Long Haul Truckers | They Drive the Long Haul | Complete Series

[@Musictroper76]

No ELD's, automatic transmissions, air conditioners, driver facing cameras, flip flops, piss bottles, boneheads - and it was GREAT!

[@g41thomas]

Forgot to mention ignorant peterbilt drivers & White Volvo mafias!

[@pointingdog7235]

Yes the good old days.

[@Vickvineager]

And not a turban suburban in sight. Must’ve been good times.

[@Mike_Greentea]

@@VickvineagerThey are wild drivers on I-40 especially in the southwest in Arizona and California! 😮

[@jay-rus4437]

I can remember going out on the road with my dad when I was young. Seemed so early, and I would go straight to the sleeper. Always had a smell that a semi had. Oil...diesel...sweat. Lol Would wake up and feel like we were a world away. Truck stop food. Change of scenery. Loading and unloading. Good memories for a young boy

[@rnreajr9184]

Eight hours to go 200 miles... Maximum speed 45 MPH... The only creature comforts were a heater and roll-down windows... Amazing.

[@francomtz7115]

Some heaters could not keep you warm I wore insulated coveralls in the seventies

[@pointingdog7235]

A heater when? If you are talking about the summer yes it had a heater. Even a AM radio If you were lucky.

[@wildestcowboy2668]

And the bottle of pills under the seat. Papaw said he never did drugs like the rest but did drink ALOT of times missing home....

[@392nightrunner]

6hours to get through west Virginia fully loaded through the mountains

[@lucasw2880]

Nice video but they didn't show you how to wear flip flops at the receivers, or block the fuel island at the truck stop......

[@porkchop359]

😂ain't that the damn truth!!!

[@darrenhollinger4629]

Shut up stupid

[@jimrossi7708]

To many bonehead truckers out there today, drove for 42 years and I always was courteous to other drivers because that’s what he where taught by mom and pop back in the day !

[@RichardMartinke6rji]

I did my 30 at the fuel island last night! So did 2 other drivers when they saw me doing it! Why? Because I could, it was 3 AM and wasn't busy. Then I delivered got unloaded then did my paperwork and a 10 hour right at the dock door! All cause I could! I don't wear flip flops though

[@pointingdog7235]

That was a kinder gentler time in this great nation. When people went to work and dressed like they gave a shit.

[@alanhaynie2152]

I’ve been driving for almost 34 years now. I’ve seen it all at least three times. I’ve been around longer than the CDL license. Didn’t have to have one when I started. Use to if you happen to find yourself on the side of the road broke down. You could count on every hand that passed you to holler at you on the radio and ask if you needed any help. Some hands would even stop and check on you. Not anymore. Most of the new drivers don’t even have a radio in their trucks. Use to be a brotherhood, like family. Help each other out and never take a dime for it. Nothing ever stays the same but it was a lot better back when the world was a better place.

[@just-incase3483]

That was long haul back then, 5 drivers to take a truck from southern CA to Spokane WA and it took 40 hours oof!!

[@stuartloggins3691]

A lot of those old trucks were still on the road when I started learning in 1972

[@CEOkiller]

They were made to last…

[@Wilson632]

That truck fairy ride was hilarious$2 bucks to cross. The fairy used about $20 bucks worth of diesel.😄

[@Mike_Greentea]

As a current trucker I’m even more proud to do my job. No it’s not the greatest job in the world and most of us aren’t rich . But I know at the end of the day I’m contributing to our nation’s economy.

[@tonyorsini5255]

@@Mike_Greentea And being played for a sucker. I thought the same way you did when I first started in 2000. Now I wouldn't give the industry so much as a jolt if its heart stopped. I might give it a kick in the teeth, though.

[@tjlovesrachel]

God these needle nose Pete’s with the butterfly hoods got me drooling

[@Johnny-jr2lq]

All the responsibilities that of which still apply to this very day....... yet we are treated like bums now we are considered disposable. We are expected to drive and know what all the others on the road will do before they do it. And when you can’t foresee what the common commuter is going to do. You the commercial driver will be held responsible you will be put under a microscope even MORE then you already are. And you will be expected to do this for only 5 dollars more then a burger flipper at McDonald’s. Good luck and safe driving out there my fellow truckers I’ll say a prayer for all of you.

[@jaminova_1969]

The CA AG just announced a path for citizenship for "essential" workers who are "illegal" aliens. Why aren't those jobs going to actual legal citizens 1st? The one thing that keeps me from driving a truck is the fact that the state and federal government keep trying to undercut the Independents and US based trucking companies. Selling out American workers is not what government is supposed to do!

[@Johnny-jr2lq]

@@jaminova_1969 this BS is going to come to a head the government is WAY over stepping there boundaries. The reason it’s going on now is because they infiltrated our school systems. The younger generation doesn’t actually know how free they really are.

[@jaminova_1969]

@@Johnny-jr2lq Whad u say bout the younger generation? Sorry, I had my earbuds in and wasn't listening to you.

[@Johnny-jr2lq]

@@jaminova_1969 I use to be really tuff on the younger generation. Because that’s how I was treated by my elders till I realized. These youngsters didn’t get a fair chance they are taught to act this way. In school by fruit cake freaks people me and you run into and scratch our heads on how weird and in the men’s case weird & feeble. So that’s why I’m not to tuff on them anymore I try to speak some truth and reality to them. Technically it’s our fault we allowed such people to teach our youth

[@jaminova_1969]

@@Johnny-jr2lq Interesting perspective. I run into some younger people who are actually kinda of decent, but having witnessed recent "staged" events, I have to question why they don't "Get it".

[@cobra3289]

Fantastic film, thanks for sharing.

[@andysaunders3708]

Love the old Twin-Sticks.

[@williambrockjr2736]

MY GRANDFATHER DROVE FOR REDBALL EXPRESS FOR SOME 40+ YEARS WITHOUT AC AND POWER STEARING. I REMBER HIM DRIVING OLD CAB OVERS.

[@jennifercapps105]

@Hello William how are you doing

[@retrobilly1986]

How was his back after driving those old jalopy

[@johndamron8494]

This is the documentary the trucking companies need to show new drivers who are learning today. The tactics used today are ridiculous and out of touch with the reality.

[@CEOkiller]

Notice, kids, no flip flops…

[@CynicallyObnoxious]

@@CEOkiller things change Im sure the horse and buggy folks where made I dont understand the facination what someone is wearing on their feet its their feet gets crushed then who cares people dont even wear flannel anymore and belt buckles are you mad about that

[@tonyorsini5255]

Unfortunately the dispatcher is too busy pushing you past your limits. They guilt-trip and shame you into not being their top guy, and most of these guys in the trucks don't realize that a top guy doesn't exist. You don't have "a feather in your cap" for going the extra for your company. For that they just expect more: "What have you done for me lately? What are you going to do for me tomorrow"?

[@scotthostetler8800]

200hp engine..oh man I am spoiled with my 650hp 6NZ and A/C. I thought I was tough..

[@kevinwilliams552]

I can remember some of those being so cold in the winter you kept insulated Carhartt bibs on i had a 359 that would freeze you out

[@renoholland7090]

When Sedona was a small settlement in a beautiful area. Now it is an overcrowded tourist trap.

[@yuvegotmale]

When the truck entered Wash State I was thinking it would be at Biggs Jct Oregon on hwy 97..It did not look like Biggs , it looked more like the crossing at Vernita....interesting

[@csxns]

How long ago was this looks like the 50's too me.

[@vinyldash2333]

Approximately 1952

[@dannobloomquisr8825]

Looking for the plaid sport coat.....😂

[@marks.c4753]

Nobody wants to haul to California now. There's no freight out.

[@daniel55645]

Tons of freight coming out when you work LTL

[@Vickvineager]

Commiefornia can sink into the pacific for all we care.

[@AS-bp7mn]

What, no pajama pants and flip flops! What kind of trucker are these?

[@emeyer6963]

Professionals back in the day.

[@tonyorsini5255]

The awesome kind.

[@truckermatt4603]

40 hrs from la to Spokane Washington good lord you could do that in 2 drive sessions now lol

[@DavidSmith-fr1uz]

Seems everyone was more trim back in the day. I am guessing they didn't have sugary treats tempting them to the point of addiction at every turn.

[@Kgio-2112]

Food was fresh. Today's crap is filled with fattening shit to make it last forever on the shelf.

[@micahrich5683]

It was the in feta means that kept them trim

[@seanmoriarty4476]

Gotta admit I got some wood seeing those old Pete's

[@justina249]

California scale these days wouldnt just wave at you. These Days. Pull it in the barn

[@garywing2745]

Love those old Peterbilts.

[@oldrustycars]

Who keeps flashing on Duel? Just me?

[@jimjonrs3932]

He can't beat me on the grade!

[@hardit359]

@@jimjonrs3932 'How can he go so fast..?'

[@zfine1450]

"The radiator hose!"

[@NatureRecycleFlorida]

awesome old film

[@jamesmassey-cc4ml]

Looks like this was made in the mid 1950s, just before the interstates.

[@BarryWilkinson]

I'm not seeing a front turn signal on the freight or tanker tractors, were they not required back then?

[@toughtittypdiddy4634]

This was made in 1952 . Turn signals weren’t mandatory until 1968

[@jennifercapps105]

@Hello Barry how are you doing

[@392nightrunner]

Arms out the window

[@russvoight1167]

​@@toughtittypdiddy4634this had to have been made in 1954 or later. That's the year the red oval was introduced

[@davidkean1487]

Some had semaphore arm behind the drivers window.

[@loafandjug321]

15:24 Lol he just rolls right up to them while they're standing in the street like fools, and then they just dart out in front of him one foot from the bumper.

[@Mrbest-cw9nn]

does he know how much oil is in that truck no because he didn't check his oil before he started it it's supposed to be a pre-trip

[@ritchienegrea5779]

This is my damn story till this day. Is what I did for last 28 years and still rolling. Regardless of the nonsense of today’s regulations bs. Equipment suck

[@dennisrobinson7587]

I didn’t think tachographs were around back then

[@devally2432]

Yes they were, but they were very primitive, blank wax discs , not detailed like the German ones we had in the eighties.

[@pointingdog7235]

I remember my Father telling me about the insurance company would follow you and take what amounts to a video today of the rig you're driving with a speedometer in the video or movie and then once in awhile everyone gets called in to watch the movie and then catch shit from the boss for speeding or something else that was recorded by the narco insurance company.

[@hueyman624]

The line "Better than average pay", really? 0.14c for diesel and .09c was tax, back when it was good stuff too. Jet fuel to the military base, no. Those "fighters" were T-28 trainers and some T-34s too. All piston powered using 130/145 green and leaded aviation gasoline. Jet is Kerosene. The truck would have to be escorted. Even though I started in the late 70s, trucks were pretty nice even then. Today I have a 06 Freightliner with Cat power that is like a nice pickup interior, satellite radio, air ride everything, ELD so I dont have to keep track of miles ant its quieter than my pickup. I call it my "motor home with a trailer". I would not trust a minimum wage pump jockey to get near my truck.....even if there were still such a thing. I maintain my truck like an aircraft, because once you leave home, its just like flying, a component failure and tow bill is about as expensive as a crash. The big bridge crossing the lake is now I-5 crossing Shasta Lake just north of Redding. Funny how a road can be recognized 65+ years later.

[@hectorkingjr]

I liked this.

[@brandoncostanzo7214]

As a modern day truck driver, I wish I was part of this era. Modern day trucking has become nothing more than corporate whoremongering.

[@tonyorsini5255]

I worked for one lousy company after another, got used and used and used some more until I finally got injured. Now I've been spending the last three years fighting the insurance company for the necessary surgery. And that's what I got out of trucking. If I ever heal up enough to go back to work, I refuse to drive truck again. The industry can take its entitled greedy agenda and cram it up its old tan track .

[@bensanders7392]

$2 ferry toll if this is 1960 would be equivalent to $17.77 toll. If this is 1970, $2 would be adjusted to $13.56 toll.

[@Nikowalker007]

This is 1954

[@bensanders7392]

$150 tires? If this is 1960, that would be(adjusted for inflation) $1,333 a tire. If this is 1970, that would be equivalent to $1,017 per tire todays dollars. I dont think that they had FET added to the price of tires back then.

[@francomtz7115]

It had to be $ 50.00 a tire or maybe all 18.

[@barrylaite7000]

This was back in’52👍

[@loafandjug321]

Little known fact, divorce lawyers were invented on the same day this video was released.

[@JensSchraeder]

America was sure great back then.

[@jimjonrs3932]

5 hole Alcoa's.

[@SootyMangabey.]

What a time to be a driver

[@bryanmelton5538]

THAT'S WHEN THERE WAS REAL TRUCK DRIVERS NOT THESE PUNKS ON THE ROAD NOW

[@poweredbyrice5708]

@Blue Jazz Proving his point and why America has fallen with a wimper....get a new mask coward

[@ronlefty]

@Blue Jazz you can tell you too are brainwashed to actually believe the ignorance in your words. Total fantasy.

[@CEOkiller]

You put one of today’s Steering Wheel Holders in one of those trucks they wouldn’t know whether to shit or go blind… two sticks???

[@telcobilly]

No tatted up , obese, backward baseball cap super truckers

[@emeyer6963]

No Pilot's or Flying J's with lot lizards!Real food and no Subway's or Mickey D's.45 mph trucks.

[@pointingdog7235]

I imagine that there were Lot Lizards in those days too.

[@barrylaite7000]

Back when common sense, pride and professional courtesy was very much respected and adhered to…..not too much of that nowadays….

[@user-su5sq5ib3i]

What a nice old semi. Anyome know what make it was?

[@russvoight1167]

Peterbilt

[@gntdriver2840]

just before 12 minutes its almost identical to a scene from the movie Duel

[@donellmuniz590]

"200 hp engine", lol. My dad's first big rig only had a 150hp Cummins. It was around 1960, but the truck was about a 1950.

[@andrewking9761]

That 150 HP was a Cummins HB 600 from memory and the one in the red Pete looks to be supercharged, a 275 HP I think.

[@SOU6900]

Any see a single jet fighter at that air base? I sure didn't.

[@C4CHopeless]

You wouldn't have at Williams AFB, it was a pilot training base that used prop aircraft for initial pilot training. USAF still uses prop aircraft, the current T-6 Texan II, for initial pilot training. Pilots don't start flying jets until it's determined which track they're going, where they'll either start training in the T-38 Talon for fighters or T-1 Jayhawk for transport/heavy aircraft.

[@jamessimms415]

Airman was like ‘WTF is this crap on my flight line?” Staged as I seriously doubt a civilian fuel truck would be allowed on a military flight line, especially in the 1950’s.

[@erikdevries9208]

5 days from LA to Spokane? You won't last at that pace today.

[@Musictroper76]

Too bad it still isn't that way.

[@erikdevries9208]

@@Musictroper76 Yes, I agree. 5 days is human, and it ought to be like that, with speed limits set to 55 and drivers paid by the hour for all hours worked. That's how it once was.

[@392nightrunner]

Mpg hasn't gone up much, mine averages 6

[@allenleavell2847]

Seems like everyone was skinny back in those days

[@pointingdog7235]

Ain't it strange?

[@danielpurcell7395]

@@pointingdog7235people ate real food in those days. Not this chemical filled poison we eat in today’s world. That’s why you got so many crazies too.

[@yuvegotmale]

I see many System trucks in Wash State that are based out of Spokane....Iam wondering if this is the same company.

[@yuvegotmale]

@BikerTrashDan Thank you...

[@deanpahl8591]

If truckers had to drive those trucks there wouldn't be any truck drivers today.

[@caseycolburn3611]

Flip flop haters😂😂 bet you have two pair.

[@PAUL_K]

After this one watch Duel 1971

[@EDD519]

all of the trucking companys in the 70`s are not around anymore , !

[@russvoight1167]

Schneider out of Green Bay is

[@g41thomas]

At which point trucking turned to be this junkie 🤯as is today?

[@joseph-mariopelerin7028]

in colors!! kinda...

[@seanmoriarty4476]

Sizeable investment at 150 a tire. Lol

[@unknowndriver6652]

Trucks and trailers look the same 50 years after

[@bendover9411]

Really, you stoned?

[@ricardosantossantossilva2331]

👍🇧🇷

[@janoskovacs11]

❤️

[@chriswright8464]

Union jobs gone. Sad.

[@User20758]

They didn't show Anything that's neccessity

[@TimHollis3006]

It’s amazing what a white society used to look like. I couldn’t imagine a more perfect and safe time in history!

[@jerryedwards4489]

the drivers of today needs to watch this,the wanna-be drivers today dress like shit,flip flops,pants hanging down to the knees showing his stinking ASS,showing up to the shipper,reciveing looking like they hadn’t seen a shower in a week,&that smell of shit& cigarette 💨,not to mention a scrounge beard,yeah-buddy a real truck driver💩💩💩💩💩👀🐖🐖

[@poweredbyrice5708]

Agreed! Now everything is trash in trucking it is disgusting what has happened.

[@bicyclenerd.9377]

Agreed and also very racist.

[@stevenrobinson2381]

@@bicyclenerd.9377 no. It isn't that at all. It is the.............................................TRUTH. Sucks doesn't it.

[@tonyorsini5255]

Skin color doesn't bother me at all. It's the lack of professionalism and what I call Flip-Flop Nation.

[@lankey6969]

Where's the murder and the prostitutes? Fake.

[@suziewoodruff5318]

0

[@bendover9411]

Huh?

[@dalemoeser2282]

DON'T DRIVE TRUCK 🚚 🤓 KIDS 🧒. SEVERELY UNDER PAID DEAD END JOB

[@SOU6900]

So you want the stores to be empty then? You're giving some bad advice there dude.

[@dalemoeser2282]

@@SOU6900 No a fence. Talking about. STEERING AND GEARING. NOW ADAYS. Was a GREAT CAREER 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

[@SOU6900]

@@dalemoeser2282 a fence?😕

[@lucasw2880]

​@@dalemoeser2282 I hope you meant no offense, lmao. With a year or 2 experience, there are some drivers making six figures out there. You can also go on to own your own truck and become an owner / operator. I know some owner / operators making $150-$170k per year. You don't sound like you know much about what your talking about....Everything you lay your eyes on was brought to you by a truck....

[@rzorNvme]

Quitters never go far. I’m making $25/hr + driving local in my home town. Anyone out there looking into being a truck driver you are all welcome to try your luck. Are you up to the challenge, the choice is yours. 👍

[@K-Effect]

Trains are better

[@Bendigo1]

Imagine a train trying to deliver to every store in town

[@Bendigo1]

@Car Freaknatic that would be a logistical nightmare. I understand your thinking behind your statement. I think you dont quite understand what is involved in transferring goods between trains and other modes of transport and storage. Trains are good for long distances and things that are not time sensitive. I would say anything over 600 miles would be a better number than 100 miles.

[@danielpurcell7395]

You don’t know nothing.