The way we started. Remember waiting a an hour for a pay phone, and the dispatcher telling you to call back in an hour? Fixing your own truck, being able to park most anywhere when you were tired, customers that were actually happy to see you! Lumpers were paid $1 per 1000 if you did pay someone to unload. Old school wasn't a buzz word. It wasn't easy and as a rookie you kept your pie hole shut and LISTENED to what the old timers said and you got a real education. Thanks for sharing!
@MartyrBrown7 жыл бұрын
The247Trucker I can't imagine what it was like without cell phones and GPS. Must have been a real adventure. My grandpap drove a cabover all over the country with my grandma in the 70s. I drive now but I couldn't imagine making the runs I make without GPS.
@donotneed22505 жыл бұрын
I got my CDL in 1991 but drove my first truck in the Army in the middle 1970's. I'm still not a fan of GPS. Just give directions and an atlas and don't be surprised I'm already there when you arrive. I also remember when we could drive 8, break 8, drive 8 again until you ran out of hours.
@brianwilson81194 жыл бұрын
I remember the hallways with phones lined up on both walls, the mini juke boxes and telephones on the table in the booths, and the TV sets with available loads scrolling across them...oh, and being able to turn squelch all the back on the CB with hardly any noise
@chrisbelsito42314 жыл бұрын
Get in the area of shipper or receiver and ask for some local information on the CB. Usually they’d walk ya right in
@keyboard1011015 жыл бұрын
Words cant express the level of appreciation i have for this video.
@trucker593311 жыл бұрын
That was the trucking i fell in love with and have done it for 3 decades now and still going. Like i said the trucking i fell in love with then, not the e-logs, Pilot travel centers and governed trucks. Truckers used to be truckers, cowboys, not a overweight guy in a pair of baggy shorts, flip flops, cell phone stuck to his ear while dragging a SubWay sandwich behind him.
@Poorboyzgarage4476 жыл бұрын
Yep trucking sure has went to shit in the past 15 years
@adriantomlin29024 жыл бұрын
@@Poorboyzgarage447 Along with every damn thing else!!
@jimgavin39239 жыл бұрын
1973 W900, golden anniversary year for Kenworth. Beautiful truck!
@shortymedlock32048 жыл бұрын
Started May 5th, 1972... first load was precast concrete from Milwaukee to Rockford, IL. Never drove a truck... lied my way into a two day gig. Called my buddy who drove.... asked him how to shift! He said 'just hope you don't get a Mack as they have two shifters'... Got to the terminal and there was a shiny, new Mack RL700 Westcoaster conventional... thanks God it was a Maxidyne with a 5 speed! Now, 44 years and over 4,000,000 later, I'm still running regional runs even though I've be 'retired' for three years.
@arthurcarter93736 жыл бұрын
Shorty Medlock keep it trucking ain't nothing like the sound of big truck engines and diesel smoke stay safe my friend
@the.porter.productions4 жыл бұрын
Shorty Medlock 🇺🇸You’ve seen a few changes since ‘72! 🧐 Some of the trucking was better/easier back then. But you did have the strikes back then. Some things haven’t changed that much though. My oldest brother started driving in 57. He has shared many good stories from back then. I learned to drive in 72 at age of 6...Have loved it ever since! ❤️ I’ve never driven a 2 stick though! 🧐 Make the trip and enjoy the ride is my motto. Cabovers rule! 🥰 Stay safe!
@andrewnorris15143 жыл бұрын
Sorry Bro cant do both at the same time
@whotf8883 жыл бұрын
Lol my father was born in '72
@charliealpha11f3b211 жыл бұрын
Trucking is and is not what it used to be. My wife and I run under our own authority in a 1979 Kenworth K100. Much of what was detailed about living on the road is the same as it was then...especially since we're rolling in late 70s iron. What has changed is inflation, the economy, and our society as a whole...those things have not gotten better. We still meet good folk out on the road who still believe in the old school...one thing's for sure, truckin' ain't for everyone...
@dioniciobenavidez53866 жыл бұрын
Trucking is fun. You have to have the passion. I tip my hat for you and your wife Chris. Well done. You exemplify the last resort of the cowboy and cow gal life. Yeah!!
@SuperHigear3 жыл бұрын
I remember those days well, we thought they’d never end, then the government stepped in and screwed it all up with new regulations, big tech came in and finished it off with cell phones, computers,, ELD, & GPS. But we’ve got some good the new drivers will never have; memories of what it was like back in the good ole days during the glory days of trucking
@normanott6448 жыл бұрын
I was fortunate to have driven back in the glory days of trucking,
@truccboi2145 жыл бұрын
Wish I could have been that lucky, I bought two older trucks in hope of trying to live through it myself
@kellypenrod88637 жыл бұрын
DAMN!!!, Now I am feeling old!!! 45yrs of this as of 1, Aug. Back then we had it kinda made, we were respected, and respectful, our old outfits weren't bad, and we had fun doing a job that indeed was a lot tougher back then. alot of interstates either weren't complete completed back then or were even planned or built yet , one of my favorites was I40 \ Rt 66 across tx. nm. AZ and ca. then going from Barstow to Bakersfield across the ROLLER COASTER Aka, old 56, Things surely have changed, some for the better, others, not so much. These outfits we drive now are a DREAM!!! Heat and AC that's as good as ya got at home, 4, 5, and 600hp engines, over2000 ft lbs of torque, we fly over mountains that used to kick our butts, and man what about that. RIDE!!!?? It's as good as some cars!!! Well, I! I'm maybe getting a little bit carried away, but the point I'm trying to make is the job is still hard but it has improved greatly in some aspects.. BUT it has degraded in others, rather badly . Driver's don't talk to each other much anymore, respect is almost non-existent, and pride is with few exceptions, is just... gone. This has GOT to change!!!! You pup's out there, Don't be afraid to ask the old dogs questions!!! We learned this job by asking questions, we would LOVE to pass on any of our hard won experience to the new crop of driver's before it's done for us and we're just so much dust in the wind. the same way our predissiors. did for us. books and computers just don't have the hands on, been there done that aspect, and never will. stay safe out there everybody.
@andrewnorris15143 жыл бұрын
Tonite I watch the national weather dozens of multi vehicle crashes do to electronic logging. The government has made our highways a death trap
@jimmahaffey93684 жыл бұрын
Such a true real video...that small crawl thru sleeper kw was state of the art in early 70ies.
@jaydean88436 жыл бұрын
One of the shots in a dinner behind Alen is a 1970 cobra Torino 429 super cobra jet. Dad had one.
@MisterTwister885 жыл бұрын
Jay Dean I noticed that too, awesome car
@S7EVE_P5 жыл бұрын
Golden Years Nights are warm and the days are young Gonna drive back down where you once belonged
@BigBoyO5611 жыл бұрын
I was born in 97' and I love this.
@packingten4 жыл бұрын
I'm 70 drove Old trucks@ Ford dealer I worked@. Got to drive a lot of FAST CARS TOO!. I drove a Rambler scrambler I think 335hp 4spd little rambler american.I own Bonneville pont 421 4spd I think it was 370 hp it would fly!. Had 3 GTOs 65 400 eng 3 spd,1968 400 4spd whoa!, I bought&sold cars way to many to list if you like to talk cars Im an old turd w a lot of time,se mail if you want my wife will talk a little but😏 packingten@gmail.com Later ..take care brother
@truckinfam22074 жыл бұрын
History here folks. This is what I left home for in 1977. Coast to Coast fever. Large car KW Twin stick V-8. I still feel the thrill. Godbless everyone out here still doing there job
@cattydcat87163 жыл бұрын
Whenever I watched old clips like this, I always wonder what happened to the people. I imagine Cal and Alice are both long gone now.
@andrewnorris15143 жыл бұрын
Cant say never assume
@thomasaley8839 Жыл бұрын
Thank you bringing those memories alive
@stefankassbohrer27654 жыл бұрын
Great footage, great W900 ! Those were the times ... Greetings from south Germany
@the.porter.productions4 жыл бұрын
The road was lonesome, except for the cb radio talk, unless you had the comfort of a fellow driver. Those trucks were cool to drive. You got to see the world that way...we’ll, the USA. 🇺🇸 God bless our truckers! 🥰
@jimwilson9371 Жыл бұрын
I started in 1979, and setting at the house now. I enjoyed that, thanks.
@ethancantu86805 жыл бұрын
In the process of getting my CDL B hopefully one day will work into CDL A. I know trucking isn’t what it used to be but there’s nothing I can do about that. I just look forward to trucking in my time and making the best of it.
@MisterTwister885 жыл бұрын
Ethan Cantu Amen man, Rock on
@TheRoadhammer3793 жыл бұрын
22 yrs so far, 3rd generation, it's what you make it. I own a glider, run paper logs, I do as I want when I want. I love it, and I learned from previous men in my family. Respect yourself, respect other drivers even if they lack self respect. I eat, sleep and breath trucking, I'm a long haul trucker, not a truck driver. I dress like a professional, I carry myself as a professional, in and out of the truck I piss excellence,lol. You get your A, you drive and you carry yourself with dignity and respect and you'll love this industry.
@andrewnorris15143 жыл бұрын
Run 11 western states
@packingten4 жыл бұрын
I worked @ A Ford large truck dealer and a GMC Big truck dealer,I used to drive a lot of bobtail rigs to get 5th wheels dump bodys on tri axles(bogey axle sweet-hot)😁,I fixed minor things remember Old 220/250 cummins,of course detroits they would totally FLY bobtail!!. Great times 1969/73 Drove new cars @Ford dealer some fast ones,Mustang w428 Cob jet 4 spd,Great job loved cars&trucks!.
@carloselizondo76714 жыл бұрын
Trucks back then had style and personality, reflection of the driver.
@the.porter.productions5 жыл бұрын
Sweet looking rig...those ol rigs ruled the road and a place in my heart as a young kid. Porter Dude of Ohio!
@freewillfarms20596 жыл бұрын
Ha 40ft trailer 70s was the golden age of driving
@truckin37995 жыл бұрын
Love this video, cutting edge brand new kw with 350hp awesome 😎
@TurboDaveV1010 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@waynesworld20868 жыл бұрын
this makes me wish i was a big part of the truck industry back then but i was born n 78,i bet it was awesome n $ & u learned real truckin techniques an got 2 run with real professionals,whoop whoop truck it up
@SuperHigear6 жыл бұрын
Wayne Dearman - It was awesome, just sayin. And I loved every minute of it. Now, in hindsight, even that night I waited for five hours on a cold & windy mountain top on a desolate stretch of highway in upstate New York State for my brother to bring me a new turbo is a memory I cherish. We replaced the old one & I was on my way.... They called me - "High-Gear"
@kman-mi7su4 жыл бұрын
I started out in a 78 White Road Boss with a gutless 318 Detroit, it caught fire and I got an 82 Mack R model 300 hp with a coffin sleeper and roof a/c it pulled better and ran faster than the Road Boss, I thought I was riding high back then. I wonder if the two of them are still alive? they're probably retired by now if so.
@gregbgregb84875 жыл бұрын
Man I miss driving so bad. Ain't no job good enough once you stop driving. My trainer told me when I first started. When you get that diesel in your blood you cant do nothing else and he was right.
@andrewnorris15143 жыл бұрын
Yep. Ain't nothin like the rattle and humm.of the big diesel
@Nikohere10 жыл бұрын
magnificent!! brilliant I love it :) my grandfather drove his white freightliner lika 62/63 n worked for Sandestin Trucking Co. but he died in 1975 at age 28 wen he was barely starting out u kno jst two years after my dad was born n s his two front tired had blown out n he couldn't control it so he crashed straight into w the impact smashing him into his truck and himself int an underpas of a bridge in san Joaquin he died ina 69 freightliner.. sad isnt..I like seein these old archives of freightliner or big rigsi like the classic white freightliners n kenworths better than rigs tho
@Kanlodge6 жыл бұрын
I always wonder what ever happened to them, and where the truck is today if it exists at all anymore very cool
@andrewnorris15143 жыл бұрын
VERY GOOD QUESTION
@KoolBreeze4 жыл бұрын
Only if people knew what and how much we give up just to be behind these steering wheels and windshields. This is all I wanted to do since I was 5yrs old,25yrs later and I'm still chasing that white line.
@TheRoadhammer3793 жыл бұрын
22 yrs OTR, 25 yrs since I started with my B license. Why do you wish people knew? No one put a gun to our heads and made us do this. Are you better than the truckstop waitress that has to deal with this new breed of steering wheel holding assholes? Are we more important than cops, paramedics, military troops? I don't want pity, sympathy or support for doing a job I chose. Kinda like all these military guys, demanding respect, lol... no one drafted those fools, they chose to be cannon fodder. Same with the "thin blue line" bullshit, no one forced cops to be in their profession.
@endurotruckererniedesjardins7 жыл бұрын
Ive been trucking twenty years now. I sure feel like i missed out on the good ol days. Man that kw is sweet. Im a logger in northern ontario. Ive got a couple videos on my channel. Have a look
@scraphaulin10 жыл бұрын
Power steering by "Armstrong" lol
@kellypenrod88637 жыл бұрын
Tiltdecker power steering? I don't know son. , How strong are ya?? lol!!!! Thumbs up driver's, thumbs up!!!!! that way they don't get broke!!!!
@b374mxg4 жыл бұрын
I noticed that too!
@andrewking97614 жыл бұрын
And noise supplied by Detroit Diesel.
@tommyw.94248 жыл бұрын
I love that truck.
@yooperlife69138 жыл бұрын
Driving upwards of 50,000 miles a year. Must have been home a bunch.lol
@Miniaturehorseexpress4 жыл бұрын
No shit, that's what was thinking too
@StonedPony14 жыл бұрын
Back in the '70s and '80s, it was nothing to put over 150,000 miles on a truck. My ex-wife told me straight up if my Long nose Pete had a pussy I never would come home.
@TheRoadhammer3793 жыл бұрын
They made better money before deregulation, you didn't have to drive 130k/yr like a slave.
@manfredkallmeier53644 жыл бұрын
10.4! Steel Cowboys-I admire US Truckers since I'm a Kid! RIP Jerry Reed and Burt Reynolds!!🇺🇸🖤🎱🎰👍✌️
@Miniaturehorseexpress4 жыл бұрын
WTF, that trucker sure dresses weird.... Everyone I see is wearing flip flops and board shorts and or a turban
@adriantomlin29024 жыл бұрын
Yea no shit!! Lol!!
@StonedPony14 жыл бұрын
I got a warning ticket in IL once (1984) doing 67 in a 55, was wearing flip flops, tag improbably placed, (Note: a friend had turned my tag upside down on the swang plate that hangs under your bumper I learned later who had done it) and 3 days behind on my logbook. All of you would be surprised by what you saw back then driving down the speedway. Had dinner with a couple and then they said, look over here. She did not have anything on whats so ever. We ran across Ar going east and there was a lady trucker who loved to drive in the nude who turned on her dome light for me. We both layover in Elpaso TX. Had a friend who let his sheepdog drive as he stood behind the seat in a KW cab over aerodyne. You want to talk about messing up a driver's dope trip. He and that dog was a trip by their self, the dog would wait till you were right beside her and then look over at you and let her tongue hang out. Her front paws were on the wheel and he would pull the cable out to keep the speed up and hold the wheel while hiding. One hand loved to dress up in customs and then drive. Some drivers would dress up to eat like people out of the 1800 or early 1900. Hell one hand out of the Dome had a skeleton in the jump seat setup to wave and had clothes on it and it would mess up your dope as well. You haven't lived unless you drove in the '70s and '80s as we all just had fun and enjoyed the moment.
@ronaldmorrison60134 жыл бұрын
@@StonedPony1 Roger fo Driver!! And I'm back quiet.
@fixit4u738 жыл бұрын
There was just no pleasing Alice, so perhaps Cal was justified in leaving her at that truck stop in Idaho.
@robertvc47164 жыл бұрын
Great video and trucks were trucks and drivers or drivers no flip-flops and shorts and no emissions or electronic motors neat to see a husband and wife team and love the Armstrong steering LOL I learned on a B model with air assist steering guess that was considered lucky
@ziggymorris87604 жыл бұрын
My childhood lol
@lizzard715 жыл бұрын
That scene from 5:45 on is awesome.
@jaredortiz74852 жыл бұрын
Something tells me that DOT wasn't around every turn and off every exit ramp back then the good days
@brianwilson81194 жыл бұрын
That is one sweet K-Dub!!
@bullfranthrow4 жыл бұрын
Something about the opening theme music gave me a weird feeling in my stomach. I don't know if it's nostalgia.
@danielb22243 жыл бұрын
The real Jimmy’s no power steering real trucks real drivers
@MrEgg19778 жыл бұрын
Cheese burger and a coke hahahaha
@kellypenrod88637 жыл бұрын
MrEgg1977 YES!!!! And life was good!!!!
@sc45383 жыл бұрын
Cool side burns, what year was this footage made?
@dewaynemiguel33494 жыл бұрын
They only ran 50kmiles a year,i used to run between 135k and 150k miles a year
@TheRoadhammer3793 жыл бұрын
So? They had a dedicated gig, this was before deregulation, they didn't need to drive like the slaves do today.
@IntrinsicAlchemy5 жыл бұрын
I fucking wish I could've driven in these days....
@cj38211 жыл бұрын
truckin sure aint what it used to be...
@MisterTwister885 жыл бұрын
cj382 Nothing is
@elijahrobinson23624 жыл бұрын
50,000 miles in a year? 🤣 I drove almost twice that in my pickup...and used to put more than triple that on a big truck most years. Time to get the shoulder fixed up and get behind the wheel again. 3 AM is one of the best times to drive. Nobody on the highway.
@andrewnorris15143 жыл бұрын
A N D ? ?
@plumbingstuffinoregon24717 жыл бұрын
trucking was good until the 2000's, now people are inventing self driving trucks and other crap that shouldn't be on the road
@colinsphoneemail6 жыл бұрын
Bs
@jackburtonsporkchopexpress1976 жыл бұрын
It won’t make it to the road to many weather variables they always test drive them when the sun is out
@CONFUCIUS-f2x5 жыл бұрын
Those 6 months work visas are ruin everything. #truth
@prevost86864 жыл бұрын
Definitely driving wages down and insurance premiums up.
@porkchopexpress96543 жыл бұрын
3:00am a good time to fudge the logbook.
@coin47914 жыл бұрын
Life is all about Sacrifices This is an example how to move out of comfort zone By selling your own house to afford a truck
@bigbluegpr4 жыл бұрын
UPDATE: Cal was forced to quit trucking when he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
@willcamp63194 жыл бұрын
Is cal still living
@franciscosohle28655 жыл бұрын
No se que madres dice pero me gusto mucho el vídeo
@arayabuchichi37983 жыл бұрын
The good ole days when truckers are not treated dime a dozen 😿
@nonimportant35054 жыл бұрын
Thanks to elogs i dont get really bad headaches anymore. I work at petsmart mopping dog pee and telling trucker jokes to the parrots. They the only one who listen.
@nick88746 жыл бұрын
i gotta sell my house to be a trucker jesus
@DylanCannon3 жыл бұрын
No mention of two guys bootlegging 400 cases of Coors?
@MrNowayjose111 жыл бұрын
Roger That
@ddrum7058 жыл бұрын
I've been driving 10 yrs now and I can see that rookies nowadays can't drive at all. Guess it's bad training by these companies
@dgarr6411 жыл бұрын
FB transport out of SLC....
@truckinfam22073 жыл бұрын
Looked like a KTA 600 to me. Not a 350
@brandoncherry16515 жыл бұрын
I bet things were alot easier and fun.back then..
@janetgalyean54203 жыл бұрын
F-b truck lines Salt lake city utah.
@chrise38014 жыл бұрын
I was born about 40 years too late
@deanymeany8 жыл бұрын
this all puts UK trucking to shame, more evidence that truck driving in the UK is utter crap,
@just-incase34833 жыл бұрын
50,000 mi a year as a team, they sure don’t work that hard!! I do 120,000 to 130,000 a year as a solo driver...
@stephaniebooth61694 жыл бұрын
Way to much fluff No news here
@Каракурт-о2ъ3 жыл бұрын
🙂👍
@Miniaturehorseexpress4 жыл бұрын
Anything pre-obama was the glory days
@ronaldmorrison60134 жыл бұрын
I love trucking...can we just leave the politics out of it? Damn Driva
@adamwest49876 жыл бұрын
Problem with Alice is Cal can't sneak a Lot Lizard into that bunk, and when he does, Alice can smell the Female juice left on the mattress.