Truck Drivers

For the truck drivers.
The next time you want to complain about how rough your air ride truck is; how the heater or A/C does not work; or the doors rattle; your headlights are not bright enough.
Just think; if you was a few years older you could have been driving this instead.

Sorry about the poor pictures. I saw this in a warehouse covered in plastic. While he let me take a few pictures he would not let me uncover it.


a148882.jpg




a148883.jpg




a148884.jpg




a148885.jpg
 
You had to be tough in those days. Of course they didn't put on 550,000 miles in 4 years either.
 
Looks like pre-WW1, and it does look like pneumatic tires so that would be an improvement over the old solid wheels. I think the Bull Dog ornament was added after WW1.
Good looking truck and would look great in my garage. I guess I can dream.
 
If I had to guess I would say 1910 to 1920.
Those look like kerosene headlights; no windshield wipers; the doors slide into a pocket rather than hinged.
It really looked nice. All original and all parts were there.
The picture was taken in a Security Van Lines warehouse so they may be the original owners.
 
Mack, I see the chain drive for the rear axel, I don't know if other makes used that system though.
 
INFO: from internet:

Regardless of the job, from the hauling of vital supplies during World War One to building America?s infrastructure during the booming 1920s, the AC was the most desirable truck for the toughest jobs. And it stayed in production until 1936, despite having only a 75 hp, four-cylinder engine and old-school chain drive.
a148897.jpg
 
The little yellow guy is a Mack AB. The bigger one below is Mack AC. The AC could be loaded 200%. The big model AC was ten tons and it could carry a load of ten tons. PLUS. My dad had one for about thirty years. Standard were hard tires. Neumatics were an option. Most would put air on the front and leave solids on the rear. GOOD LUCK trying to steer it. We hab the extra section gear box for fire trucks and such and me being a,pretty darn big dude still had to hump on it.
 
My father had a 1945 Chevy 2 ton that was pretty tough to drive and I drove a B61 Mack when I first went to work at the concrete block plant.That Mack was like driving in an oven in
the Summer and the shifting was a pain too.
 
The trucks that I saw as we drove by the circus ground when I was a kid all had chain drive and hard rubber tires. I have no idea as to make and age of those trucks.
 
Here's two old Mack's that a friend of mine has. His grandfather and dad worked on Mack trucks all there lives. The Mack pickup is supposedly one of three that ever left the factory.
a148905.jpg

a148906.jpg
 
Well i may be getting there on the old trucks thing , but NOT that old . As i have driven a 57 B60 Mack , a White Mustang a white 3000 Several Auto Cars a Couple Brockways, Two Diamond Reo's and the list goes on , First truck that i drove with Power Steering was a 4200 I H , First truck with A/C was my 77 4300 Eagle and the first air ride was the 98 9400 Eagle First Jake brake was on a 70 R700 Mack with a 318 . Talk about big Horse power wow you could drag a forty ton load of coal up our hills at 15 to 20 MPH .Now talk about how warm it got in the cab's of the OLD trucks on a warm summer day while pulling a hill once you found the gear that she would run in on the old gas burners the drivers door would come open and you would be standing outside on the tank with one hand on the wheel and your right foot glued to the floor. Then when winter came on out came the long johns as the heaters were just about enough to keep the frost off the windsheild , and if you were unlucky enough to drive a Cracker box you had best have a buggy blanket to wrap your feet and legs in. now as for ride quality back in those days Ah a lot of the old trucks DID NOT EVEN have and air ride seat . The spring suspension was was so stiff that it took a big load to even think about smoothing out the ride. Nothing quite like a 44000 Hendricks on a 180 inch wheel base tractor with a 14000 lb steering axle or a 44000 lb Mack camel back.
 
No that is for sure . when i first started a long haul was Pittsburg to Chicago . And the big roads were the turn pike . Main truck routes were roads like U S 224 U S 422 U S 40 U S 40 US 24 U S 6 U S 2 U S 62 U S 66 U S 30 as the building of the interstates had really just got under way. I got to work on some of the interstate building .
 
Do you remember Kays corners, intersection of US224 and US225? That was outside of Alliance Ohio? I spent a short time there back in the 1940s.
 
My father used to haul his own milk cans and a few of the neighbors to the milk plant with a Model A truck. He was 15 years old and didn't have any drivers license.
 
And if you are over 5' 8" you are cramped up in there. I used to drive 28 AA Ford in parades and it was tight for my 5'2" frame. I was in a St. Pats day parade all bundled up warm (no heater) and with wearing coveralls and boots the top of my right leg hit the bottom of the steering wheel before I cold get my foot on the brake.
 
The fastest truck I ever drove was a '75 Autocar with a 335 Cummins and a 13 speed trans on 3.88 gears. The first truck I drove was a nearly new 1966 Mack B-75 with a Maxidyne 250 turbocharged diesel and a ten-speed Mack transmission. I still believe that was and is the prettiest truck I ever laid my eyes on. It was black, with aluminum Budds all around and with every part you could unbolt chromed. It even had factory power steering. It rode like a Mack and was slow as pond water, but, man what a truck! I had a '78 R-Model with a 375 V-8 I was pretty fond of, but that old B-75 reigns supreme to my memory.
 
Ya mean Ohio 225 and U S 224 , yea been thru there many times and all the old truck stops along U S 224 . In my teen years i lived in Canfield ohio Worked for G F Howard Construction Co. and the main office and shop complex was on U S 224 . Hauled many loads of coal to Akron across 224 . We used Ohio Rt 14 to get to US 224 at Deerfield circle . Canfiled was the cross roads of U S 62 and 224 along with Ohio Rt 46 and even had it's own scale house . The only trucks safe from the Canfiled scales belonged to G F Howard a the Coy brothers . Then when Dart trucking came about , no not the Dart trucking from out west this one started out with straight dump trucks and supported the construction industry at first with a small fleet of Diamond Reo tandem and tri axle dumps then in the mid seventy's moved to semi dumps and owner operators . I signed my first semi Dump on with them and my buddy and i were the first ones with sleepers and became there LONG distance haulers . If you ant to call the far west side of the state long distance . I was the first Dart truck to make a haul out of Il. But i had been going out there for a company called Truckway hauling bulk mixing salt to the feed mills . I was sort of a gypsy and if Dart did not have freight i was not setting . I hauled for a lot of different dump outfits.
 
. I also drove a B75 Mack one winter hauling 6 oil. The one I drove had a 673 Mack engine no power at all but the air starter was fun to play with. I was stopped at a red light one night in Albany and a hippie carrying a box of junk walked in front of me and I just had to hit that air starter. The box of junk is scattered all over and I think the hippie is some place on past the moon. A friend also drove a B75 but his had the L J cab. It was a nice looking truck but like the one I drove it wouldn't pull much. I started driving a L J Mack with the 672 Lanova engine. Not much better. The L J was a nice cab.
 
I drove B61's when they were brand new and I hated them and not because of the two stick shifting. I just hated those things. I also drove a 260 WW Brockway. That was a nice driving truck but in the winter you would freeze. It only had that little continental south wind heater. It was like trying to heat a corn crib in the winter.
 

I remember a friend of the family, Larry LaFontaine IIRC, who drove log trucks in the Adirondacks back in the early 60's. That man had the biggest forearms I've ever seen on a human being. No power steering and winding roads.
 

We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today.

Back
Top