BillyT

What a small world! My milkman drove a Divco,and I hauled Grumman mail jeeps out of Williamsport Pa in the late 80s.

I'm walking near normal now Ksb, thanks Car lot and Freightrain!

Never been there,any vintage trucks or cars

Is that a Crosley behind the "cherrypicker"? Two classics! Also the snub nose "Jimmy"! Cool! 

LMACK, I share your loyalty for the bulldog,but "There is no other truck?" My old Diamond T is spinning in her grave somewhere!

This was around 2000, but good kids still exist!

A person who can't speak enough ( or any) English to read the drivers test and will forget like the majority of motorists,most of what they were taught in their drivers test in a short period of time, can run over your children because they don't have a sign on the bus in Spanish to remind them to stop!

That's what I was thinking!😁

Mower man,it was the summer of 1974 when I lost my brakes on hwy 160 near Berlin Pa (the home of Snyder's pretzels) We got the new louisvilles in 1979 the last year they made Pintos! After the 391 gas burner the 290 Cummins was a big deal! They were governed at 70 mph! We also had a couple 750s with 477 and 534 gas burners that would  blow the doors off most company diesels of the day til 100000mi when they blew up😁

General Ike sorry about the incomplete post what I  was trying to say was those Westbrook Baptist pos used to demonstrate at the funeral s of our deceased vets because they said the U.S. supported gay rights, so thought the Pulse situation would make them happy! I guess the less said the better,let's get back to trucks!

Underdog, on the subject of our once proud steel industry,my best friend is from Warren oh and were talking the other night about Copperweld, U.S. Steels Homestead Works is another tragedy,The largest Bessemer converter in the world now houses a Dave and Busters restaurant and a couple other minimum wage type facilities! The o/o hauling " untarped slab" from Homestead to Clairton works (less than 20 mi) were earning 1000.00 a day with old day cab R models!  The problem as I see it is not unions,it's union greed the reason we needed unions in the first place was corporate greed! 

fxfymn on the subject of safety,I've been watching our local garbage contractor when they pick up our trash, and the helper always rides on the back step of the packer as the driver backs up to the stop or when driving to the next stop. I'd be willing to bet that this is against company policy,but if the helper had to walk up to the cab and back from the cab to the garbage cans at every stop he would wear himself out and add a significant amount of time to the run! This practice would be noticeably safer if the truck had a some sort of a cage on the rear of the truck that the helper could lean into so if the driver hit a bump the helper wouldn't be thrown off! I suspect that the reason this device isn't on the trucks is it would encourage the helper to do something he's not allowed to do but everyone including mgmt knows he does! Sorta a "catch 22" deal! I also wonder if the helper is denied workmans  comp. If he's injured when riding on the back of the truck! Can you members in the refuse business give me any input?

How about Empire Detroit in Portsmouth Ohio? Cleanest steel mill I've ever seen! The dock floors were painted I'd almost swear they mopped them! So many proud American workplaces and workers,all gone!

OD, don't feel bad about deleting the pictures I delete stuff by accident all the time!  You posted something about chicken so I'm doing a survey." What t.s. or restaurant in America has the best fried chicken" I'm voting for the little independent t.s near Jackson Ohio on rte 35, takes a long time to get it,because they bread each order individually,but worth it! Also like the "southwestern chicken rice soup" and " Omars taco soup"  at Triple T in Tucson. Been a few years,maybe they are gone or bought out. Tell us about your favorite truck stop!

So did I OD! Had the big street by street map of NYC and one for Miami amazing documents, actually showed the name of each business in the individual buildings! Of course these would have to be updated periodically. When those little GPS screens first came out they were 800dollars! Now about 90dollars on sale,went down just like computers! When they first came out this young driver was in back of me in rural Pennsylvania and every time we were approaching a  little cross street he would say ok you're coming up on Jones lane and there it was! Went on like this for miles! I was amazed!

BCR, did you build those quarter fenders from the galvanized "window boxes" they sell at building supply stores or are they "purpose built" quarter fenders? I once used a set of them as temporary fenders on a new cab/chassis wrecker While I was renovating the wrecker body.I always thought they would make nice quarter fenders if painted and attached with quality brackets.

Snoball, I just checked outbehindthebarn's waterloo Iowa reference! That cab style is the one I think of when I hear " crackerbox". In fact it's identically spec'd to the one I learned on,except for the long wheelbase. That Craigslist has all kind of good stuff! In fact by and large the Midwest has the best selection of vintage " iron" anywhere.The little dodge dump that runs and drives is about as cheap as you can get into a running antique truck anywhere! Many of the farm trucks aren't exposed to the salt as much as road trucks,because it's seasonal! I used to love to get a weekend layover at a McDonald's in the "corn belt" and listen to the old farmers sit around and b.s.about crops and weather,and the people are so friendly! However, they do have that "winter thing"😁

The international conventional I compared the new Argosy to is called the lone star.Is there any corporate connection between Freightliner and Navistar? The company alliances change hourly! So I can't keep track! KSB,or Teamster Grrrl ?

Thanks for the reply, I have a very good friend who runs at Quaker city when he runs locally, (he's from Warren) but he's involved with an IHRA team so is all over the country.I grew up 20 mi from PID.,like running thru a tunnel!

Thanks for the reply, I have a very good friend who runs at Quaker city when he runs locally, (he's from Warren) but he's involved with an IHRA team so is all over the country.

Mack man, that's amazing that a Napa clerk was that clueless,of the "chain" parts stores Napa caters to commercial accts. Most of the clerks are older and understand paint and body supplies, etc.Would expect that at AutoZone or advance! Alvada is near Findlay,couldn't place it used to stop at the Pilot there. I agree about two tone Daytons with chrome Mack hubcaps or bearing caps on early Macks!

T,Grrrl, thanks for the reply,you're right, having lived most of my life in the "pothole capital of the world" I understand about  unmaintained highways!

You got that right on the cost!, how about just the bare cab,glass, and doors!? With todays rust preventive primers and paints they'd last forever,also at a "cost"! If you don't mind waiting the other sheet metal stuff can be located( I think)! Just hit me, that is the same BCR with different quarter fenders right? Thought it was two similar trucks! Thanks for the response 57!

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Ever see one of those ads on tv " Involved in a semi trailer accident," call (insert name of one of the hundreds of "ambulance chasing" law firms) The vast majority of major carriers will settle out of court even if they aren't at fault! Barring really obvious cases (proven dui or drug use by the claimant etc) Than face  a jury! Due to todays level of anti truck bias! Truck involved accident cases are a law firms gold mine!

Gotta rant on a subject you will all agree on!! How often do you get 100 percent agreement on anything!  Question "when is a truck not a truck"? Read a ladies comment in Consumer Reports today.She  Was saying that her seatbelt use and the air bags and "crumple zones in her late model minivan probably saved her life. Who can't agree with that certainly not me! I quote "A truck pulled out in front of me"! Define "truck" madam! I promise you 90percent of the85 percent non trucker subscribers are picturing a thundering 18 wheeler with a criminal sociopath at the wheel!! Since she didn't elaborate, here are a few potential scenarios: A pickup, a straight truck under 26000gvw therefore requiring no cdl, the same straight truck with an undocumented immigrant at the wheel( since they are permitted to receive a drivers license including an interpreter) in many states! If you require an interpreter, how do you read the road signs? I've got a buddy down the road who is a legal Cuban immigrant whose dad spent 11 yrs in Castro's prison, and I used to load in Miami where the foreman, another legal immigrant gave me his impeccably maintained 64 Chevrolet to go get takeout food. So I'm not anti immigrant just anti illegal immigrant! The media has been using the word truck for years to describe many vehicles that don't fit OUR definition of " truck" because it  evokes the average citizens bias against large usually professionally driven vehicles. My favorite example of this is familiar to most of you who run the Southeast, I believe it's on I 65 in Kentucky there was a school bus crash where all or most of the children burned to death I have tears in my eyes 30 years later just thinking of it! Well the state of Kentucky initially put up a memorial saying it was a  "truck bus crash" Well the truck was a Toyota p.u with some drunken asshole at the wheel and the trucking  industry complained so avidly that they changed the sign!