The Cabover Kings: Part Two

[@aksyoutube9082]

What a great couple of guys! I love to sit around a fire and listen to their stories. Man that International “Night Train” is such a beautiful unit and a drivers truck! I’d love to drive one some day. Maybe own one for fun. Thanks again for the great videos!

[@TheBostonTrucker]

You betcha, glad you enjoyed these!

[@michaelritchie-ch6ib]

Bought a 1976 Astro in 1987 @17 years old😂 It had a 350 big cam with 3 stage Jake’s and a 15 speed with deep reduction. Hauled steel coils from Weirton steel(Wva) to Armco steel just above Cincinnati Ohio. Froze in that truck in the winter time 🥶😝 Love your channel Mike! 👍🤘

[@3406e]

No eld, No sensors, No emissions ;Just raw diesel. That’s freedom

[@TheBostonTrucker]

👊🔥

[@rce8540]

I drove a dodge cabover back in the seventies. 250 Cummins. Just a plain truck. My first trucks I owned was 1969 w model. Then a 1974 w model. 318 Detroit. Love them cabovers. Great video Mike. Them cabover guys are awesome. Love them stories.

[@rce8540]

Started out driving cabover binders in the seventies. 350 Cummins. 335 Cummins. These guys are awesome. Could visit with them for a full day. Real truckers. Not wanna bees.

[@billpackard7349]

I owned both an Astro and a CL9000. Tried to send pics, but not allowed in comments. Great videos.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Here's my email, love to see pics. [e-mail]

[@hkynut99]

Mike I drove some old cab overs back in the day. I just love hearing trucker stories thanks for the videos.

[@rce8540]

Love that blue eagle. Beautiful truck.

[@rce8540]

I hated to see it end. I love them stories. Could listen to a bunch more. I started in the mid seventies and sure were some great times. I would love to stop and visit those guys. Boston this is my favorite video you put on. And you had some great ones for sure.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the video!

[@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248]

The best guy on KZbin the Boston trucker!!!!!!

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Wow that's an awesome compliment thank you!

[@larrybrown7273]

Another great segment Mike

[@TheBostonTrucker]

thank you

[@KMBaill79]

Dude, these are awesome videos. As always the trucks are super cool. But it’s the people and the stories. I’m not a trucker, but always preferred the conventional. My buddy Ralph owned a local trucking company here in RI, he had a really cool International Eagle 10 wheel dump. He loved the cab overs and really got me into them. Ralph passed a few years back. Now I have an appreciation for the cab overs.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

I appreciate you sharing your story about Ralph and the International Eagle.

[@TommyDavis-pn3gi]

Mike I had a 82 Astro 350 Cummins in the 80's pulled hoppers flatbed and refers. Thanks for all the Great videos.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Those were some tough years hauling with a cabover!

[@juddydonk6570]

Great videos Mike. Really enjoyed them.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Thanks for watching!

[@joshuacloutier4077]

Loved both videos Mike can't wait till you go back great stories awesome trucks two super nice guys:)

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Thanks! I'm hoping to get back out there soon.

[@mpaqman285]

We need more videos like this, awesome owners letting you drive and document their classics out in the wild on the road. It's awesome to look at them, but to hear them running and going through the gears. The way they aren't quiet and insulated like the newer ones, or how you can feel the road in the pedals, wheel, and in the seat of your pants due to how mechanical everything is and the way they were manufactured. Should start doing Doug Demuro style videos showing us all the quirks and features on these old girls, while giving us model history, build numbers ect. Would be cool knowing out of the how ever many thousands of a model they built how many are left, or when its something special, why there were so few or why was it spec'd in a manner that made it that way. And of course a review of how it drives.

[@robertday3873]

Great stuff keep up the good work

[@TheBostonTrucker]

I appreciate that!

[@kylemorice4870]

I loved these videos. Like I said I also looked at their website years ago and just liked those trucks. I never spoke to or met these guys and likely never will but I know if I did it'd be a blast.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Thanks Kyle, they update it from time to time.

[@mgp78575]

Cool guys, cool trucks, great video(s) (both parts)! Thank you Mike!

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Thanks, I'm happy to share their story.

[@charlottealdridge2180]

Great video as usual 👌 and hats off to the cab over kings top notch brother man my Dad was called cabover Kent this guy's are top notch just like 👍 my Dad was

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Thanks! Sounds like your dad was a great guy.

[@mikeyurek9960]

Great video a must watch good to see those trucks are being saved

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Thanks for watching, I appreciate that!

[@dewaynebrown6514]

Love bringing back some of the old trucks and guy that made our industry, I started in 77 down south in Tennessee can’t tell a lot of difference we all did what we had to do to make it happen

[@chrisharkins8708]

Love the cab overs. I started out over the road in a 1981 K100 with a big cam cummins and a 13 speed. Great memories.. Great video Mike and the 2 brothers are awesome guys with some awesome trucks.. What day in December is your birthday Mike? Mine is the Dec.4th, 1970..

[@Jm-is9ig]

Awesome video love old-school truckers and they're stories

[@TheBostonTrucker]

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@tonydagostino1992]

Great guys gonna have to meet them sometime bring my K100 up there and hangout great video Mike I seen their website years ago glad you did this video

[@TheBostonTrucker]

I hope you get to meet them someday Tony I know you would have some great conversations.

[@bush600r2]

Loved this one Mike, these guys are class acts.👍 I have always had a soft spot for internationals too as i drove quite a few back mostly when i started my driving career back in the 90s and they were still fairly new trucks back then. To be honest they really were some of the best trucks i ever drove even to this day! They were all reliable good solid work horses and did everything really well. I really enjoyed driving them actually. Drove both conventional and cab over internationals (Australian built models) The international 3600 S lines (conventionals) and the T lines (cab overs) i also drove a couple different transtars and i also drove a USA 9400 eagle with a N14 and 9 speed spicer for a few months when i worked in the USA back in 2008 that was a pretty good honest truck too. Anyhow great memories of driving those old rigs i even drove a very very old transtar with a 8v71, that was a bit of a weapon. Thanks for the video, Have a great day Mike 👍

[@javieraviles6314]

Awesome job, amazing People, great work preserving those trucks . Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed it!

[@davidmaggard9403]

Love this mike those guys are the real deal love the big cab IHs my fav cab over .this was a great video.keep up the good job thanks for all your great trucking videos always look forward for your new video thanks mr Boston mike 😊

[@walterbordett2023]

These guys are cool. Old school pros. I love that International. You drove it well for a quick ride.

[@carlmccoy5146]

Another great video!

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Appreciate it!

[@Jm-is9ig]

Love these kinds of videos Mike! Old-school 😎🚛

[@TheBostonTrucker]

👊🔥

[@JohnPurdy-et3fw]

Great video Mike. The Simons are a great team. Top shelf family

[@rustyhook6723]

More great stories and I’m in total agreement with the Volvo sentiment. Oh yeah the dogs on dayton wheels were dangerous. I changed many back in the day.

[@pickakacamperjohn2262]

Does anyone remember a cab over named Beast from the East? I would see it in traveling from Brunswick Maine to Chicago back in late 70’s early 80’s when I was on leave in the Navy.

[@JeffMartin-r3b]

Hey Boston trucker I like watching your KZbin videos and they are very educated and I like the way you explain things to your viewers in the videos and I like the inrtviwes

[@Eisbaer-F8]

so cool guys ! i love what te do to the cabovers.

[@bigal-ox9jw]

You always know where your front bumper is on a cabover, drove a few internationals in mid 90, used one as a shunt truck around meat plant, east coast Canada 🇨🇦 NB province here, love it ❤️, don't drive now but kinda miss it.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Those International cabovers were the best!

[@Trucker316]

I enjoyed watching the segment driving the International. The first truck I ever drove in employment after trucking school was an International 9670. Mine was a single axle though as I worked for a foam insulation company pulling 48' vans and drop deck flatbeds.

[@nhbowtie]

Awesome Video... I see the Green Freightliner around sometimes.... I had an International 4070b single axle with a 250 Cummins and 13 speed... wish I still had it

[@melvinolsen3171]

Great video mike, this brings back alot of memories my best friend growing up, his dad drove an astro, i got alot of miles sleeping in the passenger seat Lol

[@TheBostonTrucker]

Those are the best memories right there!

[@TimBullins-z2z]

Man you lucky dog you get to have so much fun 😅

[@TimBullins-z2z]

I know with truck stop I liked the best was the 76 at Corbin Kentucky because I was 45 minutes from home 😅

[@russelltrupia4479]

Your killing me Mike, I'am so jealous.( LOL ) 👍👍

[@michaeldalzell6670]

I have a friend that we learned that him and I share the same birthday, January 22 1969, we just learned a few months ago that he is 7hrs older than me. I wanta say the young man in the video looks like Randy Owen from the group Alabama

[@kellykonoske91]

I have watched Chad Keagan on KZbin, move carnival trailers with his 83 K100.

[@MarkGrant-ew3wk]

I live in iowa i love running north west iowa on moon lite nights across 20 😊😊good video mike thanks

[@TheBostonTrucker]

I've been through NW Iowa, it's a great area!

[@TimBullins-z2z]

Man I know one thing I was always scared to death ridding shotgun in those cab covers on little 2 lane roads 😮

[@russellspawn7123]

That 1969 Kenworth COE looks like it's got some good bones.

[@tysonwalsh8193]

You should come out for the Deerfield fair next year Mike

[@Eric_Cleckler]

Those are my kind of guys.

[@TheBostonTrucker]

yeah buddy

[@TimBullins-z2z]

Man I like those Astros but don't like that dash because you will be the first one to go through the windshield 😅

[@Jm-is9ig]

Hit that music!!

[@TheBostonTrucker]

👍💯

[@doubledan6896]

another good one brother

[@franklackie2469]

Mike you certainly share some awesome videos with us thank you buddy bet you felt awkward in the cabover.

[@garrickgrassett9792]

That beautiful green kw was mine

[@TheBostonTrucker]

oh nice

[@garrickgrassett9792]

@@TheBostonTrucker I dug it out of the bushes

[@mizzo_beeto]

Deerfield fairrrrr

[@francoismoreira1583]

👌🙏

[@TheBostonTrucker]

👍👋

[@michaeldalzell6670]

Chad Keegan runs carnival trailers in his KW Cab Over standard wheel base