1970 Big Rigs We Love

Check out the collection of 1970's big trucks we love, from our travels to North American truck shows, on the road and personal favourite collections,
Kenworth, Peterbilt, International and more of the older model rigs.
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Song: Tonto

[@johneisler4242]

I was falling head over heals in love with them, getting ready to be a teenager in 1980. Now its been 21 safe trucking years and passion is still there. Thanks for the vid.

[@b4ds33d]

Whenever I think of semis and most things blue collar from the 70s Bob Seeger is playing in my head.

[@SmartTrucking]

Yup!

[@modacare4546]

This made me remember the good old days of trucking. My first truck was a 68 Freightliner cabover with a Cummins 290 and 4x4 Spicer.

[@thegoldensteed]

Simple, classic, beautiful, timeless.....

[@josephsullivan1760]

DYNOMITE !!!!!! These videos bring back memories of my owner operator days Things were a lot different in those days and the trucks were truly sharp and classy pieces of machinery. Each one different and unique. The way a truck looked told a lot about the man who owned it. Just like the cars were all different and also showed much about the owners. Today there isn’t much of a variety of trucks or cars for that matter. The cabovers now just about gone were my favorites.

[@jessvolina6007]

Beautiful trucks, these are trucks kids like me saw in the 80’s watching movies and looking out the back window of the car with my parents and thought wow so cool, I wanna drive that one day. Personality and purpose, a great time for trucks.

[@ChivalrousVeteran]

The music alone made this enjoyable - the truck photographs, made this a memorable experience! : - )

[@danielkennedy1524]

Beautiful! those indeed where the days! You guys in Canada sure take good care of your machines! Great music!

[@SmartTrucking]

Thanks, but Canadians can't take credit for that beautiful W900A. That truck was out of Michigan! I should have bought it . Dave

[@truckntankeryanker8855]

I started out on a '79 Freightliner cabover.

[@SmartTrucking]

They were cool trucks!

[@dannygregg3906]

That's definitely some Old School Cool.

[@NoNonsenseKnowHow]

So much Beauty in this video!

[@SmartTrucking]

I had a chance to buy that truck pictured in the thumbnail. Wish I'd done it now. Didn't have the money at the time.

[@denniscornell2528]

Dave, Recently found your channel and love the memories it invokes! I am 66, my Dad passed 3 years ago .....at 87 .... trucker since 1948 Alberta (body jobs then). I grew up, as a kid, sleeping on the doghouse of cabovers, the drone of a 220 Cummins putting me to sleep. All the Independent Alberta truckers, of the day, had no money .... my Dads independent buddies bought used (never new from a Dealer) the cheapest ... old Reo's, Diamond T's, and other obscure brands. My Dad loved Hayes cabovers (small Vancouver manufacturer) and had 4 of them over the years. Dave your channel is great, you probably saw few Hayes in Ontario, but ..... how about an episode on the small manufacturers (of Canada or otherwise) including the Hayes ? I learned to drive at 14 in a Hayes cabover with a 5 and 4 (completely separate and sloppy boxes), on the gravel roads leading to Yellow Knife, NWT. Dave please consider my suggestion, Cheers, Dennis Cornell

[@jalton9416]

Beautiful machines

[@osirismena1345]

Kenworth W900A was very popular in mexican companies in 80's.. .... and mack trucks too.... nice video...

[@SmartTrucking]

Thanks!

[@44punisherable]

Beautiful rigs!

[@captainmorgan1107]

Cool video! Love the cabovers, miss seeing them everywhere.

[@troybingham6426]

Man those are beautiful. Gives me a weird feeling inside. .. I wish I'd been a truck driver.

[@justonemore514]

The Diamond Reo cabover brings back fond memories. was looking for a autocar in the video.

[@diaznevai8624]

Very nice videos For us that love trucks . Very nice background music 👍 very peaceful 💯

[@jamesrolfe9151]

Awesome thx brings back memories

[@cabovercody4314]

2.02 that's actually a Kenworth K100C. K100E has Square headlights and didn't come out until 1984.

[@donaldbrowning4602]

used to drive 79 kw 900 no power steering truck and trailer hauling fuel.would go into small gas stations with no problems miss that truck

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

My dad was a trucker from 46-82. I grew up around semis as a result. I remember the truckers from the south having confederate flags on their grills. Won’t see that anymore 😂. I still love the look of long nose Pete’s and Kenworths even though they aren’t as furl efficient but are bad ass looking

[@ancientsalt4291]

The KW 900 series aged VERY well. Same with the Pete 370 series

[@camamoutback]

very well done !!! thank you for the memories..

[@horaciogarrido8344]

Wonderful years !

[@timb4569]

brings back memories

[@markstengel7680]

I knew immediately I'd like this. Good music, makes ya wana drive. Well Done Presentation 👍

[@SmartTrucking]

Thanks Mark! Dave

[@SuperHigear]

That KW at 2:32 looks like the one I ran for a while pulling a reefer until they bumped me up into a newer truck

[@donnebes9421]

Love the old w900a.

[@stevenkietzke5582]

Sweet looking rigs

[@dianek5118]

love, love, love those cabovers...

[@whotf888]

diane Kirsch come to Europe, they're everywhere

[@EarlMayers-eu3kl]

I had a 1971Glider Kenworth great old truck there’s a picture off it at. Dogwood. Valley restaurant. Called. Someplace else now but still. Run. By. Gail great place 😊❤😮

[@six-pack1332]

I used to drive a 73 R model Mack, 73 model cabover White Freightliner, 75 R model Mack, 80 model International 4300. They were all good trucks.

[@SmartTrucking]

Yes, they all were!

[@michaelhorn4540]

Best rigs ever

[@brendankennedy4758]

Yah miss them cab overs. Love them old trucks

[@gearset7511]

I didn't knew about the 1975 Dodge Big Horn, it looks pretty much like a DINA (it's a truck made in México by Diésel Nacional). Great compilación!

[@kcmcrae69]

Nice,more Pete's please😎

[@michaelreynolds2065]

I miss driving those cabovers drove one 20 years then my company put me in a long nose K whopper never did like that truck

[@DanielMartins-sm7bc]

Very good

[@3941602]

Thg e diamond reo was flat nosed as can be I liked it

[@troy19706]

Thank you for making a great video

[@SmartTrucking]

Thanks Tracy! Dave

[@johnhull6363]

anything with a buzzing dozen!!! especially conventional..... it's so much easier to find those awesome diesel beasts in COE believe it or not.....2 strokes forever

[@Worldtraveler1984]

72 peterbilt is the best looking truck in this video.

[@lisakigar9850]

They was real trucks 🚚 🤣

[@RB-mg3ji]

My favorite is White western star . shame on you Volvo i miss White :(

[@johnhull6363]

R B white Freightliner coe too

[@andrewking9761]

How many 8V71s in this line up?

[@rickmacie833]

Cabovers are cool to look at but driving one for many years in the 80s with the roads back then was horrible, thats where I got my handle Rough Rider!

[@mikedecker4458]

seen jim Davidson truck there knew him years ago another guy at north American van lines bought it i traded my 08 freightliner got a 2017 pete 389 0mg one more time hope she's good to me in ashland Virginia now deliver Atlanta 11 am tomorrow anyway like the volg .

[@SmartTrucking]

Thanks, you knew the guy that owned this Kw? Dave

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

what do you think of log trucks? I have a 1963 Peterbilt log truck, and its probably the best thing I've ever owned

[@SmartTrucking]

Logging trucks are cool, that's something I would have liked to learn. Dave

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

+Smart-Trucking.com cool, thank you

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

Yup

[@darrelhuckaby5069]

Stevo Reno gocat go

[@darrelhuckaby5069]

Stevo Reno

[@romz90]

If only freightliner stuck to the old look

[@bonzoschlacendaker1057]

So wonderful to see some of the tractors. In a time when a 3 tone paint job was the normal not an expensive, aftermarket, break the bank proposition. I know today's trucks are efficient, and technologically superior that having been said my first complaint was the new trucks is that most are emasculated. I know the sloped nose is more efficient I just prefer a hood that is taller than I am. Afterall the view out the windshield is the view out your office window. Your going to spend just over 1/3 of your life looking out your offices windows. Do you want the top floor or the lobby level? My next complaint is that most are all the same color, white.When I toured the Kenwouth plant the only single tone tractors going out the doors were ordered that way because the customer was going to incorporate it into a company paint scheme. My first truck was a CO4070A day cab. It had a 3 tone paint scheme with chrome to spare and that was just how it came from the factory. It is good to see the remaining cabovers still roaming about. I wonder how many of todays trucks will still be running 38 years from now.....

[@SmartTrucking]

Good question and my guess is very few of them. When you mentioned about the cost of the three colour paint job, I always wanted one but could never afford one. Then on my last truck, the 04 that I have now, I priced it out thinking I could finally afford the fancy paint job only to find out that the price of the paint job had now gone up so much due to the price of Dupont Imron so much, that I STILL couldn't afford it! Thanks for commenting and watching!

[@dcdave357]

Hey Dave, why has cabover trucks disappeared from North American roads?

[@SmartTrucking]

Check out this article on our website.... will give you some insight. www.smart-trucking.com/cabover-trucks.html

[@garypollard9770]

dcdave357 have you ever driven one?

[@petemao]

cool

[@bigted5151]

i will never get to feel what the golden age of trucking was like. All my friends say i was born too late. Now what do i get? a cheap computer wrapped in Chinese plastic with some wheels taped to the bottom, and a bunch of dumbasses who dont give a shit about their job or their trucks. The closest i will ever get to (as my father calls them) the good ol' days, is a 1981 KW w900 and some old stories from my dad.

[@SmartTrucking]

You've got an 81 KW 900? You're a lucky man, if so! Dave

[@bigted5151]

the truck my father drove for associated foods, he has some incredible stories to go along with it

[@gearset7511]

Sorry, I wrotte "great compilation!" but since I'm mexican, my cell just made the "correction". Greetings from México!

[@germancaro7041]

I love USA

[@jimwilson9371]

Everything was better in the 70's

[@chuckcollier8305]

1:32 kw awesome

[@rogervoss4877]

COE memories. How 'bout the rolling stairs at every Truck Stop to wash those big Windows? Bobtail in the rain with an axle back International was the Worst. Short shifter meant something different. Driver side foot well = ice chest. Steps BEHIND the front Wheel was a goood thing. Don't forget your TV before tilting it. (ROFL) Getting your pants on. Kicking back at a TS meant sitting on the right with the CB on. Seein' you front corner clearance. Paper towel roll on a bungee for a center sun visor - handy. Big table to the right for your map book & crap. Drivers who used the right footwell for a trash can.

[@SmartTrucking]

Well, clearly you've worked cabovers. Loved the "ice chest". How true! Take care Roger! Dave

[@hughcarolgibson3717]

Roger Voss Dodgepowerwagons

[@theodorebowers9737]

I drove almost every truck in this video love cabovers always do had a hard time going to a conventional hated conventional

[@SmartTrucking]

You know, I grew up on cabovers and didn't care for conventionals right away. I started to appreciate them more when I noticed that I found them easier to control on ice because when she'd start to slide I could see the nose move off track right away, where in the cabover it was more difficult to notice. Dave

[@oldpete3153]

Theodore Bowers after 47 yr's in the biz I'd have to say that the best cab-overs were any that I weren't in.

[@MartyChristianSoldier]

Rod, isn't that the truth, beat you half to death, freeze your butt off in the winter and then cook it in the summer. I seen those macks and thought I was going to have nightmares all over again.

[@davidsteele1667]

Hard to believe Freightliner made a good looking truck at one time. Saw them all over the place when I was kid. By the time I got my CDL the contemporary models looked like piles of shit.

[@SmartTrucking]

Yeah, no though the old ones were nice!

[@rickkentner1713]

Ya, but we all miss it.

[@SmartTrucking]

Yes we do! Dave

[@Aleiria13]

YES!👍🏽👍🏽🥰🇺🇸 My dream truck’s where built in the decade I was born; the 70’s!😎😺 *a ‘71 KW COE that has a custom frame build like the #Reliable-Carrier’s orange Peterbilt with sidepipes😍

[@lachygoldsworthy4226]

Whish those trucks were still around

[@SmartTrucking]

Me too! I had a chance to buy the Kenworth pictured here in the thumbnail. Wish I'd bought it now, but as I recall, I didn't have the money at the time anyway. Dave

[@thomassalvatore6762]

CABOVERS WERE GREAT FOR THE CITY ; WHEN IT CAME TO LONG DISTANCE , THAT IS ANOTHER HORSE 😜😜😜

[@madducky7871]

but i like the cabovers

[@artemovillagomez]

It wasn't Mack R-Model in the 70'...????????????????

[@kstevenson186]

I watch this along with 90% of everything else from that era,and I get pissed. They made so much better stuff back then smh i hate 2020

[@frankruether4284]

What, no White Western Star!?

[@dieselmutt8865]

What? No GMC? Must be because they were all out getting real work done instead of looking pretty at the truck show.

[@SuperHigear]

No White Road (commodes) Comanders?

[@ronaldledgerton878]

Music, BAD

[@randysurline4651]

It looks like some of the first double bunks were actually two bunks put together