Landon this is so unbelievably cool. Great job. My dad was a 25 year salesman at CF at SFS/LAX from 65-90. Because he had been a driver at PFL and later Ringsby Truck Lines here in the Los Angeles area after he got out of WWII and was a proud Teamster, he never lost his appreciation for the equipment involved and the drivers. He passed 10 years ago but he would have truly appreciate your efforts, this truck and this post. A heartfelt thanks here from Me and our family. Awesome.
I remember the days long passed when Conso rigs were as prevalent as JB Hunt is now! Hard to believe that the ever familiar green (later white) cabover on the red chassis is what eventually brought CF's Freightliner manufacturing division into the mainstream!
Really cool. Takes me back to when I was a kid and my dad worked there. Back in the 60’s and 70’s this is all i recall them running. Wish my dad could have seen this vid and restoration. Great work, fantastic.
Air starters sound really groovy! 😳They’re so freaky but radically shocking if you’re not expecting it! 🥺I hadn’t heard one for over 20 years and my mouth dropped when I heard it again. 🤩Bring on more of this rig! Cabovers rule! 🤩
I started driving trucks in 1981 at the age of 18. My Dad who was also a truck driver had a good friend in Norco, California that had about 12 trucks. He hired me right out of High School to drive one of them. It was a 1974 White Freightliner and looked just like the one in this video. It was a 2 axle and I pulled a set of double flatbeds behind it. It had a 290 Cummins and a 10 speed. Top speed downhill with a tailwind was 62 mph. No AC, no bunk, no AM radio, no power steering, no mirror heat, no air ride anything except the seat. Just a bare bones truck. We didn’t haul out of The State of California. I would load that truck every morning in Los Angeles and go as far North as Atwater and as far South as Mexicali and San Ysidro at the Mexican border. AT 55 MPH! I could pull the Grapevine fully loaded at about 16 mph on the floor. Ah, the good old days of trucking. I drove that old truck many miles across the desert in the summer with the windows all the way down and the hot air in my face that felt like a blast furnace . My ass was stuck to the vinyl seat 💺. At least it had a very loud air horn on top right in the middle. That’s right. Only ☝️ one horn. I remember those days very well. Glad they’re gone! 🤣
Nicely kept old Corn Flakes bare bones truck!! It reminds me of when I started driving years back. I came after that truck though. I used to drive a Shaker cabover for a contractor leased to then Roadway Package System now known as FedEx ground after being bought out. The Shaker I drove was bare bones too a, 1985 Single axle cabover with spoke wheels but I did have A/C and an aftermarket stereo installed by the truck's owner plus I had and used a lot, a sleeper. The truck rode kinda rough though being a single axle spring suspension truck. Hard to believe that was about 30 years ago. I was young, skinnier, dumb, and full of fire then. LOL
The air start was always the best ! If you can imagine 20 to 30 trucks starting at 5 in the morning ! It’s a beautiful sound ! We had a 75 acre yard with about 100 tractors and 2 / 250 door docks on the same property. Great video
@@jandmchavez I bet it is. Ive been talking to a guy that has an 86 24 series thats in really great shape and it has the air starter. Along with a 57 3 axle ex-CF truck. In the end, i'll hopefully have 3 generations of CF cabovers.
Excellent preservation here. This was likely a solo linehaul truck (team trucks had sleepers) I only wish your video was full screen but this is still cool !!
I was told that this truck more than likely went from SLC to Denver. But who knows. One of these days I'll have to do another video. I have gotten it a little more period correct since I posted this video. It really needs to be repainted. But that will happen down the road.
Back around 1966, a coworker and I were fed up with the place we worked in South Gate CA. IIRC, just a few miles away, CF had a terminal. Well, we went down there to put in an application for anything available. Turns out, there was nothing available. A couple more prominent trucking firms back then were, PIE, ICX, NAVAJO and, SEA/LAND. My father drove for a trucking company in L.A. called Halbert Brothers. They moved heavy equipment to the different Breweries and many other places. Dad started driving trucks while in the CCC camp in Oklahoma back in the mid to late 1930's to early 40's. If he were physically and mentally able, he'd climb into the cab of any truck and feel at home even, at his 98 years. Yes, they don't make them like that anymore. Great article, thanks for sharing.
TransCon was a big outfit too with those bluish gray shakers. I remember Tri-State Motor Transit (TSMT) having shakers with Allison automatics way back. Even a few contractors with 5 or more tractors leased to them had a few.
Very Cool Bro. I worked for CF Yrs ago ! I remember those beasts quite well. Nice to see you restored em. You know I have a pair of CF work gloves still bagged up brand new and multiple CF ball caps. Brand New bagged up as well. Leave me an address if you want ill mail you a cap if you want one. It would be my pleasure. No fee freee.
@@2008truckman hello Landon. I have a vast collection of plates. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE COMMERCIAL, APPORTIONED, POWER Plates from that era. They look really cool. But I do not know much about them. I'm gunna guess BINGO PLATE are the ones with the squares for different state stickers. I even had some fuel tax stickers, but lost them. If so, I have 2 of them. Blue California, and a white one from Minnesota i think. It was paired with a Minnesota Apportioned plate. I dont recall the CF's having a bingo plate? I see your CA plate is black. Wont be a good match. Was 73 the switch from black to blue? Educate me if you can.... Another question is why and when did trucking eliminate the individual plates on the cabs?
@@paulramsey8187 Thank you for the reply and Happy Easter. The plates you see on the truck minus the actual classic registration plate came with the truck. This truck I bought just about as you see it. The Late Danny Shimizu put plates on to try and be era correct. Ive gotten some more era correct plates for this truck since I posted this video. Your guess is correct on the bingo plate. You would just have stickers for the other states that you would drive through. Back before the day of computers and digital reading. Each state you drove in commercially required their plate on your truck to show that you have paid your dues in that state. Some pictures of old trucks are plastered with plates on the front of their trucks. Thankfully today is a little different. My OCD wouldn't handle all of those plates on the front of my truck. I hope that makes sense. I'm a young pup is most people eyes. So my knowledge comes from those who lived it. The trucks are cool and fun. But it is the history that I love the most.
I think it looks neat with the weathered interior and it doesn't look to bad. That air tank makes me think of a Dr. Who Dalek, wouldn't be a fun co driver. Like the idea of two era trucks.
Wow, this is cool truck,im building some replacas of these and i want to build one or two with the green cabs on the amt model kit freight liners thanks for sharing so cool to see your truck thanks
David, thats pretty cool. I use to build models, but after an accident. My hands shake just a little. So when it comes to the fine details. I had a harder time with it. So I just upgraded to a bigger scale model haha. If I can help you out with any details. I'll do my best to give you a hand
Thanks landon and sorry about your accident. Im going to have to make a replica of your tractor and trailer she sher looks in good shape,thanks very much landon. Take care
The wheel or studs for the lug nuts was the first step. Sometimes the cooling slot in the rim was in the right place and that was the first step too...
wow!!! awesome....when my father resigned with the Chicago Northwestern railway in 1991 he applied for the CF and Burlington Northern.....the BN called first....I often wondered what life woulda been like when my hero woulda been driving out of Elgin Illinois....
I'm not sure on the color. I bought the truck just about how you see it in this video. Ive been told that its a little darker than what it was. But its a little harder than I thought to find the color code. This truck needs a little body work, and I bought a 57 ex-CF truck. So when I paint that truck. I'll redo this truck so they'll match.
My great grandfather was engineer/truck rebuilder for CF when they bought trucks and made them to what they needed.. Then was one of the people who started building the original Freightways trucks.. His son followed suit, and later became President of CF in the '60s... So much history I wish I knew! BTW, Jack Snead Sr. And Jack Snead Jr... Don't see much about Sr. But Jr. Expanded CF into the piggyback service and air freight.
Looking good, enjoyed listening to the details of the truck. I need to see if my truck has that brake limiting valve because I always bobtail and if I get on the brakes hard it just slides the rear wheels. Thanks Matthew
Thanks Matt, I suck at talking. Even if its for a recording. Thats why I let my fingers do all the talking when Im on the organ haha. Since your truck is the same year. I could only imagine it would have the same set up on it. I can't imagine it would be different just because of your 2 stroke verses my 270. I hope you and your family are doing well. Ive missed seeing your videos.
Trans con bought Wilson freight tractors in 81 or so I would like to buy one and restore it and the Strickland pup to but I prbaly never find one of those u model smacks with the tag axle dad worked in Elizabeth for 30 or give or take a few anybody have any info I would be very gratfull dont
That old cummins sounded real good . I have 5 old c f 2 conv. Sleeper with 3406 e cat 1 Coe triple tractor with 3406e sleeper 1 1988 day cab with 3406b I'm probably going to sell 1 or 2
The mud flaps are not original to CF as they did not put them on their 16 series tractors. We had to put temporary one made with a 2x4 tied across the back of the frame when we bobtailed into Michigan to be legal.
There were a few things added to this truck when Danny restored it. Without damaging too much of his work. I have done my best to bring it closer to how it should look
My grandmas Boyfrined " both dead now" trucked his entire life for P.I.E. he was loaded but a jerk guy was 5' 5" max and bitterly resented not being allowed to go to high school
Landon, I worked for C/F (SLC and Buffalo) from around 82-83 for 15 years. I don't remember the brake lights working from the parking brake. To do my personal pre trip (every one had their own way of doing it) as far as the lighting part, I would do two walk arounds. The parking brake was always applied. First to check my markers and left turn signal. Second I would turn out the lights, apply the brakes with the brake pedal application lever and check the brake lights and the right turn signal. They were always much brighter than the markers. So I know in the later units the parking brake didn't activate the brake lights. In 15 years I caught three bad electric connector cords between the trailers with the turn signal wires crossed. But if the parking brake in the earlier trucks activates the brake lights turning the brake lights off from the ignition switch makes sense. To properly pre check the truck out you wouldn't know if the marker lights were working unless the brake lights were turned off. If you were to release the parking brake during your pre trip to turn off the brake lights to see if the marker light part was working it would be very dangerous so temporally turning the brake light off through the ignition switch while doing your pre trip makes perfect sense. @@2008truckman
@@jimfjack Thats at least what I was told by a guy that I talked to at the ATHS show in Reno back in 2019. This truck was the last year of the green cab. So the parking light was probably idea probably ended sometime between my truck and your time with CF? I was still in my single digits when CF closed their doors. So all of my knowledge has come from drivers like yourself.
That is one cool old truck Brings back a lot of memories take care of her she's a beauty
She is definitely a fun little rig. I bought her older and younger sister. So she wont be alone for long.
Landon this is so unbelievably cool. Great job. My dad was a 25 year salesman at CF at SFS/LAX from 65-90. Because he had been a driver at PFL and later Ringsby Truck Lines here in the Los Angeles area after he got out of WWII and was a proud Teamster, he never lost his appreciation for the equipment involved and the drivers. He passed 10 years ago but he would have truly appreciate your efforts, this truck and this post. A heartfelt thanks here from
Me and our family. Awesome.
I remember the days long passed when Conso rigs were as prevalent as JB Hunt is now! Hard to believe that the ever familiar green (later white) cabover on the red chassis is what eventually brought CF's Freightliner manufacturing division into the mainstream!
Awesome! thanks for the walk around. I love the old CF trucks I used to see as a kid.
Really cool. Takes me back to when I was a kid and my dad worked there. Back in the 60’s and 70’s this is all i recall them running. Wish my dad could have seen this vid and restoration. Great work, fantastic.
I drove for CF , The company always made sure you had a good running truck to take out on the road !! And I credit the shop for that !
Yup back when ya had real men as real mechanics!!
In British Columbia and Alberta we had Canadian Freightways (we still do) same exact paint scheme
Air starters sound really groovy! 😳They’re so freaky but radically shocking if you’re not expecting it! 🥺I hadn’t heard one for over 20 years and my mouth dropped when I heard it again. 🤩Bring on more of this rig! Cabovers rule! 🤩
Hopefully this year I can do some videos of it. I repainted the frame and tanks last year to make it more era correct.
Beautiful piece of truck history. Donald Rounds
I started driving trucks in 1981 at the age of 18. My Dad who was also a truck driver had a good friend in Norco, California that had about 12 trucks. He hired me right out of High School to drive one of them.
It was a 1974 White Freightliner and looked just like the one in this video.
It was a 2 axle and I pulled a set of double flatbeds behind it. It had a 290 Cummins and a 10 speed.
Top speed downhill with a tailwind was 62 mph. No AC, no bunk, no AM radio, no power steering, no mirror heat, no air ride anything except the seat. Just a bare bones truck. We didn’t haul out of The State of California. I would load that truck every morning in Los Angeles and go as far North as Atwater and as far South as Mexicali and San Ysidro at the Mexican border. AT 55 MPH!
I could pull the Grapevine fully loaded at about 16 mph on the floor.
Ah, the good old days of trucking.
I drove that old truck many miles across the desert in the summer with the windows all the way down and the hot air in my face that felt like a blast furnace . My ass was stuck to the vinyl seat 💺. At least it had a very loud air horn on top right in the middle. That’s right. Only ☝️ one horn. I remember those days very well. Glad they’re gone! 🤣
Nicely kept old Corn Flakes bare bones truck!! It reminds me of when I started driving years back. I came after that truck though. I used to drive a Shaker cabover for a contractor leased to then Roadway Package System now known as FedEx ground after being bought out. The Shaker I drove was bare bones too a, 1985 Single axle cabover with spoke wheels but I did have A/C and an aftermarket stereo installed by the truck's owner plus I had and used a lot, a sleeper. The truck rode kinda rough though being a single axle spring suspension truck. Hard to believe that was about 30 years ago. I was young, skinnier, dumb, and full of fire then. LOL
The air start was always the best ! If you can imagine 20 to 30 trucks starting at 5 in the morning ! It’s a beautiful sound ! We had a 75 acre yard with about 100 tractors and 2 / 250 door docks on the same property. Great video
Id love to hear multiple air starters at once
@@2008truckman it's kind of like the movie Apocolypse Now only with Air starters Instead of Napalm !
@@jandmchavez I bet it is. Ive been talking to a guy that has an 86 24 series thats in really great shape and it has the air starter. Along with a 57 3 axle ex-CF truck. In the end, i'll hopefully have 3 generations of CF cabovers.
Nice!!!
Some of my family history.....
So much of it I wish I knew more about.
Excellent preservation here. This was likely a solo linehaul truck (team trucks had sleepers) I only wish your video was full screen but this is still cool !!
I was told that this truck more than likely went from SLC to Denver. But who knows. One of these days I'll have to do another video. I have gotten it a little more period correct since I posted this video. It really needs to be repainted. But that will happen down the road.
Back around 1966, a coworker and I were fed up with the place we worked in South Gate CA. IIRC, just a few miles away, CF had a terminal. Well, we went down there to put in an application for anything available. Turns out, there was nothing available.
A couple more prominent trucking firms back then were, PIE, ICX, NAVAJO and, SEA/LAND.
My father drove for a trucking company in L.A. called Halbert Brothers. They moved heavy equipment to the different Breweries and many other places. Dad started driving trucks while in the CCC camp in Oklahoma back in the mid to late 1930's to early 40's. If he were physically and mentally able, he'd climb into the cab of any truck and feel at home even, at his 98 years.
Yes, they don't make them like that anymore.
Great article, thanks for sharing.
Beautiful truck, great piece of history.
Thank you John.
TransCon was a big outfit too with those bluish gray shakers. I remember Tri-State Motor Transit (TSMT) having shakers with Allison automatics way back. Even a few contractors with 5 or more tractors leased to them had a few.
Very Cool Bro. I worked for CF Yrs ago ! I remember those beasts quite well. Nice to see you restored em. You know I have a pair of CF work gloves still bagged up brand new and multiple CF ball caps. Brand New bagged up as well. Leave me an address if you want ill mail you a cap if you want one. It would be my pleasure. No fee freee.
Very nice classic truck sounds great!
I really dig the Nevada and Ore PUC commercial plates from that period.
I have some of those same original plates in my collection.
The different plates are cool. I'm trying to find a bingo plate from 73 to put on there.
@@2008truckman hello Landon.
I have a vast collection of plates. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE COMMERCIAL, APPORTIONED, POWER Plates from that era. They look really cool.
But I do not know much about them.
I'm gunna guess BINGO PLATE are the ones with the squares for different state stickers.
I even had some fuel tax stickers, but lost them.
If so, I have 2 of them.
Blue California, and a white one from Minnesota i think. It was paired with a Minnesota Apportioned plate.
I dont recall the CF's having a bingo plate?
I see your CA plate is black. Wont be a good match. Was 73 the switch from black to blue?
Educate me if you can....
Another question is why and when did trucking eliminate the individual plates on the cabs?
@@paulramsey8187 Thank you for the reply and Happy Easter.
The plates you see on the truck minus the actual classic registration plate came with the truck. This truck I bought just about as you see it. The Late Danny Shimizu put plates on to try and be era correct. Ive gotten some more era correct plates for this truck since I posted this video.
Your guess is correct on the bingo plate. You would just have stickers for the other states that you would drive through.
Back before the day of computers and digital reading. Each state you drove in commercially required their plate on your truck to show that you have paid your dues in that state. Some pictures of old trucks are plastered with plates on the front of their trucks. Thankfully today is a little different. My OCD wouldn't handle all of those plates on the front of my truck.
I hope that makes sense. I'm a young pup is most people eyes. So my knowledge comes from those who lived it. The trucks are cool and fun. But it is the history that I love the most.
I think it looks neat with the weathered interior and it doesn't look to bad. That air tank makes me think of a Dr. Who Dalek, wouldn't be a fun co driver. Like the idea of two era trucks.
Wow, this is cool truck,im building some replacas of these and i want to build one or two with the green cabs on the amt model kit freight liners thanks for sharing so cool to see your truck thanks
David, thats pretty cool. I use to build models, but after an accident. My hands shake just a little. So when it comes to the fine details. I had a harder time with it. So I just upgraded to a bigger scale model haha. If I can help you out with any details. I'll do my best to give you a hand
Are you going to take this beautiful truck to SHOWS 😊😊😊
They used to have a metal dish with expanded metal welded to the outside that bolted on with the lugnuts which acted as the first step
Thanks landon and sorry about your accident. Im going to have to make a replica of your tractor and trailer she sher looks in good shape,thanks very much landon. Take care
Same to you.
The wheel or studs for the lug nuts was the first step. Sometimes the cooling slot in the rim was in the right place and that was the first step too...
with all that needs work, looks like a good project truck
wow!!! awesome....when my father resigned with the Chicago Northwestern railway in 1991 he applied for the CF and Burlington Northern.....the BN called first....I often wondered what life woulda been like when my hero woulda been driving out of Elgin Illinois....
Beautiful thanks a lot’s!!!
Very cool ole truck 👍
Thanks Matt. Its a fun little ride to have around.
Good walk around...Thanks. Still a nice bumpy single axle that rides better with a trailer.
It doesn't go to far without a pup on the back. Its a fun ride either way.
Love the truck man I miss seeing them on the road pulling triples but quick question what color of red green did you use on the outside
I'm not sure on the color. I bought the truck just about how you see it in this video. Ive been told that its a little darker than what it was. But its a little harder than I thought to find the color code. This truck needs a little body work, and I bought a 57 ex-CF truck. So when I paint that truck. I'll redo this truck so they'll match.
Beutiful cab over truck she is in sort of good condition.
Was that air start tank always inside the cabin or behind it?
Consolidated Freight started Freightliner.
But they didn't use them exclusively.
My great grandfather was engineer/truck rebuilder for CF when they bought trucks and made them to what they needed..
Then was one of the people who started building the original Freightways trucks..
His son followed suit, and later became President of CF in the '60s... So much history I wish I knew!
BTW, Jack Snead Sr. And Jack Snead Jr...
Don't see much about Sr. But Jr. Expanded CF into the piggyback service and air freight.
Very nice
We used to call these truck's coffin makers because the driver was always the first person to the accident
Looking good, enjoyed listening to the details of the truck. I need to see if my truck has that brake limiting valve because I always bobtail and if I get on the brakes hard it just slides the rear wheels. Thanks Matthew
Thanks Matt, I suck at talking. Even if its for a recording. Thats why I let my fingers do all the talking when Im on the organ haha. Since your truck is the same year. I could only imagine it would have the same set up on it. I can't imagine it would be different just because of your 2 stroke verses my 270.
I hope you and your family are doing well. Ive missed seeing your videos.
@@2008truckman family are doing good, I hope to do some work on the cabover and will definitely post some videos.
@@matthewjones8620 Glad to hear that. I look forward to seeing the up dates. But I understand that life can get in the way.
Trans con bought Wilson freight tractors in 81 or so I would like to buy one and restore it and the Strickland pup to but I prbaly never find one of those u model smacks with the tag axle dad worked in Elizabeth for 30 or give or take a few anybody have any info I would be very gratfull dont
That old cummins sounded real good . I have 5 old c f 2 conv. Sleeper with 3406 e cat 1 Coe triple tractor with 3406e sleeper 1 1988 day cab with 3406b I'm probably going to sell 1 or 2
Could you email me some pictures and info on the trucks? I know a few CF fan's that are always looking for CF trucks.
Imagine how many ghost farts are in that cab???
The mud flaps are not original to CF as they did not put them on their 16 series tractors. We had to put temporary one made with a 2x4 tied across the back of the frame when we bobtailed into Michigan to be legal.
There were a few things added to this truck when Danny restored it. Without damaging too much of his work. I have done my best to bring it closer to how it should look
My grandmas Boyfrined " both dead now" trucked his entire life for P.I.E. he was loaded but a jerk guy was 5' 5" max and bitterly resented not being allowed to go to high school
Why are the brake lights on? There is no trailer spike and the foot brake pedal is not applied.
CF had a pressure switch on their trucks. So when you set the brakes. The brake lights would automatically come on. It was one of their safety ideas.
Landon, I worked for C/F (SLC and Buffalo) from around 82-83 for 15 years. I don't remember the brake lights working from the parking brake. To do my personal pre trip (every one had their own way of doing it) as far as the lighting part, I would do two walk arounds. The parking brake was always applied. First to check my markers and left turn signal. Second I would turn out the lights, apply the brakes with the brake pedal application lever and check the brake lights and the right turn signal. They were always much brighter than the markers. So I know in the later units the parking brake didn't activate the brake lights. In 15 years I caught three bad electric connector cords between the trailers with the turn signal wires crossed. But if the parking brake in the earlier trucks activates the brake lights turning the brake lights off from the ignition switch makes sense. To properly pre check the truck out you wouldn't know if the marker lights were working unless the brake lights were turned off. If you were to release the parking brake during your pre trip to turn off the brake lights to see if the marker light part was working it would be very dangerous so temporally turning the brake light off through the ignition switch while doing your pre trip makes perfect sense. @@2008truckman
@@jimfjack Thats at least what I was told by a guy that I talked to at the ATHS show in Reno back in 2019. This truck was the last year of the green cab. So the parking light was probably idea probably ended sometime between my truck and your time with CF? I was still in my single digits when CF closed their doors. So all of my knowledge has come from drivers like yourself.
Bro you need a old heavy converter dolly with the tyre counter weight to go with your pup
Ive got one. When I got the this truck. It came with a set of pups and a CF congear. I just don't have a video of it yet.
Landon Durrant CF/CONWAY thought me how to pull doubles and build a set.
What speed Transmission? What size Cummins engine?
It has a 290 cummins, no Jakes. 6spd spicer direct shift. 4.11 ratio with 24.5 talls. She'll do about 67MPH, her happy spot is about 64MPH.
@@2008truckman can you float that 6 speed transmission?
@@janeordway4841 After some practice, yes. Its took some getting use to.
fleet trucks in us seems much more simple and basic equipped than they could in europe ..
In year since passed, more large freight companies had just the bare basic trucks. Todays trucks are quite the different story.
Use to call them corn flakes
Ait tank on the passenger seat blows it
Corn Flake aka considered freight
"Pain in the Obama" love it