never thought i'd see woke illogic applied to trucks. These gems of trucking history are being compared to the most recent trucks. how idiotic. OF COURS THEY ARE BEHIND CURRENT TIMES! but this is when drivers were MEN and knew how to work.
I grew up with my dad being a long distance driver in the 50s. When I was 9 I started to go with him in the summer, out of school, and would help him load the truck, clean the truck, inspect the truck. I would read the map for him and be his navigator. I learned to rise early, work hard, and sleep well after a long day on the road. There was no power steering, no air condition, small sleeper, no power windows. As a driver you had to have some good arms. I started driving a box truck when I was 14. I started driving in state at 16 and interstate at 18. My first tractor trailer was a single axle CO4000 international. At that time I was driving company trucks. So I drove GMC "crackerbox", a White 4000 COE, a "H" model Mack, a "B" model Mack. I learned the "two stick" method on the old Macks...lol I eventually went to Owner Operator. My first one purchased was a White Freightliner, COE, then a GMC ASRO 95. That one had a LOT OF GLASS. It was very hot int eh summer, and very cold in the winter. It was very hard to keep it comfortable with all that glass. It was good for visability but dang....At 33 I became the youngest super heavy haul driver in the country. At that time I had a long nose "Pete" with a "5 and 4, two stick. At that time I thought I was in "driver heaven"...LOL Just thought some may like to remember along with me. I am sure others out there pretty much had the same timeline. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE VIDEO AND COMMENT
that is funny...I also had a 5/4 in a long nose "pete" doing heavy./ super heavy haul. yes I enjoyed driving that old truck until I got tired and forgot which gear I was in. LOL You put a driver today in a rig with two or three sicks and they go insane. my first was a CO4000 with a 250 cummings and a roadranger trans.The one I loved was a 12v92 "jimmy" DAM, SHE SOUNDED GOOOOOOOOD
@@jc-pj3nh Cars have had power steering since the early 50s so why shouldn’t trucks have it too? I’m with you on Automatic transmissions though, but If one class of vehicles needs power steering it’s semi trucks and gatekeeping that advancement because you’re an old boomer is a stupid thing to do. I agree that that a lot of stuff in the automotive industry as a whole today is too much but power steering is one of the things that aren’t part of that list. Oh by the way automatic transmission have been a thing for decades in semi trucks as well it just depends on what job the truck was originally built for.
You can't compare a 1950s truck to a modern truck. They were state of the art for the time. I started driving trucks in 1977 and the trucks I drove in 2020 was vastly better.
Referring to trucks thought of as respected workhorses in their day as "silly" when compared to today's offerings is akin to calling your great great grandma silly for placing freshly baked pies on an open window's sill to cool or beating a carpet over an outdoor clothesline as compared to using all those later inventions like refridgerators or vacuum cleaners. DUMBAZZERY with no valid point to make.
Quite a few models in this video are conventional designs being referred to as COE’s. For example the Mack B61, this is an example of a conventional truck/tractor. The Mack quadraplex was a very common transmission design for the period. Spicer, Rockwell ( International Harvester brand of transmission and differential parts) and others offered this. The trucks were designed and built for the jobs they performed. Yet comparing them to today’s trucks is like comparing apples to oranges. Todays trucks do have better amenities than their older cousins, the reasons being 1 availability a lot of what we take for granted weren’t available at the time. 2 driver demand. 3 motor carrier safety administration regulation, especially in safety equipment (ABS brakes etc). 4 todays driver, most of them are not able to understand the mechanics of a manual transmission, let alone multiple set ups. Cars today come standard with an automatic transmission people don’t learn the intricacies of manual shifting as they did “ back in the day”. The first truck I drove was a B63 Mack equipped with the Mack quadraplex, no power steering, no AC. I didn’t see power steering until in a Ford LN8000 short nose conventional. My first OTR job I didn’t have power steering, but I got AC!. I didn’t see an automatic trans mission until the end of my career when the company got new lessors from Penske. One other characteristic about the old trucks is, they were built to last, they had to be, another thing is those trucks were seen as investments and owners did everything they could to keep them on the road. Todays truck has an average life of around 5-7 years before it is replaced with a new model. There lighter materials and the higher speeds take a real toll on their life span.
What is this ? An exorcise in A I Crap? the narration scrip really is crap All the repetition of same dialect ! and models not correct to photos ! I'll give this one a 10 on the Horseshite Scale !!
The only silly thing in this video is the narrator, who seems to believe all vintage trucks are COE. Any real trucker would love to have any of these beautiful machines
At least any REAL DRIVERS from the time. I would love to get my hands on a "crackerbox jjimmy," especially if it had the 12v71 spliced with a 5and 4.......of course the problem with the cab overs in those days, YOUR knees were the first to get to the crash site. but, BUT, the jimmy as I described does sound sooooooo GOOD going down the road. DANG....MEMORIES......I CAN STILL HEAR HER WINDING OUT>>>>>> It seems to me he should have added the "MARMON" if he was going to talk about rare, "silly" trucks At the time I was driving, it was one of the very few that was each hand made. People CARED about their name back then, YOUR NAME meant something, it SHOULD MEAN SOMETHING. I purchased my cars, my trucks, even my house on a handshake. ok, rambling on.....God bless all, A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE "OLD" DRIVERS OUT THERE. it was a DIFFERENT time back then. A driver would never leave someone stranded on the road.
This guy is a complete idiot. These trucks are true history on wheels. I have driven a Crackerbox, reo, diamond reo, b-61 macks ,brockways, and what we called the bubblenose gmc. I never drove a truck with power steering until the early 1980's. Guess I did'nt know how silly I was.
My Dad drove trucks In the 50-60-70. None had power steering all where manual transmission most 18 speed ,twin screw , deep reduction. Turbo 6s. This video is stupid because if those truck where cutting-edge then and the great grandfather of the new trucks, where strong men drove them every day.
after reading the other comments, I finally figured out what they were bitching about, it isn't the trucks, it is themselves because they know they could not handle it back then.
What a crock! These trucks were cutting edge. To compare them to today’s standards as having flaws or ‘silly’ is a poor attempt at research. In fact, it misses a great opportunity to show the fantastic history of the truck manufacturing industry.
I don't usually complain about videos, but this one is totally screwed up....I drove many of these models, and I liked most of them. I feel this gives me a little lead way in my comments. The wording is almost identical for all of the models. MANY times you are saying COE and clearly showing a conventional truck. AT LEAST GET A COE AND LONG NOSE CORRECT...HOW HARD IS THAT???????????????? JUST A STUPID, NONE EDUCATIONAL VIDEO. THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES OF THE MODELS, IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HAVE SEEN MOST OF THEM.
You have no chance of understanding the world in the 40's, 50's, 60's You sound like a young kid who would never be man enough for the trucks and other equipment of those early times . Watching no more of this video.
Pretty sure this is "AI". A human wouldn't read the same text the same way everytime. A truck fan wouldn't say the stupid stuff spewing out out here. Of course truck from 70 & 80 years ago didn't have ABS brakes. Transistors had just been invented. It takes a computer to process that control. Sound playing greeting cards have more computing power than existed before 1940...
All the trucks you showed in this video are wonderful pieces of art I love them all
i like all old trucks in the world 👍👍🚚🚚
Does the guy narrating this video know the difference between a cow and a conventional?
I wondered that myself
YES A COW HAS 4 LEGS, A CONVENTIONAL HAS 10 LEGS (WHEELS)
never thought i'd see woke illogic applied to trucks. These gems of trucking history are being compared to the most recent trucks. how idiotic. OF COURS THEY ARE BEHIND CURRENT TIMES! but this is when drivers were MEN and knew how to work.
I grew up with my dad being a long distance driver in the 50s. When I was 9 I started to go with him in the summer, out of school, and would help him load the truck, clean the truck, inspect the truck. I would read the map for him and be his navigator. I learned to rise early, work hard, and sleep well after a long day on the road. There was no power steering, no air condition, small sleeper, no power windows. As a driver you had to have some good arms. I started driving a box truck when I was 14. I started driving in state at 16 and interstate at 18. My first tractor trailer was a single axle CO4000 international. At that time I was driving company trucks. So I drove GMC "crackerbox", a White 4000 COE, a "H" model Mack, a "B" model Mack. I learned the "two stick" method on the old Macks...lol I eventually went to Owner Operator. My first one purchased was a White Freightliner, COE, then a GMC ASRO 95. That one had a LOT OF GLASS. It was very hot int eh summer, and very cold in the winter. It was very hard to keep it comfortable with all that glass. It was good for visability but dang....At 33 I became the youngest super heavy haul driver in the country. At that time I had a long nose "Pete" with a "5 and 4, two stick. At that time I thought I was in "driver heaven"...LOL Just thought some may like to remember along with me. I am sure others out there pretty much had the same timeline. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE VIDEO AND COMMENT
Back in the 40s and 50s you had to be a real truck driver . Any one can drive an automatic . I had a 1956 kw with a 5x4 and it was a joy to drive .
AHHHH A K/W with a 5 and 4. yes, I enjoyed that old pete and those two sticks.....LOL Thank you for your comment. God bless
@@greenbeenie2 God bless you also .those were the good young days .the kw had 275 horse 743 cid iron lung cummins
that is funny...I also had a 5/4 in a long nose "pete" doing heavy./ super heavy haul. yes I enjoyed driving that old truck until I got tired and forgot which gear I was in. LOL You put a driver today in a rig with two or three sicks and they go insane.
my first was a CO4000 with a 250 cummings and a roadranger trans.The one I loved was a 12v92 "jimmy" DAM, SHE SOUNDED GOOOOOOOOD
Pusseys cant drive a truck with out a computer to conteol your brakes or shift for you
These were REAL trucks driven by REAL men!
That's right
Wow, snowflakes need power steering and automatic transmissions , just sitting in these trucks would give them nightmares.
@@jc-pj3nh Cars have had power steering since the early 50s so why shouldn’t trucks have it too? I’m with you on Automatic transmissions though, but If one class of vehicles needs power steering it’s semi trucks and gatekeeping that advancement because you’re an old boomer is a stupid thing to do. I agree that that a lot of stuff in the automotive industry as a whole today is too much but power steering is one of the things that aren’t part of that list. Oh by the way automatic transmission have been a thing for decades in semi trucks as well it just depends on what job the truck was originally built for.
Seems like there are 2 ir 3 narrations that keep repeating info on trucks that don't apply to trucks.Who uses the term 'Silly" applying to trucks.
You can't compare a 1950s truck to a modern truck. They were state of the art for the time. I started driving trucks in 1977 and the trucks I drove in 2020 was vastly better.
Referring to trucks thought of as respected workhorses in their day as "silly" when compared to today's offerings is akin to calling your great great grandma silly for placing freshly baked pies on an open window's sill to cool or beating a carpet over an outdoor clothesline as compared to using all those later inventions like refridgerators or vacuum cleaners. DUMBAZZERY with no valid point to make.
All steel. That’s why they are still here😊
Don't need automatic transmission
Quite a few models in this video are conventional designs being referred to as COE’s. For example the Mack B61, this is an example of a conventional truck/tractor. The Mack quadraplex was a very common transmission design for the period. Spicer, Rockwell ( International Harvester brand of transmission and differential parts) and others offered this. The trucks were designed and built for the jobs they performed. Yet comparing them to today’s trucks is like comparing apples to oranges. Todays trucks do have better amenities than their older cousins, the reasons being 1 availability a lot of what we take for granted weren’t available at the time. 2 driver demand. 3 motor carrier safety administration regulation, especially in safety equipment (ABS brakes etc). 4 todays driver, most of them are not able to understand the mechanics of a manual transmission, let alone multiple set ups. Cars today come standard with an automatic transmission people don’t learn the intricacies of manual shifting as they did “ back in the day”. The first truck I drove was a B63 Mack equipped with the Mack quadraplex, no power steering, no AC. I didn’t see power steering until in a Ford LN8000 short nose conventional. My first OTR job I didn’t have power steering, but I got AC!. I didn’t see an automatic trans mission until the end of my career when the company got new lessors from Penske. One other characteristic about the old trucks is, they were built to last, they had to be, another thing is those trucks were seen as investments and owners did everything they could to keep them on the road. Todays truck has an average life of around 5-7 years before it is replaced with a new model. There lighter materials and the higher speeds take a real toll on their life span.
Are these videos a bad attempt at humor?
Correction, COE, not cow.
What is this ? An exorcise in A I Crap? the narration scrip really is crap All the repetition of same dialect ! and models not correct to photos ! I'll give this one a 10 on the Horseshite Scale !!
@@jameswest332 AI garbage
18.30 b number 8 is not a cabover engine, YET ANOTHER VIDEO THAT IS ABSOLUTELY CRAP
Amen😂
The only silly thing in this video is the narrator, who seems to believe all vintage trucks are COE. Any real trucker would love to have any of these beautiful machines
Especially the “needle nose” KW if this iconic design wasn’t so loved, then why is Kenworth still producing it’s grand son the K900?
At least any REAL DRIVERS from the time. I would love to get my hands on a "crackerbox jjimmy," especially if it had the 12v71 spliced with a 5and 4.......of course the problem with the cab overs in those days, YOUR knees were the first to get to the crash site. but, BUT, the jimmy as I described does sound sooooooo GOOD going down the road. DANG....MEMORIES......I CAN STILL HEAR HER WINDING OUT>>>>>> It seems to me he should have added the "MARMON" if he was going to talk about rare, "silly" trucks At the time I was driving, it was one of the very few that was each hand made. People CARED about their name back then, YOUR NAME meant something, it SHOULD MEAN SOMETHING. I purchased my cars, my trucks, even my house on a handshake.
ok, rambling on.....God bless all, A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE "OLD" DRIVERS OUT THERE. it was a DIFFERENT time back then. A driver would never leave someone stranded on the road.
Wow! How wrong can one guy be?!
"Limitations in technology??"--Maybe because these items did not exist in trucks when they werew built
This guy is a complete idiot. These trucks are true history on wheels. I have driven a Crackerbox, reo, diamond reo, b-61 macks ,brockways, and what we called the bubblenose gmc. I never drove a truck with power steering until the early 1980's. Guess I did'nt know how silly I was.
👍👍👍👍👍👍.
It wasn't a 2024 truck in 1950? Really? How inconvenient.
@@patrickporter6536 😅😁🤣 l know right....these videos are truly ridiculous
What a load of bollocks,how can you compare 1950s trucks with contemporary designs ?? thumbs down !
You can't compare the old trucks to new technology. That's silly!
My Dad drove trucks
In the 50-60-70.
None had power steering all where manual transmission most 18 speed ,twin screw , deep reduction.
Turbo 6s.
This video is stupid because if those truck where cutting-edge then and the great grandfather of the new trucks, where strong men drove them every day.
after reading the other comments, I finally figured out what they were bitching about, it isn't the trucks, it is themselves because they know they could not handle it back then.
Silly Silly that is a terrible name for this video. They were not Silly they were great for their time.
What a crock! These trucks were cutting edge. To compare them to today’s standards as having flaws or ‘silly’ is a poor attempt at research. In fact, it misses a great opportunity to show the fantastic history of the truck manufacturing industry.
Did you even proof view the video before you published?
The narator needs to get a thesaurus, there many words to express oneself besides silly and cartoonish.
Waste of 25 minutes.
I don't usually complain about videos, but this one is totally screwed up....I drove many of these models, and I liked most of them. I feel this gives me a little lead way in my comments. The wording is almost identical for all of the models. MANY times you are saying COE and clearly showing a conventional truck. AT LEAST GET A COE AND LONG NOSE CORRECT...HOW HARD IS THAT???????????????? JUST A STUPID, NONE EDUCATIONAL VIDEO. THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES OF THE MODELS, IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HAVE SEEN MOST OF THEM.
This video has to be made for an attempt at humor.
You have no chance of understanding the world in the 40's, 50's, 60's You sound like a young kid who would never be man enough for the trucks and other equipment of those early times . Watching no more of this video.
Pretty sure this is "AI". A human wouldn't read the same text the same way everytime. A truck fan wouldn't say the stupid stuff spewing out out here. Of course truck from 70 & 80 years ago didn't have ABS brakes. Transistors had just been invented. It takes a computer to process that control. Sound playing greeting cards have more computing power than existed before 1940...
I'm old I was there you were not and I can't stand this crap!
If you want to make a video KNOW your subject. 👎