THE 'OLDEN DAYS OF SLEEPERS (VOL I)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- A Phantom Lane video featuring vintage photos curated and colorized by Thor Norvegian. Phantom Lane takes you on a nostalgic ride into the golden age of over-the-road trucking to remember the long-forgotten phantoms of the fast lane. Enjoy the view!
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The drivers back then earned every penny they were paid. Keep in mind, this is long before the interstate system. I’m old enough to have know a few drivers from that era. There were no creature comforts back then. You froze your Burt off in cold weather and cooked in the hot weather. God Bless those heroes.
On a seat stuffed with straw
Yea I got you they sure did but I love these old trucks all of them.
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 Driving back in the day wasn’t always easy. I’ve heard some stories of having to stand on the running board to steer the truck when it was loaded. Not sure how true those are. The old drivers I’ve met were quite unique characters, but loyal & hard working. True Knights of the Road! Peace & Grease!🥰😎✌️
They earn every penny these days too. No picnic out there
@@dearbrad1996 🇺🇸You got that right! I know that sometimes the drivers are forced to take loads at a cheaper rate, sometimes losing money. They get caught between a rock & a hard spot. Trucking is never easy & there’s money to still be made. It still takes a special breed to be a truck driver! Amen!🥰🤩✌️
Another great video 👏👏 ! Sure bring back memories! That's back before any CDL! Most of us back then learned to drive in a farm truck on a gravel road and when you had to get a license it was called a chauffeur license. No drivers ever wore flip flops or sandals or old baggy sweatpants! Everyone spoke English too and there was no road rage! Everyone stopped to help each other out!! Good ol' days 👏👏 Love your videos and keep them coming! God bless America 🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
I didn’t even know what road rage was then.
Those drivers out there now,don’t call them(don’t know shit bout trucking)much less about backing up,or just doing normal stuff,back in the 70’s we called them 90 day wonder s,got off in 2007,&glad I did,keep doing what you’re doing,thank you for taking us down memory lane🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I quit driving just before CDL’s come along. There’s not enough money for me to go back now.
Well quite simply, back in our day we were truck drivers, today however they are nothing but truck PUSHERS, plane and simple. l hung-up my spurs after 47 years of all the fun l could stand.
-+ $2. Y8s
could you imagine how exausting it would be to make 350 400 miles a day in one of them before there were interstates.all the stop & go of little towns & back road hills you would need to cross.the manual steering alone would be hell in those conditions.much respect to the gentlemen who safely operated these beasts.
Watching your videos reminds me how old I am now. I have been driving 53 years now and drove some of these trucks for my dad when I was young. Beautiful work,fond memories...thank you.
They are like rolling pieces of art now compared to the modern rigs
Excellent Video, real "Hardcore Driving"
My great uncle started driving in 1937 and I can just see him in those. I started driving in 1987 and now I am the old timer.
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 My dad was driving back in the 1930s. My oldest brother was born in 1937. I’ve heard many stories of the old trucks & truckers. I grew up around many old trucks as well. Love the oldies. Blessings.🥰😎✌️
Being a young man raised on a carnival during the late 50’s and early 60’s , none of our trucks had sleepers but several of our trailers had bunks in the nose of them. The team drivers would “ walk the rails “ to get in the bunk without stopping . Lots of blistered feet in the summer from pulling long grades , floorboards really got hot. Tuff ol boys in them days !
Wow, that's Kool, man door in an open top trailer, like a man door in a curtain van , no axle lock, and a chain will work, and we think we have it bad, great 👍 video my friend and great day to you
They are real thuck Drivers Back Then. Love your Videos and the History of Trucking.❤❤🎉🎉
Wow, those old gals sure are still real pleasing to the eye. Dont know a red blooded man who wouldn't be mesmerized by em. Nice work phantom lane!!! Thanks!!
❤great video. Fry in the summer, freeze in the winter.
Beautiful video! My first rig was an H Model Mack with a 20" sleeper. Good thing I slept on my side. Nice seeing all these old Pete's & Diamond T trucks. thanks!
@6:30 the Malatesta & sons rigs had a storage warehouse at the far end of the block in Hialeah FL where I worked back in the 70's, during high school.Loved the ornate lettering on the vans and the curved front White tractors
My grandpa drove right after WWII and probably drove for 30+ years. Love seeing those old trucks. Great little video
I can't imagine running double from NC to Los Angeles an the North West back then. I bet it took a week one way an no AC. Can you imagine leaving the doors an windows open taking a nap, you would wake up with ya head laying over in the weeds an all of ya things gone from a thieves not to mention 50 mph down hill with a tail wind. I started in 1969 an I drove some very questionable equipment. They were tough that's for sure. Now the sleeper in the nose of the trailer would have been a plus for some I had to train. That was a perfect time out box for some crazy people I had to deal with. Out of sight and out of mind. 50 yrs was enough for me. It was fun freezing, burning up, driving asleep with my eyes open. I miss it. 😮😅 really I do. Seemed like time completely stopped when I got home for a day sometimes 1.5 days. 90 % of the time I was anxious to "go up the road" as we called it on Sunday night or Saturday night.
Great comment.
Hey B J" No palletizing and forklifts neither ,most was hand loaded and unloaded, then get back in it and drive all night give out before you start,,,
As far as men fashion goes, look at the shoes. As far as videos go, listen to the music. Good background music!
My dad drove a '48 LJ Mack, with integral sleeper and a 750 split boom Holmes for Akers Motor Lines out of Charlotte, NC. I can still hear that purring rattle in my mind as that truck sat outside our house while my mother packed him sandwiches and coffee for trips.
These are some of the coolest looking trucks I’ve ever seen. 👍👍
Great video!!
I spent many years in KW -W9 day cab
Sleeping consisted of a piece of plywood on the seats.
Not very comfortable but when ur bone tired it worked
Those cab width extentions "Sleepers" look far too narrow for most Men. Of course if one is tired enough, they would be most welcoming. Thank You Kindly for the wonderful video.
Love these old videos, I could picture, back 1940 year .
Being a truck driver I subscribe instantly love the video and history
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 I’m glad to have a family that started in trucking back in the 1930s. I’ve met some of the drivers that worked for my dad back then. True Knights of the Road. There were a lot of drunks back then, too. He had some as well. The trucks were quite hard to drive at times & very rough. I still appreciate the old trucks though. You showed some very unique setups of trucks & trailers. I’ve heard stories of the sleepers in the trailers. My dad always slept under the trailer because he didn’t like those coffin sleepers. I’ve only seen them in pics though. Some good stuff my friend! Peace & Grease! 🥰😎✌️
I am amazed at the variety of photos you manage to find! This theme on sleepers is really awesome. It makes my day to reminisce about my old days of trucking and to imagine even earlier times gone by. Thanks for another fine video.
Great pics!!!
Very cool, I love these classic trucks. Thanks for sharing 👍✌️🇺🇲
This video is amazing! Been in the trucking industry for 30 some years and enjoy these videos,I also like collecting die cast trucks 🚚 mostly John deer and cat. But I don't leave out my 18 wheelers!
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 My dad started trucking back in the 1930s. The trucks were quite cool back then & some still are today. I’ve always loved trucks & collecting toy trucks hasn’t turned out to be a cheap hobby either. I own 3 trucks right now & working on a 4th. Love cabovers & anything old. Passing down that legacy to my boys as well. Peace & Grease. 🥰🤩✌️
Good video, really captures back in my day when we had to drive a B series 10 speed uphill both ways in 12 feet of snow during a blizzard with no heat . ....year round.
Thru July, no air no brakes. Send it.
4:42 I love the look of a B70 series Mack with the L model cab, and the sleeper makes it even better! Great video!
This is fascinating to see. Historic sleeper cabs is a subject that's not easy to research for model building here in the UK - we didn't officially get sleepers here until the seventies.
Great pictures and some pretty good music too. Very nice and smooth, perfect fit.
You could always tell a long hauler by the number of plates or state stickers on the front end.
What is amazing is the number of these companies that are still in business!
Some of these trucks were still roaming the American highways as late as the early 70's. I remember seeing them as a kid and thinking "wow, that's ancient stuff". I don't remember too many COE's, but there were a fair amount of conventional trucks, at least where I was in the mid-west.
Way cool video, Thumbs Up !
I learned hauling cement sacks for swimming pools unload by hand 26 tons. 1966 in 1957 two stick Pete double trailers!
That was awesome!!!!
Awesome! Thanks for the video.
58 years of dedicating my life to all things automotive, I had no idea there was built-in sleeper cabs back that far.
Wow! A lot of these old beauties I've never seen. I thought I knew quite a few of them. Your pictures are super awesome. I really appreciate you bringing back the passed. I can remember some of them coffin sleepers myself when I drove. How about that truck with the homemade winter front. Guess he sure wanted some heat.
Very cool. keep up the good work!
As a child I spent many hours with my dad on the road. (He was an owner operator). I promised him I'd never drive. After two heart surgeries, I was not allowed a CDL. I went one better. I ran the docks instead. Boy, do I remember a lot of those old day trucking companies. Deregulation ended that. Great videos. Will there be a vol. 3? Thanks for these posts.
Love the pics!
From as far I can remember, Truckers were America,s unknown Heroes, I can remember watching Cannonball TV serie when I was a kid, it was always full of adventure, and we all liked this show. Anyone remembers ???
Another excellent video,keep them coming!!!!
Very rare and nice photos ! 👍
2 up in a "C" cab legendary 👍
I met quite a few of the old Outlaw truckers from the ‘70’s but these guys are a whole ‘mother level of tough…
The one thing I noticed they were aware of aerodynamics then now look at us now square trailers and everyone is complaining about bad fuel mileage 😳✌️
A lot of handsome machines for sure. A part of me imagines the trucks, or body replicas at least, cruising the interstates and other highways on modern suspension and with modern drivetrains and such. If such would have to use DEF, that tank could easily be concealed in a "tool box" on the passenger side running board. That I think would be that extra measure of cool.
Another great video. Thanks!
Just imagine how much more fun and adventurous it was back then.
As for the interstate system? Yeah right. Every chance I get I get off of them. Speeds are faster in a lot of states but the traffic is really screwed up. And yeah traffic lights in town but Houston for example in rush hour can take up to 3 to 4 hours to go from Channelview to Katy and vice versa.
And no Jake's but brake pads with asbestos and much lighter loads and no freakin automatics. The uniforms looked stupid though but no more stupid than below the knee shorts with flip flops and a hi viz vest that you see on any fuel island today. Being cold or hot because the "climate control" was half asked at best and these folks were tough and proud. Plus you pretty much live in a truck. Now the drivers need to stand up and walk in.
But Truck Driving now is just a job and not a lifestyle for folks with a wanderlust that don't like playing well with others. The regulations now are idiotic, the so called training in schools is idiotic, the so called Safety in companies is run by idiots and management in the companies are idiotic run by idiots that can't even drive a truck.
All these trucks are before my time though I do faintly remember a few of the later ones on the road when I was young. If my dad was around, they'd mean a lot to him because it was in the late 40s to late 60s that he was a driver.
Back in the days of split rims and power steering. The power of both arms that is.
And l thought l had it bad with the first truck l owned, a 1971 Frightliner cabover single screw with a 1 wide X 2 deep bunk. Ahh yes, back in the day.
Back in the Fifties a friend of my father owned a trucking business. Part of it was providing dump trucks mostly built on military trucks left behind by the American military after WW2.
For a summer I drove a Dodge fitted with a crude British tipping gear and it would carry 24 yards of material. Heavy steering, car like hood and lousy brakes made this truck a nightmare to drive and there were many of them working to rebuild Britain. Later in life my job as a mechanical engineer gave me access to many modern trucks, some almost car like compared to that evil,old Dodge.
So many really cool trucks lost to the history books, what a shame.
I slept many nights in them old 36inch coffin box sleepers .
I enjoyed watching this but you missed an American company that I saw a feature on somewhere in trucking history...They were a little different in that they built their own cabs and the built them tall and high, the sleeper berth was underneath the driver and below that was a straight 8 cylinder English Gardner diesel from which they got excellent economy on those long hauls. Can anyone enlighten me who they were.?
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@@PhantomLane Thank you😀
One of my favorite tv shows in the 70's was Movin' On starring Claude Akins and Frank Converse.
I must be older, to remember ''Cannonball '' tv serie
Yes when I started with warren transport in 1979. We had Iowa base plate Wyoming Nevada Mississippi Oregon. There might have been more. Good old days.
nice video.i knew what alot of the truck models were,but some i had no idea
Man sleepers have come a long way
Super cool content
Great video Thor 👍👍
What a great video. Do you know what kind of truck it is at 2.42 the
Roadway Express?
@2:42 and pause. Look at that, two steer axles under the cab, and three dual wheel drive axles. That would be one crazy rig to drive. At around the 7:00 minute mark, the audio track started blowing me away on the Hi Fi system.
You put this video on 1.75 speed and you have a serious jam going.
the older ones had class
i drove a 65 Ford COE the sleeper was basically a shelf along the back of the cab
2story falcon!
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Great video I remember riding with my dad in some of these old tractors, my grandfather drove my dad and uncle’s and me and my brothers all drove but my kids said no thanks as the industry went to hell, I mean what is a class a automatic license anyway 😂
2:25 A. Duie Pyle is still in business, i seen their 🚚, itd be cool if they applied this paint scheme to their newest 🚚
Trucking before DOT regulations, I imagine when they slept, they slept hard
This was interesting rare footage
Awesome rigs!! Super cooI vid. I could have used 2x longer per shot to really take it all in. 👍🏼
Any photos of Sleepers that were under slung below the cabs?
That’s all it was
A place to sleep
No refrigerator
No microwave
No tv
No storage
No A/C
No room to stand up
And hopefully the driver sleeping in the upper rack doesn’t roll out and land on the steering wheel
I don't understand why they were both sleeping at the same time???
Isn't the whole point of having two drivers is so that one drives while the other sleeps? And vice versa?
Gotta keep that freight train movin' baby!
If the wheels ain't turnin' it ain't earnin'....
@@straybullitt they didn’t have the smooth roads like we have today
And look how the upper guy was just sleeping on a plank
Probably like cry he could get to sleep like that never mind if the truck was moving
By the way that was one of the hardest things to do in the middle of my trucking career…trying to sleep in a moving truck
Прекрасная автомобильная история!
5:05
He got it one piece at a time!
Definitely a Frankentruck, but it actually doesn't look bad compared to some I've seen!
So sad most of them are metal cans today. Would love to see any of them driving here in germany on classic car shows too.
How many of these beasts are still around?
An old timer once told me trucks made of wood,men of steel ?
The music is fantastic, does anyone know who it is? Great trucks as well.
Wow Carolina lines and Roadway Express long gone,,was JB Hunt back in the he 1950'?
Sleeper trucks came a long way
Good old Carolina Freight and Johnson motor lines.
I bet there wasn't much in the way of heating in them old cabs.
I agree, the oldest truck I ever drove was a 66 GMC Crackerbox, going down the road wasn't too bad but as soon as you got into traffic and going slow the engine would cool down quick and it got cold fast. Many times even running down the road, the heater wasn't enough and had to wear your coat while driving. Today's trucks will keep you much more comfortable, hot or cold weather.
2:54
Ice berg with duct tape on the vents!
2:54
Rig from hell!
Iceberg cold!
Makeshift winter front!
Gaffers tape over the coul vents…
Not like the motorhomes of today!
👍👍
I came from the old school truck drivering to day all you have is steering wheel holders
4:13
Wow!
Another iceberg on wheels!
That last one looks like an old pup tent half modified
Them bunks" wasn't made for " fat boys, that's for sure,,Lol ! Great show, Thanks 😊
lot of these trucks were still on the roads in early 50s
8:31
Wow!
Personal space? Where?
Was really hoping for some interior shots! What a shame!
Did you watch til the end?
Name of instrumemtal ???
Да тогда, это была профессия.
Chain drive at 0:36.