How good to see a Leader truck again, I drove them for several years. The industrial waste removal company I worked for eventually had 6 of them, 4 with compactor bodies (front lift), and 2 roll-on-roll-off types, all 8-wheel (twin steer) tippers, with 6 cylinder Cat engines and Allison auto transmissions (maybe the A8 series?). Beautiful trucks, well built, strong and reliable. Weight wasn't a concern like it is today,and these waste trucks sure got some heavy loads sometimes. It looks like this earlier model had an air throttle like the later ones, maybe a design feature to stop people revving the crap out of a cold engine? Apparently the fibreglass cabs were made in an ex-Mack mould. Sad that Leader Trucks went out of business. Thanks for the memories.

Hey Bruce, great video and well done to the scrappers for seeing its potential and not crushing it. Can I suggest one small thing, when creating your title add words that will get you a lot bigger audience. If you called it “Rare V8 Caterpillar powered truck saved from scrap in Australia” or something like that, the KZfaq algorithm will suggest it to the Caterpillar fans around the world. That’s hundreds of thousands in the US alone and the Americans love seeing Australian stuff. Anyway, great channel that deserves a lot more subscribers. Cheers mate, Stu🇦🇺

I love old cab overs. I don’t know anything about Leader so thanks for showing it off.

Nice old Aussie truck. The bonneted version was a lot less common than the cab over version 👍Thanks for the video Bruce

Glad to see another old Truck saved & working, good job Bruce.

Great old find Bruce, I had the pleasure of having two Caterpillar 1160's (the predecessor) in the fleet I maintained in the '70's. I remember going out to a leader broken down on the side of the road in W.A,with clutch issues & am pretty sure we had to fix it on the side of the road., crazy thing is I am still doing it now for Daimler Trucks Gold Coast. Keep these videos coming, thanks Bruce.

Great to see it going. the 910m looks like it's in great nick as well.

You do a great job of highlighting uniquely Australian contributions to the world of heavy equipment and their manufacturers! As an Australian it is good to see some of the history. My father in law had a Bedford cattle truck and I took a number of trips to his farm ini it. Thank you!

The 3208 Caterpillar engine was the beginning of the end of true diesels. 100,000 mile engines for straight trucks. They called it a throw away block. No cylinder liners, 2 compression rings, no oil control rings.

Grandfather once said "Leader is the Mack you have when you haven't the money for a real Mack". They looked like a Mack at a distance too (similar cab design), also noted the "Mack" drivers seat in the cab... Check out the rust in the tipper body right side, floor is about kaput! The Leaders I remember all had spider wheels, that must have been a very early model Bruce? You should nickname it "Smoking Joe". Great little loader the Cat 910, runs well. Really enjoyed that video too, thanks Bruce, well done.👌

What a beautiful old truck.

Hello Bruce, I started my driving career in a new 1976 8x4 Leader tipper,I was working on a cereal farm 90 km;s east of Esperance in WA. It had a Cat 3208 with a 13 speed Eaton box. Before the farm purchased the truck it was sent to Japan for a trade show and the farm got it when it came back to Australia.I drove it for 2 years carting grain and fertiliser towing a tandem pig trailer with a grain bin on it. It was a great truck to drive.

i used to drive a leader twin steer dual rear axel auto for Melbourne petroleum Esso days, out of Thomastown for years good old truck but single drive lazy axel it would get bogged on onion grass

Bruce, Elwyn Horten at Bidwell had 2 Leaders about 4 years ago when I was drilling a water bore him he may still have them. Love your channel regards. Ron Stevens

Great video. Some smaller operators used Leaders in the waste industry. Frontlift, Cable lift etc

hey just stumbled upon the video, was interesting to learn about. i'll have to check out the other vids

Great video Bruce. Love the Leaders, I’ve got a B series Challenger with an 8v92. All hand built and Australian content apart from the engine and power steering box. Glad to see that old girl saved from the scrap heap.

It’s sad to her these old girls are getting scrapped for 4K, the engine would be worth more second hand. Great she’s saved and back to work

Thanks for the videos Bruce!

Hey Bruce ❤ ya videos can see how much you truely care for the ol girls. Should call this 1 Chuga, she chugs along nicely

I love to watch your videos, Bruce from down-under👍👍 Have a nice day. Greetings from👋🥖🇫🇷 Peter

Ol Brucey needs a Patreon where you don't "buy him a coffee" - you shout him a pint!

Hi Bruce, I think I remember these Leader trucks being assembled and fitted out in New Zealand at Wade Motors just off The Rapa straight in Hamilton.

That is one of the coolest old trucks I’ve ever seen, good deal to those who saved her.

Well for it being basically left for scrap it sure makes a good farm truck bro. Safe travels. Ken..

There was a company in New Farm Brisbane that used a few of those Leaders. The trucks were always immaculate. From memory the company was called Gowan and sons, I could be wrong about the name. Thanks for sharing

Always great videos bruce you explain things in a way that are easy understand plus you easy lay back presentation

Drove several different brands of tandems with 3208's and they were fine engines. I liked the ones with the 13-under Fullers and next was the 9-speeds or 8-double lows. And I always called 1st 1st instead of lo anything. Always did me good. Thanks!

I wish you all the luck with youtube, love your videos, big fan. This man is a real mechanic, everyone should pay attention to his methods.

Have done a lot of work on leaders had a fleet to look after in the early 80s . The 3208 and 13 speed did not match very well the cat was to small to hold revs changing gear and they liked to crack the chassis around the steering box . Pity it is not the version with 13 on the tree they were a real pig to drive. Slip a 903 or a formula 290 in with a 15 speed and you have a winner

Howdyyawl from the land down under. Well Bruce, you picked a nice gem there. Still looks like a nice neat unit, needs a little love. Sounds solid still, breaks sound good still, it tips very well still for it's age. Motor needs an oil change & some fuel additive to clean up the carbon. It should still be able to go back on the road with some TLC. Nice pick😊

I don't own a diesel truck. But the layout of my light petrol truck is very similar to the heavy diesel ones. So I can still learn and apply a lot of maintenance principles from you. Thank you.

That looks like so much fun Bruce 😄 WOW your a Kid at Heart lol Great Video I Absolutely LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS CANT WAIT FOR MORE.❤❤❤❤MUCH LOVE FROM THE STATES 🇺🇲

Never seen one before, but I love them! Proper old school tipper, I had a K series Dodge back here in the UK with a Perkins V8, love the channel👍

Really nice old truck Bruce, it's a shame that many are scrapped since they still have lots of good parts which could be used to keep others running.

Yes Bruce I like your video keep up the good work 😊

Cool old truck, not quite so common here in NZ. Cat sounds nice

A national treasure as a kid I was told to look out for iconic trucks including the Leader

Great Australian clean sky and bush scenes!

A very good Truck. I love IT!!!

That's got a euro front axle or hubs. My father had a Leader prime mover with bunk and 3406A CAT. A good truck.

That's a sweet sounding and looking old bus, very nice.

I just found your channel Bruce, really enjoying these videos and ive learned a bit too. Keep up the good work! Cheers

Que agradable tener su propio terreno y maquinaria y hacer lo propio en el, lo felicito señor bruce no todo el mundo tiene la oportunidad que ud

I was caught off guard by your name of that type of truck. Here in USA....we call them "Dump" trucks. 😂. I learned something about Australia today. Kool. Thanks 👍

Hi Bruce I drove a Leader in Aurukun for a builder. It had a 555 Cummins and 13 speed Road Ranger in it. It was an agi. Great videos.

Awesome Bruce!! Love your work!!

Great video. Much enjoyed

That was nice of them to fix and keep her. Good job gents😎saw them around here in QLD, never knew they were made in Toowoomba. Gee ay? Those interior door handles look like 180B Datsun.

That seat looks like it wants to break your back,,your knees are near to your chest ,,,But it looks like a good old banger cheers ❤️🙏😀👍🦘🇦🇺

Bruce, I never knew leader was an Aus built truck., I see one of the comments below mention a book about them, must try and get hold of it for a read. Another great video, good especially to see there are other people out there prepared to save old steel and bring it back to life.

Good on ya Bruce...

Great video Bruce drove a Leader way back then

That is my grandads old truck the moter had some thing wrong contact me if you want to know anything else about it or to get some parts for it

Interesting stuff, never heard of them, shame a lot of manufacturing ceased in Australia.

What a sweet old rig Bruce! 😁👍🇦🇺 Dumpers like that love a load on their back.. i drove a dumpsr like this fora shire in WA and would hop skip and jump all over the road without anything in the bucket.. once she had a load, she rode smooth and easy..

Thats a rare old leader,not many came out with 10 stud rims,be interesting to find her history

Appears to have a quality driver seat, at least.

Great Bruce, Never new the History on Leader Truck's, So thanks for that, but it looks like that Old Cat Likes its OIl.

Hi made great video. These are great trucks. My mate has a bunch of them including one near identical to this but a longer wheelbase. I’ve do a lot of work to it and also used it a lot. Well done mate and keep them coming

Some people had issues with the 3208 but it worked quite hard in ten yarders and Aggies around town day in day out for lots of years worked on a lot of them in the day

Very interesting review Bruce. Watching from Lower Hutt NZ. Bob.

I just came across this creator and I have to be honest, this is inspiring. Recently I abandoned youtube as a creator due to exploitation of my media without monetization . I got over 2 million views in 3 months and youtube didnt even calculate my public watch hours. I became frustrated so I deleted my 468 videos from the platform. KZfaq was not happy , and they contacted me. I told them im done with the platform.

Nice truck.

Yeah I used to drive one back in the day rough as guts hot noisy me personally I’d leave it at the scrap yard about the same level of misery as the fir700 8wheel Mack I drove for bells with 10 wheel dog even now i remember the joy of the power assist steering trying to back in to tip .

Thankyou good video 👍👍

I remember seeing one in Timaru s/ lslnd NZ IN THE EARLY 80s with a v8 cat

Hey Bruce, there's a book written about Leader Trucks by Rob Laurent , titled "The Australian Challenger", published by Blue Flyer Publishing.

damn great truck in it's day they just keep going. Shame that parts are hard to find,otherwise they would go for ever.

Quite a lot of " Daylight " showing through the front section of the Bucket , and yeah , the Old Girl needs a De-Glaze . Other than that a Perfect Farm Truck . Leaders were really quite good trucks .

I love the old screaming jimmy 2 stroke Detroit music to me deaf ears

Gee Bruce, why so tentative? Drive that beast!

Отлично!!!!

I hope you wre not too disappointed that someone already saved it!

Why is the steering wheel so horizontal, looks hard to use

Looks like the one john Sheppard had I may be wrong

I was talking to a guy that had leader it was still working full time it had a half a million miles on the speedo it still ran well and sounded good he had no intention of retiring it he said not when it still goes ok

This is an absolute bute bruce

Is that alwyn horton old truck????

the truck is named after head bullock of a bullock team, LEADER.

The old girl could benefit from a good dose of CEM engine flush. Clears all the gum from around the rings and the sludge form everywhere. I've used it in an old 2H Toyota fourby that from memory took 10l oil, and we got 14 litres of the worst looking muck you've ever seen out of it :) She ran much better after that, less smoke, noticeably more power - if you could ever use the word power when speaking of a 2H, haha.

Like john Sheppard earth moving old leader

Looks like a perfectly useable truck now, where are you located

An old mate went to see his old mate who lived in Darwin in the 80's the guys car needed a safety check we would call them a MOT test , the front grill was broken and needed replacing so the pair of them went to the local scrapyard my was wondering about when he say a open gate with a guy with a strimmer cutting down the long grass , he was spotted by the guy who started shouting at him to get back as the area had snakes in it , the lad he was over seeing was an engineer who went over in the 60's went to Darwin Uni and became a teacher .

Those snakes better look out, they will get buried.

If she was over here in the States I would buy her from you

Back in the day when truckies were thin

How much was the truck rental? 😄

3:33 that motor sounds a little sick.