The more you know...

[Covemastah]

I had an old p1000 loaner from another center that had air brakes
Just pull the button on the dash and that Ol girl wasn't moving

Not to correct you , maybe some p1000. 'S did , but out east here , we had 1100's that had wooden or no shelves at all that had power steering and air brakes ! They were built I believe in the 60's and when the Feds implemented CDL , a lot of us drivers refused to drive them cuz of the air brakes !
Good ole UPS fought with us and the union and rmv stating they were exempt of course because weren't over 26k lbs , This had to be around 1990

 

[burrheadd]

Not to correct you , maybe some p1000. 'S did , but out east here , we had 1100's that had wooden or no shelves at all that had power steering and air brakes ! They were built I believe in the 60's and when the Feds implemented CDL , a lot of us drivers refused to drive them cuz of the air brakes !
Good ole UPS fought with us and the union and rmv stating they were exempt of course because weren't over 26k lbs , This had to be around 1990

This old hog had wooden shelves a Diesel engine and power steering
Thought I had died and gone to heaven
For a few days until I got my old pos p8 back
Yep late 80s early 90s

 

[Covemastah]

This old hog had wooden shelves a Diesel engine and power steering
Thought I had died and gone to heaven
For a few days until I got my old pos p8 back
Yep late 80s early 90s

I had the last one in Boston till they sent to the crusher , I pulled over and puked one day at peak fumes were so bad in cab , red tagged and never saw her again !!

 

[Covemastah]

Was fun trying to do resis in those pigs !!

 

[Covemastah]

Also remember a summertime temp took one into the McDonald's drive thru ,, made it a convertible, was his last day !! Hahh ha

 

[AlliSeeisBrown]

Mine was surprised when I started it out of 2nd....

I started in 2nd on my road test and he yelled at me to never do that. So what do I do on the road by myself. Start in 2nd.

 

[Rack em]

I started in 2nd on my road test and he yelled at me to never do that. So what do I do on the road by myself. Start in 2nd.

Sometimes starting in 2nd is even bad depending on the car. The lower gears hit high rpm's quick. We only have one manual transmission car left in our center and whenever I drive it I start in 3rd gear more than 2nd.

 

[AlliSeeisBrown]

Sometimes starting in 2nd is even bad depending on the car. The lower gears hit high rpm's quick. We only have one manual transmission car left in our center and whenever I drive it I start in 3rd gear more than 2nd.

True. 1st gear gets you up to about 5 mph which in my opinion, keeps you in an intersection way longer than need be. Considering they want you to start in 1st as well as not change gears in an intersection because "you should always have power to the wheels when going through an intersection".

 

[joeboodog]

The only time I miss driving my old 800 is in the snow. That thing was a tank. I could make extra money plowing snow with it.

 

[Covemastah]

The only time I miss driving my old 800 is in the snow. That thing was a tank. I could make extra money plowing snow with it.

Bout time you showed up today you sob!!!!

 

[Covemastah]

Bout time you showed up today you sob!!!!

How the Browns do today ??
Oh wait ,, my mistake !! Hah

 

[Babagounj]

Not to correct you , maybe some p1000. 'S did , but out east here , we had 1100's that had wooden or no shelves at all that had power steering and air brakes ! They were built I believe in the 60's and when the Feds implemented CDL , a lot of us drivers refused to drive them cuz of the air brakes !
Good ole UPS fought with us and the union and rmv stating they were exempt of course because weren't over 26k lbs , This had to be around 1990

You talking about the PC with air brakes , that had metal skins over wooden rear doors ?
UPS junked them late 90's .
The Shop was in charge of dismantling them . They left the metal in a dumpster outside the shop and dumpster divers took it all . I was told each one weighed about 1000 lbs and the scrap yard at the time was paying about 50 cents a lb..