First truck I ever drove was -Model mack with 2 sticks. I was 14 and went with my dad to Key West. He didn't have a load back so he went in search of beer and loose women. The dispatcher called and told me to get him, he had to get back to Miami for a quick load. He was high so he told me to drive. That was back when they had the old narrow bridges on US1. I did fine and got him back to Homestead where he had sobered up.Great experience for the first time. Been doing it for 50 years now

I've heard stories about grandpa shifting with his arm through the wheel and whatnot on a triplex, going down county roads called arm breakers haha this kid has talent for sure. Doesn't even think twice about the clutch, beautiful.

It's awesome to see a young man interested in old iron and dedicated enough to learn how to drive the old truck and start the old tractors...and drive the new trucks like a pro! Good job, Zach!! Keep it up. Your videos give me hope for the younger generation.

I drove a 65 or 66 B-61 winch truck just like this. Had to stick my arm through the steering wheel just like him to change gears of both transmissions.

That's the truck I learned to drive when I was 15 Sweet brings back good memories of my dad and uncle

love the sound of that engine. I could always tell when he was getting close to home. you never forget that engine sound

Some serious skill, in Australia we have quad road trains and I’ve had the privilege of driving one pulling 175 tonnes using every gear in an 18 speed road ranger transmission but would probably miss every gear trying out a quad box for the first time. I would definitely clean some teeth on a few runs but would love to learn one day.

Give him credit for driving an twin stick. You never need to stick your hands through the steering wheel in order to shift. All you need is one hand to shift the two sticks. Keep your foot off the clutch!

I'd say give him credit for trying it out and then putting it on KZfaq. So the smart ass know it alls can make snide remarks about it. When they may not have driven a twin stick. I'd say that you are doing a good job with a twin stick. Keep at it.

Started trucking in one ,75,ton payload of logs loved everyminute of it

god do i remember driving these,called skill,then hand bombing the whole load by hand.good olde days

The good old days when things came with ashtrays lol

That was awesome. No grinding. You shift this real good and your about my age. I’ve wanted one of these trucks for a long time. I’ve always thought they were cool.

great job young man. Macks never die.

Great job on the split shift going up, but instead of arm thru the steering wheel, try putting your knee up to hold the wheel. You can accomplish the same result and if you hit a pothole you avoid a nasty bruise! Ah what memories! Thanks for the vid! I had many a mile in a B61 SX ten wheeler.

Just the sheer amount of WORK that guy is doing, just moving that truck around…👏🏻

I drove a 62 KW with a V12 Detroit over the road loved it had to learn it and she was a five and four miss them days 73 guys sloppy joe Columbus Ohio

Man, I was a truck driver for 25 years, I’d be lost in those gears, suicide shifting, the automatic tractors were just starting to come out when I stopped driving, due to a career ending on the job injury. I floated the gears, only using the clutch to start and stop, but this cool old Mack, I’d be grinding the shist out of them! I preferred a Mack or a Kenworth in my time.

Nice job! I have been driving trucks for 38 years and while it is good to be able to shift without the clutch, my personal preference is to always use the clutch and yes I have driven Macks with the quadruplex and tri plex transmissions before. Once again that was a great job!

Wow. Nice job. I'm jealous. I've always wanted to experience driving this old trucks and transmissions.

I miss the old Dog I started on. Loved it. Made you feel special.

Brings back memories of hauling sand & stone to the concrete pipe plant,, Mine was an old R model in 82 we were still running them & a couple of B model 10 wheelers

pretty good for someone younger than the truck!!

loved to watch my dad drive the B Mack . constantly changing those gears

the quadraplex was a pleasure to drive on old hwy 18 in wisconsin after a while it felt like a variable speed trans

cuantos recuerdos al ver como conduce,a mis 14 años mi padre que tenia un mack lanova con motor B41 me permitia manejarlo cuando no llevaba carga,se me cae un lagrimon de la emocion, un saludo a todos quienes aprendieron a manejar de chicos un aparato como este,gracias .

Great to see a young guy, balls to the walls, shifting his way through this!

young fella is right on the money , hand through the wheel is exactly how it is done .

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We had a old B model, we called it “ the comin home truck”. Loaded going to the job it would run 40mph, comin home it would run 80mph, if you had balls enough to hold it there!

Dude that’s pretty cool! Nice truck!👌😎👍

Kids got the knack!

Best old school truck ever bilt

Well done young man. 😎

Through the steering wheel👍That’s the way my Dad would shift his B model with integrated sleeper.

not many young people can drive those, good job!

Those manual steering trucks were something else. I learned pretty quick to hold the steering wheel loosely on the potholes.

My ultimate bucket list! I've been driving for 30 years and I've never been able to drive a twin stick. My father always told me stories about driving a truck like this young man is doing..... I'm so envious! Great job sir!

Drove a 5 and a 4 Mack for years and I can tell you that sticking your arm through the steering wheel is a very good way to break your arm!

They don’t make them Like this anymore lmao! Oh the memories. I remember the first time I tried this.

I'm in awe of your skill mate ! I'd give anything just to have a go at driving a quad box

My brain at 0:59: Get in there you silly son of a....

Learned on a quad too. Well done!

AWESOME keep up the good work :) :)

Excellent job on that twin stick.

I had1965,, B-57 and 1980 RM 600 w/ quadboxes . Fun trucks to drive in the day !

Good sounding engine!

A pesar de haber colgado su video de su camión hace 4 años, es una máquina preciosa, como desearía poder conocer y realizar la operación de una máquina similar, precioso su camión bendiciones

i drove my first Mack Quadra-plex in 1964 in a B-81 (had been driving triplex in B-61s for a couple of years before got into the Quadra-plex. Great shifters, easy in aux without using clutch.

Well done man :) Now i know what they have in Fast&Furious series ;))

My grandfather tried to show me on a '61 IHC Emeryville. Never could get a grip on it

Great trucks. Bob Reimer mentioned shifting through the steering wheel. He wrote the B MODEL MACK SONG by THE COUNTRY TIGERS CANADA. Tks for viedo and drive safe

Cool I always wanted to do that. But the companies I drove for did not have these. It was all road rangers

I always shifted the main, then the auxiliary afterwards. The one time I tried "arm through the steering wheel", I got confused as to what gears I was selecting.

The first truck I drove was a B-61 Mack with a quad. The good old days. Lol.

nice job,,, keep trucking

If I remember correctly you go from low to direct to high. Lo-Lo is only for first gear or reverse and u don't shift up from them. JUST used for creeping or pulling big loads.You can skip direct often or just use main 5 spd trans when empty or going down hills.Not bad shifting. Mine used to get stuck and had to get out and use a crow bar and pull on trans linkage. NICE video.

You can shift the main box without going through the auxiliary at lower speeds if your fairly light.

Dats a real truck not like the plastic junk they make today

nice--and shifting with no clutch--nice to see a young guy mastering it.

Impressive

Learned to drive on a Quad, took my driving test with a 4X4,

I'd love to have one of these old B models

Good gob young man I see all the comments about arm thu the wheels very few understand 👍🙏

Wow a B model with power steering; must have been an owner operator that ordered it originally

Yeah, I drove a DM 800 with a five and four. Pretty easy once you get the hang of it...

I did this for years I've also had that steering wheel break my thumb a few times it would get binded up

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That's what I'm talking about that's the way it's suppose to be done ...not skipping around or cramming just smooth gentle shifting and all of them in order, your good, these clowns get on utube grinding and cramming and skipping gears and think they are something great.(and) they are but it's not a truck driver, young man I'm happy there's still some one that knows the old days ways..thank you for a great video...Johnny B.

The kid is aces !!!

Keep them thumbs up!

I don’t think I could. Nope. My hats off to the young man!

Excelente camión

great shifting! not a single grind!

Wow, last time I did that was 45 years ago.

been there done that for years

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Mostly I would only use the two high gears in the joey like a splitter, (the joey being the smaller box) but you had to use both hands to change and your knee to hold the steering wheel. I found if you use the lower gears it would spin the jack shaft too fast and wasn't recomended although sometimes there was a need to when loaded and going up hills that had a gradual climb. Changing down was also a full or a 1 and 1/2 shift. It was a lot of fun back then.

Mack quadraplex was a 5&4 that makes it a 20 speed,although you did not have to use all the gears, The triplex 5&3 was my favorite 2 stick, the TDRL1070 12 speed was a good Mack tranny as well with air shift,However if you had drivers on your truck, the 2 stick 6 speed couldn't be beat ,it was idiot proof

now that is shifting!!

My first truck was a B62 triplex 16 years old with farm plates so I could drive it to pick up brewers grain for the cows.

My dad drove these. That was a lot work.

Yes I remember shift 30 minutes and doing 45mph 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

That rig 2yrs older than me

nice one but how do you drink a melbourne bitter longneck with your arm thru the steering wheel??

we used to have Ford dump trucks out of Canada with the five by fours we had this one guy called wild Willy well he could drink A6 pack of Busch and shift that thing frontwards backwards upside-down words and get pulled over by a cop he could put his finger on his nose with his eyes closed and hop backwards on one foot

And he is going about 10 mph shifting all those gears 😂

What is shifting system? Pls explain .

He must have power steering on that old mack he is turning with one hand !

Looka like a lot of work...

Keep practicing kid you'll get it. First truck I drove was a 1956 LJ Mack hard-nosed with a 5x4 with 24in rubber and I was only16 and just started working as a diesel mechanic and are LJ was are wrecker, we owned no trucks we were repair only. and because I'm tall I used my knee to hold the steering wheel never but your arm through the wheel. Where I grew up we had a lot of gravel banks and quarries around so you did a lot of off road driving and trust me you didn't want your arm through the wheel when you hit a good size rut and the wheel spun around with your arm in it. One other thing be careful when you spin the wheel with your right hand to make a left hand turn, many times I shoved my thumb into the windshield near the driver side door jamb. There's not a big gap between the steering wheel and windshield. I started working on trucks it was 1982 and there was still trucks from the 1960s on the road still. By the time I was 17 I could drive and operate most trucks and heavy equipment. Construction was booming and we where busy as hell. Most of the farms around had an old truck laying around for yard use, a lot of KB model IH and B model Macks. Hope you restore that beast. Good luck.

Man that young man is driving like an old timer

Remember not both in neutral at the same time :) I have 3 old quad box Macks I fool with you got a air starter on that one ??

That's back when the high and low gears had a separate gear shifter I wouldn't mind 4 wheel drive like that

OMG Dude you lucky dog you have Power steering ?? OMG I wish I had it when I learned ...

the only thing worse than driving one of these? clutching one!!!!!

Be careful when you turn the steering wheel spinner where you at off-road especially will fly back break your fingers if you wasn't watching it

lol 6 people couldn't figure out how to shift. I remember shifting going backwards and hauling ass!

First truck I ever drive was a B - 85 ten wheel dump truck nice job

Twin stick Mack That’s the 5/4 box multi torque..?????