Comments on: Back in the Old Days http://truckingblog.net/back-in-the-old-days/ The Source for Trucking News, Opinions and Trucking Jobs Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: H singh http://truckingblog.net/back-in-the-old-days/comment-page-1/#comment-28 H singh Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:28:41 +0000 http://truckingblog.net/?p=31#comment-28 omg i would like to hear your stories i was lookin for a person like you who i can talk to my dad was a trucker he had a 1980 freightliner cabover 350 cummins 9spd he told me his experience he said with that 350 cummins when we saw a hill/upgrade we would put on our hazrds so people can cross him he use to loose the signal on the cb his truck wasnt the best i was very little i didnt know anything some things i can remember plz email me and ur name everything i love ur stories Thank you omg i would like to hear your stories i was lookin for a person like you who i can talk to my dad was a trucker he had a 1980 freightliner cabover 350 cummins 9spd he told me his experience he said with that 350 cummins when we saw a hill/upgrade we would put on our hazrds so people can cross him he use to loose the signal on the cb his truck wasnt the best i was very little i didnt know anything some things i can remember plz email me and ur name everything i love ur stories Thank you

]]> By: Keith Povall http://truckingblog.net/back-in-the-old-days/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Keith Povall Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:05:16 +0000 http://truckingblog.net/?p=31#comment-27 Hello from England. As someone who used to write for a UK truck magazine, it was a pleasure to stumble across your journal. ALl best wishes Keith Povall Hello from England. As someone who used to write for a UK truck magazine, it was a pleasure to stumble across your journal.

ALl best wishes Keith Povall

]]> By: "Elegant" John http://truckingblog.net/back-in-the-old-days/comment-page-1/#comment-26 "Elegant" John Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:02:24 +0000 http://truckingblog.net/?p=31#comment-26 I miss the "good ol days" too. But I've been doing it for over thirty years so I really mean the "GOOD OL DAYS!" I was thinking about this very subject last night coming into Laredo. When I started, CB's were new. The company I was with furnished them. A white Motorola 23 channel. The also furnished the bird dogs. They were new too. Don't even remeber the name of the thing. Came before Whistlers. Big ass light on the front and a volume control. We had cabovers then. Just about everyone did except a few owner operators. Condos and walkin handn't happened then. Nationwide weight limit was 73,280. Interstate 40 was still a dream across much of the western states as was I-10. Banning was a pain in the ass then as it is now. However, New Mexico, before they became certified LE officers could be crossed by dropping a box of produce off going east or a box of chickens or a bottle of booze at the POW going west. Good times then. Crossing Missisippi scale was an adventure or should I say running them was more of one. Redneck peckerwoods would come out and shoot at you if you ran their scales and we ran them often. Women were abundant back then and safe. Hitch hikers, party girls, hookers. All good looking, honest, avaialble and willing. For an hour, a night, a week or until whenever you tired of them or they found a bigger, flashier, or faster truck to ride. The Ontario 500 race track was still there across the freeway from Ontario 76 truckstop and man, the parties we had there on the back row. Bob tail races, wet T-shirt and strip shows on the back of empty flatbeds, unlimited beer, booze and barbque, and camraderie! If we had a problem, we fought it out with our fists and went and had a beer afterwards. No hard feelings. How times change! Now it's a chore that I hate to face every week! I miss the “good ol days” too. But I’ve been doing it for over thirty years so I really mean the “GOOD OL DAYS!”

I was thinking about this very subject last night coming into Laredo.

When I started, CB’s were new. The company I was with furnished them. A white Motorola 23 channel. The also furnished the bird dogs. They were new too. Don’t even remeber the name of the thing. Came before Whistlers. Big ass light on the front and a volume control.

We had cabovers then. Just about everyone did except a few owner operators. Condos and walkin handn’t happened then. Nationwide weight limit was 73,280. Interstate 40 was still a dream across much of the western states as was I-10.

Banning was a pain in the ass then as it is now. However, New Mexico, before they became certified LE officers could be crossed by dropping a box of produce off going east or a box of chickens or a bottle of booze at the POW going west. Good times then. Crossing Missisippi scale was an adventure or should I say running them was more of one. Redneck peckerwoods would come out and shoot at you if you ran their scales and we ran them often.

Women were abundant back then and safe. Hitch hikers, party girls, hookers. All good looking, honest, avaialble and willing. For an hour, a night, a week or until whenever you tired of them or they found a bigger, flashier, or faster truck to ride.

The Ontario 500 race track was still there across the freeway from Ontario 76 truckstop and man, the parties we had there on the back row. Bob tail races, wet T-shirt and strip shows on the back of empty flatbeds, unlimited beer, booze and barbque, and camraderie! If we had a problem, we fought it out with our fists and went and had a beer afterwards. No hard feelings. How times change!

Now it’s a chore that I hate to face every week!

]]> By: Slipse http://truckingblog.net/back-in-the-old-days/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Slipse Sat, 01 May 2004 17:49:35 +0000 http://truckingblog.net/?p=31#comment-25 Hear hear!!! I'm glad to find the blog of a fellow trucker, and though we've have got a large pond between our countries, some of our thaughts and troubles look alike! Hear hear!!! I’m glad to find the blog of a fellow trucker, and though we’ve have got a large pond between our countries, some of our thaughts and troubles look alike!

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