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9/11 Where were you ?

                                         I was driving one like this at the time.

    I was just getting up from my 10 hour break at the "Wagon Wheel restaurant in Needles, California.

If you were lucky and got one of the half dozen parking spaces, you didn't have to park a block away across the street, and I got lucky. I went inside for some breakfast and found everyone glued to the tv looking at planes flying into the towers. No one could believe what they were seeing !

Thing had changed a lot in my life by then and have been changing ever since, not to inflect that that attack had anything to do with the changes.  Just sayin.

        Double bunk cabover "two story condo" was one of the first upgraded "class" trucks                             

The "ICC" and days of old !

 Most of the old farts like me have passed on and the new drivers have no idea how it was in the early days of trucking, so that lets the "DOT" get away with things that were unheard of back then.

At that time the "DOT" handled road repair and the "ICC" handled trucking. Carriers had to apply for authority to haul between points and publish their rates for shippers to see. Logs were used at that time as a measure of the company's compliance with "ICC" rules to grant them new authority, not like now, to punish drivers for trying to make a better living. I could go into a dissertation on logs at this point, but it would take up the whole post, so I'll leave that for later.

Suffice it to say that trucking was a skilled labor job until the DOT came aboard, [check some of my first post to get an idea of the skill it took to operate the rigs of that era] and the only difference between the pay you got for driving and the pay for working in a warehouse was the fact that you got to work twice as many hours so you made twice the pay, so for guys that didn't care that they didn't have a home life so they could have a bigger pay check, it made sense,

I brought that up because if you listen to "6 days on the road" in my last post, it speaks of the ICC is checking on down the line and I thought it would need explaining that they ran the scales and inspections, not the DOT. Trucking was a lot different then. We were more like the last American cowboy, which some ad agency used that very glorification, for awhile, combined with C. W. McCall's "CONVOY", [see other post], we were "Kings of the road" to many. 

Unfortunately, The very thing that drew everyone's attention to us was our downfall, The "C/B" ! 

Too many fowl mouth miscreants could hide behind the immunity of the radio to make anyone who listened very long, wonder what rock we crawled out from under, until c/b's and trucking became cuss words and caused the luster that we had worked for, to leave the industry forever.

Now we have automatic trans, air ride, air conditioning, cell phones portable tv's and all the comforts of a motor home instead of the spring ride, 2/70 ac [role 2 windows down and drive 70 mph ], 10 to 20 speed manual trans and all the "Good old Days" left behind.

Some trucking shows worth seeing again

 

When I started driving there wasn't any shows about trucking but you could always find a country western channel on radio, [that's about all you could find], that would almost always play a trucking song like "Truck Driven Man" or' 6 days on the road'. and then came the C/B, and C. W. McCall made us all famous with "CONVOY" and "Wolf Creek Pass" then some trucking shows like "Moven on" and "BJ and the bear", finally I guess, "Smoky and the Bandit" topped them off.

A lot of those channels played some very funny comedians also, like Jerry Clower, "The mouth of Mississippi" talking about "coon hunting," "A new Bull" and of coarse, "Marcels Talking Chain Saw".

By the way, one night I was west bound on I-20 and this truck started passing me, which didn't happen often, and when he got up beside me I noticed the name on his door, liked to fell out of the truck !

It was the very truck that was in the show "BJ and the Bear".  I got the driver to pull over, and after a short visit, found out that when they stopped the show they auctioned off the 3 trucks that they used and this guy bought 1 and leased it on with "BULLIT" freight out of Texas, I thought it was kind of neat.

Have fun checking these out, Dutch

                                                                 

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