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I was a local P&D driver for 45 years before retiring 11 years ago.
Looking back it seems like it just flashed by.
I worked for 15 companies to get enough time for a teamsters pension.
They have all gone bankrupt,except for UPS Freight which I finished my last 5 years with.

Now to the point of this topic,in my,opinion younger drives may like the adventure of the open road.
However few willing to finger print freight,unloading & loading trailers,or making deliveries & pickups.
There is where the driver shortage will be.
 
Freightmaster1 said:
We can never forget the guys that drove before us! Check out this great video!

Check out that scenery!
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Freightmaster1 said:
We can never forget the guys that drove before us! Check out this great video!

Check out that scenery!
:shift:
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KWs, Petes were rare on the east coast in the early 50s, Autocar, LF and LJ Macks were the main horses in those days.
Most had 200 Cummins, with single or double disc pumps, 5&3 Brown & Lipe boxes, I shuttled these leased trucks between my dads shop and Big R, Carolina Freight, Johnson Motor Lines and Great Southern's terminals.
I thought truck drivers were the most intelligent, knowledgeable, respected people on the face of this earth.
Just listening to their tales, am the mane reason I'm is smart as i'm bees today, ain't know wunder i no's all
this stuff.
 
Triplex said:
I used to converse with lots of police/troopers back in CB days. Met up with many for coffee and some even used to join in with me teasing/clowning with the 4-wheelers from time to time back in the later 1970's. Most I ran into were pretty decent guys.
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We had a Charlotte city cop, that hung around the shop and dispatch office, one night he left his car running, the
shop guys hid it behind the service isle, he got all shookup, thought someone had stolen his police car.
 
Nicest State Trooper from Ohio that I ever met...

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2005 Labor Day Parade, Barberton, Ohio. Trooper "Tara" escorted Yellow Freight trucks in the parade. Her Mom was a union clerk at Yellow Freight in Richfield.
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gomer2969 said:
Indiana had Govt. Mule who patrolled the Spiceland/Cambridge City area on I-70. Really cool officer who liked to joke with the drivers.
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A S. C. highway patrolman who worked the Hardeeville area, ran extra trips for Southeastern Freight some
weekends, came into Charl, checked with PIE dispatcher and found which cars belonged to certain drivers.
He placed fake tickets on their w s for littering, claimed they were observed throwing beer cans and chicken bones
from their truck.
 
LEGCHECK53 said:
them that drive automate trucks now should see this really nice video I drove one of them cabover freight shakers and loved it 23 yrs old then those were the days
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You just didn't drive the right one.
You should try one with short wheel base Jifflock, most miserable thing ever built.
A convicted man shouldn't be given capitol punishment, but drive one of these for 20 yrs.
The man who invented this thing should have his whole body break out in little butt holes, get diarrhea and live
to be 100 yrs old. "Not my good ole days for sure"
 
Freightmaster1 said:
We can never forget the guys that drove before us! Check out this great video!

Check out that scenery!
:shift:
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Music to my ears, old 200 with back port manifold.
Anyone remember an outfit called (Huber &Huber) ran out of Tenn.
They ran a fleet of Emeryvilles with 220 Cummins and backports, best sounding trucks on the road.
You youngsters that never heard a backport pulling a mountain, missed out on a treat.
 
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First one I drove was a V-220 International, with a 549 gasser, 5-4 twin stick, NO power nothing, steering, etc. Then it was a Brockway, Cummins super 250, that thing would blow fire out the stack on a pull. 5 and 3 trans with a deep reduction, a three stick. Hot, loud, steered like a tank, rode like a buckboard. But at the time it was "state of the art".....
 
Crumudgeon said:
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First one I drove was a V-220 International, with a 549 gasser, 5-4 twin stick, NO power nothing, steering, etc. Then it was a Brockway, Cummins super 250, that thing would blow fire out the stack on a pull. 5 and 3 trans with a deep reduction, a three stick. Hot, loud, steered like a tank, rode like a buckboard. But at the time it was "state of the art".....
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Yes Sir, thats a truck, we called the Brocks "Yankee Fords"
 
I learned in a Cadillac........................72 Pete cab over no power steering on a 4 spring suspension, 380 Cat with a 13 speed it came complete with hand that came flying out of the sleeper to hit you upside the head when you ground a gear along with a voice that said boy that's my gear your grinding on and your going to be changing it when you use it up...................................
 
seabreeze said:
You just didn't drive the right one.
You should try one with short wheel base Jifflock, most miserable thing ever built.
A convicted man shouldn't be given capitol punishment, but drive one of these for 20 yrs.
The man who invented this thing should have his whole body break out in little butt holes, get diarrhea and live
to be 100 yrs old. "Not my good ole days for sure"
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Time clouds memories about the 'Good old days'. Will Rogers said "Things sure ain't like they used to be & probably never was.
 
Wrench97 said:
I learned in a Cadillac........................72 Pete cab over no power steering on a 4 spring suspension, 380 Cat with a 13 speed it came complete with hand that came flying out of the sleeper to hit you upside the head when you ground a gear along with a voice that said boy that's my gear your grinding on and your going to be changing it when you use it up...................................
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I learned on a 69,GMC 9500, 238 Detroit,10 speed, and Hendrickson suspension with the walking beams running about 6-8 inches out of line when you turned.
 
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