Time with a different mentality of truckers. No sandals, no earrings, no sloppy dress, fun, friendliness and consideration. Cabovers ruled the roads.
@samueldiazmedel8556Ай бұрын
I love Freightliner and the song!!!
@frankleonard6570 Жыл бұрын
man those were the days! happy days for me! golden days of trucking! 👌 miss it every day!
@lovedadonald. Жыл бұрын
Frank are you related to Jimmy Leonard from Alabama ?
@bobball3719 Жыл бұрын
Wait they can't melt the transmission in the stick shift bobo's fucking automatic boys wouldn't be able to drive them
@kgilliagorilla2761 Жыл бұрын
I drove a 87’ COE double bunk Freightshaker. 400 Cummins, 13 speed Eaton, dual air-ride seats, in a beautiful dark brown color, with a Utility refer wagon. The guy I drove for was leased to a company that back hauled for Aldi in Batavia Il, mostly produce. It was truly a joy to drive. “Big old brown Freightliner, don’t take me to far away”.
@rayray4192 Жыл бұрын
Real trucks have long hoods. I’ve never seen a good looking rig painted brown.
@kgilliagorilla2761 Жыл бұрын
@@rayray4192 You probably have never driven a real truck. Go away.
@rayray4192 Жыл бұрын
@@kgilliagorilla2761 Turned my first wheel on April 1, 1979. Oakland California to L.A. night runs. I run high end siding from Seattle to Atlanta. Kenworth W900L is the only tractors I have ever purchased. I’m at 4 million miles and still counting. I hauled mining equipment mostly. Lots of off road deliveries to gold mines and silver mines and copper mines. Cab overs are ugly, and have always been a bad way to truck.
@kgilliagorilla2761 Жыл бұрын
@@rayray4192 Why you gotta go ripping on folks? I drove in every state except Vermont, for ten years and drove Fla. and Ca. Az. Tx. mostly out of Chicago. Then I had enough. I drove a few conventionals, yeah they ride nice. So what? And dark brown metal flake looks great. Enjoy your life.
@rayray4192 Жыл бұрын
@@kgilliagorilla2761 I ripped cab overs. A good ride is a safety issue. Fatigue makes for a less safe driver. A comfortable ride is not a so what issue.
@rondye93988 ай бұрын
Worked in the Freightliner development shop on Columbia Blvd. in Portland when they developed these trucks. Originals had vertical headlights to fit the radiators. Later owned and drove one of these with a 3408 CAT and 13 Speed. High rear end gears never used top 2 gears. Would easily do over 100. 43 years OTR Mostly West coast. Great memories.
@joekrim6557 Жыл бұрын
A day when truckers flashed their headlights in respect "you're clear good buddy!" We wave thank you and signal back in front and each go on their way....
@dennisaldrich536 Жыл бұрын
I started in 76 thanks for the memories I'm still out here
@Rollercoaster55510 ай бұрын
Your a glutton for punishment bud As the saying use to go Have Fun on your run
@dennisaldrich53610 ай бұрын
@@Rollercoaster555 Let me add that I'm still out here doing it in a 1986 359 extended hoodLiving the dream lol I really do still enjoy it
@alanfoix9911 Жыл бұрын
My dad worked for freightliner in Portland, Oregon. In the 70s, 80s.
@the.porter.productions Жыл бұрын
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 Some may say, The glory days of trucking. Well, it was some hard work, but I know many truckers who made some good money back in the day! I feel that most of these trucks are better than most of what we have today. At least there’s NO DEF & such! Well, and there’s no cabovers today either. How is that!? These were some wonderful pictures! I saw a couple of Freightliners that I didn’t know they made, but I would take a couple of them, no questions asked! Cabovers Rule!! Beautiful rigs!! My dad started trucking in the 1930s. All of us boys have gotten into trucking as well. What a JOY! Trucking has changed quite a bit since then, but some things have stayed the same.🥰🤩✌️
@alanburge2725 Жыл бұрын
Since I was a boy for some reason I favoured cab overs. I like the big steep cliff like wall look to the design. They always looked big and imposing and real somehow to me. The way a truck should look. Kenworth or Mack. Freightliner. Ford. White. You name it. Only in more recent times I seem to have moved to conventional or bonneted trucks. Just personal preference I guess.
@michaelsorrentino9279 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the " GREAT " old shakers with big engines !!
@danielwebb9306 Жыл бұрын
Awesome i love the old school trucks wish they would bring back the old trucks better then the junk they make today.give me old school trucks any time
@georgerenton965 Жыл бұрын
Trimac had one of the early KT 450’s in one of these, we had to remove the fan from it. The fan is gear driven, and Horton didn’t have a clutch fan designed for it yet. The engine was running too cool. The rads, not sure how many passes, but was huge sq inch area. I think Freightliner realized with the engine manufacturers that they didn’t require all that capacity, and discontinued the Power Liner. If you ever saw the foot well on the passenger side of the cab, I don’t think you could stand up a golf bag. I think who ever designed the front bumper for the Power Liner had a good eye. Not just a slab of chrome that is so typical on todays “ large cars “. The same goes for the “ Truck Mate “ bumper option on 70, and 80’s Kenworths. It looked good on a K100. It was similar to the “ gull wing “ bumper, but more refined in its lines.
@jeffsutton950 Жыл бұрын
Hello George you still with auto haulaway?
@Rollercoaster555 Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@georgerenton965 Жыл бұрын
Hello Jeff, it’s been ages man. Hope your well. Parked the old KW in 07. Had an other opportunity involving tug boats, but I’m back on the road still.
@curtekstrom95316 ай бұрын
Freightliner should have never stopped the Powerliner cabs. That larger Grill looks better than the standard Half size Grill on the regular cabs.
@dand39753 ай бұрын
The bigger windshield glass looks really nice. Freightliner should have revised the doors and made the glass in the doors proportionally bigger too.
@Bikerguy5845 Жыл бұрын
Love them old cabovers!!
@genegilbert22245 ай бұрын
Grew up on the right hand side of a many of those freightliner cabovers spent the first 10 years of my driving career in them ... I'm 54 now been 32 years since I started my own driving career now I spend my days in a pretty conferrable Volvo (yes I said it) but let me tell you this I wouldn't care if was going on 90 and in a wheelchair and someone had to help me in to one I would be there just to smell the smell of the good old diesel and feel the power of 400 horses running right there beside my right leg!!!!
@russvoight1167 Жыл бұрын
Love seeing the International Transport trucks. I've known several guys over the years that were leased to IT. IT didn't hire steering wheel holders
@kimmorrison9169 Жыл бұрын
Old IT, Rochester, MN. I worked for Tri State Motor Transit, Joplin, MO back in the day. C&H, Tri State and I.T. were the big boys in oversize loads back then.
@russvoight1167 Жыл бұрын
@@kimmorrison9169 Anderson Trucking Service, or ATS in St Cloud, MN was and still is big on the heavy haul work
@kimmorrison9169 Жыл бұрын
@@russvoight1167 yep forgot about Anderson’s red trucks. St Cloud, MN
@russvoight1167 Жыл бұрын
I knew some of their drivers from back in the day when Harold Anderson himself was running the show.
@user-lv2su4gf7b10 ай бұрын
I love these old songs 8.oo
@failranch954210 ай бұрын
If I remember what my dad told me in the ‘70s, if you ordered it with anything more than a 350 Cummins, it came as a Powerliner.
@derrickzenner9300 Жыл бұрын
I got the freightliner fever. They just makes sense.
@RoadRunnergarage85703 ай бұрын
I would love to see a model kit of the Powerliner someday...
@robertgould6984 Жыл бұрын
Stunning truck when it came out. Up to 600 hp
@russvoight1167 Жыл бұрын
All examples of the Powerliner
@erickjasper9409 Жыл бұрын
When America had beautiful trucks
@geraldseely2203 Жыл бұрын
I wish I would of seen my dads Powerliner a all black one leased to Pirkle. Big grill means big power
@mintyman1968 Жыл бұрын
If you have Facebook, join the pirkle group, and ask for a photo
@dangit4341 Жыл бұрын
When truck drivers were real men. Just subscribed sir.
@australiantruckspotting8883 Жыл бұрын
They were beautiful trucks
@scrappyjunk8793 Жыл бұрын
we salute the front tire ryders a tough bunch
@c.d.porter9366 Жыл бұрын
Hoped I might see a Bertolino double bunk 12V71 dual turbo, 5x4 powerliner cabovers. Thanks for some pics of the type.
@mintyman1968 Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t find any pictures of them, but I do know what you’re talking about.
@jodavies8952 Жыл бұрын
Great pics from a great era👍
@zeus-mt7wx Жыл бұрын
I hope I get the chance to drive a big powerful Cab Over before I retire. From England and just adored the American tractor. In America now have been driving an 18 wheeler for 10 yrs. Retirement in September this yr, and still hoping. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@tonytusk5524 Жыл бұрын
TO DAMN KICKASS!! AWESOME FREIGHT SHAKERS, AWESOME MUSIC!! CAIN’T BEAT DAVE DUDLEY AND OVER THE ROAD COWBOYS!!
@franco24ist Жыл бұрын
I wonder where most of these cabovers r sittin or rotten currently
@ranasneed451 Жыл бұрын
South America,Mexico and island countries like Jamaica and so on.
@Carolinastrucks Жыл бұрын
Most likely…
@rk-ec7kx Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately they probably have been melted down and made into a Volvo
@Carolinastrucks Жыл бұрын
@@rk-ec7kx yeah :(
@WillChandlerFLD120 Жыл бұрын
Patio furniture
@donnyjohnson2229 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you for posting it.
@phaggarty46363 ай бұрын
I got the fever😅
@user-ng7bb5ql8l Жыл бұрын
Hermosos semitraile y la música de fondo excelente agradable 🎸🎸
@prestoprecision3045 Жыл бұрын
never saw a crew cab cab over. 1.54
@Phan-Xu Жыл бұрын
Shreveport, Louisiana
@Mookie2137819 күн бұрын
Them days are over...
@renaldojason2 ай бұрын
1:56 oh yeah
@JimPfannenstiel Жыл бұрын
Wait, at 1:21, They made a conventional Powerliner? Or is that some sort of a mockup? Never saw one of those before, but then I've only been driving 40 years. Very interesting, thank you for the video.
@mintyman1968 Жыл бұрын
Prototype!!!
@JimPfannenstiel Жыл бұрын
@@mintyman1968 I kinda thought so. The hood looks rough around the edges, but it has plates on it for road testing. Very interesting, thank you!
@garytemple9258Күн бұрын
You don't see many cabovers much anymore.
@chickentrucker2009 Жыл бұрын
nice video mann
@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 Жыл бұрын
Nice bro hope all is well man
@mintyman1968 Жыл бұрын
Hope all is going well to you too man
@user-db1yp5xb2r2 ай бұрын
When you had to be a driver to get a license I don't think there any automatic trucks when I drove
@user-uv3cj6uc7n2 ай бұрын
Trucking was a proud profession years ago now you have 0 experience- flip flops- shorts and a dog as a passenger .
@lovedadonald. Жыл бұрын
Just the truck for a V~8 Cat or V~12 Detroit and of course the Cummins KTA 600. These were a rare sight even back in the day.
@rayray4192 Жыл бұрын
Cabovers always sucked.
@mintyman1968 Жыл бұрын
Just like your comment 😂
@rayray4192 Жыл бұрын
@@mintyman1968 cartoon emoji from a little boy masquerading as a man. Celebrating a cab over Freightliner is asinine.
@Rollercoaster55510 ай бұрын
I loved my K 100 bought it new in 79
@failranch954210 ай бұрын
I think all those who had to drive them back in the day pretty much say the same thing. It’s ironic how these days they’re what all the young guys want. It wasn’t long ago when you couldn’t give one away. Nowadays they’re bringing stupid money. Especially the Paccar twins.
@goratgo19705 ай бұрын
@@failranch9542Just have a quality air ride seat, much better maneuvering in town and unobstructed view.