Yellow | That White Freightliner.....

They called me Panama Hat driver, if they called for snow within 1000 miles I was sick!
Back before the 45' trailers and 3 axle tractors, they ran us up old 74 through Hickory Nut Gorge and Chimney Rock to
Ashville, back down 25 to Greenville S C and back to Ashville to bed, this all night ordeal only paid an 8 hr minnie
If you ran further south of Greenville SC, you might of seen the signs for Four Hole Swamp or Stinking Creek. That's what I remember driving home from MCAS Beaufort in the early seventies.
 
If you ran further south of Greenville SC, you might of seen the signs for Four Hole Swamp or Stinking Creek. That's what I remember driving home from MCAS Beaufort in the early seventies.
We detoured there in the early 60s, when Barnes Food Express tore the old wooden bridges out at Kite Ga.
 
A few years later, we had some IHC and Diamond T COE that had a Red 501 with Holly 4 brl. carb. 8 spd roadranger.
These were not used as road tractors, had the same tractors with JT Cummins for line tractors.
You could run the speedometer out of numbers downhill, but run out of gears going up hill.

A lot of oilfields had R-190-195's with RD 450's & RD 501's. The R-190 my neighbor had went to work on a farm after he passed away. I think it is still running. People made fun of Internationals calling them corn binders. corn shuckers, Farmalls etc. but they were tough & parts were not as expensive as other trucks. A lot of farmers used them because they could buy parts & get service locally.
 
I liked the trucks when they were painted orange and blue.
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Grandpa came by his house when I would spend the night with a set of wiggle wagons with that style Volvo. I wanted to drive for the Big R ever since. That damn Bill Zollars ****ed me over had to settle for Holland.
 
Grandpa came by his house when I would spend the night with a set of wiggle wagons with that style Volvo. I wanted to drive for the Big R ever since. That damn Bill Zollars ****ed me over had to settle for Holland.

When I was 12 or 14 yrs old, all I wanted to do was drive for Big R, ugly dark green leased Autocar, 200 Cummins,3 spd Brown & Lipe.
I would have driven for nothing, didn't thing about money, just driving that truck.
Got all my knowledge listening to truck drivers tales.
 
When I was 12 or 14 yrs old, all I wanted to do was drive for Big R, ugly dark green leased Autocar, 200 Cummins,3 spd Brown & Lipe.
I would have driven for nothing, didn't thing about money, just driving that truck.
Got all my knowledge listening to truck drivers tales.

I'm just a truck driving fool who never finished school
I got my learning at the old truck stop
They said I won't amount to much when a gear shift
And a clutch was the only education I got

I'm just an old blue collar, semi-crazy road scholar
They tell me that I'm half insane
And I've been driving so long, I got diesel in my blood
And ninety weight oil on my brain
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Grandpa came by his house when I would spend the night with a set of wiggle wagons with that style Volvo. I wanted to drive for the Big R ever since. That damn Bill Zollars ****ed me over had to settle for Holland.
After the pumpkin, that style Volvo was my favorite Roadway tractor.
 
A lot of oilfields had R-190-195's with RD 450's & RD 501's. The R-190 my neighbor had went to work on a farm after he passed away. I think it is still running. People made fun of Internationals calling them corn binders. corn shuckers, Farmalls etc. but they were tough & parts were not as expensive as other trucks. A lot of farmers used them because they could buy parts & get service locally.

Man, that ain't making fun, Dad called them binders when I was a kid, bet you didn't think they had been invented when I was
a kid.
 
A lot of oilfields had R-190-195's with RD 450's & RD 501's. The R-190 my neighbor had went to work on a farm after he passed away. I think it is still running. People made fun of Internationals calling them corn binders. corn shuckers, Farmalls etc. but they were tough & parts were not as expensive as other trucks. A lot of farmers used them because they could buy parts & get service locally.


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