Merry Christmas to you guys at miller. 🌲🌲

Seasons Greetings. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸. 🎅🏼

I want a M100 for no other reason that to have a M100.

So that took them maybe a couple hours and what do they charge like $10,000 ?

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Merry chrismas Miller company i hope one day to open a shop and use all your welders and outher equipment that you make .

Absolutely love hearing the old timers tell the history maybe the best series you guys have ever put out.

I'm wondering if y'all provide training and if y'all got a location in Houston.

wish i had my 1999 t800 with N14

I'd like to see it, in a winter, with Snow on the Ground.

Correction. As I remember the first big hydraulic was a 1030 mounted on a GMC General.

Great Hearing about the History. I remember all the stories. I remember when Bill Miller sued a lot of the manufacturers including Vulcan over the L-arm. I was at Wilbar and Arnold in Springfield, Va. when they brought the first 1040 mounted on a General. Only regret I think they had was ROAD ONE ! They called me upstairs at the tow show to meet with I believe Don Humphries to sell me on the idea of Miller getting into the towing business. I told Henry Holliman from Wilbar at the time it would be a disaster and probably destroy the company . At the time I was one of the East Coast's largest used wrecker dealer ( selling over 200 trucks a year). That didn't seem to sway their decision. They got one of the biggest towers in Florida and Oregon to go along with as initial participants to give Road One credibility. I tried to explain to them there is no way you are going to buy towing companies and get all the former competitors to work together. To make matters worse, aside from a few of the big operators in the start, when Miller bought out the other towing companies I was told they paid in stock (which couldn't be sold for a certain length of time). I was told the sellers had to sign a non compete agreement. I believe over a short period of time the stock dropped from $4 or $5 dollars a share to under $1 and was almost de-listed from the stock exchange. To avoid this I think they did a reverse stock split ( 4 to 1). As I predicted the Road One Venture was a disaster. I remember many tow truck companies refused to purchase a Miller product because Miller was competing with them in the towing business. They eventually spun off Road One. We bought of Road One's trucks from them. Let me close by saying I have the utmost respect for Miller Industries. They are a first class and extremely successful company. I have owned many of their products thru the years. In my 52 years in the towing industry I have made many mistakes and in the process learned from them. Miller's survival after Road One is a testament to the excellent vision and leadership Miller Industries had and continues to this day. I would not hesitate to buy one of their products or invest in their company !!!!

I'm watching it with my wife on the big screen. I'm still beaming since meeting John Hawkins at the trade show last month.

Great review. Very dynamic change in equipment during those years. I was glad to be an end user during those days. The 1040 Rotator made my company stand out well above others in my area, a real work horse. Jerry Bullock as my dealer and friend, made getting equipment easy. And you John, with Jerry, coming to my shop to "hands on" tear apart and repair the Rotator when it stopped rotating, was great customer service that I will never forget. Even though we had to fix it twice ....... Well wishes to all of you fine folks that made it all work. Regards/ Greg S.

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This could not have come soon enough!!!

I put the eaton ultrashift plus thru its pace for 2.5 years now in a vocational application and love it, its hard to get back into a manual when mine is in for service 😊

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I find these vids fascinating. Thank you.

I prefer the loudest sob pump you got

Any tutorial on pto electrical.? And the difference on ford and Dodge. Pto electrical ?

How many horsepower in rvms does it take to run that pump

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All i came for was a tip on priming the fuel system. This video was a complete waste of fuckin time

I am sold

thats only 50 tons

Does the truck weigh 100 tons or is that the amount it can pull?

That was a great trip down "memory lane"...I was a young man starting in the industry in 1983 but worked for a large company that was intricate in the early development of under reach towing as well as a Century equipment customer. There were a lot of "New" ideas flying around back then and it was great that so many people were trying to make it better and find their "nitch" in the market.

It’d be a shame to fire those classics up and actually drive them when they need to be moved

Congratulations on this production! Very well done.

Great presentation, I love the history of the industry. Thanks for getting these people together and recording their stories and memories. I look forward to episode two.

very awesome video

Thank you for this fantastic film. What an insight to a man and a company. Please make many more. 🪝🪝🪝🪝🪝

If “I forgot more than you know” was a person. This would be him. Hats off sir. Thanks for the great products.

40 ton was the 850

Trade shows where the best back that era mid 80s early 90s

Awesome Video, very informative and very interesting!

In 1979 I started towing in the military and then towed for over 20 years after and have driven basically all of them. There all good if you keep on top of them for their servicing. I’m retired now but always enjoyed the memories I have from working 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Lol!! Thank You 🙏

Great presentation. When is the next episode?

Banger of a video!

What a great sit down. Love the history I started in the towing industry in 1995 with bears towing I remember John bringing us a rotator to try out on time ❤

It's great to see this sit-down take place. Enjoyed it tremendously. Thanks!

Terry Faulkner @ Faulkner Custom Design has put some awesome paint jobs on these wreckers before you did in house paint work. He and I used to do these just by ourselves.

Very informative and special.

That was great! I could listen for another hour or two.

Wonderful presentation John. Enjoyed hearing the journey of Jerry and others. Glad I had you, with Jerry Bullock as contacts and as good friends during my towing operations. Especially when I kept tearing up that 1040 Rotator. Regards, Greg , Wa. State

It's great to hear directly from the folks who made so many great strides in this industry. I'm not in the industry, but thanks for doing this!

Wtf is 44,000 pounds show us that with 90,000 pounds then we will believe you I see real world 90,000 load’s everyday going down the road

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