1-Family Since New: Prouse Transport's 1975 Dodge Bighorn Semi Truck Tour

[@originalwyldthkng2334]

I am 70 and remember loving big trucks at 5 yrs old..... GOD BLESS AMERICA

[@petersipp5247]

The Bighorn is one of the best looking trucks...ever ! I used to have a 1959 Dodge Power Wagon W300 one ton. It was another great truck. Both have the same style windshield and vent window.

[@shellyweiers121]

Agreed Pete the bighorn was very underrated

[@bryancooper2699]

Awesome testimony on the family history of the company and saving a classic truck

[@peteengard9966]

I started my career at Cleveland Dodge truck in 1974. Worked on quite a few cab overs and the medium duty. Detroit and Cummins power but you'd be surprised how many fleets still ran the big block gas engines.

[@harmonysprogress]

That's a super clean old truck!! Beautiful!!!

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Come back tomorrow to see their Diamond Reo Royale!

[@westrotter7847]

LOVE THAT TRUCK !!! I REMEMBER WHEN THOSE WERE BUILT !!!! BEAUTIFUL COLORS TOO !!!!

[@snapon666]

They looked like a custom chopped top right from the factory because of that huge hood ...a very cool truck

[@naturundhund]

Nice Truck... Greetings from Germany Peter 😎

[@ralphnorris-vk8ff]

If it was mine, I would still be running that truck! Thats just how good the bighorn was! Don't know if I could find it now, but back in the 70s and insurance company done a durability test on most of the trucks on the market at that time. The bighorn finished 2nd only behind the dodge LCF!

[@renantrevizan6857]

The Dodge truck is very beautiful and the video is very cool

[@hughjass1044]

Super cool old truck and interesting story.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Today’s video of their Diamond Reo has a good story, too!

[@hughjass1044]

@@MissFlatbedRed Yup, just watched it. And added my own little tale from bygone days.

[@ÖyvindGustafsson]

Those bighorn is cool truck.

[@Jameswormsley319]

👍👍

[@davidnazario6646]

Cool machine 👍😎

[@JeronWhite]

Cool old dodge

[@billferris5292]

Love It! I can't wait!

[@rsgabrys----]

------------------ me three ......I'm betting some sort of Detroit......it probably hauls ass

[@hansjansen7047]

For a while we (Laidlaw Carriers flatbed Michigan o/o's) would make the turn from the Scotland road, north to the big road, and see it sitting in the garage, through the windows of the door. I was always impressed that they would keep it like that.

[@MichaelNealey-n2h]

Dodge rule

[@Pop-GodFamilyCountry]

Great video! Love the family stories.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

There’s more with them in the air Diamond Reo tour!

[@iBackshift]

Hey he said "Thunder Bay" where im from. John Makkinga here in the city still has his 74 Bighorn dumptruck in revenue service. And it looks like it come from the showroom floor. If you go on Makkinga website, on the front page you can see number 413 bighorn getting loaded by an excavator.

[@GregStith]

Great GREAT Stuff Men VERY MUCH Enjoyed!!!!

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Be sure to watch the video with them on the Diamond Reo, too!

[@joeapplebaum3763]

My truck unicorn. I’ve never seen a Bighorn in real life.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

I’ve always wondered how I’ve managed to see so many given how few were made.

[@bobbickley9009]

You can find one right now in Mine Hill NJ, Randall Ave. & might be for sale.?????

[@gravytrain416]

I've seen just a few in person at truck shows. And then you had the cabover Dodges, too. I remember seeing those on the road when I was a kid in the early 1980s. There used to be one that was still in use in Siler City, NC, not far from me, in the early to mid 90s. Don't know what ever happened to it.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

You might e joy this cabover Dodge! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYHVqauBbsqZjbs

[@christopherg9806]

Last year of the Big Horn. I live right across the border from Ft. Erie. Hope I get to see this truck when I'm in southern Ontario at some point, if I go to a truck show.

[@glamcityrockerofficial]

This is such a cool truck and I love the color although if I had one it would have to be pink but it's so beautiful this is one of my favorite trucks that's not a cab over this is in my top five favorite trucks they're so cool looking and so different looking I love that big front end like that

[@tedmoery6091]

Very cool truck.

[@icare7151]

❤The Channel Another great Red production. 🙂

[@deborahchesser7375]

Beautiful ! Can’t get enough of the old iron. I started in a Mack DM800 hauling coal, twin sticks and toothpicks as they say. I wish more people would restore these ol girls at least they can work the cost off.

[@badgascoupe]

Still running a 73 dm600 log truck daily.

[@deborahchesser7375]

@ they were the only trucks that would hold up in the mountains of SE Ky. She wouldn’t win any speed races but she’d pull anything with #55k bogies and deep reduction gears. Be safe out there brother.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

If you are new to my channel, hopefully you take a look around and realize a lot of people are doing their part to maintain and restore them! And I’m doing mine to preserve the stories & trucks digitally.

[@deborahchesser7375]

@ I’d like to find an old coal bucket fix her up and drag lowboys, those Mack’s won’t win any races but they are hard to beat. Love your channel

[@frankstrohmyer9106]

I was lucky enough to get a brochure on the Big Horn.

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

What a beautiful beast! Thanks for givin' her the respect. I'm from Ontario, and I'm very familiar with Proust Transport. Great company, keeping our stuff moving! 👍👍

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Be sure to watch the second video with them of their Diamond Reo!

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

@@MissFlatbedRed New Sub! 😀

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Welcome! You’ve got a lot of catching up to do! 😅

[@grege9019]

Nice Diamond T cab over, as well.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Diamond Reo. The tour video went up today.

[@oldironguy]

That truck use to haul into Purina chow (pet food) in Whitby, Ontario in the 1970s. The drivers name was Pete if I remember right? They also had a swingout fender Dodge as well and I remember a Cab over hauling in there too.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

The cabover Diamond Reo tour goes up today!

[@greenmtnman7714]

Great job, I love the long time ownership stories. Since it was originally gold, could it be one from the magazine ads?

[@MissFlatbedRed]

They say in the video who has the gold one from the ad. This one is one of the last ones. So definitely not in an ad.

[@billferris5292]

Beautiful truck, very nice people! Lucky you getting to drive it👍

[@NetWit20]

"Was the horse turquoise?" 😆

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Gotta do what I can when I interview people who match my crazy 😆

[@JamesLashley-q3g]

I use to see a gold dodge running flat bed in the , Early 90's running I-10 in the south east USA.

[@georgedoolittle7574]

When they say *"don't make them like they used to!"* no dooobt this is what they mean #auto_car plus trucking in the 70s. *"sparks coming out the stack"* which oddly enough because of crazy emissions requirements now has actually returned but yes i left trucking for health reasons but having the urea requirement definitely encouraged that as the right thing to do. I did read listen watch and see guys getting 12 miles per hour with modifications that had nothing to do with "government stuff" which from my personal experience has only ruined some amazing engines which is a crime in my book great coverage 😊😊

[@АндрейСеверозападный]

Редкий зверь!

[@garry4816]

Would like to hear more from Dad. Son didn't give him a chance. My son is the same way.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Everyone had a chance. Dan wanted Matt to talk. This is how the resulting conversation went, and I am quite happy with it, as are they.

[@harmonysprogress]

Sure do miss drivin a big truck!!! If I had the money I would buy an old Kenworth with the arodyne cab and license it as a RV and drive it around town, take it on trips back home or hook up the horse trailer and go somewhere... 🤠🤠🤠

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Quite a few aerodyne tours on my Kenworth playlist :)

[@daveweaver8557]

💯👍🏼

[@jesusm2159]

Would they install a heavy duty deer guard?

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Why? It’s been like this its whole life.

[@jesusm2159]

@MissFlatbedRed more aggressive look like mad max movies 🎬

[@MissFlatbedRed]

I appreciate people like this who preserve the history of the truck. That’s what makes this one so great. And the fact it’s a very rare truck in the first place.

[@jesusm2159]

@MissFlatbedRed restomod

[@joecummings1260]

@@jesusm2159 Restomod is kid speak for F ing up a nice truck

[@jerrycoggin9434]

Open the hood!

[@MissFlatbedRed]

As soon as we finished the tour of the Diamond Reo that premiers today, we took it for a drive (video linked in description of this one), then the sun was gone. I am one person, and can only do so much.

[@jerrycoggin9434]

@MissFlatbedRed first truck I ever bought had a small cam NTC-350. It was a good motor back in the day. I kept waiting for the under the hood part of the tour and you let me down Hahaha! Oh well maybe next time. First company I leased on with there was a man with a COE Diamond Reo leased on there also so I enjoyed that video as well. Keep up the good work.

[@stevenmarcinkowski8577]

I would like to see one of these with a 12 v71. I'll bet there's a couple hiding out there

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Highly unlikely. But here’s one with a Detroit. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a168g6WbpcZ_f6s

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

Bring Canadian wouldn’t it be a Fargo??

[@MissFlatbedRed]

There were no Fargo badged Bighorns. And by this point I believe Dodges made in Canada weren’t badged Fargo anymore, anyhow.

[@brentdykgraaf184]

I owned a couple of Dodges ehh.. dust control when parked on gravel.. seal coating when parked on Asphalt.

[@brentdykgraaf184]

Sorry to hear you are from Ontario ehhh. Lol. Get rid of Trudy. ..hire Poliver. Them prosperity. Ax the tax!

[@OmarGuerrero-l2h]

Megusta

[@ЮрийБогомолов-б8щ]

Its cab looks small and its hood looks too large but I like its design

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Super great visibility when driving it! (See the video I posted a couple days ago - we went for a drive & talked about it)

[@mikehenderson3371]

Can't see the engine ???

[@MissFlatbedRed]

We did two tours and a 3rd video driving the truck just as the sun was setting. Can’t seem to please everyone it appears.

[@JonathanSparks-ht4vq]

Boston Trucker calls it Spaghetti Striping

[@vincentdow5899]

Prouse must be German for Prussia or Prussian.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Unlikely given the name’s origin with a quick Google search, and that it’s not the German word for Prussian.

[@cletendre9368]

Nice trucks

[@Localtruthspeaker]

Too bad half the interview wasn’t about the dodge bighorn.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

No one else is complaining about the owners sharing their company history, and about their connection to trucks 🤷‍♀️ There’s an entire second video driving the Dodge.

[@Localtruthspeaker]

@ history is good but talking about meeting on school busses isn’t exactly company history. Talking about Great Grandpa and grandpa starting out with a horse and wagon is history. History is good but your video title was 1973 dodge Bighorn. It should say “ The history of Sprouse Transport and how they got a 1973 Dodge bighorn.

[@MissFlatbedRed]

Make your own videos, then, buddy. No one else is complaining that conversations happen.

[@Localtruthspeaker]

@ conversations are fine. So are dodge bighorns.

[@NoneofYourbusiness-j8x]

The owner in this video says it's all original untouched only 1, oh its been painted, guages changed, but original pen stripe lol

[@MissFlatbedRed]

You must have your own unique definition of ‘original.’ You still have to maintain machinery.