My dad took me for a day trip with him in the summer of 1966. I turned 11 that September. He wasn't even supposed to have a rider along, but I'm glad he broke the rule for my sake. He was white collar and this was just a summer job. That first truck was a 1958 cornbinder gasser with a 5 speed, 2 speed electric rear end. The next summer he was given a 1962 White conventional with a Cummins diesel and a 10 speed Fuller road ranger. A few yrs latter he went full time with the company he drove for. He took me with him on an overnight. He had a 69 Cab OVER Freight shaker, sleeper with a Fuller 16 speed Quadra shift. I was 18 now and he asked me if I wanted to learn to drive it? I was like Auggy Doggy, ya, ya,yah! So I ran it with an empty flat bed. 2 weeks later the same thing. Took a load of sheet steel to a GM stamping plant in Gary, Indiana. He went in to see if we were at the right over head door. We were. The door started going up and dad stepped out motioning me to bring it in, so I did. The first spotter set me up to far in, so I had to back it up one full length. After the off load, dad drove it to the on ramp to the freeway, then he let me drive it home. I was so glad dad let me have some of the icesing on that cake. Never drove one again until CDL school in 2007, been driving ever since. Thanks Dad! I miss you. He's been gone since November of 07, 84 yrs young he was. Infantry WW2 came home, went to college on the GI Bill became a teacher.
That's a really cool story man, thanks for sharing. That definitely must have been cool to take off on the open road with your pops, learning about driving. Sure were different times back then. Rest in Paradise to your dad, WWII guys were surely built different.
I was raised in the trucking business , I had to laugh to myself when I read "cornbinder" I haven't heard that term in 40 years! My grandfather called IHC trucks that also ! Thanks for the great memory !
My father worked at Coles for around 35 years, was friends with other drivers like Harold “Sib” Sibley, Vince Boardman and Johnny Turner.They had a great bunch of guys there.
Thanks for posting this.My dad drove for Cole's in the early 80's before the strike.Sad to think of Galen saying at the end of the video that Cole's was going to be around for a long time and yet a little more than 10 years later they were gone.
I well remember driving as a spare for Coles. Regular drivers would get to run on the new I 95' but as a spare I'd be sent to run the Haynsville woods because of being over weight. Those orange " sandwich cabs" powered by a little 238 were terrified of every hill we came to. Made for a long night.
@@Wa3ypx well at about that time O'Donnell shut down, Nelson freight went scab, so I guess coles probably did also. I left Northern Maine to make a better living. Up in aroostook there was little future other than slavery!
I was searching the comments to see if anyone talked about the museum. So it is the same Cole's? I've gone to the museum probably 4 times and see something new every time. Definitely a cool place to spend a couple hours!
This is a great historical video back when truckers where still looked at as heros.....thank u to coles and the driver's that helped build our industry so I in 2022 can drive for a maine company
@Turbo231 Billy (Harold Sibley jr) is actually my grandfather, Harold Sibley being my great grandfather and he now lives in Florida with 1 daughter and 4 grandchildren
Jacob Coburn sssooo? I don’t remember seeing this company today. Did they foreclose or change names ? I don’t remember seeing them since I have been driving the last 25 years. 🤔
Thank you very much. I figure its better to get films like these where people can see them than just let them sit on a shelf. I've been given the OK to release another Coles film from 1970, although it is more of a mixture of operations like loading, dispatch, and what people do. I should be releasing that in youtube form in about 2 weeks.
Hauled.newspapers to the county in 72 remember them well my straight truck was governed at 73 they.would go by me and.leave me behind that was back when it single lane highway (95) north of old town
Living far from home in old Mexico it was nice to see some scenes from years gone by . Left Bangor in 1960 for California on the Greyhound at age 17 and never looked back. Be home next summer for a lobster and a plate of steamers and a piece of blueberry pie.
Thank you for posting the video. Brought back memories of chatting with my great uncle. Who started out driving for hunniwell. Until coles express bought them out. Then he drive for coles up until he retires in 1993. The reason he retired then is do to the fact that and I think it was because Galen abolished the union. Not sure so don't hold me to it. Shortly after that road way bought them out. Yet the only thing left is the coles express museum in Bangor. Which none Galens kids want nothing to so with. Granted I'm going by what I've been told by my great uncle and cousin. 😊😊
John Dunnell II Thanks for sharing John. The union was broken in 1982, the Cole family sold the company in 1992/1993 so that's a good date to retire. All of Galen's kids were involved with the museum. Galen is still the founder and is around today. The program to give all Maine veterans a walking stick was founded and funded by him and the museum.
Turbo231 thank you. Was unsure about when the union was broken. Considering that I was only going on bits and pieces of what I was told could remember. My great uncle is 1 reason why I hold a class A licence today. 😊😊
Billy is proud of his dad I know the feeling this was 1971 well me and billy got to be about same age I’m 54 now in 2020 my dad was a driver also my dad put 38 years under his belt my career got cut short due to illness in 2004 I had 17 years when I had to put my trucking gloves in the desk drawer billies dad looks older then my dad did at that time maybe a WW1 or2 vet my dad is 87 now billy forgot to take his hat off in the presidents office
You worked Buffs in the 80s? With Kent Taylor, Tworogers? Mills (Harry)? Quinn? Mcaveddy? Debby McDonald? Ever drag a full Bowser to ops and realize the realize it's empty when you got there? Two man policy in the cage? Red rope significance? Finger codes? Dock 10? And then there was the towbar. Guys who could and guys who couldn't put a Buff sideways on 34 for upload training. Good memories, eh?
Somewhere i have a set of Coles Express Safety Wings that belonged to a Coles Express Driver named Beecher Hardecker who drove for Coles in the 50s and 60s.
I drove over the road for Coles. Had a green freightliner and it was a nice truck . I was selected by Gary Cole to do a six month job hauling a shrimp factory machinery from just south of Halifax NS to Raymond Wash. After unloading I worked the load boards to get home. Always made them good money doing that. It wasn't to long after that things were going down hill so I left. As another driver mentioned Don Clayton was one of my main dispatchers at Coles and Carlen transport.
Loved the Crackerboxes, DReos...cool trucks. Got any more like this? Share with our Porter Productions site?....We love trucks at our house. I have 2 boys and Trucking runs in my family all the way back to 1920s or so. Porters Transfer is where it started.
One thing for sure, Coles didn’t loose any money on those Detroit’s. Not like the problems trying to keep these newer trucks running. Sure they are better when everything is working right, but dread the day they aren’t.
Boy, Cole's used to be the best trucking company around in my opinion! I'm a driver myself, and my dad used to drive for them and now he works at Freightliner of Maine where the Cole's Bangor teminal was! Sad day when they went out of business...........
True, but it was a hard life...thing about the past is the uncertainty of the future isn't there to scare you now that you know what happened. Like now and the Ukraine, or pandemic, the future is always there to scare you.
@George I don’t pay for fuel dumbass. Company driver. Even if they made more back in the day are you actually suggesting 100 grand a year isn’t good money?
LOL!!! And you could ALWAYS tell who drove one, He was the guy that was kinda yelling when he was talking, and said WHAT? A LOT, because they were half deaf from those noisy bastards!! The insulation just wasn't good in them old truck's
@LTLtrkrlife Technically True. However, Roadway Services did run Coles into the ground, expanding too fast, operating a pooring business plan. The magic of the family run company was Galen Cole, while a wise business man was also extremely "frugal" to say it nicely, running trucks into the ground and such. That was pretty much the only business model that would keep Coles alive so when the family sold it, it was pretty much doomed to die.
He did, but he is getting paid 1/2 of what his dad made and there are no benefits. And Billy & his dad needed new eye glasses all the time, so not good overall.
I love how propaganda films only talk about the things they consider positives & never mention nor allude to the negatives so people can have a balanced understanding of the subject.
I like what everyone else likes about this video! Two demographics I notice … particular for 1971 maybe: 1) A very high proportion of citizens of Maine wore glasses. 2) People of color were invisible in Maine then.
Your sense of humor seems sharp to me. What was going on compared to what was depicted, compared to what is now observed can be funny, even if painful. @Liberty Tree
Trucks look neglected and 420 miles in 8 hours you would have to average 52 miles per hour and taking in your breaks I would think that would take some doing.
Horrible Screaming Jimmies. For those who don't know Jimmies definition GMC !! The worst Loud and dirty. My Dad use to say you drive a Jimmie Hard like you hate it. That's " Normal " 😄
Back then truckers were thought of as low class nobodies. Uneducated ex cons working a dead end job. Today they are professional drivers that are more educated than most out in the working world.
rob peters A lot of them were teamsters, so they did quite well moneywise and a lot of them were good folks, just like the mill workers and tradesmen of their time.
For a bunch of uneducated, criminals who worked a dead end job, they sure as tell took pride in themselves with their clothes & laid back attitudes. Unlike the slob steering wheel holders of today. They only education today’s truckers get is through their phones.
@@ralphday4842 No...I've lived here for over 40 years. Don't confuse Maine with the people that run the government within her. They're two different things.
My dad took me for a day trip with him in the summer of 1966. I turned 11 that September. He wasn't even supposed to have a rider along, but I'm glad he broke the rule for my sake. He was white collar and this was just a summer job. That first truck was a 1958 cornbinder gasser with a 5 speed, 2 speed electric rear end. The next summer he was given a 1962 White conventional with a Cummins diesel and a 10 speed Fuller road ranger. A few yrs latter he went full time with the company he drove for. He took me with him on an overnight. He had a 69 Cab OVER Freight shaker, sleeper with a Fuller 16 speed Quadra shift. I was 18 now and he asked me if I wanted to learn to drive it? I was like Auggy Doggy, ya, ya,yah! So I ran it with an empty flat bed. 2 weeks later the same thing. Took a load of sheet steel to a GM stamping plant in Gary, Indiana. He went in to see if we were at the right over head door. We were. The door started going up and dad stepped out motioning me to bring it in, so I did. The first spotter set me up to far in, so I had to back it up one full length. After the off load, dad drove it to the on ramp to the freeway, then he let me drive it home. I was so glad dad let me have some of the icesing on that cake. Never drove one again until CDL school in 2007, been driving ever since. Thanks Dad! I miss you. He's been gone since November of 07, 84 yrs young he was. Infantry WW2 came home, went to college on the GI Bill became a teacher.
Awesome story!
That's a really cool story man, thanks for sharing. That definitely must have been cool to take off on the open road with your pops, learning about driving. Sure were different times back then. Rest in Paradise to your dad, WWII guys were surely built different.
I was raised in the trucking business , I had to laugh to myself when I read "cornbinder" I haven't heard that term in 40 years! My grandfather called IHC trucks that also ! Thanks for the great memory !
My father worked at Coles for around 35 years, was friends with other drivers like Harold “Sib” Sibley, Vince Boardman and Johnny Turner.They had a great bunch of guys there.
These vintage commercials infomercials company stories are all really cool from back in the day
Yes, and edited about 20 minutes of filler from it.
@@Turbo231 Kinda wish you would've left the whole video for us to watch, it's all so neat!
@@jessestout8646 16 years ago when I uploaded it we were limited to 10 minute uploads.
Thanks for posting this.My dad drove for Cole's in the early 80's before the strike.Sad to think of Galen saying at the end of the video that Cole's was going to be around for a long time and yet a little more than 10 years later they were gone.
Strike eh? Sounds like Cole's didn't value men like Harold Sibley.
I well remember driving as a spare for Coles. Regular drivers would get to run on the new I 95' but as a spare I'd be sent to run the Haynsville woods because of being over weight. Those orange " sandwich cabs" powered by a little 238 were terrified of every hill we came to. Made for a long night.
@@jedidiahsojourner1917 What happened to the company? Obviously they're out of business. Fifthwheel mentioned a strike?
@@Wa3ypx well at about that time O'Donnell shut down, Nelson freight went scab, so I guess coles probably did also. I left Northern Maine to make a better living. Up in aroostook there was little future other than slavery!
@@jedidiahsojourner1917 Wow
Delightful old film. We have a Bangor in North Wales, UK.
If you’re anywhere near Bangor. Check out the Coles land transportation museum. It’s well worth the trip!
Alright I will.
I was expecting a movie when I clicked.
Something like convoy or Smokey and the bandit lol.
I was searching the comments to see if anyone talked about the museum. So it is the same Cole's? I've gone to the museum probably 4 times and see something new every time. Definitely a cool place to spend a couple hours!
i went to that museum the last time i was in Bangor.it’s pretty cool
This is a great historical video back when truckers where still looked at as heros.....thank u to coles and the driver's that helped build our industry so I in 2022 can drive for a maine company
Yes, Coles Express did Ok during deregulation but the family saw things were changing and eventually moved along.
Thanks for posting, very interesting and priceless history.
Love the sound of that Detroit diesel!
@Turbo231 Billy (Harold Sibley jr) is actually my grandfather, Harold Sibley being my great grandfather and he now lives in Florida with 1 daughter and 4 grandchildren
yeah prove it idiot
Jacob Coburn sssooo? I don’t remember seeing this company today. Did they foreclose or change names ? I don’t remember seeing them since I have been driving the last 25 years. 🤔
Rick
Pickell
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Icutmetal Mistake sorry
I worked for Coles Express in Portland for 15 years. It was a great place to work.
Drove for Coles For many years Saint John NB to Bangor Maine. They were a great company to drive for.
Thank you very much. I figure its better to get films like these where people can see them than just let them sit on a shelf.
I've been given the OK to release another Coles film from 1970, although it is more of a mixture of operations like loading, dispatch, and what people do. I should be releasing that in youtube form in about 2 weeks.
Hauled.newspapers to the county in 72 remember them well my straight truck was governed at 73 they.would go by me and.leave me behind that was back when it single lane highway (95) north of old town
Boy, Do I miss those days!
It was certainly an interesting era...didn't know what we had until it was gone.
Living far from home in old Mexico it was nice to see some scenes from years gone by . Left Bangor in 1960 for California on the Greyhound at age 17 and never looked back. Be home next summer for a lobster and a plate of steamers and a piece of blueberry pie.
Lobster is still cheap and look out for the ticks. I left 12 years ago and go back occasionally.
I think Billy just likes the sound of those screamin' Jimmies...
+CEOkiller Who doesn't!!
I like the sound of the screamin Detroit Diesels
That one sounds like it went out of the yard at about 70mph.
They did a great service, second to none.
Thank you for posting the video. Brought back memories of chatting with my great uncle. Who started out driving for hunniwell. Until coles express bought them out. Then he drive for coles up until he retires in 1993. The reason he retired then is do to the fact that and I think it was because Galen abolished the union. Not sure so don't hold me to it.
Shortly after that road way bought them out.
Yet the only thing left is the coles express museum in Bangor. Which none Galens kids want nothing to so with. Granted I'm going by what I've been told by my great uncle and cousin. 😊😊
John Dunnell II Thanks for sharing John. The union was broken in 1982, the Cole family sold the company in 1992/1993 so that's a good date to retire. All of Galen's kids were involved with the museum. Galen is still the founder and is around today. The program to give all Maine veterans a walking stick was founded and funded by him and the museum.
Turbo231 thank you. Was unsure about when the union was broken. Considering that I was only going on bits and pieces of what I was told could remember.
My great uncle is 1 reason why I hold a class A licence today. 😊😊
had many trips through Maine from Nova Scotia, down route 9 to Bangor, Dysarts, down 95 to bean town and NY, most with an 8/92.
Cool Film! Enjoyed it!
John
Crackerbox Jimmies & Diamond Reos awesome
Billy is proud of his dad I know the feeling this was 1971 well me and billy got to be about same age I’m 54 now in 2020 my dad was a driver also my dad put 38 years under his belt my career got cut short due to illness in 2004 I had 17 years when I had to put my trucking gloves in the desk drawer billies dad looks older then my dad did at that time maybe a WW1 or2 vet my dad is 87 now billy forgot to take his hat off in the presidents office
Very nice!
Heck, they probably wouldn’t even allow the kid in the yard today.
Thanx for the Video Have a Great Day 👍
Thank you, you too.
The Detroit 2 cycle diesel. I drove them back in the 70s, we called them “Converters “ they converted diesel fuel to noise.
This sure was a pleasure to watch!
I remember seeing Cole's trucks, when I was a kid in MA. Then again, when I was in the USAF, stationed at Loring AFB, in the 80's.
The did a lot of MA as well as Maine.
You worked on BUFFS?
You worked Buffs in the 80s? With Kent Taylor, Tworogers? Mills (Harry)? Quinn? Mcaveddy? Debby McDonald? Ever drag a full Bowser to ops and realize the realize it's empty when you got there? Two man policy in the cage? Red rope significance? Finger codes? Dock 10? And then there was the towbar. Guys who could and guys who couldn't put a Buff sideways on 34 for upload training.
Good memories, eh?
I picked up many a load of potatoes from up near houltin back in the 70 s what a back breaker.
This was fantastic. Such pride.
The company certainly had a charm and is mostly remembered fondly today.
Fantástico tempo em que os caminhões da GMC eram os fortes das estradas!🆙️👏👏 Ituiutaba-MG,Brasil 🇧🇷,as 16:23,em 15/11/22.🙌
Somewhere i have a set of Coles Express Safety Wings that belonged to a Coles Express Driver named Beecher Hardecker who drove for Coles in the 50s and 60s.
I drove over the road for Coles. Had a green freightliner and it was a nice truck . I was selected by Gary Cole to do a six month job hauling a shrimp factory machinery from just south of Halifax NS to Raymond Wash. After unloading I worked the load boards to get home. Always made them good money doing that. It wasn't to long after that things were going down hill so I left. As another driver mentioned Don Clayton was one of my main dispatchers at Coles and Carlen transport.
Yeah, towards the end when trucking got deregulated it got a lot harder to run a smaller company.
Loved the Crackerboxes, DReos...cool trucks. Got any more like this? Share with our Porter Productions site?....We love trucks at our house. I have 2 boys and Trucking runs in my family all the way back to 1920s or so. Porters Transfer is where it started.
I worked for Coles express back in 1985 before they closed down operation out of Elizabeth, New Jersey good company to work for
Yup...it was based on Route 2 between Lincoln ME and Houlton ME, which was Coles Express territory at the time.
Saw those trucks my whole childhood. Even got our kitchen appliances delivered by them.
They were all over the place delivering everything.
Love the sound of those old Detroit diesels
They do bark very well.
@@Turbo231 they sure do ol 6/71’s in those for the most part right ? Sound like they’re twisting 8,000 at 2200 lol
One thing for sure, Coles didn’t loose any money on those Detroit’s. Not like the problems trying to keep these newer trucks running. Sure they are better
when everything is working right, but dread the day they aren’t.
Boy, Cole's used to be the best trucking company around in my opinion! I'm a driver myself, and my dad used to drive for them and now he works at Freightliner of Maine where the Cole's Bangor teminal was! Sad day when they went out of business...........
Zach Brown what was the year and date that had happened?
@@MrPeterbilt1971 bought out by "Roadway" in 1992, which got bought out by "Yellow" in 2003
And now yellow is dead
It actually looked like a decent career back then. I swear I live in the wrong generation
True, but it was a hard life...thing about the past is the uncertainty of the future isn't there to scare you now that you know what happened. Like now and the Ukraine, or pandemic, the future is always there to scare you.
Union shop better outfit
Plenty of money to be made in trucking these days dude. I’m going to make over 100k this year.
@George I don’t pay for fuel dumbass. Company driver. Even if they made more back in the day are you actually suggesting 100 grand a year isn’t good money?
I Love this Video !!! AMERICA at it's Best !!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I just Hate to see all them businesses go man the world has become a crule place, and almost all the business are no longer with us what a shame...
That's a good kid right there.
First truck I drove,White 4000 powered by 8v71 Detroit diesel.
I remember Cole's Express towards th end of its years they were a big fleet!
One of the dispatchers I worked for at Carlen Transport in Bangor, Don Clayton, got his start at Coles.
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Yeah, there is a fairly deep history of employees that worked at Coles, although time stops for no one.
Excessive regulations, Eld's, and lawyers have made trucking a tuff business to be in now days.
That is for sure!
The first 5 seconds, dude is on a mission
They are fairly hardcore for sure.
@nachos1990 It was shut down a few years after the family sold it.
The museum is a great place to see.Impressive
yeah it is pretty cool...........been to that museum quite a few times actually
Great stuff.. So did young billy end up at Coles ?? like his dad.
Billy is now 59.
3:27 Holy, crap I-95 looks the exact same.
How little things change sometimes.
@aussiebigbangers I think he did as a teenager but ultimately went to college and out of state I've heard.
Wow how things have changed
My dad worked for coles and then freight liner for 36 years as a mechanic
Yes, Cole City which it was called in the day, was quite the place.
Back n the day when cabovers were common use here n 🇺🇸 before the law increased the length limit.
those old Detroit's was a high rpm engine and you could hear it a mile away
LOL!!! And you could ALWAYS tell who drove one, He was the guy that was kinda yelling when he was talking, and said WHAT? A LOT, because they were half deaf from those noisy bastards!!
The insulation just wasn't good in them old truck's
Robert Dorst They weren’t a high rpm engine, they just sounded like one because they were a 2-stroke.
Robert Dorst able to scare to death every little old cat lady in a three county area. Just start getting them powered up and rolling. 👍❤️❤️👍
Those old crackerbox Jimmy's with 6-71 Detroit's
Great video . Is that the road Dick Curless sing about in his song : A Tombstone Every Mile ? 5 * and fav
@LTLtrkrlife Technically True. However, Roadway Services did run Coles into the ground, expanding too fast, operating a pooring business plan. The magic of the family run company was Galen Cole, while a wise business man was also extremely "frugal" to say it nicely, running trucks into the ground and such. That was pretty much the only business model that would keep Coles alive so when the family sold it, it was pretty much doomed to die.
Why remove scenic views and customer inteviews
At the time RUclips had everyone pinned to 10 minutes of video length. I took out like 5 minutes of just this and that not related to trucking.
@@Turbo231 ok, that makes sense. Thanks for bringing this to us
Looks like the parot delivery was free!!
Cool
Do they make you work the dock as a driver
Not sure why this was suggested to me but I watched the entire video so..🤷🏻♂️
It’s pretty cool.
Love It!
I wonder if this was Steven King's inspiration for Orinco trucks in Pet Sematary
No, likely Webber Oil Tankers hauling oil from Bucksport to Bangor on Route 15.
Wonder if Billy ever followed his old man and drove for Cole's
He did, but he is getting paid 1/2 of what his dad made and there are no benefits. And Billy & his dad needed new eye glasses all the time, so not good overall.
2 stroke engines move the nation :-)
I love how propaganda films only talk about the things they consider positives & never mention nor allude to the negatives so people can have a balanced understanding of the subject.
And yet if they were late with your welfare check.
Yeah.. that’s what you do or allow when a video is made about your company; rattle off about stuff that shines a negative light on it.
Sheesh
Motorson Detroit saludos desde Veracruz México en 2020
😎👍
of course its "Billy". Also good luck in 2020 letting your son get anywhere near a yard - thanks lawyers
@Turbo231
ok thanks for the reply.. must have seen the light and stayed out of the road transport industry LOL.
En ese camión el chófer dormía parado😂😂
Coles might have delivered goods in Maine but Detroit powered it
Ok.
@Turbo231 why did Coles express go out or did they just retire?
I like what everyone else likes about this video! Two demographics I notice … particular for 1971 maybe: 1) A very high proportion of citizens of Maine wore glasses. 2) People of color were invisible in Maine then.
Your sense of humor seems sharp to me. What was going on compared to what was depicted, compared to what is now observed can be funny, even if painful. @Liberty Tree
Back when Detroits ruled the highways!!!
“What?”…often said later in life by the drivers who ran these trucks with the windows open and the hammer down.
@@Turbo231 😏👍
what a smal cabin
Sure it’s bigger in the back.
Didn't millinocket burn down few years ago
The mill is down, so it’s a former factory town.
@@Turbo231 it was the Marcal paper factory in N Jersey
Now thats a Detroit song
Trucks look neglected and 420 miles in 8 hours you would have to average 52 miles per hour and taking in your breaks I would think that would take some doing.
Yep, look at the tire that has some tread left at 1:10. But this is a piece of truckin history now. The people in it should be proud.
Love me a Crackerbox Jimmy!
They were a Diamond Reo dealer but did run some GMCs
cool
I certainly do. :)
fascinating seeing somebody who doesnot know social media. lol
So I take it you must live in Maine, huh? I live in Oakfield
I never hauled a zebra, shucks
Horrible Screaming Jimmies. For those who don't know Jimmies definition GMC !! The worst Loud and dirty. My Dad use to say you drive a Jimmie Hard like you hate it. That's " Normal " 😄
Listen to those Detroits wind up.
Was a neat time.
Because they do not publish more movies of complete truckers in parts not that they are complete much better in Spanish occupied to have my collection
I would imagine that everybody in this video is dead by now.
A lot of them are, maybe not Billy, but Galen Cole passed away a few years ago, I think he was 96.
Screaming. Jimmy 8
Big Mon ting 686
Back then truckers were thought of as low class nobodies. Uneducated ex cons working a dead end job. Today they are professional drivers that are more educated than most out in the working world.
rob peters A lot of them were teamsters, so they did quite well moneywise and a lot of them were good folks, just like the mill workers and tradesmen of their time.
For a bunch of uneducated, criminals who worked a dead end job, they sure as tell took pride in themselves with their clothes & laid back attitudes. Unlike the slob steering wheel holders of today. They only education today’s truckers get is through their phones.
Tom Markulics
True
Actually it's exactly the opposite
Looks a just your average LTL carrier why are they making a big deal.
It wasn’t average, it was a very tight knit and well loved company.
I do not like this narrator referring to Maine as a her. . Honestly how dare he.
Just one of those things.
On that day , Maine WAS a her . But maybe not today ...as it's gender fluid and politically correct now , in 2022.
If you lived here you would know...She's the best state in the union...imo
@@NMX777 you must be from away ?
We view Maine as the armpit of the nation.
Not as bad as Cali. yet. That's the sewer.
@@ralphday4842 No...I've lived here for over 40 years. Don't confuse Maine with the people that run the government within her. They're two different things.
318
Truck number?
engine Detroit made 318
A bunch of Detroit Diesels