Hey ! I started a year before he did. That was the truth. We had all kinds of Crap to keep us awake. Whiteys were over the counter No Dozes Hi Powered Caffeine pills! Make you sick to your Stomach but they kept you awake for 3 or 4 extra hours. The good stuff was Pink Hearts Black Beauty's Orange Sun Shine! Christmas trees. A few Beauty's and an extra log books Would get you to HuntsPoint Market NYC. In about 2and a half days! Trucking was not easy back then. Most of the interstates were not finished back then! But then the Oil embargo! They lowered the speed limits to 55 mph. You could no longer make a mile a minute! That killed more Drivers from fatigue than any thing else and destroy and made outlaws of most of us . It made Local and State Governments Rich! Because of Speed violations than anything else. Dark days back then. Movies like Convoy and Smokey and the Bandit made Millions! A CB Radio was your Constant Friend! You had to know where the Cops were and what was up ahead of you. You had to have the best Rand Mcnealy Road Map Book you could get also was your best Friend. It had to be updated every other year to keep up too. It would let you know if the Road Laws Changed State to State also.
I grew up running around George Young's trucks and garage while he and my father wrenched on rigs and cars. He and his family are truly the most kind hearted, genuine people you could ever meet. Much love Buddy!
I learned a lot from y’all ole time drivers.. I started February 1999.. back when people sat down to eat and take a break. Drivers would talk to each other. Talking and listening I learned a lot and will never forget those times.. very sad what this industry has turned into to.. opposite of what it was and was meant to be.
This dude is what I remember truckers being when I grew up, and why I became one. Everything he said is 100% accurate. After 37 years, I feel like the "old guy" out here now. Driving my 97 KW until the end. I still carry the same truckin' values as he does.
I do remember all truckers were like this guy! I remember going to truck stops with my grandfather in the 80s and all the truck drivers were like this. Now....well you be the judge.
Not a 100%. He said the Pete is a 78, company said it’s too old and he bought a brand new Marmon , asked what year was that, he said 79-80. 🤔 Truck wasn’t a year old and is too old?? Fella’s memory is failing. Cool ol fella, but that doesn’t jive.
I stumbled across this guy's place one day when I delivered a machine down the road from him. I was floundering my way out of the dirt roads when all of a sudden there's that Pete sitting there. I stopped and we chatted for 30 minutes or so, and used his yard to turn around in and he guided me back to the main road. I really enjoyed the time I had with him.
We need lots more interviews with the old old school truckers. It's a dieing breed that the industry is trying to push out and forget. What a shame. Thanks George Young for sharing some of your stories.
We are still here lol Lord Wiling. Now my wife and pull a Camper Just showing the Love of Jesus because He has Protected Me for over 5 million miles. Love Silver Bullet. Chester Va
I drove a 77 Pete conventional with the same stripe pattern and body color. It had the big cam 400 Cummins (old style fuel pump) 10 speed with deep reduction. Hauled coal with it and pulled flatbeds in the winter. Hauled heavy equipment too and yeah some D9 cats, Bucyrus Erie 30 ton back hoes. Mostly Eastern Ky and W Virginia coal mines. I'm retired now but I still laugh at all the super truckers that run the jake brake all the time. I never got into the whole trucker image thing and kept to myself. Never felt the need to try and impress any one.
Good ol George one Hell of a great guy. He sold me a set of Jake's for my KT and even dropped them off to me in Kent Ohio on his way out west some years ago. He's one of the last REAL TRUCKERS!
Buddy Young is a living legend out here in Worcester county. It surprised me when he said that the speedometer didn't work from time to time. Buddy is one hell of wrench with a large shop. Glad that you have this recording of him.
Thankful that my oldest two drivers, 1 being 78 which started driving for our company at 22 and the other being 70 are still that style. Have always enjoyed listening to our lifelong truckers stories of "the good ole days". We have to do our best to maintain the "truck driver" persona. It really is a dying breed
I love hearing the old truckers talk and tell about the things they have done. This gentlemen is someone i could spend a day listening to Beautiful old Peterbilt they don't make em like that anymore
I'm an Independent agent in Texarkana,TX and I took on Dallas Mavis in 92 and started loading George back then and loaded him until the day he retired. I sure learned a lot from those guys! I haven't seen George since the ATHS Truck show in Springfield, MO 8 or 9 years ago. Glad to see your still doing Good George! Keep on trucking!!
I would Love to talk old times with him .Especially before I 64 was finally finished and we had to run old 60. Wow ! I wonder how many Guys remember the Rubber bands before dule rearends ! You had one live axle and one dead. You had bands that went between the tire space to get Power to the dead axle in the winter. Really old stuff. I had the privilege to pull the very first 53 foot Trailer in Virginia! Had to pick it up in North Carolina and Drop it off at the Ramada hotel in Richmond Va. 3 times. One van ,Reffer,and a flatbed. All Strict Trailers! Congressman Tom Bliley and other wanted to see them before they approve them for services in our state. I still have the plack and hat from Strick Trailer.
Loved hearing the comment of the pink elephants! We were on a 3 day pack and load move of massive job in Lusk, WY. The shipper and his wife fed us and told some awesome stories. The truck stop in Lusk back in the day was called crazy Charlie's. It got it name after the owner. He hauled his own fuel and reportedly would stop in the middle of the highway to let the pink elephants cross. That story has always stuck with me. Fast forward about 42 years and I now know the new owners who run the place. Its called The Outpost. They said it was a big mistake to ever have changed the name. I enjoy seeing this guy with this great old school truck. We ran cabovers as well and were bed buggers for several years. Its all deck work for the last 35 or so years, who's counting. The trips up the Alcan and Cassiar hiways were the best. Nothing like the North! Thanks for some great stories and good times from the good ol days
Thanks for this interview. I’m convinced this the same George Young who used to get loads of hay from our farm in Red Creek NY back in the 70’s. Same looks, same accent, was from Fitchburg. Brought back a fond memory from my youth.
I could sit for hours on end listening to George Young and his stories of days gone by 💯% 🇺🇸 !!! Diff ratios of 3:55 and pink elephants he certainly has some some great stories I bet !!! Greetings from Downunder Australia 🇦🇺 George if you happen to read this. By the way George we ran KT450 Cummins in our Australian built SAR Kenworth's and W models back in the 1980's pure mechanical horsepower, no drive by wire computers back then that's for sure !!!
It's amazing to hear these old timers the way they talk the way they act the way they do things it's definitely something that's going to be missed. These old guys knew how to take a piece of equipment and make it work.
I looked up what a real man, in the dictionary is, I had a picture of that old boy and his Peterbilt. Love them kind of guys, it's too bad everybody's not like the both of you guys
WHAT A LEGEND NOT TO MENTION AN OUTLAW OF THE HIGHWAY!!! MAY GOD CONTINUE TO WATCH OVER HIM. MIKE REALLY APPRECIATE THESE INTERVIEWS YOU SHOULD DO MORE WITH THE OLD SCHOOL OUTLAWS OF THE HIGHWAY. I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS RIG IT WAS BUILT THE YEAR I WAS BORN 78.
Today’s driver is an employee! Simple, hold the wheel collect a check! This guy could fix anything! Respects the art of driving and traveling! Glad you taped this interview. Today’s driver will never have the experience he has.
Wow, took me back. My dad had a 78 Peterbuilt double sleeper. I was 13 at the time. I learned how to drive in that thing. He would switch while moving down the road and let me drive. It was a 13 year olds fantasy. Thanks for taking me back. Great memory.
У нас до такого возраста обычно не доживают. Машина может и живая, а шофёр уже помер . Маз и камаз приносят гораздо больше болячек , чем денег . Дедуля молодец , тягач огонь .
He’s cool. I’m 64.5. I started professionally in 1980. Hauling meat. We ran a day to day and a half without sleep. Never took the pills. Was fun in the 80s. Somewhere along the line it became something else. Still at it but run local hauling gas. Owned 4 trucks. Company driver now. Hope soon to retire. Knew some of them C&H (cold and hungry) drivers. Good video.
I love all of you truckers all of you have a place in my heart because all of you sacrifice ur lives every day to keep us fed and moving so we can do our jobs. If you didn’t put ur lives on the line every day America would stop as well as the rest of the world please be safe out there and God bless all of you and your family’s
This Pete cabover was also my first truck...driving for a long gone company in NJ...Caretta Trucking. Was running to Fontana CA in four days solo. Logbooks were a dime a dozen back then.
Before the Pets caretta had real nice Freightlinner cabovers with Cats they were on the North Bound side of 17 Just before route 17 and route 4 interchange
I love lessoning to the story’s of the older generation they payed the way for us younger drivers set back and learn something I love hearing my grandfather tell story he has a lot of them about trucks
322 going West out of Lewistown, PA, now that is a climb. As far as truck stops, Route 30 diner in Ronks PA. I still remember the old U and R model Macks Mushroom Trucking ran. Seems like they were always there.
Your tanks & stainless are amazing! I drove for 20 yrs. Nobody should be able to tell you when you're tired! I wore no shoes while driving most of the time! I have hauled lambos & ball players cars, box & hazmat was last thing before I was FORCED retired! Got hit & had to have a double spine fusion. BUNCH OF NICE LOOKING TRUCKS THERE! I sure miss it!
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“When your tired take a pill but when you get tired again it’s time to sleep” 😂 dudes an absolute legend 🤘🏻
😵💫😁
That's hilarious!!
Amen!! The stories that man got
He is a legend
Hey ! I started a year before he did. That was the truth. We had all kinds of Crap to keep us awake. Whiteys were over the counter No Dozes Hi Powered Caffeine pills! Make you sick to your Stomach but they kept you awake for 3 or 4 extra hours. The good stuff was Pink Hearts Black Beauty's Orange Sun Shine! Christmas trees. A few Beauty's and an extra log books Would get you to HuntsPoint Market NYC. In about 2and a half days! Trucking was not easy back then. Most of the interstates were not finished back then! But then the Oil embargo! They lowered the speed limits to 55 mph. You could no longer make a mile a minute! That killed more Drivers from fatigue than any thing else and destroy and made outlaws of most of us . It made Local and State Governments Rich! Because of Speed violations than anything else. Dark days back then. Movies like Convoy and Smokey and the Bandit made Millions! A CB Radio was your Constant Friend! You had to know where the Cops were and what was up ahead of you. You had to have the best Rand Mcnealy Road Map Book you could get also was your best Friend. It had to be updated every other year to keep up too. It would let you know if the Road Laws Changed State to State also.
What a great guy. Soft spoken, humble, and full of experience. A credit to the industry. I loved the carton of Camels on the dog-house.
Unfiltered… love it
I've known George my whole life and you'll never find a nicer and kinder gentleman
I grew up running around George Young's trucks and garage while he and my father wrenched on rigs and cars. He and his family are truly the most kind hearted, genuine people you could ever meet. Much love Buddy!
That's nice to hear.
He started when I did! Little more than 5 million miles! Very proud ✝️❤🇺🇸
Awesome job Rusty thanks for sharing.
@@TheBostonTrucker Love your Show Boston! Stay Close To Jesus. Talk to Him as part of your Pretrip watch your day change. Silver Bullet. ✝️❤🛡🦅🕊➡️
I learned a lot from y’all ole time drivers.. I started February 1999.. back when people sat down to eat and take a break. Drivers would talk to each other. Talking and listening I learned a lot and will never forget those times.. very sad what this industry has turned into to.. opposite of what it was and was meant to be.
This guy is an absolute legend
This dude is what I remember truckers being when I grew up, and why I became one. Everything he said is 100% accurate. After 37 years, I feel like the "old guy" out here now. Driving my 97 KW until the end. I still carry the same truckin' values as he does.
Same here
I do remember all truckers were like this guy! I remember going to truck stops with my grandfather in the 80s and all the truck drivers were like this. Now....well you be the judge.
Hey 👋
Not a 100%. He said the Pete is a 78, company said it’s too old and he bought a brand new Marmon , asked what year was that, he said 79-80. 🤔 Truck wasn’t a year old and is too old?? Fella’s memory is failing. Cool ol fella, but that doesn’t jive.
@@Plowguitarist He has been on the road for years, something is bound to give.
I stumbled across this guy's place one day when I delivered a machine down the road from him. I was floundering my way out of the dirt roads when all of a sudden there's that Pete sitting there. I stopped and we chatted for 30 minutes or so, and used his yard to turn around in and he guided me back to the main road. I really enjoyed the time I had with him.
Hahaha that's amazing!
@@TheBostonTrucker yeah when I saw the video, I was like " I know exactly where he lives," lol
This old guy reminds me of my dad and his buddies back in the day.
We need lots more interviews with the old old school truckers. It's a dieing breed that the industry is trying to push out and forget. What a shame. Thanks George Young for sharing some of your stories.
We are still here lol Lord Wiling. Now my wife and pull a Camper Just showing the Love of Jesus because He has Protected Me for over 5 million miles. Love Silver Bullet. Chester Va
We need more drivers like you who appreciate us old fuckers
George young is a hell of a truck driver i have been driving for 35 years I have had fun
I drove a 77 Pete conventional with the same stripe pattern and body color.
It had the big cam 400 Cummins (old style fuel pump) 10 speed with deep reduction.
Hauled coal with it and pulled flatbeds in the winter.
Hauled heavy equipment too and yeah some D9 cats, Bucyrus Erie 30 ton back hoes.
Mostly Eastern Ky and W Virginia coal mines.
I'm retired now but I still laugh at all the super truckers that run the jake brake all the time.
I never got into the whole trucker image thing and kept to myself.
Never felt the need to try and impress any one.
The best of the best. No glitter, no fuss.. just a great ole skool jammer. My hats off.
Good ol George one Hell of a great guy. He sold me a set of Jake's for my KT and even dropped them off to me in Kent Ohio on his way out west some years ago. He's one of the last REAL TRUCKERS!
A real trucker respect for this men👌👍👏
Buddy Young is a living legend out here in Worcester county. It surprised me when he said that the speedometer didn't work from time to time. Buddy is one hell of wrench with a large shop. Glad that you have this recording of him.
I hear that!
Thank you Mr. George. The old girl looks good keep on doing what you do
Thankful that my oldest two drivers, 1 being 78 which started driving for our company at 22 and the other being 70 are still that style. Have always enjoyed listening to our lifelong truckers stories of "the good ole days". We have to do our best to maintain the "truck driver" persona. It really is a dying breed
I love hearing the old truckers talk and tell about the things they have done. This gentlemen is someone i could spend a day listening to
Beautiful old Peterbilt they don't make em like that anymore
Not a trucker but love the interview....man knows his equipment! And you can tell he worked for a living!
Amen to that!
I love this guy. He’s the real deal.
Sure is
What a rare Gem....the stories he could tell....a good man!! Nothing but respect for you sir...
I agree wholeheartedly.
Love the video I could talk too that guy all day he is the real deal 👍
I'm an Independent agent in Texarkana,TX and I took on Dallas Mavis in 92 and started loading George back then and loaded him until the day he retired. I sure learned a lot from those guys! I haven't seen George since the ATHS Truck show in Springfield, MO 8 or 9 years ago. Glad to see your still doing Good George! Keep on trucking!!
Good Old School Driver 👍👌
And now we have the next generation: Flip Flop Mafia 😅😂
I really like this old trucker. Fantastic attitude and personality. God bless him.
I would Love to talk old times with him .Especially before I 64 was finally finished and we had to run old 60. Wow ! I wonder how many Guys remember the Rubber bands before dule rearends ! You had one live axle and one dead. You had bands that went between the tire space to get Power to the dead axle in the winter. Really old stuff. I had the privilege to pull the very first 53 foot Trailer in Virginia! Had to pick it up in North Carolina and Drop it off at the Ramada hotel in Richmond Va. 3 times. One van ,Reffer,and a flatbed. All Strict Trailers! Congressman Tom Bliley and other wanted to see them before they approve them for services in our state. I still have the plack and hat from Strick Trailer.
Love it Mike! A classic all the way, when men were men and automatics were for cars
A gentleman and his beautiful machine.
4:37 when he goes to puff the unlit cigarette- priceless🤣🤣🤣 reminds me of when we used to laugh so hard at my Grandfather when that happened!
Loved hearing the comment of the pink elephants! We were on a 3 day pack and load move of massive job in Lusk, WY.
The shipper and his wife fed us and told some awesome stories. The truck stop in Lusk back in the day was called crazy Charlie's. It got it name after the owner. He hauled his own fuel and reportedly would stop in the middle of the highway to let the pink elephants cross. That story has always stuck with me. Fast forward about 42 years and I now know the new owners who run the place. Its called The Outpost. They said it was a big mistake to ever have changed the name. I enjoy seeing this guy with this great old school truck. We ran cabovers as well and were bed buggers for several years. Its all deck work for the last 35 or so years, who's counting. The trips up the Alcan and Cassiar hiways were the best. Nothing like the North! Thanks for some great stories and good times from the good ol days
Thanks for this interview. I’m convinced this the same George Young who used to get loads of hay from our farm in Red Creek NY back in the 70’s. Same looks, same accent, was from Fitchburg. Brought back a fond memory from my youth.
I'm sure that's him too.
I'm 99% sure that's the same George Young
I absolutely adore this guy!!!!!
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I could sit for hours on end listening to George Young and his stories of days gone by 💯% 🇺🇸 !!! Diff ratios of 3:55 and pink elephants he certainly has some some great stories I bet !!! Greetings from Downunder Australia 🇦🇺 George if you happen to read this. By the way George we ran KT450 Cummins in our Australian built SAR Kenworth's and W models back in the 1980's pure mechanical horsepower, no drive by wire computers back then that's for sure !!!
An owner operator that has thoroughly enjoyed his truck through and through.
It's amazing to hear these old timers the way they talk the way they act the way they do things it's definitely something that's going to be missed. These old guys knew how to take a piece of equipment and make it work.
George Young, the man who can👑💪 Thank you for the interview and upload. Respect for George and you...
My favorite truck was the b61 mack!! That truck set the bar!!! Best truck in the world back then👊💪🇺🇸
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️👍He’s a real trucker you should have another interview with him
I looked up what a real man, in the dictionary is, I had a picture of that old boy and his Peterbilt. Love them kind of guys, it's too bad everybody's not like the both of you guys
WHAT A LEGEND NOT TO MENTION AN OUTLAW OF THE HIGHWAY!!! MAY GOD CONTINUE TO WATCH OVER HIM. MIKE REALLY APPRECIATE THESE INTERVIEWS YOU SHOULD DO MORE WITH THE OLD SCHOOL OUTLAWS OF THE HIGHWAY. I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS RIG IT WAS BUILT THE YEAR I WAS BORN 78.
Great video! Awesome old Pete with the biggest power in its day .
Hey
Trucked with George years ago. Great guy.
Old boys like George are so cool. We ran the road when I was a kid , some of the coolest times. Hell yeah....👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Gotta love the carton of Camels sitting on the dog house 😆 Good ol Boy enjoying life....you know George can tell some stories. God bless 'em.
Real.trucks.and.real.men.driving.them
Old school all the way I can relate to George. Great video Mike.
That's a large car 352! Mr. young thanks for taking the time for the video. Hope you are doing well.
You bet!
Today’s driver is an employee!
Simple, hold the wheel collect a check!
This guy could fix anything!
Respects the art of driving and traveling!
Glad you taped this interview.
Today’s driver will never have the experience he has.
That's the 352H old school right there, soo much respect for those old school truckers
Wow, took me back. My dad had a 78 Peterbuilt double sleeper. I was 13 at the time. I learned how to drive in that thing. He would switch while moving down the road and let me drive. It was a 13 year olds fantasy. Thanks for taking me back. Great memory.
Dude is a legend!
Hello Boston trucker thanks for the great video of old 78 pete Cabover you and that driver are definitely old school trucker🚛👈👍
Love this guy!
Incredibly awesome old truck
This man is a national treasure
10 minutes in and we finally get a tour of the truck.......thanks.
That man is an American Hero. Reminds me of my paternal grandfather. Don’t make ‘em like that any more. Thank you for this, and God Bless
У нас до такого возраста обычно не доживают. Машина может и живая, а шофёр уже помер . Маз и камаз приносят гораздо больше болячек , чем денег .
Дедуля молодец , тягач огонь .
Thank you for sharing.
A true old school trucker. Love the ole pete. That's what trucking was all about.
Been trucking 40 years. And i feel every mile
Man that brings back some awesome memories riding with my late father as a kid
Beautiful truck and that old timer is the last good generation we'll have the pleasure to meet.. Enjoyed it thanks
Right on sir 👍
old school definitely and a real gentleman
Love this driver, classic!
Hats off to fellas like this.
Yes!👍
He’s cool. I’m 64.5. I started professionally in 1980. Hauling meat. We ran a day to day and a half without sleep. Never took the pills. Was fun in the 80s. Somewhere along the line it became something else. Still at it but run local hauling gas. Owned 4 trucks. Company driver now. Hope soon to retire. Knew some of them C&H (cold and hungry) drivers. Good video.
Massive respect to a legend "take a pill hell yea then sleep.
👍🏻👍🏻
The stories that old man has are priceless.Love them old skool trucks
I love all of you truckers all of you have a place in my heart because all of you sacrifice ur lives every day to keep us fed and moving so we can do our jobs.
If you didn’t put ur lives on the line every day America would stop as well as the rest of the world please be safe out there and God bless all of you and your family’s
The old school guys are the best, been there done that!
Wow. 3 MILLION miles. Very nice.
A trucker who has done things right all his life,
That’s why he keeping rolling whoop whoop 😊
Yah buddy
Some of the people who are going through this is the best of the best.
I love it mate. These are the best sorts of videos you can get, old school trucks with awesome old school drivers. Can't beat it👍
Awesome interview
Just pure Gold!!! Great video Mike!
god bless this man a true trucker
There is nothing quite like those cab-overs....beautiful truck. Thanks for posting.
That's was awesome!! Step back in time for sure! 👍🏼
This Pete cabover was also my first truck...driving for a long gone company in NJ...Caretta Trucking. Was running to Fontana CA in four days solo. Logbooks were a dime a dozen back then.
Before the Pets caretta had real nice Freightlinner cabovers with Cats they were on the North Bound side of 17
Just before route 17 and route 4 interchange
That's one beautiful truck, love the old school
This guy is amazing!
What guy, what a mentor.... so much knowledge 🙌
Просто СУПЕР!!!
SUPER!!!
LIKE!!! LIKE!!! LIKE!!!
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Thanks for sharing that. I used to drive a day-cab of that model back in the day. That video was a walk down memory lane.
Great video Mike. Keep talking to him and you'll probably go running over the road again. Great interview lots of knowledge.
As always..good stuff .Keep on trucking Mike.
I drove a Paystar 5000 all over Southern Africa and my CB handle was Boston trucker (1979-1981)
Really? That's awesome BT
Love talking to those young guys they have so much knowledge and rare breed
Fantastic ! ❤
there’s barely ppl like him these days what a unit🫡
It's always great to the classic trucks and the old school drivers..the real real..
I love lessoning to the story’s of the older generation they payed the way for us younger drivers set back and learn something I love hearing my grandfather tell story he has a lot of them about trucks
Hey 👋
What an awesome truck and driver!!! It would be great to suspend an afternoon with him and hear his stories!
Yes absolutely
Another great story! Thank you Mike!
Are you going to be at Kasson the 9 th or 10th ? I plan on being there hoping to shake your hand!
322 going West out of Lewistown, PA, now that is a climb. As far as truck stops, Route 30 diner in Ronks PA. I still remember the old U and R model Macks Mushroom Trucking ran. Seems like they were always there.
God Bless Him!
Awesome u did this mad respect mad respect thank you
Your tanks & stainless are amazing! I drove for 20 yrs. Nobody should be able to tell you when you're tired! I wore no shoes while driving most of the time! I have hauled lambos & ball players cars, box & hazmat was last thing before I was FORCED retired! Got hit & had to have a double spine fusion. BUNCH OF NICE LOOKING TRUCKS THERE! I sure miss it!
Thanks Mary
Awesome video Mike👍👍👍