyalty. The employee doesn't care about the product any more than they have to, and the product suffers, therefore, profits suffer. I work for a small business who treats their employees like family. I don't get paid nearly enough, but, I'm loyal because I know if I need them, they will come through for me as best they can. If I get sick and have to be out of work for a few weeks, they will not fire me because of it. So, I have a vested interest in them succeeding.

@@NotSoCrazyNinja The bad part is when you are a loyal employee and go above and beyond then the company cuts you loose anyway. Happened several times to me.

Anti union sentiment

@@MrSlicer2424 Where do you get that?

It's more of a documentary than a commercial. There wasn't a sales pitch.

If you're gonna make a commercial, this is the way to do it... I set right here and watched it too. 😁

But it was fun wasn’t it....

I have no problem with that. Ottawa is still an American company in the sense almost all the workers are from good 'ol Kansas. Besides that, the Finns are not the Swedes. They have not been seduced by the EEC/UN lie that all immigration is good. They value hard work and good engineering. I'm sure that most of the Ottawa workers would admit the parent company is OK. Maybe not as good as local ownership but, Hell, they haven't had local ownership since the 70's.

Great video. Glad to see they stayed in the good old USA. Anheiser Busch was sold to Belgium based Inbev in 2004. American ingenuity can't be beat.

@Big Bill O'Reilly -- I'd work for a Finnish company over a Chinese company any day.

@Big Bill O'Reilly stfu

@Big Bill O'Reilly -- It's not a racial thing, but an ideological thing.

so what did they actually invent ?

@@itsMe_TheHerpes Specialized trucks for warehouse truck terminals where you just move container trailers around on your property (not highway). Easy to manuever container trailers with these trucks and cost little to run. FYI - I live about 10 miles from there (Ottawa) and they STILL MAKE THEM daily.

@@2Truth4Liberty thank you 😊

@@hendricksonrunner5015 You are an idiot, just say it as it is.

They built the American dream. They saw ideaS to fill nicheS. Plurals. Many small good ideas. That's enough to keep the utilities on, pay the employees, and keep trying. No home runs. They focused on quality, customer service, and INNOVATION. 60 years through fire, flood, and foe. 60k of a niche motor vehicle is impressive!! 99% guarantee that anything you come in contact with on a daily basis that could have been transported in a trailer, was pulled by an Ottawa at some point. They're going autonomous right now.

One of the old guys at our factory when I was trucking kept driving a Mule for years until he retired. Many times I realized how smart he was to stay off the highways and away from DOT.

I've heard of Yard Jockey !

Before our company got a yard dog we had to scale out our loads by hooking up to an old freight liner we called Ol Smokey. I am forever grateful for this piece of machinery no longer am I having to lower and raise landing gear but I do have to find a new workout regiment now that I don’t have to do all that

We called em a MULE. No matter how crappy they rode and how often they broke, it was sure better than using a Ford short cabover with no power steering. Back then the few inside docks had manual opening barn doors and were built for horse and buggies. Our main docks were the old washing machine factory. Call it a Yard Dog, a Mule or a terminal tractor........ or what we called them when they broke down! Model T 10-4!

This video takes me back when grandpa use to tell me stories like this. Makes me think of him and my father.

Tge got paid roughly 3x what people get paid now. Despite modern workers productivity being about 10x higher

Ok Boomer. People still do that.

Well did you catch the union part. Fair pay = Fair labor

yeah back in the days when you had to go on strike to get paid fairly, ahhhh good ol days mhmmmm yep

...we got triple time on holidays...$37.50 an hour in 1982...

@@paradiseroad6405 37$ a hour in today's money or 1982?

@@Ckcdillpickle ...1982...

@@paradiseroad6405 that's a insane amount of money, even for today's standards

@@Ckcdillpickle ...we were Teamsters Union when the unions were really strong...started at $6.50 an hour in 1977...we were at $12.50 an hour by 1982 with time and a half for overtime ($18.75)...double time for Sunday ($25.00)...and triple time for holidays ($37.50)...

We named ours bob

There's still a lot of GM Detroit 2 strokes running.... They were in a lot of construction equipment, busses, trucks etc.

For some reason all our Mules and semis had a yeller engine.

Unfortunately they sold out, it is not an American company anymore that's why it is called "Kalmar Ottawa".They did a good job hiding that in the video. This seem to be prevalent in the US.

Dan 255 I was mainly talking about the early years of this company, as long as it’s based in America and not overseas America gains....

America is a Corporatocracy Google *Mystery Babylon*

And destroyed by every company not like it....greed...

@Randy Travis yes toilet paper...

This Ottawa company was on the Fox and llinois river. As an aside from that a large nonunion company started by a man in Tremont, ill opened Keystone Steel and Wire. Everyone got along and was happy . The owner died and a greedy company owns it now. No one is happy!

How you feel in 2020?

@@KMcNally117 fuckin perfecto

In 30 /2 years at the same company our super had one picnic! He was a black man and only two drivers were black. We all got along like brothers and sisters. Life was good back then.

Indeed, drove older models for over 20yrs.

Those two things make a difference. If time flies and i sleep well at night i like my job alot more. Crazy aint it. How big those two things are

Also had time to play when situation allowed. I remember watching the yard dog cut some donuts in the snow one icy December morning when I worked as a loader down at the Cracker Barrel DC. Wasn't any trailers to shift, there was ice and snow on the ground, so he ripped some nice fat donuts like he'd won the Daytona 500 :rofl:

We called them "mules"... keep changing the oil, and you couldn't kill 'em.

Yes, that's what I recall them being called.

Where I worked they were CAT powered. Soe where White, some were Ottawa. Anything from a Ford, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Freightliner, Mack etc was a better truck for actually truckin.

@Dead Serious Ahahahahah!

Dead Serious A game only bro. That was terrible.

@Dead Serious I love it when kids act like grown ups. No go make your bed before you momma whips yo ass.

You ain’t lying

@Dead Serious you're dumb

we always called them a yard horse. I remember my dad calling his tractor a horse, or cab. never a tractor..

@@donaldbartram6315 + Kiwi ace ;- Ivan Mauger - OBE & MBE. World Champion: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1979 - R/Up 1971, 1973, 1974 New Zealand Sportsperson of the Year (Halberg Award) 1977 and 1979. Long Track World Champion 1971, 1972, 1976 R/Up 1974, 1975 World Pairs Champion 1969, 1970 R/Up 1971, 1972, 1978, 1981 Speedway World Team Cup Champion 1968, 1971, 1972, 1979 European Champion 1966, 1970, 1971, 1975 British Champion 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972 www.nzonscreen.com/title/circuits-of-gold-1987. As 3 x concurrent World Speedway Champion he got a gold-plated Jawa 500 bike, which was done for him by two American fans after winning his third consecutive title. New Zealand Champion 1974, 1981 New Zealand Long Track Champion 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986. World long track speed record. His bike reached 144.666km/h 1986 Auckland NZ New Zealand South Island Champion 1977, 1981, 1983 Australasian Champion 1977, 1981 Australasian Grand Prix winner 1970, 1971, 1972 Sunday Times King of Claremont winner 1973, 1980, 1981, 1983 British-Nordic Champion 1968, 1971 British League Riders Champion 1971, 1973 Embassy Internationale Winner 1970, 1971, 1972 Northern Riders Champion 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1980 Provincial League Riders Champion 1963, 1964 Lubos Tomicek Memorial Trophy Winner 1971, 1972, 1973, 1979 Silver Sash Match Race Champion 1968, 1969 Golden Helmet Match Race Champion 1970 Scottish Open Champion 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 Scotianapolis Winner 1969, 1970 Welsh Open Champion 1964, 1973 Westernapolis Winner 1968, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975 Leningrad Cup (USSR) Winner 1969 Lokeren Memorial Trophy Winner 1970 Golden Key of Bremen 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Australian Long Track Champion 1962 Victorian State Champion (Australia) 1962, 1963 Queensland State Champion (Australia) 1962 Western Australian State Champion 1973 Yorkshire Television Trophy 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980 Lada Indoor International 1979 British Long Track Champion 1980 World Champion of Champions Match Race Series 1989 South Australian 150 Jubilee Trophy 1986 www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/ivan-mauger-speedway-champs-collection-to-be-auctioned-by-bonhams-20170915-gyihwt.htm

MULE. Drove one in 1969 and some of 1970. Cold in winter hotter then heck in summer.

At the company I worked us fools who'd never been in a semi all started in a Mule. In reality it had little to do with truckin on the highways and outside docks.

History is always HIS story. It depends on who's doing the telling. Others may have a decidedly different view.

Still do see em I drove one at a chicken plant before I started this OTR JOB

It's tomorrow! You can link us to a picture of the one you bought.

lightdark00 😂😂😂

Soooo.... did you get one??

Do you drive it to work?

@@SpaceGhost999 legend has it he drove off for a test drive and hasnt returned

😂😂never lied

Wow did u get that right. And then try and find one to pull your trailer out so u can hook up.

I unload flats (flat trailers) with a forklift, and there's few things that'll make your nerves stand on end like lifting 2 tons above one truck, turning it with half of it hanging over another truck, while one or two drivers are scrambling around taking off straps... This is at night, in a poorly lit yard, my forklift lights are just about all I have to see with, and they're about the size of baseballs. Thankfully, the yard dogs are spot on, and get my trucks in and out in about 25 minutes per load. But yeah, they have a very special gift for parking huge objects impossibly close. 😁

if you park them close enough you can make enough room to shove 4 more trailers in there

@@riflelord2 You know it! Most of the time, one truck has their nose on the others tail. Yard dogs are like "There's still about 8 inches to spare, if I cut sharp I'll clear it by 2, we're good!" 😲

You do know they sold out in the 90's and are owned by the Finns.

Jordan Smith no bitch

@@Angel-xj3wf Stfu kid

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Dam did't see no black race 😆

At some point, they will both be out of a job. Nothing I know of lasts forever.

Oh yeah, when was the last time you revolutionized an industry. Easy to lay high hopes on others shoulders.

Yep sell your soul to provide for a family

Amen to that

I believe it, I haven't experienced it yet but my mom and stepdad work so hard throughout the day that they hardly have time to eat. Today's world sucks to much work and stress and not enough caring. It kinda makes me want to commit suicide because things can be ran simpler easier while still have that we care about our work its the best quality we will not be cheap screw overs. I get it you have to work no matter what but working so much to where you can't even eat?! Yeah goodbye world. Its even worse that now I'm 18 and I graduated high school but your high school diploma doesn't even matter not even college degrees. Fuck the modern world.

Tyler Vogel where the hell are u working that u can’t eat

@@gregshearer423 i am working

Now employers brag about having no full time employees

@@jstarr7506 I'm guessing the bragging gets directed at the shareholders.

Agreed hard to find a good employer today,Good employers promote great Employees.

J STAR 2, You can thank unions for that .... they produce the laziest bunch of overpaid suns-sa-bitches I've ever seen ... and of course they fight the company like a rattle snake when they try to fire them ... and you can MF me all you want .. I LIVED IT and watched a GREAT JOB go out of business .....

Great employees work for them selfs .

...you meant to say "towards the same goal", right?

IMHO, every OTR-driver should be forced to operate a yard-tractor for 3 months (day-shifts and night-shifts) for the only purpose to learn how to properly back-up a tractor/trailer....especially in tight areas! After such an apprenticeship, they would no longer make fools of themselves, taking far too much time to back-up the long-nose Petes with a tandem-trailer at customer-dockss...lol. Oh, btw it matters not if you're pulling a 45, 48 or 53 foot trailer.....their wheelbases are all identical at 41 ft (kingpin to center bogey)

Too bad you don't still have that CJ....

@@heytasker I owned the truck 3 different times over a 30 period. The last time I owned it I gave it to my oldest grandson upon graduation from the USMC boot camp San Diego 10 years ago, he now owns it with a promise to never sell it. He will pass it on to his oldest in time

Our company also had WHITES.

I remember driving Ottawa and White Mules...... By the way they were all white. My memory is fair and I don't remember any fancy extra wheel up front. Why would y'all need it. Those mules turned tight and with a trailer ya don't wanna turn too tight. I worked where some of the original docks were for horse and wagons.Barely 13.6 and narrow doors. So I know tight.

As they say, there ain't no easy run..... and being a Mule operator sure wasn't easy.

my neck of the woods we call them yard dogs

They are still there and still making them to this day.

Gary Dean Mercer Clark no they aren’t! They are spoiled and lazy!

I work in a factory for the last25yrs and must say today’s young workers are spoiled and very lazy. Worries me to think what happened to America’s next gen workers always looking for the easy way. No putting forth effort for quality products

Dan Kingma I agree!

@@dankingma6344 Employers have as much a hand in that as the employees do. People might be more inclined to put in the effort if employers paid a fair wage and actually gave a shit about their employees. It's difficult to care about about a company when you're considered disposable and will never, ever share in its success.

@@PumaPete No, they're underpaid, overworked overstressed, underappreciated, and treated like horseshit. You can't expect people to give it their all when the people they work for wouldn't think twice about shitcanning them or asking them to put aside any pretense of life off the clock to work ridiculous hours. You want honest, hard-working, loyal employees? Give them a living wage, good benefits, good conditions, AND FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK LET THEM HAVE THEIR FUCKING EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS! You do those things and you'll find the people working there will actually enjoy their jobs, and when they enjoy their jobs, the pride comes flooding right back. The workforce of the 1950s didn't go anywhere. It just adapted. You get what you pay for, and when you pay for shit labor through shit wages, shit hours, shit conditions *guess what you get in return...*

And there is an Ottowa there too.

@Yard Sale Dale It was defective and they didn't want to replace it. they bought the truck for a grand

WTF is an air dryer ?

@@theangryitalian7922 it removes the moisture from the air that is used to control the brakes and other things

@@theangryitalian7922 it's a part in the pneumatic system (air brakes). It removes some moisture and debris from the system.

or the 4 horseman riding in

Ottawa trucks are great kalamar are junk

Henry Repeating Arms is like that. Lifetime warranty, great customer service and you can even talk with the President of the company!

from east main st to roger st

Do they ever crash into each other?

And Nassau to, "yard dogs"

@@athonynesbitt7956 + Kiwi ace ;- Ivan Mauger - OBE & MBE. World Champion: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1979 - R/Up 1971, 1973, 1974 New Zealand Sportsperson of the Year (Halberg Award) 1977 and 1979. Long Track World Champion 1971, 1972, 1976 R/Up 1974, 1975 World Pairs Champion 1969, 1970 R/Up 1971, 1972, 1978, 1981 Speedway World Team Cup Champion 1968, 1971, 1972, 1979 European Champion 1966, 1970, 1971, 1975 British Champion 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972 www.nzonscreen.com/title/circuits-of-gold-1987. As 3 x concurrent World Speedway Champion he got a gold-plated Jawa 500 bike, which was done for him by two American fans after winning his third consecutive title. New Zealand Champion 1974, 1981 New Zealand Long Track Champion 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986. World long track speed record. His bike reached 144.666km/h 1986 Auckland NZ New Zealand South Island Champion 1977, 1981, 1983 Australasian Champion 1977, 1981 Australasian Grand Prix winner 1970, 1971, 1972 Sunday Times King of Claremont winner 1973, 1980, 1981, 1983 British-Nordic Champion 1968, 1971 British League Riders Champion 1971, 1973 Embassy Internationale Winner 1970, 1971, 1972 Northern Riders Champion 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1980 Provincial League Riders Champion 1963, 1964 Lubos Tomicek Memorial Trophy Winner 1971, 1972, 1973, 1979 Silver Sash Match Race Champion 1968, 1969 Golden Helmet Match Race Champion 1970 Scottish Open Champion 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 Scotianapolis Winner 1969, 1970 Welsh Open Champion 1964, 1973 Westernapolis Winner 1968, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975 Leningrad Cup (USSR) Winner 1969 Lokeren Memorial Trophy Winner 1970 Golden Key of Bremen 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Australian Long Track Champion 1962 Victorian State Champion (Australia) 1962, 1963 Queensland State Champion (Australia) 1962 Western Australian State Champion 1973 Yorkshire Television Trophy 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980 Lada Indoor International 1979 British Long Track Champion 1980 World Champion of Champions Match Race Series 1989 South Australian 150 Jubilee Trophy 1986 www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/ivan-mauger-speedway-champs-collection-to-be-auctioned-by-bonhams-20170915-gyihwt.htm

@@alanhowitzer no they last so long cos the drivers so chill they dont break them

my company started doing this in thier single axle tractors 2 years ago haha. we actually use an air pressure gauge that measures the air pressure in the suspension. it sure would make a lot of sense to do it in the yard tractor though

@@brtecson Your reply made me look back at this after 3yrs. The hydraulic approach worked best because those spotting tractors we had did not have any rear suspension. The lack of suspension gave us another idea. We built a 12volt electromagnet that was mounted on all thread directly in front of the rear tires that was about 100 inches wide so a little wider than the rear tires which we kept on while working the yard and spotting trailers that picked up a lot of pallet nails. We made a trough about the width of a lane covered by a grate where we dumped/switched off voltage the electromagnet where the nails fell through. It was hard to impress on the yard guys how important this was to use and maintain. Did a great job when used and the dump trough was kept clean. I have to admit we came up with some innovative things which we probably should have marketed.

My Army reserve unit (heavy engineers) had a yard dog. A week before our annual training down in Oklahoma (we are based in the upper Midwest) every single one of our M916s got their engines fried with bad fuel. We made the trip from base to base 17 times hauling all our heavy gear on back roads using a single yard dog and a deuce and a half chase vehicle as mobile bedroom

@@MrSheckstr oh man I feel with you. That must have been a hell of a ride

Did you ever consider to read Quran?

StormLaker1975 I choose you to learn and let you know a bout Islam ☪️

@@cryptoanalysts5793 Are you talking about the same Quran that says to kill all other nonbelievers? Gtfo