My family is in this documentary , my Dad is Doug , I'm the young girl running down the street , I was 9 ..I just seen this for the first time recently and it's priceless as my Dad is no longer with us ❤️ very well done documentary
Pretty cool to have you dad and you on film. I wish I had film of me when I was a kid running with my father hauling cars,cattle, steel and cement in the late sixties. Real men and real trucks and honourable work. Dad was my hero for sure.
Love this film very awesome. Especially with Becky’s comments on here. Makes it more authentic. I started in 2001 but couldn’t afford newer trucks so I bought my self 76 352H and had fun.
In those days didn't sit inside all day nothing to do at home either working, or doing things outside we didn't have RUclips, or internet. TV was 6-8 channels you watched program at night have one TV entire house.
Eyep...I haven't started driving yet but I hear a lot about "you'll find the best of humanity...and the worst of it in this industry." I wonder if I should join the teamsters eventually.
This is the era of trucking I came up in. Fuel was cheap, rates were good and a man could buy a decent truck and support his family. It was a wonderful time. You didn't see the stupidity out there like now either!
I'm 26 now, started driving at 18. I' have a great love and passion for trucking especially this golden era of trucking. I wish I was born earlier and got the chance to experience it. Many truckers are clowns today that don't know what it means to be a trucker. Even though I'm young, I'm an old school trucker at heart
@@SerbKing1389 I'm with you I turn 25 in a couple days been driving 3 yrs now we really missed out on classic trucking can't even hardly find a manual rig now. I had to quit my old job because they switched to Volvo automatics I said I'm done
@@ricochetey bro I'm in the same fking boat. Switched companies a year ago now driving a new volvo. Told mu boss to buy me a manual and almost all the new trucks you can find are autos. I hate it. I miss floating gears man. It dosent feel like you're driving a truck anymore. We really did miss out on those golden years.
@@SerbKing1389 Wow no suprise, that blows. I'm in a 2001 Mack CH with a 10spd now no sensors, beepers or DEF I'm happy and my new boss plans to keep it that way 1.5mill miles and counting
@@2ndarmoredhellonwheels106 I started driving trucks in 1983 - I was 20. I liked/loved it until about 1995. By that time all the good guys like Becky's dad, Karl , Bill Laidlow and guys like them were fading away and being replaced by people who would have never in a million years been hired when I was a kid getting in the industry. I don't miss it a bit
This video just showed my life. Had been trucking for five years in 1976. Had a dedicated lumber run from John Day, Oregon to building sites in Dallas/Ft Worth. Those were the days my friend.
@@JHorse508 My loads were kiln dried, so yes, I had to tarp. Two of the trucks in this video must've been hauling green lumber. The third truck was tarped. Great question. You are like me; looking for bloopers and call outs. I have to add how much I enjoyed watching those old Freightshakers strolling down the boulevard. Drove a LOT of those old C/O's. Worst thing about the Freightliner cabovers from the 60's was keeping the cab warm in the dead of winter. More than once I took sheets of cardboard and taped them under the dash, and against the driver's door, and then wrapped my lap and legs in a blanket.
@@oldtrucker672 AH yes them old freight shakers wind rain and snow blowing thru all the little nooks and crannies .wearing boot's two pair of socks a heavy jacket .radiator covered over with what ever you had and still being cold .looking thru the windshield thru that one small spot that wasn't frozen over .and when you get outside there were Ice sickles radiating from the lug nuts like a star and your C.B .antenna was covered with ice not to mention the grab bar to get in and out .do remember a trucker who drove Kenworth cabovers .his name was John hunter .
@@loganjohnson3589 I forgot about the lack of defrost! And those dumb ass air powered wipers. I didn't know John Hunter but somebody knows what they are talking about! The icy grab handles and steps could be nasty for sure.
@@oldtrucker672 John was the man who broke me in to truck driving .he was one of the real old timer out law drivers .I hit the road in the mid 80's most of my life was oversize and heavy long haul .I hung up the key's in 2020 .my first truck was an old freight shaker .It was well kept but that didn't go far in the winter .It had air assist steering thank god you could shut it off It was great for the summer and city driving but scary as hell on snow and ice .I lived in that truck for 6 years .I was in my early 20's then .I guess i was lucky the life of a trucker suit me .As the years went by I saw lots of changes in this old world .the one that disturbed me the most was how the younger drivers behaved .the work is the same but the drivers have turned into idiots and whiner's .Well I gotta go some one just told me lunch is about ready .and she's a good cook .so so long old trucker nice to have met ya .
I did the exact same thing, my brother and I would point a nice one out and say that one’s mine and then argue over who’s it was 😆 that and the travel game with different things to spot while traveling and you put a magnetic chip over it when you saw that certain thing until you get a bingo. I miss those days.
This is true lost media, most today will never know how good it was back then, even with all the problems that there were. Thank you for uploading this, I am not crying someone’s just chopping onions near me.
I'm a young trucker, in my late 20s, and I do the Portland to Phoenix run all the time. It's super cool to see what it was like long before my time. :-)
Go get a Teamster driving job that is in the Pension. Stick with it if you want to drive. Otherwise , the future will be bleak, unless you have other streams of income. Good luck. You did miss the best days…. I caught the tail end…. And then spent years watching the decline
@@MetalTeamster I'm definitely looking! Teamster trucking jobs are sadly hard to come by nowadays. Plus, you're basically unhireable once you have one. Every ex-Yellow driver I've talked to has said that they were denied by every company because they are so scared of drivers unionizing. Hopefully we'll reach a tipping point soon and drivers across the nation will turn pro-union again.
This was the best of trucking. I came home from the army in 74 jumped in one of these rigs and it got in my blood and never could let it go. I am retired now and I sure miss it.
I can understand why you miss being on the road, but you would not want to be out here with these idiot drivers. They're all playing on their phones while driving and you have to navigate around them!
I started driving in 1978.I drove a cab over for ups. I drove 39 years. This brings back memory’s.All them old trucking songs. Fun on the CB.Charles Douglas and Art Bell on coast to coast .I thank God I have myTeamster Pension !My last dedicated run was Houston to Hammond LA and back.650 miles 5 nights a week .Catch you on the flip side Good Neighbor . I got to go😅Keep those pups a pullin
I am of the firm belief that it's so heavily regulated now, because of the sins of the past. I've been driving 13 years myself, and hate the over bearing regulations as much as the next driver.
I can't believe how many morons call themselves truckers when they are really just steering wheel holders who text while driving and drift into my lane. I literally hate truck drivers.
I remember as a kid in the 80s doing the honking motion to get truckers to honk at us. They’d do it 💯 of the time. It was always a thrill for us. I guess we were easily amused. 😅
Ya, the golden days of trucking….. when you picked up freight all day and drove all night. Drove from one truck stop to the next to use the pay phone to see if your getting paid for the load you dropped, trying to arrange for delivery of the load you’ve got on, and trying to find your next load. The trucks where interesting to look at from one half of the country to the other due to bridge laws. I drove cabovers for over 30 years. Other than nostalgia, they where a cold bitch in the Canadian winters. Gross weight was 73,280 lbs, and everyone had their hand out. Before IFTA you where swamped with tax filing and licensing. All that tin hanging off the bumper back in the day was more paperwork. Running that short single axle 352 with a set of joints over those snow packed passes took a lot of skill, and nerve let me tell you. Excellent film of realistic trucking in the 70’s. Almost every truck stop was full of cab overs back in the day, then with the blink of an eye they’re all gone. So are the drivers.
@@Johnnycdrums truckers generally don’t prefer cab-overs due to tighter living spaces and difficult engine access. After the 70s restrictions on overall truck length were relaxed, and hence many truckers opted for the longer bonneted trucks. In Europe due to smaller roads and tighter length restrictions cab-over trucks are still popular, which is why some in this comment thread are mentioning them.
A lot of truck stops were great. Good people to talk to, good atmosphere, fun games and - the food. Can't trust people these days. A whole different world today...
I wish I could drove back in those days. I don't speak to other drivers at all and I don't care to because I don't trust nobody and I don't trust nobody because I don't play by the rules.
Lots of shady corporate truck stops that are straight up dangerous. Now no more mom and pops truck stops and zero camaraderie among drivers. It’s just plain sad
My grandpa & grandma we're team drivers in '76. I was 7 yrs old and spent part of my summer school break on the road with them. Tbey drove an International cab-over. Never forget sittin on the doghouse. Good times.
Ahh the time of Cabovers and 48" Trailer's. I was 13 in 1976, riding shotgun in Grandpas 73 W900 with a 1693 Cat and a 5/4, (god I miss that Truck!) learning how to drive a big truck. Took me a lot of years to realize I was taught by one of the best. Sadly things changed and none for the better. What I really miss is the English language on the CB , hell I even miss the CB itself as nobody uses one anymore, and of course Johnny Cash on the tape player. Thing I'm curious about is why the Boss is driving the only single set truck.
I had to pause this Fantastic Documentary to read the comments..my God im reading it like a book..To read the child becky now 55 texting and others joining in is absolutely mind blowing..Im a trucker sitting in my bunk getting loaded in Richmond, VA headed to Bedford, PA...I love running out west but hasnt payed well in years so alot of companies dont book loads west..2021 was the last Run in my own Rig and i can tell you those mountains are tough on older trucks especially if your Not Geared for it.. east cost mountains are hills compared to Colorado, Idaho, cali ,etc..Ive been White knuckled more times than i can count driving through blizzards out west...
That Jubitz Truckstop was still going up in Portland when I pulled in there around 97. One of the best truckstops I ever went to. Was a little surprised at the seediness this film portrayed. Any trucker can avoid 99% of that garbage if they want to.
Man I ready like this it set me back to yesterday I am so glad I watch this ❤ my heart go out for you ❤ keep the videos comeing I am going to back on out of here and enjoy the video God bless you !!++
I started Trucking in 1976, can't do it no more, too old, too sick, but, old Truckers NEVER die, they just get a new Peterbilt. Mad Mike- retired Trucker
I remember being a kid back in the day when truckers were in high regards with movies and TV shows about them were common. One helped my mom get into a town in rural kentucky. He was following her, saw her weaving (she was nodding off and weaving) blew his horn to wake her up. I remember the radio lingo. My ex best friend is a trucker. No real cb radio activity anymore, no real comradery anymore. Like everything else in contemporary society, just another cold aspect of today. I wanted to grow up and drive trucks, wound up a scientist. But it was always a cherished moment being with my old friend in his truck going where ever running freight. Always imagining the romantic thoughts of the trucking culture of my youth.
I grew up in that era and couldn't wait to grow up and be a truck driver. Now, all the trucks of that past era are in the junk yards or even museums. Everytime I see one of them it brings back a flood of memories.
Our new truck is a 92. California is the only state we don’t run. 90 & 92 379s for the long haul, R model Mack dump & building a 1980 W900A for my last truck.
Different country but pretty much the same here in Australia, l miss that era... some people may disagree with me but just take me back. Thanks for sharing...
I love the old cab over trucks what beautiful rigs I drive moving heavy equipment and watching this makes me think just how tough these men and women had it
Love these vids. Started in 1980. Still at it. Yea I’m getting old lol. Spent first 9 years in nothing but cab overs running cross country. Last 33 years running local , pulling tankers. 21 years of that as an owner operator. Thanks for the old vids. I still haven’t seen myself in one yet lol. Take care
I’ve been on the road for 18 years now. Coast to coast. Bardstown, KY - Barstow, Ca. “Keep the bugs off your glass and the bugs off your…”- C.W. McCall.
That whole first. 30 mins of video was filmed on Hwy 58, btwn Eugene and Crescent. I'm a firefighter in Crescent and recognized a lot of those landmarks. We spend a lot of time on the pass in the winter picking truckers of the ice.
Wish i would of truck drive in this era Always love sitting with the old timers and hear amazing stories in the truck stops and customers My 7 years of trucking is thanks to all the tips and advices from the old timers my hat and respect is always to them
Things havent changed much since I got in and out , 30 yr or so , it just picked up speed and developed new problems along the way. The older I got , seeing things vanish , fighting new rules n regs , and being held at gun point just because it involved a truck , the more that romantic vision I had of driving trucks and spinning them Dave Dudley , Willis Bros. , Red Sovine albums in my room at 3rd and 4th grade age slowly faded away. Right along with America. Breaks my heart.
Just a couple of observations. That old Pete was a real utilitarian truck and that sleeper cab looked very cramped. None of those trucks had power steering and probably didn't even have a power clutch. Also the water level at Lake Mead was nothing like it is today, most of it has dried up. Finally, this was 46 years ago. Most of the people in this film are probably dead by now but the Jubitz Truck Stop out in Portland is still going strong today in a much expanded way - it even has a hundred room hotel and a cinema. All power to today's trucker everywhere in the world.
My family was in this Documentary..my Dad was Doug , he passed away in 2015 , my brother Robert was killed in 2000 ( he was wearing the cowboy hat , in loyalton where my Dad was home with his family , I was the girl running down the street ... ) Carl and his wife are no longer with us , but everyone else is . I seen this for the first time about 2 months ago and always wondered about it. When I seen it I was mesmerized by everything about it 😊
Cool video…interesting to see the three basic types of truckers all packed into one video as a group of videos. Also seeing the different outlooks for the future,,,,the young guy who wants to be the old guy and have all the trucks and be rich, the middle aged guy trying to juggle the family life and still hopeful of a bright future and lastly the old guy who is just counting down the days until he can afford to quit,,,,as his wife said the future “isnt looking to bright”. Here we have the true story of life for most working class people.
3:01 those air powered windshield wipers. Dad’s were always jerky like that too. All these years I thought there was something wrong with them. Looks like that’s just how they were.
Dad was an indep. O/O from about 67-86. Back around 84, the cdl proposal was quite the controversy. Everything he predicted, came true. One was, once the gov't opened that door. It'd go too far before the error was realized. Then, there'd be constant laws. Trying to tune & adjust the mistake. Not ending till they figured out how to be in the cab & supervise you. Hence, the E.L.D. law!
Esse documentário do transporte rodoviário dos EUA nos idos de 1976,me traz as boas lembranças da minha infância na roça aqui no Brasil,nesse tempo eu já contava com os meus 12 anos de idade,ainda não tinha muita noção de tempo e a nossa satisfação era ouvir os programas sertanejos a noite e ir a algum festejo de pagode a moda caipira nas casas dos outros. Ituiutaba-MG,Brasil 🇧🇷,as 15:39,em 12/10/22.🤠🙌
I remember these days. Lots of cabovers due to length restrictions in various state. I have not seen a cabover in years. I guess that they are all antiques now. They sure rode hard.
I still see a few its pretty cool to see them. Never drove them as you said most are relics. See a bunch of them in yards as scrap kinda sad. Still see a bunch of long hoods on the road i cane to America in 96 and those trucks were brand new whereas now they are getting old. Still glad to see them truckin. Whenever i have to use my loud horn it takes me back to when i used to go to the highway overpass with my dad and position the truckers in a horn pattern and they would blare their horns. Btw i team with my dad now so its nice
Started driving in 1979 and this video never gets old for me because of so many good memories back in that era of truckin. Good ole cabover days too, cut my teeth driving a slab cab Intl 4070 pulling doubles locally.
I gotta tell you, few of the drivers who drove them, self included, ever enjoyed them. They were rough , they were cramped, your feet were often cold unless you had the cab roasting, they were difficult to change clothes in and somewhat blind on the passenger side. The engines in those trucks in this vid were 2 stroke Detroit diesel engines which sounded cool, but notice how slow they were on hills? But, I understand people getting nostalgic
@@modocroughstock5700 thanks…. I only did year in a cab over. And mine was a 84 Peterbilt… with a 8v92 and a 15 speed. It had all the bells and whistles. I was really very lucky right from the start.
It's very interesting to think about how different trucking is today but also how independent owner operators still suffer from the same issues as they did back in the 70s
Spent three weeks at Jubitz truck stop in portland in 2016. Nothing has changed about the place from this video 40 years earlier. One of the better truck stops in America.
My those where the days. Life was uncomplicated. We ran coast to coast with no road rage , no blocking the fuel island. I’m still out here but it just not the same. Days are numbered. 69 and holding.Bean Pot Lounge Phoenix Arizona
Truckers all around the world deserve more respect from people and government. Everything man made thing we can see with our eyes has been in some form (raw or finished), on a truck at some point. Without trucks we would have nothing. Trucks stop, world stop.
The music reminds me of Good Old Red Sovine we had a boat named after the song Giddy Up go get a lot of fun in that boat. Red was one of dad's favorite artists. Roll on.
Cab over era, man them cab overs are so nostalgic. You still see them here and there in the farm lands of Oregon putting around hauling spuds or whatever.
where I work there's a local guy with a cabover mack that he comes into the plant with everyday, loads up with coke, and takes it to where it needs to go. always kinda wanted to have a chat with the dude but never had a chance.
WOW! This little gem was ON POINT on so many levels, what a window into the past. One critique, it would be awesome if you corrected the aspect ratio. Thank you for posting this!
Part of me really wants to do trucking, but I would give anything to do it back then. Its a completely different world now but the 70s, and even most the 80s was so much more genuine.
They were the real truckers back in those days and now trucking will never be the same as it once was but I will always have respect for all the truckers after being one myself for over 6 years, keep them trucks rollin 10-4.
That's pretty cool, it's still cool today I started driving 5 years ago and it's been awesome, bought my own truck after 8 months of driving a year later bought a house and a year after that I got my own trailer, and some toys along the way boat and motorcycles everything paid for accept the house, there's good money to be made if your willing to work and take on responsibilities
The feminism has stepped in,they compete with men,they shame them,that's why there is no real men left and why women are even dumber then you can imagine today.
@@EarlBeasley-y4p he means back then you could be a total pig with no consideration of how your actions affect others and no one would call you out on it.
I remember watching this video on BBC in the UK when it first came out on a programme called The World About US, I would think Karl Weber will have passed now, proper old school stuff.
Carl’s last comment right at the end is rather chilling about losing the ideals the country was founded on. We commonly think of individual liberty and limited government. But, there isn’t a lot of difference between leviathan government and leviathan companies, especially when the two are intertwined like they presently are.
“..there isn’t a lot of difference between leviathan government and leviathan companies, esp when the two are intertwined like they presently are.” BOOM. Best comment of the 400+ I read.
He's absolutely right! Spot on here in 2022. I doubt he's still alive, but he'd be terrified today to see where the industry and this country have fallen to and become.
This is alright! My Dad was a Truckdriver all my life. As soon as I got out of my diapers I got to ride with him. Out of Stats and sleep in the sleeper. I remember at night while the Truck cooled down I knew there was a wild animale trying to get inside! I have many storys I remember.
my dad started trucking in 1976 after he retired 21 years in the navy his first trucking job was d.s. russell and son’s trucking out of norfolk va my dad did the east to west coast over the road with them until they went out of business in 1985 then he thankfully got a local job in norfolk with valjar has anyone heard of any of those companies he retired from local trucking in 2001
This was a very nice documentary , great pictures , good music from the 70's ( Barry White), good stories, very nostalgic . From Europe those trucks were one of the symbols of usa.
Depends who you were in the seventies as a trucker. Some made great money some just got by. There were periods in the '80s where there was great money in trucking. Recently it was great in 2020 and 2021. Today it is almost suicide. Now I'm talking money wise.
I know a guy that started in 1970, and we got into talking about pay. He did routes a thru out Manhattan down to dc, and in his first couple years he started around 700 a week and went up to 1100 by 1972 only crawled after that to around 1600 a week when he retired in 98. My grandfather was a trucker from 1960-1988 but he died a little bit after I was born. But he was able to support a family of 5 on that single income for nearly 30 years. Funny thing is now at 22 being diesel mechanic at a union shop I only take home 1k a week which is considered good rn but no where near what they made in the 70s and 80s in relative terms for inflation
@@Suburbanhotrods My older brother, much older lol, drove a truck in the 70s and 80s and was able to buy a nice bit of land and build a nice house. I used to enjoy listening to his stories of driving all across the US. His last year of driving was mostly local routes and I got to ride with him on a couple trips in 1983. Fun times.
It gives you an idea of the immense size of the west. And also the CB craze of the 70’s. Interesting upload! 👍 Back here in the UK, CB radio didn’t become legal until the end of 1981. By that time the commercial appeal of CB had already been on the wane for a couple of years back in the States, even allowing for BJ and the Bear which was still showing and I suppose you could loosely put The Dukes of Hazzard in there. After the first Convoy and Smokey and the Bandit the follow ups weren’t as good, but then again I can see the appeal of driving one of those things for myself way out west! 👍
We still use cb radios here in the states, I talk on my radio almost everyday and if I see a driver I know we talk for hours while going down the road.
@@just-incase3483 The first illegal ones became popular in here in the port cities like London, Southampton and Liverpool in the late 60’s. Sometimes they were probably used in places like that as communication by smugglers but not exclusively so because travellers and bikers used them also, though not so much the more popularly thought lorry drivers in those days. They became legal in late 1981 here, though the ones with the wider range and more channels needed to be licensed until they were deregulated in 2006.
We used to tell each other about road conditions up ahead, no more. I was recently stuck in a jam on I-40. Got out of my car and approached 5 different trucks to ask if they could tell me about our traffic jam. No one had a CB, they knew nothing.
@@babydriver8134 That’s a shame. Living in states where the elevation can change by a few thousand feet in a relatively short distance the CB has the potential to save many lives. I know you can get weather information off of your phone and such, but in the mountains conditions can change in minutes with accurate forecasting not always being possible because of different air masses moving in so fast. Heck, I have been told that some places in the Rockies and the western cordilleras generally, can make their own weather patterns!
It still is fun and profitable. Just like in those days there are drivers making out like bandits and drivers struggling to get by. It all comes down to the driver if they know what they are doing or not
No climate controlled Volvos with sleepers, no flip flops and pajamas, no GPS, no cell phones, no turbans, no cameras everywhere, no safe zones, no political correctness, just survival of the fittest. I bet it was magical (and more dangerous in some ways) driving through the Cascades, Sierras, the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts back then.
I just noticed how nice all that lumber is, not like the driftwood builders use these days that look like the side of a tree or something they fished out of the lake. I wish I could time travel back to 1976 and go on this trip with them once. I was also born around 1976. I don't remember many details of that era but I remember the feeling. The world felt quiet in comparison. People always stopped to help and would offer you food and a ride to where you were going if you were stranded on the side of the road. People weren't too busy for you. Edit: I agree these guys were real men. Boy have I seen some strange truckers out there these days.
Less co2. Trees grew slower. Better wood overall. But that is something you cant change it, unless all production/world goes super enviroment friendly, or we back at 1930 with the production worldwide.
Population over was wayyyy less. They were cutting down all those trees in Oregon and Washington with no remorse, and you couldn’t really tell. But now as the population has skyrocketed not only in this country but worldwide, we have to replant trees, cut them way younger, and find other alternatives to meeting demand.
Back in the day when cabovers were common here in the USA🇺🇸. Nowadays there's only a very small number of them around. At first I didn't know why most of them disappeared & then I've learned it was because the law increased the length limit which made them no longer a necessity.
@@daMillenialTrucker the weight limit was increased too which also eliminated the need for cabovers to pull loads that exceeded a certain weight since cabovers are lighter & have a shorter wheel base than conventional cabs. Cabovers have a wider cab than conventional cabs but both have the same overall width. Some semi drivers who drove cabovers back in the day told me some stories about them saying they were awful & they do not miss driving them. They rode like you had a jackhammer up your butt & would get very hot & noisy inside the cab. Sleeping inside the sleeper was like being inside of a coffin because of the motor underneath which was why it was less space than in a conventional cab. You'd have to remember to remove all of your stuff out of the cab before letting a mechanic work on it or else it'll go all over the place & leave a big mess inside & sometimes break the windshield too because the mechanic has to tilt up the cab for access to the motor. You got to be careful not to slip off one of the 2 steps while holding onto the handrail bars on the side of the cab as you enter or exit the cab since the second step is above the front axle which you got to take a big step between the first & second steps which are kind of far from each other. Unlike on a conventional cab where the steps are in a straight line for easier entering & exiting the cab instead of at an angle like on a cabover.
@@kevinrichards3288 I can see why they say those were the days when men were men lmaoooo look, if I had to deal with it, I would but if I didn't, I wouldn't lol AINT NO WAYYY.
My family is in this documentary , my Dad is Doug , I'm the young girl running down the street , I was 9 ..I just seen this for the first time recently and it's priceless as my Dad is no longer with us ❤️ very well done documentary
How old are you now?
Pretty cool to have you dad and you on film. I wish I had film of me when I was a kid running with my father hauling cars,cattle, steel and cement in the late sixties. Real men and real trucks and honourable work. Dad was my hero for sure.
John I'm 55
Honestly thought I'd never have the chance to see this documentary that I've wondered about for 46 years .. I love it ❤️
Love this film very awesome. Especially with Becky’s comments on here. Makes it more authentic. I started in 2001 but couldn’t afford newer trucks so I bought my self 76 352H and had fun.
People here look good. No once is fat, each one os well spoken and there seems to be respect beyween how people interact with each other. Love it
I started trucking 1983, I caught the last few years of these days. It is sad, these two fellows were what most most truckers were like back then
In those days didn't sit inside all day nothing to do at home either working, or doing things outside we didn't have RUclips, or internet. TV was 6-8 channels you watched program at night have one TV entire house.
buffet man looked like he was experiencing mild cardiac trauma after his bench press.
The lot lizards looked pretty dysgenic even back then.
Eyep...I haven't started driving yet but I hear a lot about "you'll find the best of humanity...and the worst of it in this industry."
I wonder if I should join the teamsters eventually.
This is the era of trucking I came up in. Fuel was cheap, rates were good and a man could buy a decent truck and support his family. It was a wonderful time. You didn't see the stupidity out there like now either!
I'm 26 now, started driving at 18. I' have a great love and passion for trucking especially this golden era of trucking. I wish I was born earlier and got the chance to experience it. Many truckers are clowns today that don't know what it means to be a trucker. Even though I'm young, I'm an old school trucker at heart
@@SerbKing1389 I'm with you I turn 25 in a couple days been driving 3 yrs now we really missed out on classic trucking can't even hardly find a manual rig now. I had to quit my old job because they switched to Volvo automatics I said I'm done
@@ricochetey bro I'm in the same fking boat. Switched companies a year ago now driving a new volvo. Told mu boss to buy me a manual and almost all the new trucks you can find are autos. I hate it. I miss floating gears man. It dosent feel like you're driving a truck anymore. We really did miss out on those golden years.
@@SerbKing1389 Wow no suprise, that blows. I'm in a 2001 Mack CH with a 10spd now no sensors, beepers or DEF I'm happy and my new boss plans to keep it that way 1.5mill miles and counting
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I started driving trucks in 1992 and retired in 2021. I still miss it.
@@2ndarmoredhellonwheels106 I started driving trucks in 1983 - I was 20. I liked/loved it until about 1995. By that time all the good guys like Becky's dad, Karl , Bill Laidlow and guys like them were fading away and being replaced by people who would have never in a million years been hired when I was a kid getting in the industry. I don't miss it a bit
This video just showed my life. Had been trucking for five years in 1976. Had a dedicated lumber run from John Day, Oregon to building sites in Dallas/Ft Worth. Those were the days my friend.
did you have to tarp im surprised the guys didn't
@@JHorse508 My loads were kiln dried, so yes, I had to tarp. Two of the trucks in this video must've been hauling green lumber. The third truck was tarped. Great question.
You are like me; looking for bloopers and call outs.
I have to add how much I enjoyed watching those old Freightshakers strolling down the boulevard. Drove a LOT of those old C/O's.
Worst thing about the Freightliner cabovers from the 60's was keeping the cab warm in the dead of winter. More than once I took sheets of cardboard and taped them under the dash, and against the driver's door, and then wrapped my lap and legs in a blanket.
@@oldtrucker672 AH yes them old freight shakers wind rain and snow blowing thru all the little nooks and crannies .wearing boot's two pair of socks a heavy jacket .radiator covered over with what ever you had and still being cold .looking thru the windshield thru that one small spot that wasn't frozen over .and when you get outside there were Ice sickles radiating from the lug nuts like a star and your C.B .antenna was covered with ice not to mention the grab bar to get in and out .do remember a trucker who drove Kenworth cabovers .his name was John hunter .
@@loganjohnson3589 I forgot about the lack of defrost! And those dumb ass air powered wipers. I didn't know John Hunter but somebody knows what they are talking about! The icy grab handles and steps could be nasty for sure.
@@oldtrucker672 John was the man who broke me in to truck driving .he was one of the real old timer out law drivers .I hit the road in the mid 80's most of my life was oversize and heavy long haul .I hung up the key's in 2020 .my first truck was an old freight shaker .It was well kept but that didn't go far in the winter .It had air assist steering thank god you could shut it off It was great for the summer and city driving but scary as hell on snow and ice .I lived in that truck for 6 years .I was in my early 20's then .I guess i was lucky the life of a trucker suit me .As the years went by I saw lots of changes in this old world .the one that disturbed me the most was how the younger drivers behaved .the work is the same but the drivers have turned into idiots and whiner's .Well I gotta go some one just told me lunch is about ready .and she's a good cook .so so long old trucker nice to have met ya .
when I was a kid in the 1970s I used to make a list of every rig I saw during family road trips in Canada, the classic trucks made a big impression.
I did the exact same thing, my brother and I would point a nice one out and say that one’s mine and then argue over who’s it was 😆 that and the travel game with different things to spot while traveling and you put a magnetic chip over it when you saw that certain thing until you get a bingo. I miss those days.
That's rad 😳😃
This is true lost media, most today will never know how good it was back then, even with all the problems that there were. Thank you for uploading this, I am not crying someone’s just chopping onions near me.
I'm a young trucker, in my late 20s, and I do the Portland to Phoenix run all the time. It's super cool to see what it was like long before my time. :-)
Go get a Teamster driving job that is in the Pension. Stick with it if you want to drive. Otherwise , the future will be bleak, unless you have other streams of income. Good luck. You did miss the best days…. I caught the tail end…. And then spent years watching the decline
@@MetalTeamster I'm definitely looking! Teamster trucking jobs are sadly hard to come by nowadays. Plus, you're basically unhireable once you have one. Every ex-Yellow driver I've talked to has said that they were denied by every company because they are so scared of drivers unionizing. Hopefully we'll reach a tipping point soon and drivers across the nation will turn pro-union again.
@@LordHeadcheez well, good luck, yes, be nice to get back at least some of what we gave up
This was the best of trucking. I came home from the army in 74 jumped in one of these rigs and it got in my blood and never could let it go. I am retired now and I sure miss it.
I can understand why you miss being on the road, but you would not want to be out here with these idiot drivers. They're all playing on their phones while driving and you have to navigate around them!
AUGUSTUS SHOOK THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL WHO READ THIS AMEN.
Thank you for your service brother
You must be..shook by that
O How I know that feeling Brother I ran for 45 years my body told me i had to step down .5 years ago .And i still feel lost .
I started driving in 1978.I drove a cab over for ups. I drove 39 years. This brings back memory’s.All them old trucking songs. Fun on the CB.Charles Douglas and Art Bell on coast to coast .I thank God I have myTeamster Pension !My last dedicated run was Houston to Hammond LA and back.650 miles 5 nights a week .Catch you on the flip side Good Neighbor . I got to go😅Keep those pups a pullin
I started in the 80s and started my own company in the 90s. Sold out right before the 2008 crash and never looked back.
It's amazing how different the trucking industry is today compared to 70s and 80s
Hello Adam how are you doing today?
I am of the firm belief that it's so heavily regulated now, because of the sins of the past. I've been driving 13 years myself, and hate the over bearing regulations as much as the next driver.
What has changed sir ?
It’s not different if you run a business professionally. Allot of work but it’s worth it
I can't believe how many morons call themselves truckers when they are really just steering wheel holders who text while driving and drift into my lane. I literally hate truck drivers.
I remember as a kid in the 80s doing the honking motion to get truckers to honk at us. They’d do it 💯 of the time. It was always a thrill for us. I guess we were easily amused. 😅
Adam Edwards I remember doing that too always loved hearing those air horns blow.
Started trucking in 81. Still honk the horns. The pleasure the kids have when you do that is priceless!
Don't worry, Most of us still do it, if we can see ya anyway. Had an old fart give me the signal awhile ago, I giggled all the way home.
They still do this !!! I've even wanted to do the horn honk arm thru my cars sunroof lol still haven't
As a former trucker, trucking today is a shadow of what it once was. My first truck was a cab over. I miss it so bad. This documentary was AMAZING!
Single screw COE with wiggle wagons
Ya, the golden days of trucking….. when you picked up freight all day and drove all night. Drove from one truck stop to the next to use the pay phone
to see if your getting paid for the load you dropped, trying to arrange for delivery of the load you’ve got on, and trying to find your next load.
The trucks where interesting to look at from one half of the country to the other due to bridge laws. I drove cabovers for over 30 years. Other
than nostalgia, they where a cold bitch in the Canadian winters. Gross weight was 73,280 lbs, and everyone had their hand out. Before IFTA you
where swamped with tax filing and licensing. All that tin hanging off the bumper back in the day was more paperwork. Running that short single
axle 352 with a set of joints over those snow packed passes took a lot of skill, and nerve let me tell you. Excellent film of realistic trucking in the
70’s. Almost every truck stop was full of cab overs back in the day, then with the blink of an eye they’re all gone. So are the drivers.
Why no more cab overs, I don't get it?
Probably because in head on collision the cab would flip over the front bumper.
@@Johnnycdrums They're still fairly popular in Europe.
@@Johnnycdrums You may find this interesting: Trucks in USA compared to Europe. ruclips.net/video/KxRKFO_OiQM/видео.html
@@Johnnycdrums truckers generally don’t prefer cab-overs due to tighter living spaces and difficult engine access. After the 70s restrictions on overall truck length were relaxed, and hence many truckers opted for the longer bonneted trucks.
In Europe due to smaller roads and tighter length restrictions cab-over trucks are still popular, which is why some in this comment thread are mentioning them.
Man I need to find more lifestyle documentaries like this from the 70s this is the best thing I’ve seen all year my goodness this is fucking gold
Lol me too im diving into the 1970s 60s rabbit hole of entertainment.
A lot of truck stops were great. Good people to talk to, good atmosphere, fun games and - the food. Can't trust people these days. A whole different world today...
I wish I could drove back in those days. I don't speak to other drivers at all and I don't care to because I don't trust nobody and I don't trust nobody because I don't play by the rules.
@@daMillenialTrucker super trucker
@@bredwhite6786 rat 🐀🐀🐀
I agree.
Lots of shady corporate truck stops that are straight up dangerous. Now no more mom and pops truck stops and zero camaraderie among drivers. It’s just plain sad
My grandpa & grandma we're team drivers in '76. I was 7 yrs old and spent part of my summer school break on the road with them.
Tbey drove an International cab-over. Never forget sittin on the doghouse. Good times.
Oh how I wish I was back in that time,this is Americana at its best
Absolutely, so much more friendly and relaxed back then
If you were white….not so great if you were black or hispanic
Ahh the time of Cabovers and 48" Trailer's. I was 13 in 1976, riding shotgun in Grandpas 73 W900 with a 1693 Cat and a 5/4, (god I miss that Truck!) learning how to drive a big truck. Took me a lot of years to realize I was taught by one of the best. Sadly things changed and none for the better. What I really miss is the English language on the CB , hell I even miss the CB itself as nobody uses one anymore, and of course Johnny Cash on the tape player. Thing I'm curious about is why the Boss is driving the only single set truck.
Truckers were rock star 🎉back in the day, they had fun with all those good looking ladies
I had to pause this Fantastic Documentary to read the comments..my God im reading it like a book..To read the child becky now 55 texting and others joining in is absolutely mind blowing..Im a trucker sitting in my bunk getting loaded in Richmond, VA headed to Bedford, PA...I love running out west but hasnt payed well in years so alot of companies dont book loads west..2021 was the last Run in my own Rig and i can tell you those mountains are tough on older trucks especially if your Not Geared for it.. east cost mountains are hills compared to Colorado, Idaho, cali ,etc..Ive been White knuckled more times than i can count driving through blizzards out west...
That Jubitz Truckstop was still going up in Portland when I pulled in there around 97. One of the best truckstops I ever went to.
Was a little surprised at the seediness this film portrayed. Any trucker can avoid 99% of that garbage if they want to.
This is not seedy. True trucking.
This was a great documentary and a nice throwback to a bygone era.
Man I ready like this it set me back to yesterday I am so glad I watch this ❤ my heart go out for you ❤ keep the videos comeing I am going to back on out of here and enjoy the video God bless you !!++
I started Trucking in 1976, can't do it no more, too old, too sick, but, old Truckers NEVER die, they just get a new Peterbilt. Mad Mike- retired Trucker
Me also sir !!!!!
I hope you are well.
I hope you get well
I pray you get well sir...i also have a passion for trucking..starting soon
❤❤
Good old days, America's Golden age, no camel jockeys, its all gone unfortunately ...((
@@JoeBlack-k5t how rich coming from a Russian.
Thx for uploading this Retired Brit. This truly was the golden era of trucking. Deregulation really fucked our industry up.
What did it do?
I remember being a kid back in the day when truckers were in high regards with movies and TV shows about them were common. One helped my mom get into a town in rural kentucky. He was following her, saw her weaving (she was nodding off and weaving) blew his horn to wake her up. I remember the radio lingo. My ex best friend is a trucker. No real cb radio activity anymore, no real comradery anymore. Like everything else in contemporary society, just another cold aspect of today. I wanted to grow up and drive trucks, wound up a scientist. But it was always a cherished moment being with my old friend in his truck going where ever running freight. Always imagining the romantic thoughts of the trucking culture of my youth.
I grew up in that era and couldn't wait to grow up and be a truck driver. Now, all the trucks of that past era are in the junk yards or even museums. Everytime I see one of them it brings back a flood of memories.
A men brother .now i know how that old fire house dog feels.
Same here. I was corrupted by a show called Movin On.
We got three late 60s mack r600s and a r700 &r400 they are showing thier age but they anit dead yet
Our new truck is a 92. California is the only state we don’t run. 90 & 92 379s for the long haul, R model Mack dump & building a 1980 W900A for my last truck.
Different country but pretty much the same here in Australia, l miss that era... some people may disagree with me but just take me back. Thanks for sharing...
good
I love the old cab over trucks what beautiful rigs I drive moving heavy equipment and watching this makes me think just how tough these men and women had it
I am in the UK.....now a retired truck driver.....remember this coming on UK TV in the early 1970s....thought it was fantastic then....still do.
Hello nick how are you doing today?
Has trucking changed as much in the U.K. as it has here in the states?
Love watching this from my first youngster years riding along with Bill
Ahh, the sound of those 318 Detroits makes me teary eyed.
Love these vids. Started in 1980. Still at it. Yea I’m getting old lol. Spent first 9 years in nothing but cab overs running cross country. Last 33 years running local , pulling tankers. 21 years of that as an owner operator. Thanks for the old vids. I still haven’t seen myself in one yet lol. Take care
you ever run across a guy named Logan his handle was the Barbarian .he moved boat's up and down the i5 corridor in the 80's .
I’ve been on the road for 18 years now. Coast to coast. Bardstown, KY - Barstow, Ca. “Keep the bugs off your glass and the bugs off your…”- C.W. McCall.
What’s up Keith! I’m owner opp myself running tanker up in down from Oakland to Modesto! Respect to you Keith
I still truck my 1979 Peterbilt 352 cabover to this day
@@johncholmes643 cab-over Pete with a reffer on and a Jimmy hauling hogs.
That whole first. 30 mins of video was filmed on Hwy 58, btwn Eugene and Crescent. I'm a firefighter in Crescent and recognized a lot of those landmarks. We spend a lot of time on the pass in the winter picking truckers of the ice.
US HWY58 is between Atlantic Beach and Warrenton NC where I live though? I think you're thinking of Oregon Route 58 brother.
45 minutes of footage and a not a single flip flip in sight, good old times
Wish i would of truck drive in this era
Always love sitting with the old timers and hear amazing stories in the truck stops and customers
My 7 years of trucking is thanks to all the tips and advices from the old timers my hat and respect is always to them
Things havent changed much since I got in and out , 30 yr or so , it just picked up speed and developed new problems along the way. The older I got , seeing things vanish , fighting new rules n regs , and being held at gun point just because it involved a truck , the more that romantic vision I had of driving trucks and spinning them Dave Dudley , Willis Bros. , Red Sovine albums in my room at 3rd and 4th grade age slowly faded away. Right along with America. Breaks my heart.
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Just a couple of observations. That old Pete was a real utilitarian truck and that sleeper cab looked very cramped. None of those trucks had power steering and probably didn't even have a power clutch. Also the water level at Lake Mead was nothing like it is today, most of it has dried up. Finally, this was 46 years ago. Most of the people in this film are probably dead by now but the Jubitz Truck Stop out in Portland is still going strong today in a much expanded way - it even has a hundred room hotel and a cinema. All power to today's trucker everywhere in the world.
Ya Bob, I stay at Jubitz everytime I get to shut down in Portland. In fact just last week I did the Portland to Phoenix run.
Big grin when you bring up Jubitz. Spent some time there!
My family was in this Documentary..my Dad was Doug , he passed away in 2015 , my brother Robert was killed in 2000 ( he was wearing the cowboy hat , in loyalton where my Dad was home with his family , I was the girl running down the street ... ) Carl and his wife are no longer with us , but everyone else is . I seen this for the first time about 2 months ago and always wondered about it. When I seen it I was mesmerized by everything about it 😊
@@beckysnedegar1124 when did Carl pass away?
Unfortunately I don't know when Carl passed away 😞
Awesome time piece. I'm going to be more like these guys for the rest of the day.
Cool video…interesting to see the three basic types of truckers all packed into one video as a group of videos. Also seeing the different outlooks for the future,,,,the young guy who wants to be the old guy and have all the trucks and be rich, the middle aged guy trying to juggle the family life and still hopeful of a bright future and lastly the old guy who is just counting down the days until he can afford to quit,,,,as his wife said the future “isnt looking to bright”. Here we have the true story of life for most working class people.
21:27 Solid lifting in a flannel, jeans & cowboy boots. Absolute legend
I do see these old trucks in the junkyards on my travels! Great video!
3:01 those air powered windshield wipers. Dad’s were always jerky like that too. All these years I thought there was something wrong with them. Looks like that’s just how they were.
I was born in 80. Grew up with my Father's dump truck company in Chicago. I remember going to the yards and job sites.
Dad was an indep. O/O from about 67-86. Back around 84, the cdl proposal was quite the controversy. Everything he predicted, came true. One was, once the gov't opened that door. It'd go too far before the error was realized. Then, there'd be constant laws. Trying to tune & adjust the mistake. Not ending till they figured out how to be in the cab & supervise you. Hence, the E.L.D. law!
Esse documentário do transporte rodoviário dos EUA nos idos de 1976,me traz as boas lembranças da minha infância na roça aqui no Brasil,nesse tempo eu já contava com os meus 12 anos de idade,ainda não tinha muita noção de tempo e a nossa satisfação era ouvir os programas sertanejos a noite e ir a algum festejo de pagode a moda caipira nas casas dos outros. Ituiutaba-MG,Brasil 🇧🇷,as 15:39,em 12/10/22.🤠🙌
I remember these days. Lots of cabovers due to length restrictions in various state. I have not seen a cabover in years. I guess that they are all antiques now. They sure rode hard.
I still see a few its pretty cool to see them. Never drove them as you said most are relics. See a bunch of them in yards as scrap kinda sad. Still see a bunch of long hoods on the road i cane to America in 96 and those trucks were brand new whereas now they are getting old. Still glad to see them truckin.
Whenever i have to use my loud horn it takes me back to when i used to go to the highway overpass with my dad and position the truckers in a horn pattern and they would blare their horns. Btw i team with my dad now so its nice
Jfc, the world we live in looks and feels dead compared to this. Nostalgic for a past I never even experienced.
The truckers are still out there 24/7 365
@@Jay-kk3dv yeah but now they're indians
The scene with the lot lizards was my favorite
Started driving in 1979 and this video never gets old for me because of so many good memories back in that era of truckin. Good ole cabover days too, cut my teeth driving a slab cab Intl 4070 pulling doubles locally.
Now these truck drivers are the real cowboys of the road 🙂
Great episode.. love the cabover trucks
I gotta tell you, few of the drivers who drove them, self included, ever enjoyed them. They were rough , they were cramped, your feet were often cold unless you had the cab roasting, they were difficult to change clothes in and somewhat blind on the passenger side. The engines in those trucks in this vid were 2 stroke Detroit diesel engines which sounded cool, but notice how slow they were on hills? But, I understand people getting nostalgic
@@MetalTeamster true warrior for sure.. hot, sticky, frozen feet, deliverin' the goods.. rest well goat..
@@modocroughstock5700 thanks…. I only did year in a cab over. And mine was a 84 Peterbilt… with a 8v92 and a 15 speed. It had all the bells and whistles. I was really very lucky right from the start.
This was an incredible little film with some very nice people, thank you for this.
Makes me proud to be carrying on the tradition. Can't imagine life out of the saddle.
I've done that exact route from Portland to Phoenix. Went up williemette pass many times when it was cold and snowy.
Why though? Why not I5?
Wow...this is a Big part of the backbone of the us. Working Class.
Respect and hats off to them they keep them families fed. Reminds me of our dad❤️👍🏻
It's very interesting to think about how different trucking is today but also how independent owner operators still suffer from the same issues as they did back in the 70s
Back in the 70s your Dad was cool being a Truck driver!
When cabovers ruled!
MACK F serie
@@MrJakec007 Chevy titan V12 Detroit
Just remember to keep your left pinky finger away from the wind wing!!
Spent three weeks at Jubitz truck stop in portland in 2016. Nothing has changed about the place from this video 40 years earlier. One of the better truck stops in America.
Anyone who's picked up a bag of tire chains knows it ain't a easy thing
That old boy grabbed them both like sacks of groceries
My those where the days. Life was uncomplicated. We ran coast to coast with no road rage , no blocking the fuel island. I’m still out here but it just not the same. Days are numbered. 69 and holding.Bean Pot Lounge Phoenix Arizona
Truckers all around the world deserve more respect from people and government. Everything man made thing we can see with our eyes has been in some form (raw or finished), on a truck at some point. Without trucks we would have nothing. Trucks stop, world stop.
The music reminds me of Good Old Red Sovine we had a boat named after the song Giddy Up go get a lot of fun in that boat. Red was one of dad's favorite artists. Roll on.
Rip to some of these OG TRUCKERS
Crazy to think these guys would be like 80-100 years old today.
Cab over era, man them cab overs are so nostalgic. You still see them here and there in the farm lands of Oregon putting around hauling spuds or whatever.
where I work there's a local guy with a cabover mack that he comes into the plant with everyday, loads up with coke, and takes it to where it needs to go. always kinda wanted to have a chat with the dude but never had a chance.
WOW! This little gem was ON POINT on so many levels, what a window into the past.
One critique, it would be awesome if you corrected the aspect ratio.
Thank you for posting this!
To all the truckers out there i say thank you I come from a long line of truckers and we no your pain love from Louisiana.
Part of me really wants to do trucking, but I would give anything to do it back then. Its a completely different world now but the 70s, and even most the 80s was so much more genuine.
They were the real truckers back in those days and now trucking will never be the same as it once was but I will always have respect for all the truckers after being one myself for over 6 years, keep them trucks rollin 10-4.
That's pretty cool, it's still cool today I started driving 5 years ago and it's been awesome, bought my own truck after 8 months of driving a year later bought a house and a year after that I got my own trailer, and some toys along the way boat and motorcycles everything paid for accept the house, there's good money to be made if your willing to work and take on responsibilities
God bless the truckers of America past and present
I remember my dad trucking back in the late 70s, and into the ’80s buying his first truck a 76 international trans-star 2. Cab-over.
I used to drive one of those .
@@loganjohnson3589, that was rough riding truck lol.
@@ffnelson782fmfd4 Thank god for inventing air ride seats 👍
@@loganjohnson3589 yes, sir!!
Back when men could be men without being shamed for it.
Shit I'm still a man with no shame 😂
🤨?!
How are men being shamed for being men!
The feminism has stepped in,they compete with men,they shame them,that's why there is no real men left and why women are even dumber then you can imagine today.
@@EarlBeasley-y4p They're not. What does that even mean? Some type of political 'statement', I suppose.
@@EarlBeasley-y4p he means back then you could be a total pig with no consideration of how your actions affect others and no one would call you out on it.
I loved jubitz back in the early 80’s. Fun place to go. Could always score on a jubitz queen 👸
I remember watching this video on BBC in the UK when it first came out on a programme called The World About US, I would think Karl Weber will have passed now, proper old school stuff.
Great old school video. Those days are long gone.❤❤
Carl’s last comment right at the end is rather chilling about losing the ideals the country was founded on. We commonly think of individual liberty and limited government. But, there isn’t a lot of difference between leviathan government and leviathan companies, especially when the two are intertwined like they presently are.
“..there isn’t a lot of difference between leviathan government and leviathan companies, esp when the two are intertwined like they presently are.”
BOOM. Best comment of the 400+ I read.
Damn right, Phantom!
He's absolutely right! Spot on here in 2022. I doubt he's still alive, but he'd be terrified today to see where the industry and this country have fallen to and become.
This is alright! My Dad was a Truckdriver all my life. As soon as I got out of my diapers I got to ride with him. Out of Stats and sleep in the sleeper. I remember at night while the Truck cooled down I knew there was a wild animale trying to get inside! I have many storys I remember.
That one guy is mutton chops were epic gotta love the 70’s 😂
Will when the truck is rocking dont come knocking
my dad started trucking in 1976 after he retired 21 years in the navy his first trucking job was d.s. russell and son’s trucking out of norfolk va my dad did the east to west coast over the road with them until they went out of business in 1985 then he thankfully got a local job in norfolk with valjar has anyone heard of any of those companies he retired from local trucking in 2001
Those 2-stroke are 1 hell of a different breed of trucks and truckers.
Golden time, golden years, golden music and peoples 🚛🚚
This was a very nice documentary , great pictures , good music from the 70's ( Barry White), good stories, very nostalgic .
From Europe those trucks were one of the symbols of usa.
Spent from 13 til I was 27 on road with my dad started in 74
Depends who you were in the seventies as a trucker. Some made great money some just got by. There were periods in the '80s where there was great money in trucking. Recently it was great in 2020 and 2021. Today it is almost suicide. Now I'm talking money wise.
Hello chad how are you doing today?
2020/21 was a great year
@@johnburugu8967 yea was a great year, hope all is well with you?
I know a guy that started in 1970, and we got into talking about pay. He did routes a thru out Manhattan down to dc, and in his first couple years he started around 700 a week and went up to 1100 by 1972 only crawled after that to around 1600 a week when he retired in 98. My grandfather was a trucker from 1960-1988 but he died a little bit after I was born. But he was able to support a family of 5 on that single income for nearly 30 years. Funny thing is now at 22 being diesel mechanic at a union shop I only take home 1k a week which is considered good rn but no where near what they made in the 70s and 80s in relative terms for inflation
@@Suburbanhotrods My older brother, much older lol, drove a truck in the 70s and 80s and was able to buy a nice bit of land and build a nice house. I used to enjoy listening to his stories of driving all across the US. His last year of driving was mostly local routes and I got to ride with him on a couple trips in 1983. Fun times.
It gives you an idea of the immense size of the west. And also the CB craze of the 70’s. Interesting upload! 👍
Back here in the UK, CB radio didn’t become legal until the end of 1981. By that time the commercial appeal of CB had already been on the wane for a couple of years back in the States, even allowing for BJ and the Bear which was still showing and I suppose you could loosely put The Dukes of Hazzard in there.
After the first Convoy and Smokey and the Bandit the follow ups weren’t as good, but then again I can see the appeal of driving one of those things for myself way out west! 👍
We still use cb radios here in the states, I talk on my radio almost everyday and if I see a driver I know we talk for hours while going down the road.
@@just-incase3483 The first illegal ones became popular in here in the port cities like London, Southampton and Liverpool in the late 60’s. Sometimes they were probably used in places like that as communication by smugglers but not exclusively so because travellers and bikers used them also, though not so much the more popularly thought lorry drivers in those days.
They became legal in late 1981 here, though the ones with the wider range and more channels needed to be licensed until they were deregulated in 2006.
We used to tell each other about road conditions up ahead, no more.
I was recently stuck in a jam on I-40. Got out of my car and approached 5 different trucks to ask if they could tell me about our traffic jam.
No one had a CB, they knew nothing.
@@babydriver8134 That’s a shame. Living in states where the elevation can change by a few thousand feet in a relatively short distance the CB has the potential to save many lives.
I know you can get weather information off of your phone and such, but in the mountains conditions can change in minutes with accurate forecasting not always being possible because of different air masses moving in so fast. Heck, I have been told that some places in the Rockies and the western cordilleras generally, can make their own weather patterns!
Just goes to show that however good or bad things are there’s always nostalgia for how much better things used to be a few years before…
Or we’ve just been in a constant decline since the end of ww2
@@noahlinden9641 I do like an optimist.
@@CycolacFan you can be whatever you want to be but truth is gonna remain truth.
@@sardar_gurjot yes, if you choose to always look on the bad side of life that’s exactly what you’ll get.
@@CycolacFan That's right. A textbook case of 'confirmation bias.'
Don't make them like they used to. The men, the trucks, and the documentaries. What a great film.
Back when trucking was fun and profitable
A good wage was 13cents a mile in those days .
It still is fun and profitable. Just like in those days there are drivers making out like bandits and drivers struggling to get by. It all comes down to the driver if they know what they are doing or not
No climate controlled Volvos with sleepers, no flip flops and pajamas, no GPS, no cell phones, no turbans, no cameras everywhere, no safe zones, no political correctness, just survival of the fittest. I bet it was magical (and more dangerous in some ways) driving through the Cascades, Sierras, the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts back then.
I bet it was far more enjoyable and less mental health
What u have against turbans
Lol
That wipers on the red in the beginning... it is something...❤️🔥🗿❤️🔥
I just noticed how nice all that lumber is, not like the driftwood builders use these days that look like the side of a tree or something they fished out of the lake. I wish I could time travel back to 1976 and go on this trip with them once.
I was also born around 1976. I don't remember many details of that era but I remember the feeling. The world felt quiet in comparison. People always stopped to help and would offer you food and a ride to where you were going if you were stranded on the side of the road. People weren't too busy for you.
Edit: I agree these guys were real men. Boy have I seen some strange truckers out there these days.
Less co2. Trees grew slower. Better wood overall. But that is something you cant change it, unless all production/world goes super enviroment friendly, or we back at 1930 with the production worldwide.
Population over was wayyyy less. They were cutting down all those trees in Oregon and Washington with no remorse, and you couldn’t really tell. But now as the population has skyrocketed not only in this country but worldwide, we have to replant trees, cut them way younger, and find other alternatives to meeting demand.
Jubitz.
How in the hell do them boys fit a 200 or 300 lb. woman in them little sleepers?!!!! My lands!!!😂
Back in the day when cabovers were common here in the USA🇺🇸. Nowadays there's only a very small number of them around. At first I didn't know why most of them disappeared & then I've learned it was because the law increased the length limit which made them no longer a necessity.
Which is a great thing, I couldn't do that tiny little space and not being able to stand up in my truck at 6'2"
@@daMillenialTrucker & leaving the scene of an accident through the windshield.
@@kevinrichards3288 lmaoo right 🤣🤣🤣
@@daMillenialTrucker the weight limit was increased too which also eliminated the need for cabovers to pull loads that exceeded a certain weight since cabovers are lighter & have a shorter wheel base than conventional cabs. Cabovers have a wider cab than conventional cabs but both have the same overall width. Some semi drivers who drove cabovers back in the day told me some stories about them saying they were awful & they do not miss driving them. They rode like you had a jackhammer up your butt & would get very hot & noisy inside the cab. Sleeping inside the sleeper was like being inside of a coffin because of the motor underneath which was why it was less space than in a conventional cab. You'd have to remember to remove all of your stuff out of the cab before letting a mechanic work on it or else it'll go all over the place & leave a big mess inside & sometimes break the windshield too because the mechanic has to tilt up the cab for access to the motor. You got to be careful not to slip off one of the 2 steps while holding onto the handrail bars on the side of the cab as you enter or exit the cab since the second step is above the front axle which you got to take a big step between the first & second steps which are kind of far from each other. Unlike on a conventional cab where the steps are in a straight line for easier entering & exiting the cab instead of at an angle like on a cabover.
@@kevinrichards3288 I can see why they say those were the days when men were men lmaoooo look, if I had to deal with it, I would but if I didn't, I wouldn't lol AINT NO WAYYY.