THE 'OLDEN DAYS OF SLEEPERS (VOL II)
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2023
- A Phantom Lane video featuring vintage photos curated and colorized by Thor Norvegian. Phantom Lane takes you on a nostalgic ride into the golden age of over-the-road trucking to remember the long-forgotten phantoms of the fast lane. Enjoy the view!
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I still own a '76 W900 Bicentennial Edition Aerodyne, '85 W900 Liberty Edition Aerodyne, 2 '86 Autocar AT64, and 38 Peterbilt 359's with 63" Flat Tops
Cabovers.....They may be nostalgic, but I'll never miss trying to get dressed in one of them!
I started out with an International cab over and I couldn't agree more with you. Don't miss the rough ride over bumpy roads.
P.I.E...my dad drove for them 40yrs... I miss you DAD .
Boy oh boy, my hats off to the tough old birds that drove those old trucks.....bad roads and rough rides!
Yes, those old timers didn’t have it easy, no Sir!
Awesome days of trucking. 35 years behind the wheel, loved every minute of it!!!
Thank you sir 🙏
20 years and hated every day of it.
It never ceases to amaze me how you find so many diverse photos of old time trucks. Your colorizing and themes, and the music you add, make for fantastic documentation of the development of modern trucks. The memories these videos invoke along, with the imagining of what those times were like, takes me on the journey with the drivers of those unique rigs. Thank you for these precious visions of our trucking culture.
Lindo camiones americanos los mejores may. Otro los ahora todas plástico
I started out driving for Schneider . That's how I learned. I drove a 1988 International cab over and it had a really big sleeper in the back , of course you had to climb up into it because it was a cab over but it was awesome and I really enjoyed the hack out of that truck I could park it anywhere but I moved on with very good skills behind me .800000 incident free miles.🇺🇲 thumbs up to that 👍. Drive safe truckers.🤞
I really enjoy what you do its great to see all these old rigs keep them coming well done
thank you, i drove otr in 1973, remember seeing most of these companies on the road back then
Long gone..
An other classic Thor. I remember when I was 21. Driving a cabover dodge in Pennsylvania with a 250 Cummins. a truck passed me going up a steep grade. I thought man look it that new truck. Got to truckstop and he was parking. I went up to him and said it’s that a new Kenworth. He said it ain’t new it’s a 1958. Completely restored. Never forgot that. Likely 1976. Keep the videos coming.
I grew up around trucking and never tire of these videos. One thing is that to me the tires on these rigs look bigger than on trucks today. Doubt they are,they just look larger
Great video! Awesome trucks! It's great seeing these trucks the way they were, unrestored back in the day.
Los techo alto como secopiaro. Los camiones. Ereopea ahora secupiaro
I so do enjoy the trucks of yesterday. You have gr8 videos😊
Man, them old timers had it rough, there was a 64 White in our terminal, non sleeper, no room in cab, no AC, (was LTL for 11 years, mostly no AC), no air seat, no nothing. Damn. Kidney stones galore!!
Nice video great job I am retired now don't miss it all 50 years o t r no tickets no accidents to many idiots out the now u all stay safe out there 😌 please
THANK YOU THOR !!!!!!
Yeah sweat boxes most engines under cab my hats off to the old timers that drove them
These old bone crushers sure had style and beauty to them....I remember seeing quite a few of these cabs when I was a kid in Chicago.
excellant show...like they say....."keep on truckin".....
30 years ago I rode in a 1952 Coe Internatioal that came from New Jersey
Thank you my friend for the memories. Keep the great efforts.
Hello phantrom lane thanks for another video of old School trucking way before my time when trucking🚛 was fun👈👍👍
My 2000 Freightliner century has just a long enough cab that I move the seats all the way forward and fold my bed out of the back wall, legal 24" sleeper
Nice work Thor 👍👍👍
Good work Thor. Keep it coming!
Buen trabajo la mayoría de estos modelos no los conocía saludos cordiales desde Huehuetoca Estado de México STA Teresa 3 bis unidad 83
Oh yeah 👍 the sleeper, home away from home , and the home of the ghost driver, thank you MR THOR, you rock this my friend
Truckers did wear flip-flops back then, but only in the shower🚿 and they were steel toed!😂
The trucks today are so luxurious compared to these trucks of yesterday. Now we have ac heat apu tv video games even designer mattresses . Can you imagine being stuck in a storm in below 0 Temps in one of those old trucks
Im driver and like these trucks it's excellent video sir continue please
Boy some of those sleepers probably little better than sleeping on a wooden park bench, but hey when you are bone tired even that can feel pretty good.
ALWAY'S A GREAT VIDEO!! THANK YOU !!!
Neat video,I remember the first truck I drove,was a 1970 single axle AutoCar 10 speed transmission behind a shiny 290,had a tri axle City dump,put 25 tons in the bucket had to work going up hill,that was many moons ago,now have a 92 long hood Western Star,6nz 625 horse with a 18 SPD lot nicer to drive,put 35 tons in the bucket and don't stop
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 WOW! I always like seeing REOs in your spread, all the different trucks of yesteryear & the different setups,designs. Several rare trucks this time. WOW! The truck @ 4:20 looks like a mix between a GMC,White/Autocar. I’ve heard stories of people taking a couple of trucks & making something totally new & different out of their parts…something very unique! Good stuff! Blessings.🥰😎✌️
Really very nice this review of old trucks. Really interesting sleep cabs. Accompanied by good relaxing music. Thank you ciao
Boy I'm glad I had more room. Some of those weren't any bigger than a coffin.
Wow,who could forget those 4 inch defroster fans and those hard a-- bostrom seats,both useless.Nice segment
Great video ,great music ,I'm from UK and love the old American trucks ,real trucks real drivers ,all individual looking and driving ,not like the boring stuff today ,thanks
Very Cool Drive Down Memory Lane ✌️
Thanks for the trip!
Blessings from Georgia USA 🙏
🪶 👆
Safeway had a division working out of Council Bluffs, I remember seeing them when driving 1973.
Very nice video
Just came across this. Interesting trucks back in the day. Those Ringsby rigs look a lot like those Maga trucks in Germany you see on the Autobahn. At 3:32 the KW with the big walk in is truly rare. That truck must have ran I-5 only back then.
Excellent as always
Love the trucks!
That is so awesome to see videos of those old truck and the true pioneers of trucking that drove them !…
... The my dream aera drive lorry plus not was possible in virtue from sickness.
A strong embrace !
Loved this video. Just subscribed as well. Thanks
Another excellent vid.
The viewer. Who questioned about truck at 4something might be referring to the Wide Track w/reverse slope windshield COE.
Nice video keep sending them my way ...
I guess you know your old when you’ve owned 2 of these trucks. My 1st was a International DCF 400, had a 318 Detroit with a 4x4 trans. And I had a 53 cab over Pete. 300 Cummins with a 5x4 trans. I have several now and still drive every day 6 days a week sometimes 7 days
In those days, they referred them as the coffins. Some u had to enter from the outside. Barely had enough room to sleep in. Plus trucks didn't have ac or radio. You sweated like a pig during summer days😊
It's hard to imagine America back then might have been harder but it would make a man out of you
Good stuff!
The day cabs with the attic sleepers 🤣
Wow an old FWD COE haven’t seen one of those in 40 yrs at least.😮😮😮
Overhead sleepers cool 😎✌️
Love the Werner rig! A Mack?
The ones under the trailers were the wild men. Between the end of th3 truck and the Dolly gear.
Merci pour cette belle représentation 🚛🤩👍. Un french 😉
Nice video
3:35
It would be great to find that old rig!
Looks like a early Airstream trailer cut down to fit!
Looks like aluminum to save weight!
That’s when real men drove real trucks like my dad and grandfather did
This is the first time I’ve seen sleepers on top of the cab. Doesn’t look very aerodynamic. 🤔
Truckers weren't wearing flip-flops back then.
They did wear flip flops -
but only in the shower
and they were steel toed.😂
Bad ass
The Golden Age of Trucking.
When I first started to learn how to drive a lot of these trucks were still on the road… most of today’s so-called drivers couldn’t fit behind the wheel and couldn’t fit into the sleepers….
Failed to include sleepers that were built into the nose of trailers before they were made integral to the truck. Would have liked descriptive tags on pics.
There was one featured in Volume I
Some of the sleepers were pretty awful. Cramped and separate from the cab . In Europe they were very bad up to the late 70s when they got more spacious and over night heating became popular. Some of the worst nights of my life were spent in bad sleepers.
On the bright side things were a hell of a lot cheaper back then. Independent truck drivers had a chance to make a profit. Less rules, less regulations, less people equal less traffic on the roads. The price of diesel fuel way way less than the price of gasoline. Yeah these days they sure do have nice sleepers but at a much greater cost all around.
The Internationals at 01:29, could that be at J.M.Smuckers in Orville, Ohio? If so they’re still in business today. Not sure if they still have company trucks but the manufacturing plant is still there.
Haha yeah you had to be a real acrobat to live in a cabover. I don't think I can do that again.
Cool
Ain’t no way I could have been
A truck driver
I’m too soft for that!
Only 1 that I seen on this video still on the road today was werner. All trucks today look exactly the same no the make and model, until back in the day👍
Werner is no longer in business. You're thinking of Werner Enterprise.
👍👍
Hey I have to ask what happens to the rust in peace compilations?
0:12
Wonder if that rig is in a barn or field somewhere.
Hopefully it didn’t meet its make, crash or crushed
The one that looks to be a diamond t is pretty optioned/modded out especially for its time....(time stamp 5:11)
⚠OLDIES BUT GOODIES⚠👌👌👍✌😆
Some of those old “ sleepers” weren’t much better than the back seat of a car
worse because you were on top of a hot motor and no window beside you to roll down and get some air.
@@davidvogel6359 amazing to me how some prefer the old cabovers. In town they make sense
@@arthurbrumagem3844 shorter wheel base for easier maneuvers. I have seen one that was hauling freight and some that were farmer owned hauling grain trailers on I-35 in Missouri.
@@davidvogel6359 agree as I said about maneuvering. As to farmers and such I have no doubt they are being used. Over the road I can’t remember the last time I saw one and I always check out the semis
must have been more fun driving back then, fewer cars on the road, everyone spoke english wearing boots, not flip flops!
I wear boots and speak english, maybe ill run into you someday on the cb
@@supertruckerextraordinaire ⁰⁰0
Did they had a heating system back then? i
Very well put together than you
Now truckers have rolling condos.
THE 'OLDEN DAYS OF SLEEPERS (VOL II)
3:08 it's a wonder Werner doesn't so this paint scheme on some of their newer trucks
That was Werner out of St. Paul. Not Werner Enterprise. Werner went out of business in '85. Two different companies. I drove for Werner. Werner merged with Continental in the '60's.
These old. Cabovers cab did not. Jack up the motor came out the front these were called. Bullnose Kenworth in the mid. 50 s Mission. Fuels in. Mission. City. B. C had 5 off them my. Dad worked there
Who did the colorizing?
Thor Norvegian
Talk about a house on wheels
You know I'd be happy to send you working photos of my old KW T904s pulling triple flat tops out to our remote mines here in Western Australia, but I don't use facebook. Just email.
4:39
What is it?
FWD
@@PhantomLane
Very cool! Weird glass and door placements.
Those of us who drove sleepers for CONSOLIDATER FREIGHTWAYS used to have a joke,,
what's the difference between a CF truck and a Jehovah's witness ???
you can shut the door on a Jehovah's witness .............
A...and drivin butt nose hybrid ...😅
Dude, get some new colors. They're trucks, not Easter eggs.