Take a ride in the 1950 Kenworth - Shifting and Cummins sound
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2017
- Skip to 13:20 for deceleration and jake brake!
First Person View with external microphone
Let's take the Kenworth for another session of twin stick shifting!
Kenworth CD521
Year 1952
32 inch "coffin sleeper"
Dual 7 inch pipes
Spicer 16 speed (twin stick) gearbox (4x4 married)
Dana rear ends
Cummins 335 (855ci) - Авто/Мото
More shifting at the last 4 minutes of the video 14:37
So kool love the videos .
hello, why such a difficulty in switching speeds?
Can't imagine today's youth with that...
@@chrispetersen113 Todaay's youth can barely ride a tricycle....lol.
855 Cummins music for my ears nice blog👍👋
My father taught me to drive in his 62 Pete , 🙄 I can still hear him yelling in my ear about grinding gears and get your foot off the clutch 😂 I was 14 teen trying to shift 2 sticks and not get slapped in the head 😂 ,, old school trucking teacher
My dad was the same way when he taught me only it was in a truck with a super 10. I still hate those things lol
Tommy Gunn god forbid ya got in the way of the mirrors, slap 👋 right quick! lol
Sounds like your dad and my dad learned to teach the same way. Ease the clutch up good now you won't need the clutch until we stop. That will be about 3am.
He had just 2 requirements. 1, can you push the clutch to the floor? That was no easy task back then the clutch took a lot of effort to operate. 2, can you turn the wheel? As soon as could do both he said ok start driving around the yard. All was going good till I managed to lay it on its side. Pops looked at me, not hurt? Good get the train Jack and pick it back up. Took all day in the rain it had 45k load of steel on it. Learn the hard way was the only way. Hey what about them non air ride seats. You had to have an iron bottom to run. Those rigs. I miss my 6x4. Pops bolted 2, 13 speeds in her one day cause the 4sp aux broke and he had to roll. A bit complicated but it worked. 169 forward gears. 13 reverse. He loved backing up across the old truck stops doing about 5o MPH. That's when it was fun. I miss those days hate it these days I just left after 45 years.
Don’t scratch them gears dammit, I learned in a 15 spd Mack shit I was 14 could barely get the clutch in
John Ross I remember my dad all impressed with them air ride cabs. lol
Can you imagine running with no air ride cabs never mind no air suspension? Oh man that’s an all day buckboard ride! lol
As someone else said, no talking, no stupid music, just sweet truck sounds and a great view of the long nose! That was a real truck!
AMEN TO WHAT YOU STATED😍🔥👣👅 Sweeeettt🔥👅
talking wouldn't be bad
I agree with all these fine comments.
What a lovely old truck, fantastic sound and smooth as butter shifting those twin sticks !
Respect from road train driver Australia and a love of vintage trucks
En mi camión no tengo radio .
Solo escucho el sonido del motor.
17 shifts later he is still doing 24mph
Yea the speedo is displaying 1/2 until I can find an adapter.. I was doing about 50
@California Citizen Watch He just has to multiply by two, so technically he does
i_love _music it’s the only way to carry massive loads
@@molomix23
Its a joke....
i_love _music I know....
I’ve been a truck driver for 43 years but my dad started driving truck when he got out of the Army in 1946. I loved the old stories about life on the road with no interstate highways, no real rest areas and mostly small mom and pop truck stops. It was a much harder life but they helped build a country.
My Dad started when he got home from WWII.a lot of guys drive trucks..but they AREN'T truck drivers..my Dad WAS one
Mom & pop stops are far & few between nowadays. The big 3, 1 predominantly, the one owned by warren buffet, the worst of them all. Are buying them up. The megas do not go there. The owners operators do, as well as locals. Real shame. Going from good restaurants to all fast food franchise crap. Warren is an asshole. Cannot blame the mom & pop shops. Warren is offering so much. They never have to work again. That is if they sell. If they don't, they experience supply issues. Reducing the value. Warren has them scared. So they take what they can get, before they are stepped on. By warrens cronies.
@@SinOjosWeb- in most places on the west coast here the property is worth so much you can’t blame the family for taking the money and running, it wasn’t their dream to have a truck stop it was their parents generally and the property taxes eat up the profits so they take the millions being offered and retire
@@middleclassretiree Yea I know, Warren has been buying them up. Shame that pilot/flying j is the worst. As a company driver I was forced to fuel at pilot. The showers never work, the fuel pumps are always broken, no water or squeegee for washing windows. Horrible small parking lot, pay for reserved, spot always taken. They do nothing about people taking reserved spots without paying. Bottle of water is $3, store always dirty, showers dirty if they even work. Never hot water. They put Warren Buffet up on a pedestal like he is the second coming of Jesus. He is a low life POS. He has signed to provide charging for the electric trucks. More shitty treatment of the truck drivers. I have my own truck & authority. Will Never step foot into a pilot/flying j ever again.
I'm a retired trucker. Boy does this bring back memories. This is when the job was fun and it also was a hard one.
Craig Pennington yup, my Dad worked his tail off haulin logs in the Pacific Northwest, driving one like this
@Blair Aquilia Real men don't get anxiety pulling on their stick
ahahahahahahahh @@acesul8811
@@randyhutchinson9910 I live in Washington state and come from a family of tow truck drivers, my middle name is Eugene, the same as my great uncle's. My dad worked with him at a big towing company in the south sound in the 90's and he was the one driver who could work a brownie box. He used to also haul the dirt into the kingdome in Seattle when the monster trucks were in town. Love hearing stories from drivers it reminds me of family.
Revive so glad to hear from you
That thing got more shifts than a 24 hour walmart.
but not as many as the fast and furious cars lol
Scott Cozart that was good
😂😂😂😂😂😂😋
@@djaydeved kml😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And more fun to drive than any new automatic truck.
My dad was my teacher also , clutch petal only used to get her in gear . I only got a couple do better bumps on my head !!! I'm retired now with no accidents , thank you Dad rip !
I think that’s the best jake brake I have ever heard!
Thanks for not talking for hours about the truck, I hate videos that do that.
So, that’s why I like this video
Masosjose
same here, eargasmic
These old Cummins are the best sounding diesels I've ever heard, Bar none!
bain5872 I might just have to agree with you !
Sir sir!! Mack v8 is the best sound you will ever hear
Something I found out a few days ago after reading about Mack, Mack designed the V8 block that Scania uses to this day. I'm sure it has changed over the years but thats where it started, they worked together since the 1950's... people say and I agree that Scania V8's are the best sounding and if you hear a Mack V8, the E9 / EM9 and what ever other versions there is, they sound very much like the Scania's did and do to this day. I'm not even a big Scania fan and I think its the best sound of any engine ever made. Came across a Scania pulling a load here in Sweden 2 years ago in a roundabout, it was a mid 2000's model Scania R of some sort, a V8 for sure, and it sounded heavenly, just like the older trucks used to... holy hell, it was then I was sure! Its the best sounding engine. And I dont say that lightly as I generally hate going "uugh its the best!" but holy pistons! Do they sound amazingly!
I agree with that you are right sounds good don't
8v 92 Detroit. Something about the 2-stroke Detroit’s. Maybe it’s the nostalgia of military trucks?
People always complain about RUclips suggestions but it seems it knows me well 🤠
thanks to artificial intelligent :-), by time they'll will know u more man, more than your wife , so ...
Ridei Karim awesome, as long as RUclips stops suggesting pewdie pie videos to me.
Agreed
Same here lol
I first saw this video 5 years ago. I was in the process of becoming a cop and had never seen a trucking video in my life. This video sent me down a rabbit hole of binging trucking videos.
Fast forward to the present day, this video was the absolute starting point of my journey to becoming a truck driver. Now, I’m out here trucking. I couldn’t be any more happier with my decision to have dropped the cop stuff and become a truck driver.
And I owe all the gratitude to the maker of this video. Thank you so much man!
Better to be loved as a trucker than despised as a cop. Good choice sir.
Very cool story.
Good for you brother.
I'm glad you found what you love to do! Maybe you'll also get bitten by the vintage truck bug and get yourself one of them!
i joke with my friend who trucks :
"shifting an 18 speed is easy! youve got low, move a lever, low 2, low 3, move a lever, med 1, put the lever back, low 4, move the lever again, med 2, and then once that gets you up over 5mph you can start driving!"
Lol
Besides the joke this extra shifts are only useful going with heavy load and\or uphill. You can move basically from second or third gear empty.
18 speed is meant for heavy haul, puling 100 000 pounds requires that kind of gearing , mostly Peterbilts and KW
fucking amazing😂😂😂😂
Gold.
This brings back a ton of memories, my uncle was and is a trucker and he bought his first Kenny in 1963, he hauled eggs from Alabama to New York every week until it was paid off. My dad was a military man so I was with my uncle a lot and he took me on several trips in that old 63 and my only job was working that Jake and cleaning windows. He was and is the coolest uncle on earth
Cool story brother
I hear ya bud. Was just as close to my gramps.
Sounds like you really enjoyed that time with him. Great memories to have.
Did your uncle drove into NYC? Wow imagine that stop and go traffic driving down Broadway in Mid-town 🤦♂️
When I was a kid my dad drove one of these ol' Needle Noses for a living, went with him a few trips across WA State in the summer before there was an I-90 as we know it today! it was loud, and hot especially when ya hit the compression brake and with 60-80 thousand lbs on board, it was a bumpy ride even for him in the early air ride seat took a lot of hard work shifting up and down as well as ARMSTRONG POWER STEERING no radios then air conditioning was the windows rolled down and wing windows open @ 60 -70 MPH! and that coffin sleeper! ah but it was fun as a
kid to be able to spent time w/ my dad, thanks for the memories.
Ever run by Yakima on your trips?
Wow that sounds amazing
What a beautiful description.. You should write a book.
I got to ride with my dad a few times. My daughter and wife rode with me.
Can't wait for my grandson to ride as well.
irongoatrocky what years was this when you went with your dad? Must have been an amazing time. Thanks for sharing your story😀
This guy sure is a great truck driver. He impresses me with the smoothness and precision with which he changes gears.
"What does this button do?"
*flips RED toggle switch*
GOOD LORD. KEEP IT ON.
Freddy Thimmaiah I think it’s the jake brake
Its engine brake
AND a woosh to both of you
Caleb Teague What is it?
@@guy_incognito7538 No one missed a joke here really, they just wanted to explain the purpose of said red switch.
moron ;)
Nice to see someone shifting with finesse... good fuel/RPM control (can be a little difficult with Cummins), good timing, relaxed motions, no clash, no rushed movements... very smooth, excellent job!
Very smooth shifting. I cut my teeth on a B 47 Mack with a triplex but I caught on pretty fast. Good old logging memories.
@@rooky55, now it's all automatic or automated transmissions and drivers wearing flip-flops and sweatpants, what a sad state of affairs.
You must have come from where I did, was driving a B81 with a quad box when I was still in highschool.
Where I live in the Alberta oil patch the guys are driving tandem tri drives and 200 inch sow gin pole bed trucks with planetary rear diffs in the bush and mud and snow to move very big drilling rigs and tanks.. No flip flops, just some very hard working smart and generous drivers keeping things going. Respect to this breed of to days tough truckers.@@B81Mack
Pickup trucks: we are the loudest things on the road!
This semi truck: hold my oil!
Hold my J A K E B R A K E S
@TOKA G supercars are nothing compared to a big rig
*hold my Cummins.
William Funes at least it's not short Cummings
Honda civic with a fart can :^)
Came here for the shifting, stayed for the sound. My god that is glorious.
i was 15 when my old man learned me to drive a twin stick shifter with a cummins engine. great times they were and you never forget how to do it.That steering wheel was huge! but i loved every minute of it. double clutching, thick black smoke coming out of that straight standing pipe in the back. brings back a lot of great memories.
What did he think of the Road Ranger transmission?
@@MisterMikeTexasthe twin sticks are way tougher , the splitters n range finders on the newer ones break easy
@@MisterMikeTexas ,
I know you wasn't asking me but I loved the 10 spd. R.R.
When I heard that ole Cummins I thought I died. When I heard the Jake Brake I thought I went to Heaven. Them were the days for sure.
song of our people...great audio
66lwmorgan I drove a Mack with a 400 big cam and boy did she make some good sounds. That Holeset turbo really whistled too
Mac's were loud😊👅
the jake brake actually scared the hell out of me, i was looking at my phone with this as background noise and all of a sudden the germans are MG42-ing my headphones
T6y
When the engine brake came on it was heaven for me
Dylan Runyan right on
Dylan-Don't drive one without a Jake. Those things save my bacon more than once.
Man what a cool truck!
Dylan Runyan That is what is known as an eargasm.
That's because you have a small sausage!
My grandpa drove trucks in the 50s. He’d tell me stories about them all the time. I can’t even imagine how hard those things were to drive.
I keep rewinding back to where you hit the switch for the brakes,And thinking of my uncle scaring the hell out me saying 'oh jesus! Lord help us! No brakes! It makes me laugh now but not as a 10yr old..thanks for posting this
The 55 that gave it a thumbs down are probably swift drivers
Can confirm its not us.
Check with cr england. Especially if the dislike come in 3's
I was at a truck stop once and heard over the intercom:
*swift party of 2 your shower is ready*
They probably want paccar engines in everything also probably vegan
😂
EPA and DOT lovers probably
Super sound and video. Especially jake brake. Great looking instrument panel. Steering wheel is huge. Hands at 10 & 2 o’clock are in two different time zones
Some times you think it's to small when your arm start to burn turning the thing. Remember before i40 was finished going through Albuquerque all the stops and turns and the end less shifting that was in 1958-60 you drove through all the small towns on route 66. Thought i was in heaven in the 80's with power steering and AC.
Very good video my friend Dastrom my school with Cummins 335 small cam with transfer best regards to distance
I made it about halfway through and got tired. It felt like I was driving that old needle nose. Somebody owes me my 4 cents a mile. my first Cummins was a 190. Worthless in the hills but with my 6X4 she was long legged in the flats. Got me a ticket down around Lodi, 70 in a 55, cost $12.00 and boy was I mad. Of course I used one of my licenses from a neighboring state to show the cop. Had to keep my Oregon license ticket free.
There's some subtle gear shifting here. The rhythm and sensitivity to do this without the clutch is impressive and have general road awareness at the same time. Very high skill level driving.
Man I love the sound of that engine 👍🏻
Naturally aspirated Cummins sixer, can't get much better than that!
Beautiful
Yes bro nice sound
100 ha! Jake from Hell
You're mostly hearing the crackles of the stacks , the engine a low drone 😐
You can drive that you can drive anything 😂 bad ass thanks for sharing 👍
I was sitting in my lil Cummins pickup listening/watching this... I felt those Jake's on my chest!!! Loved it!!!!
It always amazes me to watch guys drive these twin stick haulers. I'd love to give it a try one day. in a VERY big and empty parking lot.
That was awesome, thank you for sharing your time with us! This is a man who knows his truck for what it can not do, he never once missed a shift and without a clutch. This is the demonstration of a very great driver! But the Jake was what I was waiting for that was the sound of the trucking gods for sure!! The sound out of that engine was better then a classical piece of music!
I love this brutal sounds and the Jakes, great engineering.
Great driving.
My grandpa still has his 1955 kenny. I love driving that beast
Nice! Sounds like that truck is in good hands for the future
That is so cool! My old man taught me to drive with a twin stick when i was 15. And it had a cummins diesel as well. Doubleclutching is so awesome with these old rigs.
Oh dang, 18 minutes of this, I'll play it in repeat for sleep music, sweat sweat Cummins sound is perfect!
Hammer down.
That’s the sound of freedom going down the road. God we make some good machines back in the DAY
Cough epa messin stuff up w over engineering
travelingThrew I don't understand the point of all that ”freedom” nonsense. According to several sources, including american ones, you're barely top 10 when ranking countries with the most freedom.
Whats the first country?
Jhonnytest4 obviously China 🙄 I don’t think that dude knows what he’s talking about, just a hunch tho
travelingThrew
Yeah. I mean, modern trucks are still well built and stay in good condition for a long long time if handled properly but they don’t have the same characteristics as an old truck does. They may be Kenworth, Mack or Volvo, but they are still painted white hauling reefers.
I recommend a song called Twin Stack Blues by Bull Brambles. It’s a good song
What a beautiful Kenworth! The sound of that old Cummins, music to my ears.
Very , very good shifting skills. soft handed and timing is spot on. Pleasure to watch your video.
I don't know what it is about this but its more relaxing to me than any music. I could seriously play this to relax and fall asleep too, even the Jake sounds. same effect as listening to rolling thunder and a rainstorm, probably better that I'm not a truck driver haha honestly you should add this to iTunes and sell it as "relaxing vintage trucking sounds" id buy it.
Then You should see/hear a b17 flyingfortress video. A recording inside a flyingfortress of the summing engine. Maks me just relaxe and slip away 😄 a bit like You describ this video does
I think your on to something. It's called "acoustical perfume" believe it or not. And I could listen to this motor all day !
I've used recordings of submarine with intermittent "pings" to sleep. Very relaxing!
Loving the drone of a engine, not asking for directions, enjoying being in home depot and looking at grainger catalogs... ..the definition of a man
I’d buy it!
I am rather impressed with your driving!! You don't beat on it and your shifting is right on! Nice job!!!!! Thank you for sharing!
2:30 The sound I was waiting for
What is?
It must be incredibly satisfying to be able to drive a vehicle like that so smoothly. Thanks for posting.
Must take a lot of practice to get those gear shift sequence and timing right, no clutch, nice.
Driven one twin stick once and now I'm hooked. Now I want to put a set of boxes in my Classic XL
Robert McDougall floatin it all the way
It’s cake. Just gotta hear the engine
I learned on a old Mack but always double clutched until I started driving a old Detroit and got the hang of not using a clutch for up and down shifting now whether it’s my Jeep, pickup, or big rig I never use the clutch
I would have liked to have had an exterior look at this old girl. :)
Casually flies it through the gears! Well done mate
Sounds amazing, the Jake break always puts a smile on my face my dad and uncle both drove truck and that how we new they where home the engine break as they where coming off the highway.
Wish we could see this rig operating from the exterior at street level, must be a beautiful machine 😃
Very nice! Back in the late 1970s I drove an old needle-nose Peterbilt for a few months to help a guy out. It looked similar to that KW on the inside. It was fun for while...but gave me a whole new level of appreciation for road ranger transmissions...
You sir produced the best sound of the whole internet
The engine sound is insane!!!!
Love it!!!!
Kenworth 521 (I think) waking up neighbours with their jake brakes since 1949 nice sound I wish I could live in those times 1950s return
Amen to that. These newer drivers have no clue what a real truck is
A sound like this just makes me sleep even easier.
@@samd7476 Yes!!!
I remember as a kid riding with my Uncle in his 1970's built KW that was fun.
I love how she puuuuuuurs. Beautiful sound and beautiful truck. And in love with the Jakes :D
I ENJOYED DRIVING THOSE TWO STICK TRACTORS. THE TWO STICK OPERATION SURE HELPED TO KEEP YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT.
I grew up in the passenger seat of my Dad's Kenworth, wow, do I miss this
because of watching my Dad, I've got a 1999 W 900 L Kenworth, and I'm driving a 2003 379 PETERBILT, god I love this, but it's gettin weird, with all the new law's, rough to hang on now
Love the two 'Snorts' after the jake break.
Like the ol' girl was saying 'why the hell are we slowing down' :)
Also why can't I give this more than one thumbs up?!?!
30 years & 3 million miles under my belt.... # Awesome ❤️
These two sticks show how hard work makes a powerful truck work! Wow the driver must be real handyman too!
Thanks It was wonderful ride
Check out the A/C on the dash
Thats my ac when i drive at work. My favorite ac though is 2/60 ac
@@nickleback960 My favorite ac is AC/DC.
@@SergeantExtreme 🤘🤘
I had to come back and watch this old truck run
again. Just noticed its in Sweden!! Wow I bet that thing has seen some awesome scenery!!
John Harding Thanks for checkin back ! It sure has, all I can think of is the awesome scenery in the States it has seen though! She's been running the northern states hauling steel for the last 10 year or so of it's work life
Cool, Imagine having a go pro on that truck for the last 50 years. It would be awesome, Happy Holidays
John Harding Wouldn't that be something!! Merry Christmas =)
Merry Christmas!!
John Harding z
Nothing and I mean nothing beats that sound
That sound could father my children
I can listen to a Jake break all day! Awesome video! Respect
Beautiful sounding engine in that old beast.
Would've been nice to see the outside of the truck......!!!!!
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No one's pissed off!! That's why you call yourself popcorn!!
popcorn79116 no one is pissed at all, he is just saying he wishes the video showed the outside of the truck as well, you need to chill the fuck out dude
Yeah me too
I was thinking that too
Oh my god, I hauled logs back in those days. Old Mac, water on the brakes, no jake, no cb. Then a Cummings with jake, maybe 260 hp. Drove a Pete with a 8/71 Detroit, good engine back then. Drivers today have never heard an old Cummins pulling hard at 1950rpm. I wont explain it, brings tears to my eyes. On one job I hauled out from the last working steam donky, possibly the last one working in the whole US. Heck of a lot of 3 log loads, sometimes that's all we had. Also drove a self loader. Get up to the top of the Cascade range just as the sun started to peak up, smell that sweet smell of fir with the sweet smell of diesel, awesome.
This brings back so many memories of me riding in my dad's 52 Kenworth dump truck with him. Might be boring for some, most certainly not boring to me. Thank you.
You are very much welcome for the ride!
This was awesome, my uncle Neil drove an 18 wheeler over the road many years ago. He showed us the truck he drove back around 57'. I remember he controlled the horn by tugging on a chain that hung from the ceiling of the cab. I don't know how many other black truckers drove the roadways back then but my uncle loved it.
You handled that truck like a maestro! Beautiful.. a tour of the outside would have been nice. (I liked the Red White and Blue socks, nice nod to a great piece of American machinery!) thank you.
Cheers! Go to my channel for a outside walkaround video
Very entertaining to see the shifts along with the beautiful engine sound. And it really moves fast!!!
This video was very relaxing......no crappy music, and no voice over! Well done!
Nice Sound! Sounds Like Heaven!
Marius Madsen Gaming Sure does! The new microphone was perfect for the job!
Darstrom sure!
Диванный Фронтовик Could you write in English? RUclips app won't let me copy and translate on the phone..
Это грузовик конца сороковых, начала пятидесятых годов, это нормально.
Love the old twin-sticks! Drove a '41 Kenworth in 1994 that was setup like that. Nobody wanted to drive her but me.
Man that was amazing ride I never ever been in one, sure like to ride in one, thanks man for this excited ride
That old beast is super cool! Good to see the young guy makin her go!
I have never heard such a robust jake in my life. It was the most succulent sound ever to come from a machine :D My Step Mom was a trucker & her Rig didnt sound anywhere as good.
When trucks were trucks.....not big cars. Lol
Chud In let me drive the big cars then dam all that shifting 😂😂😂😂😂😂 stay broke down my loads would never get their
Chud In
Speaking of cars....was that a G T O in the garage 😳
Yup now mine is auto..
At the end of the day, all the trucks do is deliver more useless crap for people to consume. It’s not rocket science and it’s not nothing to have a giant ego about
I can shift these. Would much rather not lol
Regular manual tranny drivers: Ha I’m so cool I can shift 6 gears!
This dude: **heavy engine noises**
wow i got goosebumps... lovely sound and looking at the road i feel like being on a ship😍😍😍 i can't get enough looking this type of videos...
Damn this is realistic ATS,old rig with twin stick ,straight pipe,loud jake,floating shifting..love to see this old gal still running.
Janu Kumoro It's amazing to be able to drive it!
Its real man truck like back in the old day when the trucker were glorified as modern day cowboy ..unlike suck problematic computerized,automatic tranny semi nowaday.
Janu Kumoro Right on..
+Janu Kumoro Times sure changed.
I'm so jealous, I want one of the older ones now, and I'm gonna find it
It’s like driving my old Winnebago. You have to keep moving the steering wheel just to go straight. Great video and wonderful sound as it accelerates.
I used to drive an old black, 96 W9B, delivering propane to towns all over WV, PA OH etc.
Now I wrench on them for a living.
Damned electronic babysitter took all the fun outta driving!
Nothing like a big black straight hood KW with loud pipes to make work enjoyable though.
Any gear jammer could read about this truck to his boy (or girl) at night--- "Once upon a time, Leviathans ruled the American road. They warned of their approach with a not unfriendly yet fierce bellow which seemed to say..."I'm a comin' through there, folks! Bringing your groceries and gas and nearly ever blamed thing..." Well now, times have changed and the skill it took to ride these grand beasts of the road is in very short supply indeed. Why, many drivers don't even need to know how to shift anymore...The end."
You mean many trucks nowadays used automatic transmision ??
@@nitsu2947 +fordy massive fordy...yeah, increasingly, especially in the case of
ready mixers, the new Macks are increasingly automatic. When I started hauling
asphalt back in the '80's driving the R models, you had, now if my old ass memory -
serves, 5 speeds in REVERSE. So, say you were on a job where you had to back up a
long, LONG ways--- you shifted in reverse and you could get up to highway speed, too. It was a mind messer when you first learned it, then you WANTED to do it any time poss-ble! Now, I don't grudge these new dump and mixer guys their automatics...but I think every driver needs to know how to work a truck with a splitter just in case the need
should arise, you know? Also, and this is me just being sentimental, I don't think the art of old fashioned truck driving should be lost. You watch, once they get all of the trucks automatic they'll be wanting to pay the drivers a lower hourly wage. Take care.
I choose to see progress and efficiency as a wonderful thing.
Not at all denying the beauty of this machine though.
@@eatstuffanddie I agree in a general way regarding progress. The problem is, when it comes to "efficiency" today it usually is about the increasing use of robotics and this makes a growing number of people obsolete. And I love the argument some make that "This will free mankind to pursue the arts and..." Ok, and do you think the governments of the world are going to feed the hundreds of millions who will need to be fed, clothed, housed? It's no extreme view this...it is our future. Thanks for comment.
@@1060michaelg
People wouldn't be obsolete if they were properly retrained or motivated to learn new skills. We survived the industrial age some how. I think we can handle some robotics and the singularity you speak of is much further off than what mainstream hysteria would lead us to beleive. I'm not saying your view is invalid becuase it absolutely is not but I feel as though some misinformation has caused some unease or fear about the technological future we are building.
I remember years ago the slow lanes in the Allegheny Mountains watching those things climb,,,coming down every once in a while some had to use escape ramp too.
Thank god they had escape ramps when you needed them!
I'm not a trucker but this brings a smile to my face.
Reading comments and listening to the engine! Satisfying!
If I got to drive these I’d be driving trucks for a living again, awesome 👍
Another excellent video! I have a 1969 Kenworth with a 335 and a 5 and a 4. I hope that someday I get as good at shifting it as you are. You are really good at it! Thanks for the inspiration!
Awesome! Just practice as much as you can. I'm not that good but I can keep it rollin atleast!
I got a friend who bought a 69 KW cement truck with a 5n4 in, hope to try it out when it gets finished!
Man I love classics wether it’s an old semi car or truck they are just so simple and they look and sound so good
I keep coming here.again and again since last year...so satisfying to watch 👍👍👍
Thanks! And satisfying to drive!
13:45 "Audio Dopamine". I've never heard a more commanding Jack Brake before. Bless those 'Merica socks too. Thanks for the high!
Este sonido del motor y su grandioso freno de motor me hizo regresar en el tiempo y recordar cuando yo acompañaba a mi padre en sus viajes, ¡Gracias por el buen video!
15 minutes down the road and I would be dead asleep listening to that engine purring, why would anyone want to ban these beautiful machines from our highways they should be celebrated this is what has built ever growing city in the world. thanks to all the men and woman who continue to live this life style so we enjoy the goods the haul.
Love the old trucks, thanks for posting!
My first semi truck driving job was in 1979 at age 20 driving a 1955 KW 6-71 Detroit, 4 x 4 trans and no power steering picking up refer containers on the Seattle waterfront. 10 years and many trucks later on my Friday's off work I drove a 1962 Pete 262 Cummins 5 x 4 trans logging truck with self loader and no power steering.
American truck simulator got a new update!
This would actually be Euro Truck Sim with a USA semi mod, haha
@@vote4carp no
No what? This video wasn't recorded in the US, mate.
lol i had 437 likes and im 12
@@farminggameplays4760 good for you then :D
It must demand serious skill to drive a twin stick love the sound of that old Cummins they really don’t make em like this anymore
Love that sound especially the jakes.