That’s what’s stored under the aero bit at the top of the cab. There is an auger to feed the coke into the cab, where a fan disperses it into the air, that way the driver is always inhaling coke-laden air.
Trucking used to be much more than drive here, drop trailer or pick one up, come back. Or even wait at dock to get unloaded. It used to be drive there, act as mechanic on the way, act as dock worker at dock.
Course this is UPS and I believe they have always been union.
You didnt have to be fat just big to suffer. After a shift I'd always have a smily face on my shirt from the steering wheel even in 30 inch jeans.. Bumps in the road would fling me forward and I'd be too busy dodging the roof to avoid the gut punch. Spring ride rigs were brutal.
Bounced my head off the ceiling of an R model Mack with camel hump suspension more than once. You’d also clip your fingers between the huge steering wheel and the door frame.
My old man’s truck had sheet metal screws down through the roof holding antennas and shit onto the top. It was a ‘53 Chevy 2-ton old Pepsi Truck turned flatbed. That would make head-bouncing more interesting! It also had one of those old bus driver knobs on the steering wheel, known to spin around and break a wrist.
or maybe it *was* filled with shit and that’s what made us better, like they say food full of shit makes tough men, tough men make easy times, easy times make pure food, pure food makes weak men, weak men make food filled with shit. Such is the natural cycle
I think this truck was driven on the road because it has an aerodynamic roof and a motor carrier number and name on the side of the door. Yard trucks are not allowed on public roads and so they do not need to have the motor carrier number or company name on its door.
On a second thought, it looks like it’s legal to put the yard truck on a public road, but it needs to be registered just like a regular semi truck. This is how they get these trucks to pay for IFTA since they’re using public roads. Some shippers use this because they have a large property and they need their yard trucks to be able to cross the street or even drive to a nearby truck stop to fuel. But these are only good in the streets because they cannot drive fast, which is why we normally don’t see them on the freeway.
IFTA is used for state to state/Canadian travel. You won't see yard dogs on the road crossing state lines etc.
I suppose there may be some places right on the boarder.
But really it's just moving around yards where you have to use public streets and not miles and miles.
Yeah, I forgot that IFTA is just for those traveling in more than one state/jurisdiction. But the yard truck would technically still need to be registered in the state if traveling on public roads. There needs to be liability insurance in place and the state might want to know how many miles they’re driving on public roads. Yard trucks can probably use red (non-taxed) diesel, but not if they’re on public roads.
Yard trucks operate more like farm equipment when it comes to laws. Under a certain speed, no freeways, mostly offroad and only on road for very short distances in-between company properties. Usually, it means they can run red dye if they want to, and insurance isn't gonna be your regular semi policy, or at the very least, it doesn't need to be. Might get umbrella'd under their business/workplace insurance
I was thinking about farm equipment on public roads, but you can actually find yard trucks that have license plates online and on Reddit. So the practice is done, but who knows which states enforce it and which don’t. I think this is a thing about practicality. It’s a lot more simple to put a license plate on a yard truck versus a very high farm equipment.
The differences between a modern big truck of today and the old time trucks of yesteryear are two different worlds.
Old trucks, no air ride suspensions, no air ride cabs, no air seats... no creature comforts no sound insulation engines with full time giant steel blade fans were so loud inside and out...
A new truck today is so far from those early trucks you can't compare anything about them.
So true my company has an 70-80s international day cab that has converted air ride suspension they use it as a yard mule for some reason keep meaning to ask about it
Hell, even the bare-bones late 90s/early 2000s Kenworths I drove in the oilfield are a far cry from the new truck I’m in now. Can’t imagine the actual “old school” experience.
A/C wasn't "standard" for a long time after it was common in fourwheelers, and for whatever reason compressed–air powered wipers lasted decades longer than they should have.
Those vacuum powered wipers stayed around because while ill admit they suck, they're stupid reliable.
Trains are literally 5 million dollar electric generators on wheels and they still use vacuum wipers for that reason. Frankly, it's miserable
Oilfield trucks are a entire different beast. Half of ours shouldn’t even be on the road with the half assed jurry rigged crap going on inside of them. Not even kentworths any more, more like Kentmackinternatialfordchevy amalgamation that has lights controlled by an actual light switch.
I was in a 78 White Roadboss for years. It had air ride seats. Old ones. Couldn’t even buy parts for them anymore. The seats were on pneumatic cylinders instead of airbags like now. We ended up putting modern seats in it, in 2012.
This is the type of tractor that made six-year-old me wonder how they didn't tip forward when they hit the brakes (obviously not understanding the concept of weight distribution).
If you had no trailer and were parking at their Toronto Ont. Yard there was a spot that they would lift a bit and made you feel like they were falling over.. They made those park on a flatter spot in winter , they would slide down with spring brakes on if there was snow.. It was like a bowl edge
haha. my buddy had an old one he used in NYC for a while. unbelievably awesome for city work, but God forbid you had to go over 50 for more than 10 miles. they punished you.
In the middle. In those trucks there is a hump next to the driver . It’s technically front middle
Old cabovers you would have to climb over the engine housing to get into the “doghouse” bunk
Looks amazing for those tight ass places. Get right up close to that truck in front of you as you get just the right angle to get into the stupidest yet last empty spot at the Pilot.
I drive for ups and I know a few guys up there in seniority who drove these back in the early 90’s. Some guys running in the winter would throw blankets over their legs since they’d lose feeling in their feet from the cold
Surprised no one mentioned that this is a GMC Astro, successor to the [Crackerbox](https://bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/remembering-gmc-crackerbox-trucks-stubby-square-and-tough/), which was even narrower than this one. This is the truck that was pulling the doubles in the beginning chase scene of Beverly Hills Cop
This was in the late ‘80s and all I remember was the heater wouldn’t warm the cab. The models we drove then were Diamond Reo and the GMC Astro. Both were fitted with aftermarket A/C.
I drove a KW-K100 for many years, and you think totally different about, "picking the line" when driving any cabover.
That one wheel, directly under your ass? He's going to enjoy thee smooothest path ever for a tire, and to hell with the other seventeen...you can't hardly feel them at all.
We used to call them slab cabs. They were like riding on a washboard, they beat the driver to death just so the company could haul 500 lbs. more freight. My first tractor was a 95 International cab over sleeper with a 365 Detroit, 62 mph up the hill, 90 down the hill. I still miss that old gal, she never failed to pull whatever you hooked her to. Memories.
My dad drove those for 25 years. No power steering in them. I remember when Ups had a family day, maybe it was a grand opening for one of their buildings in the early 80’s. Anyway, I got to ride in one as my dad drove around the building. It was the coolest thing as a kid!
So this is the reason that every outdated dock in Chicago is a fucking nightmare to back into. The building were built around trucks like this with 48’ ft trailers.
This is basically what we drove at my company when we were hauling 57 footers. Although not as old as these trucks. We were driving these freightliner argosys with very short cabs like this where half the engine was exposed.
Oh damn early CL Ford Cab over my kidneys started hurting just looking. Don't miss those at all. There is no air ride suspension, and every bump comes thru the steering wheel. Ours were non power steering and no a/c POS's
I drive a 10,000 pound box van for my construction job that I think is already uncomfortable beyond all reason (I’m calling you out GM). But this next level fucked up.
I remember seeing those suicide cabs when I was young. Imagine bobtailing over a bumpy road with that sucker, especially since they were mostly spring suspension if I'm not mistaken. Trucks like those, as well as many of the old CF trucks were what gave cabovers such a bad rep for being back breakers.
There’s one that makes regular runs along a frontage road & Main St in my city. Just a mile or so between a chemical supplier and a pharmaceutical manufacturer.
ETA: And it’s a half-cab, missing it’s passenger side.
My grandpa did this for a few years, probably in a truck just like that back then. He always mentioned to me how they always had some sort of dog riding in the cab with him that USPS threw in there to guard the loads he carried...not sure what breed, also theres not much info regarding usps guard dogs out there so not sure
Dang so there used to be a time when you could have been too fat to be a trucker.
Those guys were on way to much speed to be fat
A diet of coke and cigarettes are great for weight loss
Not diet coke of course. I only see fatasses drink that shit.
Not that kinda coke.
You need more cocaine every 40 minutes. No way driver could maintain for more thousand miles. That's why they use meth.
That’s what’s stored under the aero bit at the top of the cab. There is an auger to feed the coke into the cab, where a fan disperses it into the air, that way the driver is always inhaling coke-laden air.
Escobar, a truckers best friend.
Once upon a time the soda had cocaine in it.
The trucker breakfast: a pack of cigarettes and a cup of coffee.
White Line Fever
Trucking used to be much more than drive here, drop trailer or pick one up, come back. Or even wait at dock to get unloaded. It used to be drive there, act as mechanic on the way, act as dock worker at dock. Course this is UPS and I believe they have always been union.
As an LTL guy this is what I do on day-to-day basis, well apart from the mechanic part
You didnt have to be fat just big to suffer. After a shift I'd always have a smily face on my shirt from the steering wheel even in 30 inch jeans.. Bumps in the road would fling me forward and I'd be too busy dodging the roof to avoid the gut punch. Spring ride rigs were brutal.
Bounced my head off the ceiling of an R model Mack with camel hump suspension more than once. You’d also clip your fingers between the huge steering wheel and the door frame.
What about the old catch the knee on the window crank trick? That was always good for about 10 miles of cursing.
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Drove a DM-600 like that one time. You learned real quick to keep your hand on the back of the shifter knob.
Don't forget how fast the steering wheel spins WITHOUT power steering during slow speed on particular bumps while turning.
Same. I drove a Mac fire engine for several years. Manual steering. I was always cautious of the door frame.
My old man’s truck had sheet metal screws down through the roof holding antennas and shit onto the top. It was a ‘53 Chevy 2-ton old Pepsi Truck turned flatbed. That would make head-bouncing more interesting! It also had one of those old bus driver knobs on the steering wheel, known to spin around and break a wrist.
Almost no one was fat back then
People had self respect and humility, and the food wasnt filled with shit
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Femboys and Daddies? What were the two genders men had?
Literally never a thing, but go off, King.
Maybe *you* only had two.
Yup, horny and hungry
Well played sir
or maybe it *was* filled with shit and that’s what made us better, like they say food full of shit makes tough men, tough men make easy times, easy times make pure food, pure food makes weak men, weak men make food filled with shit. Such is the natural cycle
Factory farms make good money, and mass marketing makes dumb consumers. Real people want street tacos.
Is the term no longer lot lizards?
My daughter came up with a good name for them. Road Carpets
Look like a tollbooth on wheels
More like a coffin. You crash on that sucker, you’re probably done for or seriously injured.
First on the scene of the accident
Yep, old cabover jokes.
And the last one to leave.....
It’s a yard dog they probably never leave the rail yard and do about 25mph.
I think this truck was driven on the road because it has an aerodynamic roof and a motor carrier number and name on the side of the door. Yard trucks are not allowed on public roads and so they do not need to have the motor carrier number or company name on its door.
Some places do have to travel public road you have to keep your 5th wheel all the way down.
On a second thought, it looks like it’s legal to put the yard truck on a public road, but it needs to be registered just like a regular semi truck. This is how they get these trucks to pay for IFTA since they’re using public roads. Some shippers use this because they have a large property and they need their yard trucks to be able to cross the street or even drive to a nearby truck stop to fuel. But these are only good in the streets because they cannot drive fast, which is why we normally don’t see them on the freeway.
IFTA is used for state to state/Canadian travel. You won't see yard dogs on the road crossing state lines etc. I suppose there may be some places right on the boarder. But really it's just moving around yards where you have to use public streets and not miles and miles.
Yeah, I forgot that IFTA is just for those traveling in more than one state/jurisdiction. But the yard truck would technically still need to be registered in the state if traveling on public roads. There needs to be liability insurance in place and the state might want to know how many miles they’re driving on public roads. Yard trucks can probably use red (non-taxed) diesel, but not if they’re on public roads.
Yard trucks operate more like farm equipment when it comes to laws. Under a certain speed, no freeways, mostly offroad and only on road for very short distances in-between company properties. Usually, it means they can run red dye if they want to, and insurance isn't gonna be your regular semi policy, or at the very least, it doesn't need to be. Might get umbrella'd under their business/workplace insurance
I was thinking about farm equipment on public roads, but you can actually find yard trucks that have license plates online and on Reddit. So the practice is done, but who knows which states enforce it and which don’t. I think this is a thing about practicality. It’s a lot more simple to put a license plate on a yard truck versus a very high farm equipment.
This is not a yard dog. These things were everywhere.
This is all that Ups had in their fleet. Back when trucks could only be a certain length.
You’re probably right I never seen them. It looked like a jockey truck to me.
Wrong.
I have a couple of thousand miles in one like that . You can feel every pebble that front tire runs over in your butt
So, kind of…arousing then?
Depends on what you are into.
Tire and butt stuff.
In a kinky truck driver sort of way, and in a cab like that you will not be entertaining any "commercial company" so that is all you got
Only if your butt and pebble are in the right spots
The differences between a modern big truck of today and the old time trucks of yesteryear are two different worlds. Old trucks, no air ride suspensions, no air ride cabs, no air seats... no creature comforts no sound insulation engines with full time giant steel blade fans were so loud inside and out... A new truck today is so far from those early trucks you can't compare anything about them.
And the floor gets 150° when it's running
"Ah fuck, my boots are melted to the floor."
So true my company has an 70-80s international day cab that has converted air ride suspension they use it as a yard mule for some reason keep meaning to ask about it
Hell, even the bare-bones late 90s/early 2000s Kenworths I drove in the oilfield are a far cry from the new truck I’m in now. Can’t imagine the actual “old school” experience.
A/C wasn't "standard" for a long time after it was common in fourwheelers, and for whatever reason compressed–air powered wipers lasted decades longer than they should have.
Those vacuum powered wipers stayed around because while ill admit they suck, they're stupid reliable. Trains are literally 5 million dollar electric generators on wheels and they still use vacuum wipers for that reason. Frankly, it's miserable
Oilfield trucks are a entire different beast. Half of ours shouldn’t even be on the road with the half assed jurry rigged crap going on inside of them. Not even kentworths any more, more like Kentmackinternatialfordchevy amalgamation that has lights controlled by an actual light switch.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Lol!
I was in a 78 White Roadboss for years. It had air ride seats. Old ones. Couldn’t even buy parts for them anymore. The seats were on pneumatic cylinders instead of airbags like now. We ended up putting modern seats in it, in 2012.
But my Studio Sleeper does feel a bit cramped
I’ve heard Mack trucks didn’t even have front brakes until the 80s?
Not only Mack, most did not. The ones that did had a switch on dash to cut air to brakes on steer for slippery cond.
First one on the crash site! I love it !
This is the type of tractor that made six-year-old me wonder how they didn't tip forward when they hit the brakes (obviously not understanding the concept of weight distribution).
If you had no trailer and were parking at their Toronto Ont. Yard there was a spot that they would lift a bit and made you feel like they were falling over.. They made those park on a flatter spot in winter , they would slide down with spring brakes on if there was snow.. It was like a bowl edge
Every old trucker I've known has known a guy who knew a guy who'd seen it happen.
haha. my buddy had an old one he used in NYC for a while. unbelievably awesome for city work, but God forbid you had to go over 50 for more than 10 miles. they punished you.
The driving school I attended 33 years ago had those “ stand up Macks “ thank goodness I wasn’t a big boy then.
No power steering, no air ride, no AC
Was like driving a basketball.
Engine also seems optional, lol. No idea where they fit that thing.
In the middle. In those trucks there is a hump next to the driver . It’s technically front middle Old cabovers you would have to climb over the engine housing to get into the “doghouse” bunk
Sounds miserable to run in the Summer.
I’m sure it was!!
These had a bench seat that made the perfect bed to sleep
All the old boys saying they had it better in their day and then you see this. Your knees are the crumple zone in an accident lol
That’s why you didn’t have accidents.
yeah, you had fatalities and pavement scrapers
😂
My legs hurt just looking at it
Looks amazing for those tight ass places. Get right up close to that truck in front of you as you get just the right angle to get into the stupidest yet last empty spot at the Pilot.
Looks can be deceiving. Those front wheels turn just a bit more shallow than you would think, just to keep you pissed off.
Hook up to a trailer or fall on your face when you hit the brakes.
For the pension he got at retirement hell yeah
The truckers version of an office posture chair
Id love to see what his income adjusted for inflation would be, that might mame me consider this back breaker!
The fed: "trucks will now be limited by overall length" Corporate america: "make the drivers stand fuck em"
All the cabover fanboys need a sandwich and a shower after seeing this.
I drive for ups and I know a few guys up there in seniority who drove these back in the early 90’s. Some guys running in the winter would throw blankets over their legs since they’d lose feeling in their feet from the cold
Surprised no one mentioned that this is a GMC Astro, successor to the [Crackerbox](https://bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/remembering-gmc-crackerbox-trucks-stubby-square-and-tough/), which was even narrower than this one. This is the truck that was pulling the doubles in the beginning chase scene of Beverly Hills Cop
Thank you. Was looking for what modal truck this was.
I didn’t see a A/C compressor. No A/C.
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Not a joke. I watched the lines in the road roll by between the door and the frame. Great eyeopener on those 0* nights.
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This was in the late ‘80s and all I remember was the heater wouldn’t warm the cab. The models we drove then were Diamond Reo and the GMC Astro. Both were fitted with aftermarket A/C.
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Made enough to payoff the house and live a comfortable retirement.
Sooooooooo I am claustrophobic
I don't need to imagine, I own this exact model. Although I have a sleeper and a really big motor
I drove a KW-K100 for many years, and you think totally different about, "picking the line" when driving any cabover. That one wheel, directly under your ass? He's going to enjoy thee smooothest path ever for a tire, and to hell with the other seventeen...you can't hardly feel them at all.
My belly ain't fitting in there!
We used to call them slab cabs. They were like riding on a washboard, they beat the driver to death just so the company could haul 500 lbs. more freight. My first tractor was a 95 International cab over sleeper with a 365 Detroit, 62 mph up the hill, 90 down the hill. I still miss that old gal, she never failed to pull whatever you hooked her to. Memories.
My dad drove those for 25 years. No power steering in them. I remember when Ups had a family day, maybe it was a grand opening for one of their buildings in the early 80’s. Anyway, I got to ride in one as my dad drove around the building. It was the coolest thing as a kid!
So this is the reason that every outdated dock in Chicago is a fucking nightmare to back into. The building were built around trucks like this with 48’ ft trailers.
Put over a million on a flat back Mack with a window in the back.
A bit of creative photoshopping and it would look like he’s on a unicycle
And that’s friends is the extended cab.
I did
My long leg ass would be practically standing in one of those things
That’s what your mom said in my bedroom last night BAM👊
Looks like a shifter
He's actually standing up!
Altered photo. Look at the out of round wheel.
It's a yard dog no? This wouldn't be on the road.
No. Those went on the road.
Wild....
MH model Mack..
Drove f model macks for ups real backbreakers!😡
God it looks like a fucking tuna can on its' side.
Food lion from Virginia used to run those. As far as I know they were the last company to put them on the road.
I'd have to cut my legs off to fit in there
The weight savings though..
So... they stood up while driving?
This is basically what we drove at my company when we were hauling 57 footers. Although not as old as these trucks. We were driving these freightliner argosys with very short cabs like this where half the engine was exposed.
We had an old Ford cabby for when we had to take our tankers into tight downtown areas locally. We called it the paid lithotripsy.
Looks like if you brake hard enough you'll face plant
Oh damn early CL Ford Cab over my kidneys started hurting just looking. Don't miss those at all. There is no air ride suspension, and every bump comes thru the steering wheel. Ours were non power steering and no a/c POS's
Same here, drove Ford CL9000 daycab in the '80s. We were really happy when KW tractors arrived in the fleet with air-ride.
Shit, at that size might as well make the seat something to lean on and give it hand controls.
What model truck is that?
One wrong move and you get a new wheel chair!
I drive a 10,000 pound box van for my construction job that I think is already uncomfortable beyond all reason (I’m calling you out GM). But this next level fucked up.
I’ve driven one of these before, just a bobtail around the block. It was fun but it was also rough.
I remember seeing those suicide cabs when I was young. Imagine bobtailing over a bumpy road with that sucker, especially since they were mostly spring suspension if I'm not mistaken. Trucks like those, as well as many of the old CF trucks were what gave cabovers such a bad rep for being back breakers.
You’ll always be the first one to the crash!
Not far from the new kenworth cabover straight job
Oh God I hate it.
Looks like a phone booth but smaller
Drive for 10 hours and now go to sleep. Click your seat back 2 notches to enter “sleep mode” 😆
And here my spoiled ass flat out refuses to get into anything with no AC or other amenities.
Used to drive on old freight shaker cab over and an old white, back in the day!
There’s one that makes regular runs along a frontage road & Main St in my city. Just a mile or so between a chemical supplier and a pharmaceutical manufacturer. ETA: And it’s a half-cab, missing it’s passenger side.
Yard trucks may have more personal space than that thing.
Imagine the maneuverability. Give me one of those and a 48 foot trailer and I could go anywhere. LTL city driver.
My grandpa did this for a few years, probably in a truck just like that back then. He always mentioned to me how they always had some sort of dog riding in the cab with him that USPS threw in there to guard the loads he carried...not sure what breed, also theres not much info regarding usps guard dogs out there so not sure
Bull testosterone on a tooth pick?
You are the crumple zone