OMG, this video made me smile and stir up many great memories from my past. As a retired long haul driver, I recognized most of those trucking companies who are long gone. Thanks for the memories 😁
Thank you! I enjoyed making it. I was just a kid when most of those old rigs rolled the highways. My dad drove for many years from the 50s on out, and I have been driving 35 years myself. I sure miss those old companies and equipment!
Used to load BRT and Newton with furniture and I remember when both companies went out. Plus I used to unload bed rails off Fredrickson and Consolidated Freight before they went out of business also. Plus the furniture company that I used to work for loading and unloading these four companies are gone now as well. Plus I remember seeing several of the other companies trucks on the road back when I started driving trucks. Sadly yellow just went out of business last month. The rest either went out or got gobbled up by the bigger companies. New subscriber. Loved the video.
I'm an Ex Roadway Express driver, and CF. out of the hall even earlier I worked Crescent Truck Lines Trans Con, Yellow. Too. When I left in 03 it was YRC but their a skeleton compared to what they once were.
i was born in 2010 but have always had a softspot for these fallen flags of yesteryear. my favorite trucks of this time period are Mack R and F series trucks, because my favorite singer, Henk Wijngaard owned a DM600 offset cab and an F700 back when mack exported tractor units to Europe.
Thanks for the slide show of old trucking companies. When I was laid off at Big R, I worked for some of those other companies late 1979-1983. I enjoyed the pictures.
Dad drove for Sharpe back in the day at 0:46 believe that was cabover Mack he drove!3:36 Youngblood Truck Lines back in 83!Truck was new at time & fascinated bout the 3 windshield wipers as a kid.thanks for videos.brings back memories!r.i.p.Dad 1948-2007
I retired after 40 yrs because of health. I used to run with a number of these outfits in 80's to early 90's when the company I drove for went under . Always had a fun , those were good times we'd running up from N.J. 5nights a week. Those were the days,they'll ever be back.
Colonial diner Danbury CT . Back in the 70s on I84 just outside Brewster NY. Saw most of these companies hauling and stopping at the greasiest spoon in the northeast
Great old trucks my first truck was a 64 GMC like roadway and yellow had the I bought a new truck and lease it to Jaylines/good way truck .moved in 1987 to Tandy Transportation out of Fort Worth Texas and in 2000 went to Celadon trucking services now retired.
There it is at 2:51, the green Mack. I drove for Smiths for 14 years and almost 2 million miles. The green "no stack Mack with a window in the back". Made excellent money, but ARA industries bought us out and skimmed off all the money and shut us down. After that, I became an O/O and drove another million miles pulling a flatbed. Retired now for a long time, but I sure miss those days.
Is that the actual tractor? Or one just like it... I remember Smitty,, Snuffy Smith running up and down 81 back in the day. Outta Staunton VA I believe...
@@92rigger My father was the terminal manager at the pennsauken nj terminal, and the dispatcher then is now my assistant terminal manager at the company I drive for...i was about 10 or 11 years old when he worked there.👍👍👍
I drove for Many years for Ploof Truck lines out of Tampa Fl ,Ploof was based out of Jacksonville Fl ,Was a Huge company ...Flatbed hauling construction materials ,mostly Sheetrock ,,The original Founder and Owner "Mr Ploof " started the company in 1912 pulling wagons by Mule and horses ,When the first Big Trucks came out he bought one and hauled enough freight to afford another truck and employ another driver ,And the company grew from there ...In 1999 Old man Ploof gave the company to his stepson Danny Copland And Danny within a year ran the company into the ground and into bankruptcy ...Cypress Truck lines bought Ploof out and Ploof faded into history ,,,,Today you can look all over the Internet and you're lucky if you find 1 picture of a Ploof truck ,,It was like Ploof never existed and just faded from the face of the earth ,,Just Gone ,, They were a Good company to drive for at the time
billjones citrus county florida I remember Ploof trucks on the road... So many companies have the same story. . Kids take the company from the old man and then it's gone. Amazing.
Don't know how I've missed this video for all these years. Just now saw it. Great job. Thank you for including Burlington Industries Transportation. I got my start there and I miss the company. God bless you.
The trucks might not have been anything more than a simple rig with no comfort or power options (linehaul trucks usually had AC but not the city ones) but some of these were good paying union jobs so that didn't really matter. I started driving a few years before deregulation set in and thus remember some of these very well.
I started driving in April 1978, I started out on a dump truck, then moved up to a tractor and dump trailer. From there went to a refrigerator trailer. ( hated those) (4 years) then dry box. Drove for 44 years retired in 2022. Was glad to get away from it. The last 2 years were the worst. Otherwise I enjoyed it.
There’s few pictures out there of the two largest Canadian carriers in that era, CP Express and Transport and all those carriers under the CN umbrella like Husband Transport Limited HTL, Cronin Transport CT, Toronto Peterborough Transport TPT, Midland Superior MS and Provincial Tank Lines PTL. My Dad’s best friend drove for PTL for 18 years until their ending, and before that for TPT in the Sixties.
Were you one of them drivers that got them barred from the New Jersey Turnpike? Long grade on the North bound side before exit 11 clocked at 96 mph 1/4 mile from the bottom.
I wish I were around for the glory days. I got my cdl in 92 as it was coming to an end. I've heard stories of the camaraderie of truckers. Seems pretty cutthroat out there now. Anyhow, still give the lights when passing. With or without the comeback. Keep on truckin!
I think you are referring to " LOUISE'S DINER " I -78 EXIT 13. When "TrashCan" went out, he went to work for Red Star Lines. After that, he went to work for "Buster Brown" "UPS". Then he landed at "Big O" Overnite, now UPS Freight. He has since moved on from there to who knows where? Hope this helped. Regards, Sugarfoot YRC Carlisle, PA.
that was amazing,brought back a lot of memories when i was behind the wheel,i started driving in the 70's,after the Navy,didnt know it then,but trucking was wonderful back then,truckers helped each other,ever one of these pictures i remember all the companies back then, thats no longer in business today,so sad,of all the pictures,WHITES 76, i remember that one,i think its in Virginia?,got off the road in 07',any way,thank you for the trip down memory lane🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆
Thanks for the kind words on my video. You are right, it is nothing like it was in the past. I have been driving since the mid-80s. I've always been a fan of the old companies, LTL and truckload. Like you, my dad started driving in the 50s after he got out of the Navy. He was in WW2 on the USS Wisconsin. Thanks for your service to our country and in the truck! 🚛 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I remember Dodge Cabovers you hit a bump everything went in the air except the truck. McCleans had Lot of Dodges. Seen cabover IHC Emeryvilles with gas engines in them running the mountains out West. I think they had 549 ci gas engines and 3400 rpm. 5-10 MPh up the mountain 124 mph down..
I remember most of them The outfits ive run for McCendon Oliver Vitrans Are all gone. A couple private fleet outfits as well. All gone. You missed Ligon Sam Tankersley Ohio Pacific Express A&H truck lines. Harry Owen Trucking.
Oh no... my old man used to stop there. He drove for Transcon 66- 86. He took me to White's as a kid... I hate to hear it's a chain now. God Bless Mom n Dad truck stops if there are any left.
Does anyone remember Horwith trucking from N E Pennsylvania? My dad hauled steel all over the east coast from late 60s to mid 80s, his handle was Sidewinder. RIP Dad.
does anyone remember the driver who use to drive for Transcon trucking. his CB handle was "The Bootlegger." you could hear him coming for miles it seemed. his favorite CB term was "KNOCKERS MAN!" anyone ever hear from him? last i heard he went over the side of the mountain, on route 80 somwhere in PA. but that he survived.. at least i hope he did. he was so cool!! and i nice guy too. use to see him at Maries` Diner in Clinton NJ. anyone?
Nice video. I watch a lot of older trucking videos looking to spot either SUBLER TRANFER or CARL SUBLER TRUCKING out of Versailles,Ohio. and never see any pictures. My father drove for SUBLER TRANSFER. Does anyone out there have any old pictures of either company?
This was also a time when many manufactures had their won equipment and drivers. Anyone remember Hammermill out of Erie with the beautiful K 100 Kenworths?
Im surprised i didnt see A.J.Metler Hauling & Rigging on here!Dad drove for them for yrs.another fallen flag specialized in glass hauling till they sold the patent of the (A)frame slingpack!
I didn't have any pictures of Metler... I was driving for Schneider when they acquired Metler and their customers, and started the glass hauling division. AFG... We used their drop yard in Knoxville.
Then Schneider sold the whole thing to Maverick. I knew one Metler driver that lived in Piney Flats, drove truck 457, one of the Petes... Can't remember his name though.
does anyone have any photos of old trucking companies in and around the Philly area ? Im trying to locate photos of John Tinney Delivery Service , AAA Trucking( Rising Sun Ave.terminal),and Marty's Express.
Spared for Roadway in the late seventies and early eighties. The deregulation sword was hanging over everyone. Talked to so many other drivers of most of the companies in the video. We all agreed some of us would be next, so sad to be sacrificed to the altar of greed by deregulation.
First truck the company I remember my dad driving for Associated Transport I got a picture of me setting on the fender of a White Mustang. Days of the big white steering wheels gone for ever
I remember him stopping by house with the B Model Mack with two big shifting sticks OfCos I was only maybe 5 years old at the time was fun just sitting behind the big old ivory steering wheel 😁🚛
Not a lot of Eastern companies. Growing up in West Haven Ct along rte 1 & I-95 there were over 25 or more union freight terminals. from Milford to New Haven. A lot of great local based co's. Like Wooster, Schuster, Adley, As well as Pilot, IS , PIE, Boss-Linko, Perkins, Johnson, M&M, Branch, Carolina, CF, Akers. Strickland , AAA, Hermann/Eldorado, Trans America, This was way before Yellow & ABF. Had over 2500 members in our freight divison of local 443
Interesting to see the old rigs. It is interesting that most of these were from the east/midwest, and I didn't recognize many of the companies (except the bit ones like CF and Yellow and Time and Time DC, etc), but I watched another one of these where the poster must have been from the West, as I knew that vast majority of them and had driven for a few of them. Of this group I drove for TransCon and had a tractor leased to International Transport, both in the early/mid '70's Thanks again.
Yes, I'm from here in the east and my dad drove for a few of those outfits. I mainly was showcasing the old equipment and not the companies necessarily as a 'fallen flag'. Thanks for watching.
@@TRUCKSANDTRAINS21 I never drove for any of those companies, however, I did drive a few of those trucks when others , or I bought one to drive myself. I enjoy seeing those old trucks again. Fond memories of some, not so much others. A great video Sir, thank you. Wish I had found this much earlier. 😊
they still are, it's just these companies love cheap labor and will do anything to kill the unions , that's why it seemed nobody gave a crap when they sent our jobs over seas
This is a old Comment but my dad drove A Duie. Pyle. In the 1940,s hauling cinder block from Pa. My Dad he invented his own Pup trailer to pull with his Mack Tractor! and I got clear Pictures of it to prove it with a 20 ton load of Cinder blocks on the Truck and Trailer.
I remember all of them Especially miss driving the F model Mack’s Yeah they were cold in the winter if the insulation was missing and hot in the summer if no a/c and rode rough if you didn’t have the air seat adjustment just right and they may have been slow by today’s standards but boy did they maneuver nice in the tight spots even without power steering
@@geodot595 yeah I had that happen too On one of those nights when the temperature dropped below zero and the only dock open was the hardest one to get into even with power steering . I just wish Mack still made a cab over like the F model but with today’s technology and comfort items but all Mack built in Pennsylvania not some Volvo throw away
@@Retired88M freeze ups were dagerous at road speeds during winter nights. the early F at ups had duplex sa attention was paramount. one winter am i was fueling, thougjt i was finished and drove off dragging the fuel pump. i was so numb from cold and exaust noise because the shop pulled all the noise insulation out during service and did not replace it. a senior driver walked me into dispatch smoking a pipe. i started to tell dispatch what happened and the senior driver (whitowl) started laughing hard and bit the stem right off the his pipe!
Remember the magnetic signs companies would give you to hang on the door, my uncle had a sleeper full of them wish I had them today. Matlack 2:16 and Chemical Lehman 2:26 great companies.
Gone are the days of fast trucks and slow food,truck stops with farmers tables marked professional drivers only met some good men that way and learned something from them.
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Almost brought me to tears I remember about 98% of those companies Those were the good old days where there weren't so much rules and regulations
What's sad alot of these companies are no longer around
60,s through 90,s were the best years for trucking,even to 2000, I did it 45 years and it was all good and I do miss it.
You are correct on that year range.
Right with you brother I did from 68 to 22 then retired
@@carldrexler7883 keep on trucking,in spirit now 🇺🇲😎
OMG, this video made me smile and stir up many great memories from my past. As a retired long haul driver, I recognized most of those trucking companies who are long gone. Thanks for the memories 😁
Thank you! I enjoyed making it. I was just a kid when most of those old rigs rolled the highways. My dad drove for many years from the 50s on out, and I have been driving 35 years myself. I sure miss those old companies and equipment!
yes I drove for the biggest part of 40 yeaars sad day they ae talking about
I drove for 3 of those outfits,diesel fumes,bad seats,long trips away from home, I'd do it all over again, great memories 😎
Gotta love the old cabovers, I learned to drive on a Mack Ultraliner in '91. Trucks nowadays have no character.
Great video of some awesome old trucking giants from yesteryear. That sure brought back lots of memories! Thanks for posting for us OLD TIMERS!
I remember several of those companies🥰...miss seeing their trucks out on the road. Cabovers rule!🥰
I hope the golden streets of heaven are lined with B61's, Emeryvilles, Crackerboxes and all those beautiful old trux.
That's a big 10 4, hand.
Rip FORD Heavy Duty/L series Tractor division I sure love those old trucks.
My daddy (Mississippi pollock or just pollock) drove flat bed for Poole Truck Lines. I was blessed to go with him on the road.
I also rode with my dad back in the 70s... What a great experience!
I remember Poole truck line well.
This is neat to see. My dad hauled for Transcon in the 70's before going to scrivner!
Used to load BRT and Newton with furniture and I remember when both companies went out. Plus I used to unload bed rails off Fredrickson and Consolidated Freight before they went out of business also. Plus the furniture company that I used to work for loading and unloading these four companies are gone now as well. Plus I remember seeing several of the other companies trucks on the road back when I started driving trucks. Sadly yellow just went out of business last month. The rest either went out or got gobbled up by the bigger companies. New subscriber. Loved the video.
I'm an Ex Roadway Express driver, and CF. out of the hall even earlier I worked Crescent Truck Lines Trans Con, Yellow. Too. When I left in 03 it was YRC but their a skeleton compared to what they once were.
My dad drove for Mason Dixon, TIME, and TIME-DC
Enjoying these old rigs, keep on keepin on.
Thanks.. those are the types of trucks I grew up around :)
Learned on a 64 White cabover, 220 Cummins 12 speed spicer.Now that's a kitchen.
glad to see c&h represented in this video my daddy drove for them from 64 to 77
I recognized almost all of them.....makes me sad
i was born in 2010 but have always had a softspot for these fallen flags of yesteryear. my favorite trucks of this time period are Mack R and F series trucks, because my favorite singer, Henk Wijngaard owned a DM600 offset cab and an F700 back when mack exported tractor units to Europe.
Those are the big named I remember growing up. That's why I got into this racket and live big rigs since then
Not a trucker...but I watched them all. Liked the variety. Admire all the drivers who drove so many miles/hours.
Thanks! I enjoyed making it.. and like my father before me, I have been trucking 35 years now.
Worked at CF years ago! My how the industry has changed!
Thanks for the slide show of old trucking companies. When I was laid off at Big R, I worked for some of those other companies late 1979-1983. I enjoyed the pictures.
CatHouseMouse251
You're welcome.. my dad drove for TIME, and TIME-DC
Dad drove for Sharpe back in the day at 0:46 believe that was cabover Mack he drove!3:36 Youngblood Truck Lines back in 83!Truck was new at time & fascinated bout the 3 windshield wipers as a kid.thanks for videos.brings back memories!r.i.p.Dad 1948-2007
Glad you liked my video.. I never knew anything about Sharpe Trucking... my dad drove for TIME Freight Lines and TIME DC at the :35 mark.
been working for estes for almost 20 years. thanks for the great video!
I retired after 40 yrs because of health. I used to run with a number of these outfits in 80's to early 90's when the company I drove for went under . Always had a fun , those were good times we'd running up from N.J. 5nights a week. Those were the days,they'll ever be back.
You're exactly right.. those days will never be back.
Of the companies pictured here how many are still in business? Maybe 3?
Colonial diner Danbury CT . Back in the 70s on I84 just outside Brewster NY. Saw most of these companies hauling and stopping at the greasiest spoon in the northeast
I remember that place. And Gene Murphy's Mass10
Great old trucks my first truck was a 64 GMC like roadway and yellow had the I bought a new truck and lease it to Jaylines/good way truck .moved in 1987 to Tandy Transportation out of Fort Worth Texas and in 2000 went to Celadon trucking services now retired.
Great video remember so many. Most are long gone.
Yes they are. I put together this video to mainly look at some of the old equipment.
There it is at 2:51, the green Mack. I drove for Smiths for 14 years and almost 2 million miles. The green "no stack Mack with a window in the back". Made excellent money, but ARA industries bought us out and skimmed off all the money and shut us down. After that, I became an O/O and drove another million miles pulling a flatbed. Retired now for a long time, but I sure miss those days.
Is that the actual tractor? Or one just like it... I remember Smitty,, Snuffy Smith running up and down 81 back in the day. Outta Staunton VA I believe...
I know several former Smith drivers who ran out of the Louisville terminal
Brown Transport. Wow. My Grandfather's company. I grew up around those trucks. Miss them so much.
You were related to the owners?
They sure had a strange color scheme
Yeah, the founder Claude Brown was my grandfather. I have no idea where the color came from. I suspect my grandma.
Where were they based out of?
Here in Atlanta, until they bought Thurston. Then they moved to Charlotte? I think
@@92rigger
My father was the terminal manager at the pennsauken nj terminal, and the dispatcher then is now my assistant terminal manager at the company I drive for...i was about 10 or 11 years old when he worked there.👍👍👍
my father uncle and brother all worked for AT Associated Transport way back when things were good
I worked at great company I was out of Providence city man Chris Cute
I loved that job 1965 till she closed May of 76
Thanks for sharing, I like the Central transport truck at 1:11. My late father worked there in the early to mid 70's.
I drove for Many years for Ploof Truck lines out of Tampa Fl ,Ploof was based out of Jacksonville Fl ,Was a Huge company ...Flatbed hauling construction materials ,mostly Sheetrock ,,The original Founder and Owner "Mr Ploof " started the company in 1912 pulling wagons by Mule and horses ,When the first Big Trucks came out he bought one and hauled enough freight to afford another truck and employ another driver ,And the company grew from there ...In 1999 Old man Ploof gave the company to his stepson Danny Copland And Danny within a year ran the company into the ground and into bankruptcy ...Cypress Truck lines bought Ploof out and Ploof faded into history ,,,,Today you can look all over the Internet and you're lucky if you find 1 picture of a Ploof truck ,,It was like Ploof never existed and just faded from the face of the earth ,,Just Gone ,, They were a Good company to drive for at the time
billjones citrus county florida
I remember Ploof trucks on the road... So many companies have the same story. . Kids take the company from the old man and then it's gone. Amazing.
Interstate motor freight use to be big in Michigan
1:42 that's something you don't see anymore, a U-model Mack and an exterior post van.
REALLY LOVE this VIDEO, want to see more if possible 😊😊
Thank you...I grew up around those companies and trucks.. I've been driving 35 years myself.
i worked on transcon,iml,delta and a few other companies in various parts of the us....started off workin on 220 cummins ....long time ago
State-of-the-art motor back in the day! 238 and the 318 Detroit... 335 Cummins
Great video brings back lots of memories Transcon PIE wow😊😊😊
Thanks! All those old LTL companies used to rule the road!
Don't know how I've missed this video for all these years. Just now saw it. Great job. Thank you for including Burlington Industries Transportation. I got my start there and I miss the company. God bless you.
The trucks might not have been anything more than a simple rig with no comfort or power options (linehaul trucks usually had AC but not the city ones) but some of these were good paying union jobs so that didn't really matter. I started driving a few years before deregulation set in and thus remember some of these very well.
I started driving in April 1978, I started out on a dump truck, then moved up to a tractor and dump trailer. From there went to a refrigerator trailer. ( hated those) (4 years) then dry box. Drove for 44 years retired in 2022. Was glad to get away from it. The last 2 years were the worst. Otherwise I enjoyed it.
There’s few pictures out there of the two largest Canadian carriers in that era, CP Express and Transport and all those carriers under the CN umbrella like Husband Transport Limited HTL, Cronin Transport CT, Toronto Peterborough Transport TPT, Midland Superior MS and Provincial Tank Lines PTL. My Dad’s best friend drove for PTL for 18 years until their ending, and before that for TPT in the Sixties.
I don't have any photos of them... But I see their trucks when I'm up around eastern PA.
I drove Emeryvilles and Transtars for Johnson Motor Lines back in late 60's.
Were you one of them drivers that got them barred from the New Jersey Turnpike? Long grade on the North bound side before exit
11 clocked at 96 mph 1/4 mile from the bottom.
I wish I were around for the glory days. I got my cdl in 92 as it was coming to an end. I've heard stories of the camaraderie of truckers. Seems pretty cutthroat out there now. Anyhow, still give the lights when passing. With or without the comeback. Keep on truckin!
The entire world and every business is cutthroat anymore
Im a driver in the wrong generation. I watch these and cry. Rather be back then
I agree... I started in the late 80s, I wish it had been in the early 70s.
I think you are referring to " LOUISE'S DINER " I -78 EXIT 13. When "TrashCan" went out, he went to work for Red Star Lines. After that, he went to work for "Buster Brown" "UPS". Then he landed at "Big O" Overnite, now UPS Freight. He has since moved on from there to who knows where? Hope this helped.
Regards,
Sugarfoot
YRC Carlisle, PA.
that was amazing,brought back a lot of memories when i was behind the wheel,i started driving in the 70's,after the Navy,didnt know it then,but trucking was wonderful back then,truckers helped each other,ever one of these pictures i remember all the companies back then, thats no longer in business today,so sad,of all the pictures,WHITES 76, i remember that one,i think its in Virginia?,got off the road in 07',any way,thank you for the trip down memory lane🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆🌆
Thanks for the kind words on my video. You are right, it is nothing like it was in the past. I have been driving since the mid-80s. I've always been a fan of the old companies, LTL and truckload. Like you, my dad started driving in the 50s after he got out of the Navy. He was in WW2 on the USS Wisconsin. Thanks for your service to our country and in the truck! 🚛 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Whites Truck Stop on I81 in Raphine VA
Yeah, whites is now a petro and the alligator and the guns are gone and the restaurant is not as good as it used to be 😟
I remember Dodge Cabovers you hit a bump everything went in the air except the truck. McCleans had Lot of Dodges. Seen cabover IHC Emeryvilles with gas engines in them running the mountains out West. I think they had 549 ci gas engines and 3400 rpm. 5-10 MPh up the mountain 124 mph down..
I drove many of those models. Those were real trucks, not like the plastic gliders now.
10-4 I heard that I did!
Back when Wheels, Cabs and Nerves were All made of steel 👍
And Yellow joins the list of former landlines.
And essentially took big R with them.
Great video but didn't see any pictures of St Johnsbury Trucking Co. I drove for them 17 yrs until they closed June 1993.
Great memories,thanks for sharing
Yes! You are very welcome.. fun to put together.. great memories of equipment and companies.
Like the pictures of ," company trucks', as they were called in the day.
I think Consolidated Freight had them trucks to the day they close the doors
Billie Woodall tarp roof was for loading unside steel plants or anywwhere you had to load with overhead crane
Estes has a terminal just off Blue mound Rd and east loop 820 in fort Worth Texas
Wow, those vintage trucks look great!
I sure Miss seeing all those trucks on the road.
Drove for Service Transport, Good times, love seeing the the picture.
Thanks! ST CookieVille TN 👍
I remember most of them
The outfits ive run for
McCendon Oliver Vitrans
Are all gone. A couple private fleet outfits as well. All gone.
You missed Ligon Sam Tankersley
Ohio Pacific Express A&H truck lines. Harry Owen Trucking.
love this as I drove 40 years the last 28 at a grocery store retailer
10-4 I've been driving since the mid-80s, and I'm still at it as an owner-operator.
Excellent!!! Thank You
Oh no... my old man used to stop there. He drove for Transcon 66- 86. He took me to White's as a kid... I hate to hear it's a chain now. God Bless Mom n Dad truck stops if there are any left.
Audie Grider I drove out of buffalo to Indy for trans con. 1978-1990 what a great company, equipment and fellow truckers
Remember the shark on the wall at Whites? And how good their breakfast was?
Does anyone remember Horwith trucking from N E Pennsylvania? My dad hauled steel all over the east coast from late 60s to mid 80s, his handle was Sidewinder. RIP Dad.
THANK U I DROVE 42 YRS THOSE WERE SOME GRT TRUCKING MEMORIES NO E L D CAMERAS JUST U @ THE TRUCK 👍🏻
Thanks.. it was fun making the video. My dad drove back in the 50s 60s 70s, mostly for TIME DC. I have been driving for 35 years myself.
I REMEMBER TIME D C.
Don’t forget the teachers😂
Awesome list surprised you didn`t have a Nations way transport pic .
I didn't have a pic of them. I remember them. Weren't they out of Denver?
I like Great Coastal it looks like an Evil Knevil helmet. Wow I remember Whites Truck Stop, It's now a pilot. :(
does anyone remember the driver who use to drive for Transcon trucking. his CB handle was "The Bootlegger." you could hear him coming for miles it seemed. his favorite CB term was "KNOCKERS MAN!" anyone ever hear from him? last i heard he went over the side of the mountain, on route 80 somwhere in PA. but that he survived.. at least i hope he did. he was so cool!! and i nice guy too. use to see him at Maries` Diner in Clinton NJ. anyone?
My childhood all over again . 😁
Nice video.
I watch a lot of older trucking videos looking to spot either SUBLER TRANFER or CARL SUBLER TRUCKING out of Versailles,Ohio. and never see any pictures. My father drove for SUBLER TRANSFER.
Does anyone out there have any old pictures of either company?
Jones Motor was a great company to work for . Miss them
I'm pretty sure I drove most of them trucks one time or another
This was also a time when many manufactures had their won equipment and drivers. Anyone remember Hammermill out of Erie with the beautiful K 100 Kenworths?
worked with a driver out of dunkirk ny at ups who was with hammerhill. he changed companies because of tending to family grape farms along lake erie.
Remember Associated Transportation
They built their own tractors when they couldn’t get what they wanted from any of the manufacturers
@@Retired88M associated--red cabovers?
Im surprised i didnt see A.J.Metler Hauling & Rigging on here!Dad drove for them for yrs.another fallen flag specialized in glass hauling till they sold the patent of the (A)frame slingpack!
I didn't have any pictures of Metler... I was driving for Schneider when they acquired Metler and their customers, and started the glass hauling division. AFG... We used their drop yard in Knoxville.
Then Schneider sold the whole thing to Maverick.
I knew one Metler driver that lived in Piney Flats, drove truck 457, one of the Petes... Can't remember his name though.
does anyone have any photos of old trucking companies in and around the Philly area ? Im trying to locate photos of John Tinney Delivery Service , AAA Trucking( Rising Sun Ave.terminal),and Marty's Express.
My friend had drove for Milton transportation too still in business too
Spared for Roadway in the late seventies and early eighties. The deregulation sword was hanging over everyone. Talked to so many other drivers of most of the companies in the video. We all agreed some of us would be next, so sad to be sacrificed to the altar of greed by deregulation.
Nice to see some fallen tank companies, most are about LTL
Bootlegger was driving a car carrier up until his retirement about 7-8 yrs.ago...He has since moved somewhere down south ,last I heard...
First truck the company I remember my dad driving for Associated Transport I got a picture of me setting on the fender of a White Mustang. Days of the big white steering wheels gone for ever
Along with all the old trucking companies so have the old truck stops 😢
So true.. I miss the 76 truck stops. A great restaurant. The smell of diesel fumes, chicken fried steak and cigarette smoke.
@@BIGroadMusic buddy buddy👍
Great memories my Dad drove for Hemingway 🚛
Another great freight company!
I remember him stopping by house with the B Model Mack with two big shifting sticks OfCos I was only maybe 5 years old at the time was fun just sitting behind the big old ivory steering wheel 😁🚛
@@mikey55328 I remember when my dad drove a B model also... 1965... I was 5 yrs old
Need a few of IML …good to see Preston….saw Interstate ..worked there 6 months …if you want to wait use Interstate…..
Not a lot of Eastern companies. Growing up in West Haven Ct along rte 1 & I-95 there were over 25 or more union freight terminals. from Milford to New Haven. A lot of great local based co's. Like Wooster, Schuster, Adley, As well as Pilot, IS , PIE, Boss-Linko, Perkins, Johnson, M&M, Branch, Carolina, CF, Akers. Strickland , AAA, Hermann/Eldorado, Trans America, This was way before Yellow & ABF. Had over 2500 members in our freight divison of local 443
Overnite, Conway , OD & those other non union outfits weren't even around then in the north east it was all Union.
Interesting to see the old rigs. It is interesting that most of these were from the east/midwest, and I didn't recognize many of the companies (except the bit ones like CF and Yellow and Time and Time DC, etc), but I watched another one of these where the poster must have been from the West, as I knew that vast majority of them and had driven for a few of them.
Of this group I drove for TransCon and had a tractor leased to International Transport, both in the early/mid '70's
Thanks again.
Yes, I'm from here in the east and my dad drove for a few of those outfits. I mainly was showcasing the old equipment and not the companies necessarily as a 'fallen flag'. Thanks for watching.
These are more Chicago & east aren't they I didn't want to say middle east. LOL
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I never drove for any of those companies, however, I did drive a few of those trucks when others , or I bought one to drive myself. I enjoy seeing those old trucks again. Fond memories of some, not so much others. A great video Sir, thank you. Wish I had found this much earlier. 😊
back when trucking was trucking , now its a deregulated industry
Estes and Schneider National are still around.
I just added them because of the old equipment. And I work for Schneider, and that is the first truck I drove with them.
That's back when unions were good
Yes they suck and do nothing now but collect dues.and get fat.
@@kelvintorrence5994 rip jimmy hoffa 😂
they still are, it's just these companies love cheap labor and will do anything to kill the unions , that's why it seemed nobody gave a crap when they sent our jobs over seas
Gotta love them cabovers
Back then, everyone wanted a hood. Now cabovers are more popular than they ever were because they're gone.
A.Duie Pyle. Been around since 1924. Have you any pics of the trucks?
This is a old Comment but my dad drove A Duie. Pyle. In the 1940,s hauling cinder block from Pa. My Dad he invented his own Pup trailer to pull with his Mack Tractor! and I got clear Pictures of it to prove it with a 20 ton load of Cinder blocks on the Truck and Trailer.
The days of Real Men and Real Trucks.
Oh yes.
Wheres Dave Dudley did he make it home from pittsburg❤
He's chasing Red Simpson in his runaway truck ❤
I still see Estes trucks here in Indiana at least. Same colors. Yellow with red wheels. Usually newer international day cabs if I recall.
Please tell me the name of this song and the artist..I drove from 1976 to 1989 and remember every single one.I really miss those days..Great video
Drove a Carretta just like the one here.
Love it great thank you
You're welcome. I miss those days.
I remember all of them
Especially miss driving the F model Mack’s
Yeah they were cold in the winter if the insulation was missing and hot in the summer if no a/c and rode rough if you didn’t have the air seat adjustment just right and they may have been slow by today’s standards but boy did they maneuver nice in the tight spots even without power steering
except when the steering clip froze and the wheel wouldnt return to center.
@@geodot595 yeah I had that happen too
On one of those nights when the temperature dropped below zero and the only dock open was the hardest one to get into even with power steering . I just wish Mack still made a cab over like the F model but with today’s technology and comfort items but all Mack built in Pennsylvania not some Volvo throw away
@@Retired88M freeze ups were dagerous at road speeds during winter nights. the early F at ups had duplex sa attention was paramount. one winter am i was fueling, thougjt i was finished and drove off dragging the fuel pump. i was so numb from cold and exaust noise because the shop pulled all the noise insulation out during service and did not replace it. a senior driver walked me into dispatch smoking a pipe. i started to tell dispatch what happened and the senior driver (whitowl) started laughing hard and bit the stem right off the his pipe!
What was the purpose of the trailers with the tarps as the roof?
Its for loading and unloading with an overhead crane. Gave the versatility of a van and of a flatbed. Bitch to work those tarps though!
lowboy1one1 tarp roof was for loading with overhead crane like in steel plants
Crane loads from inside a building or outside! Then you had to feed the cable thru the eyelets!
@jjoauctioneer1 Your best bet is old scrap yards with trucks and trailers.
Remember the magnetic signs companies would give you to hang on the door, my uncle had a sleeper full of them wish I had them today. Matlack 2:16 and Chemical Lehman 2:26 great companies.
Gone are the days of fast trucks and slow food,truck stops with farmers tables marked professional drivers only met some good men that way and learned something from them.
I agree...it's sad