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Post by trailboss on May 18, 2019 17:57:02 GMT -5
 1910 Buick chain drive. There is something to be said about the providential timing of birth and vocation in that regard....them old chain drives were no fun, but a few years later it was a bit hairier...no headache rack behind the cab and water cooled brakes...probably a foot and a half play in the steering...yowzer. |
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Post by toshtego on May 18, 2019 18:08:37 GMT -5
The CEO of the company I work for is an Army Veteran, the company I work for is an active participant in the American Trucking Association, and we have program to help soldiers returning from the field to transition into civilian society. We operate at Ft Riley Kansas in that regard and also Ft. Smith Arkansas, along with our service centers nationwide. The tractor is sitting idle while we wait for the trailer to get the same wrap and wheel treatment. Mack donated the tractor, it is one sweet riding tractor, it rides like what I think a spaceship would. Chill/heated leather seats. Sure beats the hell out of the 1972 International Harvester Cabover Transtar I started hauling meat in.I remember that truck well. A neighbor of mine up La Jara CO still has one on the road hauling grain. Speaking of primitive, my first tractor was a 1949 Autocar single axle with a Hall-Scott straight 6 and a Brownie-Spicer 4&3. No power steering, just a giant wooden wheel with three spokes. |
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Post by toshtego on May 18, 2019 18:09:19 GMT -5
Forgot to add, your new Mack is a real beauty.
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Post by trailboss on May 18, 2019 18:13:19 GMT -5
The CEO of the company I work for is an Army Veteran, the company I work for is an active participant in the American Trucking Association, and we have program to help soldiers returning from the field to transition into civilian society. We operate at Ft Riley Kansas in that regard and also Ft. Smith Arkansas, along with our service centers nationwide. The tractor is sitting idle while we wait for the trailer to get the same wrap and wheel treatment. Mack donated the tractor, it is one sweet riding tractor, it rides like what I think a spaceship would. Chill/heated leather seats. Sure beats the hell out of the 1972 International Harvester Cabover Transtar I started hauling meat in.I remember that truck well. A neighbor of mine up La Jara CO still has one on the road hauling grain. Speaking of primitive, my first tractor was a 1949 Autocar single axle with a Hall-Scott straight 6 and a Brownie-Spicer 4&3. No power steering, just a giant wooden wheel with three spokes. That is really old school. The herd is pretty thin on the highways and byways of what you speak of, Obe Ben Kenobi. |
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Post by toshtego on May 18, 2019 18:20:24 GMT -5
I remember that truck well. A neighbor of mine up La Jara CO still has one on the road hauling grain. Speaking of primitive, my first tractor was a 1949 Autocar single axle with a Hall-Scott straight 6 and a Brownie-Spicer 4&3. No power steering, just a giant wooden wheel with three spokes. That is really old school. The herd is pretty thin on the highways and byways of what you speak of, Obe Ben Kenobi. \ That goes back to 1971. That is how I learned "split shifting" with my arm looped through the wheel. I cannot recommend it for these days. |
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Post by driftingfate on May 18, 2019 20:42:17 GMT -5
I know nothing about CM trucking, I just know that I like things with wheels and internal combustion engines. Always loved the Mack "mascot" on the hood - good, bad, or otherwise, it makes a statement.
Could do without the digital camo, but to each their own. Now, flames or elaborate pinstripes in Army colors, that would be more my style. :-).
Thanks for sharing, Charlie. I always learn something new around here.
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Post by trailboss on May 18, 2019 20:53:13 GMT -5
I thought that the Bulldog is closer to the Marine Corps, and would have been the better fit... but then again I am not the CEO as an Army vet.
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Post by trailboss on May 18, 2019 22:02:20 GMT -5
That is really old school. The herd is pretty thin on the highways and byways of what you speak of, Obe Ben Kenobi. \ That goes back to 1971. That is how I learned "split shifting" with my arm looped through the wheel. I cannot recommend it for these days. Yeah, back in the late 1970's many were still on the road, that is what I cut my teeth on driving a grain truck to the co-ops in Kansas...a Loadstar. When I got into the 1972 with a 13 speed Roadranger it was quite a leap forward. A long time ago, in a galaxy far away.... |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 0:10:31 GMT -5
In the 70s trucks had Witch brakes and you never knew which brake was going to work. The worlds most dangerous rim the 5 piece International. The coffin sleeper. No air ride seats. Mack camel back suspension every Mack came with a blow up hemorrhoid cushion. Air controlled shutters that could be closed for cold weather driving. Anco air wipers. Bias Ply truck tires. Everything you have and I do mean everything at one time was on a truck.
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Post by trailboss on May 19, 2019 17:03:44 GMT -5
I had split rims on the steering axle, hauling huge metal trench plates on a truck that had a boom on it. I was way overweight, and that rim exploded..the split rim slammed into the side of a Mercedes 500 SL...did a gnarly number on the paint/body.....It was quite a pucker moment.
The 72 cabover had the Detroit 318...dependably leaked a gallon of oil from SF>LA/ LA>SF...louder than all hell in my dragggin-fly truck.
It dragged going up hills, wanted to fly down them...no Jake as an option.
Through no fault of mine, other than trusting others to be truthful, I lost my brakes dropping off the grapevine grossing 80K.....I kicked it into Georgia overdrive and was running 100 miles per hour or better...my butt was sucking naugahyde.....
Glad some things are in the past.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 17:14:33 GMT -5
Glad your still with us, after that.  |
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Post by monbla256 on May 19, 2019 17:28:20 GMT -5
I'm reminded of Mack trucks every day thou I've never driven or ridden in one. My grandfather had the only Mack truck dealership in New Hampshire from the late '20s thru the late '40s. All the Mack trucks sold back then in NH, Mass, Vermont and Maine were sold thru his dealership. I use the cigar ashtray he was given when he sold his 100th truck back in 1943. I's sold sterling including the Bulldog which is the center piece and is the same size as that which were found on the trucks at the time. It's one of my proudest family items and will pass to my grandson as it has been passed to me. 
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Post by pepesdad1 on May 19, 2019 17:32:18 GMT -5
Whew!!! You guys are amazing...major props to drivers back then...did you see the size of those giant redwoods? Went through one or two many years ago when you could go on a tour of the mighty redwoods of northern Cal.
Can't even imagine the size of the cojoñes that those drivers had to be moving that amount of weight down a highway with the equipment they had back then...always made it a point to get the hell away from a log truck as fast as I could...never know when a chain might break...then they pick you up with a blotter.
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Post by toshtego on May 19, 2019 17:45:46 GMT -5
I had split rims on the steering axle, hauling huge metal trench plates on a truck that had a boom on it. I was way overweight, and that rim exploded..the split rim slammed into the side of a Mercedes 500 SL...did a gnarly number on the paint/body.....It was quite a pucker moment. The 72 cabover had the Detroit 318...dependably leaked a gallon of oil from SF>LA/ LA>SF...louder than all hell in my dragggin-fly truck. I t dragged going up hills, wanted to fly down them...no Jake as an option. Through no fault of mine, other than trusting others to be truthful, I lost my brakes dropping off the grapevine grossing 80K.....I kicked it into Georgia overdrive and was running 100 miles per hour or better...my butt was sucking naugahyde..... Glad some things are in the past. Two stroke diesels are loud and leaky. A neighbor from over the border has one of those Detroit 8v-71s in his hay hauler and I always know when he is on the road making a delivery. |
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Post by trailboss on May 19, 2019 18:09:11 GMT -5
Glad your still with us, after that. Me too.. I was driving a meat rig with all the graphics...some guy keyed up on the CB, "barbecue at the bottom of the hill" My brakes were smoking like a Hollywood fog machine at the halfway point...When I rolled into the hotel in Bakersfield, my brakes were still smoking...the next morning at O'dark thirty, as I opened my hotel room door, I could still smell the brakes. Had I stopped at the bottom of the hill, no doubt, the trailer would have burned up....that is a lesson learned the hard way, after that I never trusted anyone's word on brake adjustment...my 9/16 wrench visited the slack adjusters regularly...now the trucks have automatic brake adjusters. Having said all that, I was still far ahead in technology than the loggers and heavy equipment haulers in what they faced before I started trucking....I had it easy by comparison. Back in the sixties, I remember my uncle hauling heavy equipment and saying that Mack trucks had the beefiest rear ends...I rode as his seat cover over Wolf creek pass with him on a run from Salida Colorado...that informed me about the grades that served me well. |
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Post by LSUTigersFan on May 19, 2019 18:14:20 GMT -5
That's a thing of beauty!
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Post by trailboss on May 19, 2019 18:18:59 GMT -5
There was a video of a father and son that did the ouray to Silverton run hauling fuel on "Dangerous drives"...the way they handled the switchbacks to accommodate the oncoming traffic is pretty good as they had to take the whole road is pretty good..."The million Dollar Highway" if you lose your brakes, you are in bad shape...my Google Fu is weak.  |
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Post by toshtego on May 19, 2019 18:20:15 GMT -5
Glad your still with us, after that. Me too.. I was driving a meat rig with all the graphics...some guy keyed up on the CB, "barbecue at the bottom of the hill" My brakes were smoking like a Hollywood fog machine at the halfway point...When I rolled into the hotel in Bakersfield, my brakes were still smoking...the next morning at O'dark thirty, as I opened my hotel room door, I could still smell the brakes. Had I stopped at the bottom of the hill, no doubt, the trailer would have burned up....that is a lesson learned the hard way, after that I never trusted anyone's word on brake adjustment...my 9/16 wrench visited the slack adjusters regularly...now the trucks have automatic brake adjusters. Having said all that, I was still far ahead in technology than the loggers and heavy equipment haulers in what they faced before I started trucking....I had it easy by comparison. Back in the sixties, I remember my uncle hauling heavy equipment and saying that Mack trucks had the beefiest rear ends...I rode as his seat cover over Wolf creek pass with him on a run from Salida Colorado...that informed me about the grades that served me well. If I remember correctly, Mack used to use Timken Double Reduction diffs. I had one in my Autocar. The least of my worries. No jake with a gas Hall-Scott engine. |
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