Love the old school trucking!!! I long for the good old days, before computers, cell phones and all the tracking. Thanks for the awesome video!!! Was driving for brown transport in 1990. Reminds me of those days. Great trip down memory lane. THANKS!!!!!!
I've seen this video once or twice in past several months or year & I never tire of watching for some odd reason. So here I am again watching this. 👍🇺🇸
A premier fleet excellent over night service provider all their freight was on pallets ! I remember driving at night to L.A with my window down partially in the fog you could hear them coming in groups speeding @ 70 plus from behind in the hammer lane and then disappear in the night, those were the days!
I remember going with my dad to the yard in Phoenix when I was little. He worked there 30 years before they went bankrupt. He passed away in 2007 doing the job he loved. Rip Steve Reyes ❤
My truck number was 1249 and later 1301. I took pride in being at the pinnacle of the trucking industry. I kept myself in top shape and had my company uniforms custom-tailored for a flattering fit. The freeway waitresses loved us.
Not a single one wearing a high-vis safety vest. Tsk tsk. LOL. I used to love hitting the interstate as a kid, and seeing these Freightliner cabovers running doubles up and down I-77 in the Carolinas. Brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.
When i was 8 i spent the summer riding with my dad in a 1966 Freightliner COE. (1967). It had a newly installed roof air conditioning unit in it. The installer accidentally pinched the drain tube shut allowing water to accumulate in the unit. I loved to lay on the"doghouse" with my head on the sleeper mattress and look out the windshield as we traveled. Then my dad had to brake hard which sent lots of Coldwater showering down on me, talk about a rude awakening...... I loved that summer, it turned out to be our last summer together. He died at age 43 in the spring. I miss you Dad. But someday ill ride with him again.
I pulled tons of doubles back then myself. I worked for a contractor leased to Roadway Package System back then. I was assigned a Freightliner cabover with the (I think, its been so long), 42" bunk. I was young, dumb, and skinnier then and my back didn't hurt. I don't miss the ride of a spring ride single axle cabover or crawling over the dog house to go to bed. Drove the east coast from NJ to Fla To Pa and back to NJ home back then weekly.
Good ol' days! I remember them very well. I drove for Adams Air Cargo, back in 94-95. We both ran at night. We were "castrated" to 60MPH, Willi G did 70. As I see, not just on I-5, but in their yard too. They were actually the "Fastest LTL"
LOL I haven’t read/heard that since around ‘95-96. Back then I crawled along for DART International (shit outfit) and while going north up the 99 delivering Sears, I could get back on the 99 up shifting with no traffic in sight: zip! Out of no where there’d be a Willig set to my left passing me like I was standing still. Later on when I became an Owner/Operator my mechanics’ father was a retired mechanic for Willig. Told me that he would open up the governor on all the tractors he worked on. His last name was Harnish.
my dad was a salesman for willig George Deluca passed away 5 years ago willig was a big part of our family's life Erik Anderson and John Simerson great people
I love old trucking footage. 1990 was the year I was born. I remember when my mom would take me to work with her at some warehouse years ago and those cab over Ford trucks with Roadway would come make ltl deliveries.
I remember when I was stated at Alameda NAS.I used to go to the Malibu Grand Prix off Hegenberger Rd.,and after video games I'd sit at the stadium and wash the trucks all afternoon. West Coast trucks are the best.
I currently drive for Saia out of Sacramento and this is now our yard. Awesome to see the origins of the terminal and classic LTL trucks. The yard was so spacious! Much different today but even 30 years ago the trailers on the south fence were packed tight like sardines so nothing much has changed there lol.
I drove for Imperial Truck Lines out of LA, and when I worked local I drove a COE Ford gas powered tractor as shown here. We lovingly referred to them as "baby whale". A great tractor for local p/u & d/l.
Most Willig tractors had no passenger seat. The small window on the right side behind the door could be used to see vehicles in the blind spot area. I drove for Safeway and we had the same set-up. Only used on non-sleeper tractors.
They was buggying thru the parking lot good to see hard workers having fun safety on the job nice to see older style trucks enjoy the sound of the airbrakes!
Not true,many old truckers were fatasses,I've seen plenty of them at truckstops so stop making it seem like they were all in good shape, some didn't bath for weeks,didn't brush their teeth, couldn't stay off them dirty lot lizard while getting divorced and so on👍
I was kind of hoping to see some loading going on. I remember being in those old trailers with the wood sheet sides and floors and the woody sort of smell when you are in there.They were so dark. I unloaded many a Willig, and Delta, trailer back in the day. They were the companies that had the older trailers with the wooden floors and sides.Man, did they creak and groan when you drove in there, and you had to make sure you didn't drive into a hole in the floor. The good 'ol days.
@@roylehew3164 I was wondering if they were mules too either way I would of been honored to work with these fellas and drive a good ol cabover. I drive mainly in the city and wish I was in a COE sure would make backin a breeze.
From how many Fords (and Volvos?) are in the yard they were probably also used on local runs, similar to those used by Roadway. I’m sure many truck spotters can attest to that!
Nowadays I don't see cabovers out on the roads as often as I use to here in the USA back in the day when the length limit was shorter. Those were the days. 🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛😎👍
Willig had a big presence in Phoenix in the late 1970s and thru the 1980s. As I recall they were a relatively young company and was surprised when I heard they went down.
Love this video. These guys didn’t fuck around and they loved their jobs from the looks of it! Looks like the equipment was well maintained, and even the yard looked way better than most LTL yards I’ve observed. Go to a Saia or Yellow yard and you’ll see what I mean
These things remind me of driving an old dollar truck for Midwestern a few years ago my ass can still feel every bump on 80 at least what I have left of it
Willig equipment wasn't much to look at, but always kept clean. I'm sure the equipment was most likely kept in good working order. I miss seeing Willig trucks on the road. I've shared a truck stop restaurant booth with a Willig driver more than one time.....Good people.
I used to drive I-5 at night between SF and LA. The saying was, back then, 'if you passed a Greyhound (bus), you got a ticket. If you passed a Willig, you went to jail.' Those guys took the governors off their road tractors, and drove at about 70 mph. Of course, the road at night just had trucks on it, so it wasn't too bad.
I was Hired at Roadway that year ! I Remember Willig very well. September 1990, really Great Vid. Brings back memories. Ugh those Horrible Ford C-Cabs. Yuck lol
Never saw a Freightliner like the one at 1:08 with a window in the right side of the cab behind the door.At least not here in the east.One those would be rare now.
Jimmy Carter was “convinced” by the ATA that the Trucking Industry was run “Inefficiently” costing consumers. The ICC, which was the real Target, was created to keep Mega Companies/Corporations from Monopolizing the Trucking Industry aka the ATA. The result is the Cluster “Flop” we see these days.
Not 1 fatass truck driver, but most suffered from kidney damage because of the driver's seat directly over the front axle and no air ride. We were hoping to see them back up the doubles, that's a true art form. 👍
The first road tractor I owned was a 6x4 1992 Day Cab Freightliner, 140 inch wheelbase, 9 spd. direct drive with 4:33 rears; at 1500 RPM I was doing 53 mph. Had a Cummins N14 435. Probably the best diesel Cummins ever made. Lucky Supermarket spec’d it out. To save on tires the steering tires were under sized by Luckys. Stupid thing to do. The nose was dropped with the back axle floating lightly on the pavement. My tread on my back tires were scrubbed off. First chance I got I replaced the steering tires and rims; 70/22.5s belong on the drive axles ONLY. I put 80/24.5 wheel assemblies on the steering axle as specified, leveled out the chassis to where it belonged. I also replaced the POS Bostrum air ride Kindergarten seat with a Standard air ride seat I got from the local Volvo dealership sized for adults. The ride improved Greatly, even with the short semi elliptical springs on the steering axle.
Those were good trucks back then. I even love the old B-Trains. Are these ones A-Trains or B-Trains? Anyway, those are beautiful trucks. I know the yellow is Golden Yellow. But what is the darker color? Black or Dark Blue? Still awesome video. Thinks for posting this. Keep on trucking.
Can you tell they are in a hurry to hook the outbound sets and get the F out a there? Hah! I was doing the same thing at Reddaway,Eugene OR. About that time,except it was at about midnight! Todd the retired trucker
Como me recuerdan estos trokes en la ruta de ontario.ca terminal de porland or yeje acorrer con ellos corrian como locos pero eran atoda madre con. Colejancia pincnes WILLG lococnones👍👍
@@williamschirmacher6526 Carter started the deregulation of trucking and Reagan finished it off..Just a matter of time after that when the union shops couldn't compete anymore There is enough blame for both parties buddy...
@@bigstuff52 At least Reagan made every state go to 80,000 pounds, and make every state permit doubles. It's interesting after Carter deregulated trucking, the teamsters still kept supporting the democrats, biden killed over 22,000 union jobs his first 2 days on the job, and unions still support democrats. How many union jobs need to be destroyed before the unions stop supporting democrats ?
Willig was out of business five years later. Deregulation in 1994 allowed out of state carriers to compete in California. Willig was charging higher rates because they were a union shop. They couldn't offer competitive rates with the new carriers, so they folded in October of 1995.
Milk and Honey Homestead I know what you're saying deregulation for the most part is stupid it open the door for a shitload of fly by night carriers that cut corners and participate in unsafe practices and haul freight for next to nothing just to have their equipment moving even if there losing money real shitheads after deregulation I've seen them come and I've seen them go
that is why you have the truck driving mills (schools) and the megas that team inexperienced drivers with another driver with minimal experience. the trainers arent even season veterans anymore. i did the werner bullshit. i came home from being gone for 8 weeks and took local work. i now drive milk truck home daily. i make pretty good money for not going on the road. i noticed that these willig trucks did not have sleepers. were these guys home daily? if not where did they sleep? these are all day cabs in the video.
@@ad356 : I worked LTL for Viking freight system, the day cabs were the norm, a linehaul driver will run his hrs to a particular terminal, company will put you up in hotel over night, call you out following morning and drag a set of boxes back to home terminal. Those smaller cabover tractors were for the city P&D drivers, who are local route runners and are home daily.
@@ad356 -- like yellow back in the day it was called hub and spoke, the line drivers dropped their trailers no more than five hours out and brought trailers back to their home terminal it is the best way every makes it home daily to their homes and families
They happy because you made good money & could see a nice retirement coming. I was single back in them days. No joke put 3 paydays back in bank lived on 1 a month unless huge expense was needed. Now days price of living is sky high you counting pennies. Lucky if even got company insurance & 9 times out 10 it will not pay for nothing. All while watching rich get richer & middle hard working class keep getting smaller & more poor.
I remember in early 90.s seeing some old Ford roadway trucks in Eagan minnesota. ..back then I had 2 take a double look...that old crap is still on the road. ...
There are still a bunch of garbage trucks with that cab design around. Some fire apparatus too as collectors pieces or rural departments. it is common in fire fighting agencies to obtain a garbage truck that still has cab and chassis in good shape and an easy to find parts for motor and remove the gone to beyond economical repair or impossible to find garbage compartment and replace it with an apparatus bed of some type.
At least Willig gave their drivers a Jake! Something that Consolidated never did. I used to see CF trucks smoking their brakes 3 or 4 times a week coming westbound on Donner Summit. CF cheaped on their trucks.
They were strictly a west coast operation, at the end they were servicing Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Nevada. There HQ was for a longtime at San Francisco, later in Danville, CA I'm thinking,
Drivers had common sense back then... or should I say most had it. Nowadays so many drivers heads are lodged in the crack of their arse or should I say into their phone. We didnt have the mishaps back then like we do now.
Back when cabovers were still king...God I miss those days
I miss the old trucking companies, Willig trucks were always clean and well maintained, these guys had pride in what they did
Love the old school trucking!!! I long for the good old days, before computers, cell phones and all the tracking. Thanks for the awesome video!!! Was driving for brown transport in 1990. Reminds me of those days. Great trip down memory lane. THANKS!!!!!!
Afraid of tracking? Automatic sign that you’re an untrustworthy 💩 driver
I've seen this video once or twice in past several months or year & I never tire of watching for some odd reason. So here I am again watching this. 👍🇺🇸
A premier fleet excellent over night service provider all their freight was on pallets ! I remember driving at night to L.A with my window down partially in the fog you could hear them coming in groups speeding @ 70 plus from behind in the hammer lane and then disappear in the night, those were the days!
I miss the Freightliner cabovers. And that nice old 60s Ford tilt cab.
Those Fords were probably late 80s with the blue oval. So nearly new. Built until 1990.
We called those old ford's "" foggies " .nothing like them anymore. 😢
I remember going with my dad to the yard in Phoenix when I was little. He worked there 30 years before they went bankrupt. He passed away in 2007 doing the job he loved. Rip Steve Reyes ❤
My condolences do you remember where the yard in Phoenix was by chance?
@@jonathansukosky9701 the Willig yard was 51st Avenue and Mohave, where the current Central Arizona Freight is located and across from Amazon.
I hope he was not literally doing the job he loved when he passed away...I feel sorry for the innocent bystanders
You are a beautiful woman
My truck number was 1249 and later 1301. I took pride in being at the pinnacle of the trucking industry. I kept myself in top shape and had my company uniforms custom-tailored for a flattering fit. The freeway waitresses loved us.
Lots of tucked in shirts dad jeans and new balance sneakers. I miss the 90's
Don’t forget the mullets...... yep I had one too 😂
@@ryguy57106 nice! I didn't have one myself but was the proud owner of a fantastic mustache 👍 lol
Those old cabover Freightliners and C Model Ford “pumpkins”. Drove both back when I worked for Consolidated Freightways.
Wow look at them old Freightliners. Man trucking was still cool in the 90s
Not a single one wearing a high-vis safety vest. Tsk tsk. LOL. I used to love hitting the interstate as a kid, and seeing these Freightliner cabovers running doubles up and down I-77 in the Carolinas. Brings back memories. Thanks for sharing.
Whoever made the decision to capture this on video. I’m glad they did. Great piece of trucking history captured.
What is this I see; drivers helping each other out and actually interacting with each other!?
That's too cool man! Love those old Freightliner cabovers.
When i was 8 i spent the summer riding with my dad in a 1966 Freightliner COE. (1967). It had a newly installed roof air conditioning unit in it. The installer accidentally pinched the drain tube shut allowing water to accumulate in the unit.
I loved to lay on the"doghouse" with my head on the sleeper mattress and look out the windshield as we traveled.
Then my dad had to brake hard which sent lots of Coldwater showering down on me, talk about a rude awakening...... I loved that summer, it turned out to be our last summer together. He died at age 43 in the spring.
I miss you Dad. But someday ill ride with him again.
@@richardc7721 Yes, you will.
@Amed Tajan is he dead?
Those old cabovers were uncomfortable.
This is cool. Thank you. Boy time flies by, doesn’t it.
I pulled tons of doubles back then myself. I worked for a contractor leased to Roadway Package System back then. I was assigned a Freightliner cabover with the (I think, its been so long), 42" bunk. I was young, dumb, and skinnier then and my back didn't hurt. I don't miss the ride of a spring ride single axle cabover or crawling over the dog house to go to bed. Drove the east coast from NJ to Fla To Pa and back to NJ home back then weekly.
wish there was some more Willig footage love seeing these guys in action seeing how they do there deal
Good ol' days! I remember them very well. I drove for Adams Air Cargo, back in 94-95. We both ran at night. We were "castrated" to 60MPH, Willi G did 70. As I see, not just on I-5, but in their yard too. They were actually the "Fastest LTL"
Sweet Old school cool trucking! Thanx for sharing!
Whenever I thought I was hauling ass, a Willig set would blow by me like I was standing still.
Willig trucks had Long legs.
Pass a Viking get a ticket. Pass a Willig Go to jail.
LOL I haven’t read/heard that since around ‘95-96. Back then I crawled along for DART International (shit outfit) and while going north up the 99 delivering Sears, I could get back on the 99 up shifting with no traffic in sight: zip! Out of no where there’d be a Willig set to my left passing me like I was standing still. Later on when I became an Owner/Operator my mechanics’ father was a retired mechanic for Willig. Told me that he would open up the governor on all the tractors he worked on. His last name was Harnish.
Willig hopped up their engines so they were capable of pulling 105,500 lb triples over Oregon mountains. They had huge power by any era's standards.
my dad was a salesman for willig George Deluca passed away 5 years ago willig was a big part of our family's life Erik Anderson and John Simerson great people
@eddeluca1360 sorry to hear about your Dad. Mr. Deluca was an awesome man- My Dad was John Simerson
I love old trucking footage. 1990 was the year I was born. I remember when my mom would take me to work with her at some warehouse years ago and those cab over Ford trucks with Roadway would come make ltl deliveries.
This is awesome to see. Remember Willig dominating I-5 and HWY 99 California... To bad they went under... Thanks ms for sharing..
I remember when I was stated at Alameda NAS.I used to go to the Malibu Grand Prix off Hegenberger Rd.,and after video games I'd sit at the stadium and wash the trucks all afternoon. West Coast trucks are the best.
@ true, and the saga continues
Man I loved driving those Freightliners...❤
I currently drive for Saia out of Sacramento and this is now our yard. Awesome to see the origins of the terminal and classic LTL trucks. The yard was so spacious! Much different today but even 30 years ago the trailers on the south fence were packed tight like sardines so nothing much has changed there lol.
These guys were happy. This is back when life was kick ass.
They do look happy don`t they probably because it was before getting ruled and regulated to death by the DOT.
Yep the good old days of multiple logbooks and truckers driving on drugs to stay up for days.....I'm glad I missed it
Newbies wouldn't have a clue,dam I'm glad I'm not one of these new steering wheel holders that cant drive a stick😅
Nah....Big paychecks, driving all coked up , picking up whores and after you screw them ya beat the shit out of them.......Miss those days!!!!!
I drove for Imperial Truck Lines out of LA, and when I worked local I drove a COE Ford gas powered tractor as shown here. We lovingly referred to them as "baby whale". A great tractor for local p/u & d/l.
They even went fast in the yard.
Good stuff Jimmy, I enjoy all these LTL videos, thanks for posting
Most Willig tractors had no passenger seat. The small window on the right side behind the door could be used to see vehicles in the blind spot area. I drove for Safeway and we had the same set-up. Only used on non-sleeper tractors.
They was buggying thru the parking lot good to see hard workers having fun safety on the job nice to see older style trucks enjoy the sound of the airbrakes!
Back when we were all skinny and could tuck our shirts in! LOL
Can't forget The "Joe Dirt" mullets and the shaggs.their pants were so tight, you could count the change in their pockets...lol
Not true,many old truckers were fatasses,I've seen plenty of them at truckstops so stop making it seem like they were all in good shape, some didn't bath for weeks,didn't brush their teeth, couldn't stay off them dirty lot lizard while getting divorced and so on👍
@@b-trucker7717 Sounds like B-trucker lost his wife to a truck driver.
@@billcarp3523 😂😂
You had to be skinny to drive those day cabs 😂😂😂
I was kind of hoping to see some loading going on. I remember being in those old trailers with the wood sheet sides and floors and the woody sort of smell when you are in there.They were so dark. I unloaded many a Willig, and Delta, trailer back in the day. They were the companies that had the older trailers with the wooden floors and sides.Man, did they creak and groan when you drove in there, and you had to make sure you didn't drive into a hole in the floor. The good 'ol days.
I drove P&D for Viking, great company but the work took a serious toll on me when I got older.
I liked the old Cabover Fords. They were very easy to drive & were pretty good trucks. Mine was a 1965 C800. I miss that thing.
I think the Fords were thier Yard Mules.
Roy Lehew They were good yard trucks, but I really liked driving mine out on the road for city driving.🤩
@@roylehew3164 I was wondering if they were mules too either way I would of been honored to work with these fellas and drive a good ol cabover. I drive mainly in the city and wish I was in a COE sure would make backin a breeze.
From how many Fords (and Volvos?) are in the yard they were probably also used on local runs, similar to those used by Roadway. I’m sure many truck spotters can attest to that!
Back in the good old days when you came to the terminal and picked up your rig and load pre assembled and paperwork ready
Nowadays I don't see cabovers out on the roads as often as I use to here in the USA back in the day when the length limit was shorter. Those were the days.
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I worked for WILLIG in the RICHMOND Terminal for the last 12 years as a pick up/delivery local driver...GREAT COMPANY.
Awesome video!! That Ford C tractor is cool, I have one in 1/87 scale from Athearn.
How did 1990 get to be 30 years ago?
TIME.
KFStreich Time fades away
How did 2000 get to be 20 years ago. Seems like yesterday
Scary isn't it......
The same way 2050 is only 30yrs away
Willig had a big presence in Phoenix in the late 1970s and thru the 1980s. As I recall they were a relatively young company and was surprised when I heard they went down.
Love this video. These guys didn’t fuck around and they loved their jobs from the looks of it! Looks like the equipment was well maintained, and even the yard looked way better than most LTL yards I’ve observed. Go to a Saia or Yellow yard and you’ll see what I mean
These things remind me of driving an old dollar truck for Midwestern a few years ago my ass can still feel every bump on 80 at least what I have left of it
Gracias por este hermoso video
Look how slim the drivers were compared to today, and their shirts are tucked in too. Not many slobs then.
Willig equipment wasn't much to look at, but always kept clean. I'm sure the equipment was most likely kept in good working order. I miss seeing Willig trucks on the road. I've shared a truck stop restaurant booth with a Willig driver more than one time.....Good people.
Remember System 99,and O.N.C.?
Don't forget 80's 90's trucker hats, had a box full of them, back in the day.
The outbound done at 5:30, they're good.
I used to drive I-5 at night between SF and LA. The saying was, back then, 'if you passed a Greyhound (bus), you got a ticket. If you passed a Willig, you went to jail.' Those guys took the governors off their road tractors, and drove at about 70 mph. Of course, the road at night just had trucks on it, so it wasn't too bad.
California's fastest overnight LTL
Thanks for sharing, what a great video. I like comment. "back when we could tuck our shirts in". Very true.
Love the old Ford C-series.
Those old Ford tractors have so much power they could pull anything compared to these new crappy old trucks they have nowadays👍🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
legend says Diane is still waiting for a ride until this day
Man this video shows so clearly.
yesterday when I was young!
Great song by: "ROY CLARK"
Enjoyed the video!
RIP Willig.
This was great thanks
Good video. Enjoyed it.
Damn I just got my CDL but I was born in the 1990s lol cool shit tho man I respect these guys out here.
dat boy young tripp congrats and safe travels
interesting today is Friday March 13, 2020. and i am watching this.
I remember the cranks on the right side, & air lines were in the middle of the cab,, 7 they weren't colored red & blue.
I was Hired at Roadway that year ! I Remember Willig very well. September 1990, really Great Vid. Brings back memories. Ugh those Horrible Ford C-Cabs. Yuck lol
All that stuff has probably been scrapped by now. Where's this at?
Never saw a Freightliner like the one at 1:08 with a window in the right side of the cab behind the door.At least not here in the east.One those would be rare now.
Thay were common on the west coast
Yeah they are not common to see. I always thought they looked awesome.
Miss the old trucking companies!! When Trucking Was Good!!😎👍
10 years later the whole trucking scene would be different
Deregulation happened.
In 1980, 10 years prior to this video
Jimmy Carter was “convinced” by the ATA that the Trucking Industry was run “Inefficiently” costing consumers.
The ICC, which was the real Target, was created to keep Mega Companies/Corporations from Monopolizing the Trucking Industry aka the ATA.
The result is the Cluster “Flop” we see these days.
Anyone Remember going to truck stops to eat with their parents or Grand parents. Was nothing like Truck Stop we have today
My dad drove one of those fords in the early 60's... for Mobil Oil
Not 1 fatass truck driver, but most suffered from kidney damage because of the driver's seat directly over the front axle and no air ride. We were hoping to see them back up the doubles, that's a true art form. 👍
I drove doubles for years for Sysco and have yet to ever see someone back doubles properly
The first road tractor I owned was a 6x4 1992 Day Cab Freightliner, 140 inch wheelbase, 9 spd. direct drive with 4:33 rears; at 1500 RPM I was doing 53 mph. Had a Cummins N14 435. Probably the best diesel Cummins ever made. Lucky Supermarket spec’d it out. To save on tires the steering tires were under sized by Luckys. Stupid thing to do. The nose was dropped with the back axle floating lightly on the pavement. My tread on my back tires were scrubbed off. First chance I got I replaced the steering tires and rims; 70/22.5s belong on the drive axles ONLY. I put 80/24.5 wheel assemblies on the steering axle as specified, leveled out the chassis to where it belonged. I also replaced the POS Bostrum air ride Kindergarten seat with a Standard air ride seat I got from the local Volvo dealership sized for adults. The ride improved Greatly, even with the short semi elliptical springs on the steering axle.
I worked for Willig for two whole months. I was fired for popping wheelies and doing donuts in the parking lot in one of their trucks.
I can see that might have been looked on by management dimly.
I remember this company well
I guess yard speed was unlimited !!
Those were good trucks back then. I even love the old B-Trains. Are these ones A-Trains or B-Trains? Anyway, those are beautiful trucks. I know the yellow is Golden Yellow. But what is the darker color? Black or Dark Blue? Still awesome video. Thinks for posting this. Keep on trucking.
Can you tell they are in a hurry to hook the outbound sets and get the F out a there? Hah! I was doing the same thing at Reddaway,Eugene OR. About that time,except it was at about midnight! Todd the retired trucker
I worked for Nix Transportation in Albany late 80”s early 90’s
OH life was good back then we won't see people working as a team and really happy like this again . (TGIF)
The older freightliner in the video i BELIEVE had a 400 Cummins in it
I wonder where most of those trucks went to. Was Willig based out of Nevada or something? Where?
San Francisco
Back when all of us drivers were young and thin do a job go party if people were friendly with one another miss those days😊
I'm wondering is that guys are still alive. They're in their seventies i think. I was 12 back then:)
Greg Tell I'm still alive and I'm only 52 so don't try killing me off yet
Al Swann I'm glad to hear that my friend :) So you was 24 back then. Are you still on the road? Greetings from Poland
Wait a minute I was driving then I was only 25 then I'm 53 now so I hope I got a few more years left lol
What model are these freightliners? love to have one
Freightliner FLB
Nah, these are all before the FLB. I believe they would be called an FLA. For sure they aren't FLBs.
Como me recuerdan estos trokes en la ruta de ontario.ca terminal de porland or yeje acorrer con ellos corrian como locos pero eran atoda madre con. Colejancia pincnes WILLG lococnones👍👍
Somebody do a video on what happened to all those union LTL carriers.
Democrats sold the working ppl out
@@williamschirmacher6526 Carter started the deregulation of trucking and Reagan finished it off..Just a matter of time after that when the union shops couldn't compete anymore There is enough blame for both parties buddy...
@@bigstuff52
At least Reagan made every state go to 80,000 pounds, and make every state permit doubles.
It's interesting after Carter deregulated trucking, the teamsters still kept supporting the democrats, biden killed over 22,000 union jobs his first 2 days on the job, and unions still support democrats. How many union jobs need to be destroyed before the unions stop supporting democrats ?
Air starter at 5:47?
Back when trucking was good
Man they hook their sets up so weird
So who's in their now?
Willig was out of business five years later. Deregulation in 1994 allowed out of state carriers to compete in California. Willig was charging higher rates because they were a union shop. They couldn't offer competitive rates with the new carriers, so they folded in October of 1995.
Milk and Honey Homestead I know what you're saying deregulation for the most part is stupid it open the door for a shitload of fly by night carriers that cut corners and participate in unsafe practices and haul freight for next to nothing just to have their equipment moving even if there losing money real shitheads after deregulation I've seen them come and I've seen them go
that is why you have the truck driving mills (schools) and the megas that team inexperienced drivers with another driver with minimal experience. the trainers arent even season veterans anymore. i did the werner bullshit. i came home from being gone for 8 weeks and took local work. i now drive milk truck home daily. i make pretty good money for not going on the road. i noticed that these willig trucks did not have sleepers. were these guys home daily? if not where did they sleep? these are all day cabs in the video.
@@ad356 they probably did like other ltl outfits you either got home every night or took an eight he. beak when you got to your destination terminal.
@@ad356 : I worked LTL for Viking freight system, the day cabs were the norm, a linehaul driver will run his hrs to a particular terminal, company will put you up in hotel over night, call you out following morning and drag a set of boxes back to home terminal. Those smaller cabover tractors were for the city P&D drivers, who are local route runners and are home daily.
@@ad356 -- like yellow back in the day it was called hub and spoke, the line drivers dropped their trailers no more than five hours out and brought trailers back to their home terminal it is the best way every makes it home daily to their homes and families
They happy because you made good money & could see a nice retirement coming.
I was single back in them days. No joke put 3 paydays back in bank lived on 1 a month unless huge expense was needed.
Now days price of living is sky high you counting pennies. Lucky if even got company insurance & 9 times out 10 it will not pay for nothing. All while watching rich get richer & middle hard working class keep getting smaller & more poor.
I remember in early 90.s seeing some old Ford roadway trucks in Eagan minnesota. ..back then I had 2 take a double look...that old crap is still on the road. ...
There are still a bunch of garbage trucks with that cab design around. Some fire apparatus too as collectors pieces or rural departments. it is common in fire fighting agencies to obtain a garbage truck that still has cab and chassis in good shape and an easy to find parts for motor and remove the gone to beyond economical repair or impossible to find garbage compartment and replace it with an apparatus bed of some type.
My dream working l am Love The trucks
At least Willig gave their drivers a Jake! Something that Consolidated never did. I used to see CF trucks smoking their brakes 3 or 4 times a week coming westbound on Donner Summit. CF cheaped on their trucks.
And they were the starting company for White-Freightliner!
When they Filmed this video, those trucks were not that old.
What did the Fords have for engines? Brazilian Ford or Cat v8 were common in those as I recall.
WILLIG.. transport ...ANY BODY KNOW THE LOCATION OF WHERE THEY WORKED FROM..
minnesota kid yes Reno Nv.
they had a terminal in San Francisco witch was there main HQ but i could be wrong
They were strictly a west coast operation, at the end they were servicing Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Nevada. There HQ was for a longtime at San Francisco, later in Danville, CA I'm thinking,
@@jimmyb4801 I remember an Australian guy bought them out I seen him in San Francisco early 90s
I think Ontario, but it may have been Chino or nearby...my cousin was a weighmaster for them for many years...
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If you drive like that any where in a yard you’d be fired on the spot nowadays
Drivers had common sense back then... or should I say most had it. Nowadays so many drivers heads are lodged in the crack of their arse or should I say into their phone. We didnt have the mishaps back then like we do now.
I think correct me if I'm wrong here, but didn't the older Freightliner tractor have a 400 Cummins
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Freight shakers and Fords
Very beauty full cab over ford