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mysticobra
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Yep.. Pretty cool.
About 30+ pictures of antique trucks at 2016 MATS. Including a Crackerbox and a Cannonball.
http://www.truckinginfo.com/photogallery/photos/613/antique-trucks-at-mid-america-2016.aspx
http://www.truckinginfo.com/photogallery/photos/613/antique-trucks-at-mid-america-2016.aspx
twisted-hippie
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Back when I was young lad just starting out in Okie City, most of the freight come from Springfield & Memphis break bulks . Sometimes if a Springfield driver broke down and needed a tractor, they would give him this old B-61 Mack with a Duplex and come on to Okie City. They was short on tractors to peddle freight and I got blessed with the old B-61 to peddle a van volume load. After numerous laps around the terminal "practicing" shifting that two stick Duplex I ventured out on the streets. It wasn't pretty but we got the job done! Actually as day progressed I actually enjoyed driving some "vintage" equipment.
Back when I was young lad just starting out in Okie City, most of the freight come from Springfield & Memphis break bulks . Sometimes if a Springfield driver broke down and needed a tractor, they would give him this old B-61 Mack with a Duplex and come on to Okie City. They was short on tractors to peddle freight and I got blessed with the old B-61 to peddle a van volume load. After numerous laps around the terminal "practicing" shifting that two stick Duplex I ventured out on the streets. It wasn't pretty but we got the job done! Actually as day progressed I actually enjoyed driving some "vintage" equipment.
Back when I was young lad just starting out in Okie City, most of the freight come from Springfield & Memphis break bulks . Sometimes if a Springfield driver broke down and needed a tractor, they would give him this old B-61 Mack with a Duplex and come on to Okie City. They was short on tractors to peddle freight and I got blessed with the old B-61 to peddle a van volume load. After numerous laps around the terminal "practicing" shifting that two stick Duplex I ventured out on the streets. It wasn't pretty but we got the job done! Actually as day progressed I actually enjoyed driving some "vintage" equipment.
So you never got to shift a Triplex or a Quadruplex after that?
twisted-hippie
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No I missed out on them, I would liked to have (still would today too). I remember the old timers telling their war story's about them. I have a better appreciation for the "old school trucking" since I got older. Besides there's no way I would put in print on Trucking Boards I shifted a Triplex!
No I missed out on them, I would liked to have (still would today too). I remember the old timers telling their war story's about them. I have a better appreciation for the "old school trucking" since I got older. Besides there's no way I would put in print on Trucking Boards I shifted a Triplex!
Wise decision.
Canadian Flyer
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I remember the Yellow Freight terminal in Oshawa, right across from the GM plant, when I was a kid. Had a bunch of old Jimmies like these and a sprinkling of newer WhiteGMC's back when Yellow actually used the place. Yellow all but walked away from the place in the mid 1990's, just left a few Jimmies sitting around that slowly disappeared. GM traded them property and built them a new place in Whitby so they could build a new paint shop across from the plant. Not bad for a place they didn't care about.Try peddling freight around Albuquerque in a set up like this, and all you know is the Sandia Mountains are to the east.
Even with a brand new building, Yellow didn't bother. It wasn't till YFS of Ontario was merged with Reimer that they bothered using the place. Even today, they still lease half the yard out to Moe's Transport, a subsidiary of Verspeeten Cartage.
twisted-hippie
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I remember these, when they first come out they had rubber blocks on the rear instead of springs...was really rough riding, come to find out they had put "off road rubber blocks" in and had to change a lot of them out.Try peddling freight around Albuquerque in a set up like this, and all you know is the Sandia Mountains are to the east.
'Roadworthy' logging rig?I remember these, when they first come out they had rubber blocks on the rear instead of springs...was really rough riding, come to find out they had put "off road rubber blocks" in and had to change a lot of them out.
White called that rear suspension "Velvet Ride".
Are you saying it was not like riding on velvet ????
Scroll down for a better look http://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/truck_Chat/1668-white-velvet-ride-just-for-you-swishy
Last one I remember seeing was on a RB1 at 148 term
Are you saying it was not like riding on velvet ????
Scroll down for a better look http://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/truck_Chat/1668-white-velvet-ride-just-for-you-swishy
Last one I remember seeing was on a RB1 at 148 term
I remember these, when they first come out they had rubber blocks on the rear instead of springs...was really rough riding, come to find out they had put "off road rubber blocks" in and had to change a lot of them out.
Hendrickson suspension with the rubber blocks if I remember correctly.
Velvet Ride was very different mechanically...
How about the Hendrickson they use to use on GMC trucks in the seventies. When the bushings wore enough, the walking beams would allow the drive axles to shift out of line by as much as 6-8 inches when you turned sharp...
twisted-hippie
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Hendrickson suspension with the rubber blocks if I remember correctly.
Velvet Ride was very different mechanically...
I remember pulling a empty van with the Hendrickson (what Big R had) it wasn't like you was driving, it was more like you was "galloping" it down the road before they swapped the rubber pads.
Ahh yes the old short nosed whites that were called "shake and bakes" rubber blocks small cab almost as much fun as the u-car macks just give me one of the old twin stack macks for the thru way and i would be happy "nuff said time for the weekendI remember pulling a empty van with the Hendrickson (what Big R had) it wasn't like you was driving, it was more like you was "galloping" it down the road before they swapped the rubber pads.