Your channel has the best camera angles of any truck driving channels I’ve seen. I for one appreciate the time and effort that goes into getting those shots. 👍
Man, I was up in a North Bergen, NJ a couple weeks ago. You really gotta keep your head on a swivel up around those parts in a semi. Tons of tight turns and narrow streets. Always a moral booster when someone gives you a thumbs up for a tight maneuver. 👍
Between the rim and the seat belt ya just can’t catch a break. One, the way Orwell looks, he’s got the “Rat Rod” look 👀 Two, the seat belt is what it is… Ur videos are All Great an content in them…. I’m greatful that Ur even havin us ALL along for the adventures in Ur life…. Thanks brother Steve
I’m 46. We rode for many years without seat belts. We fought over who slept in the back window of the nova on longer trips. If you rode in front seat with dad and he locked up the brakes…. Get ready…. That big paw was coming across your chest to “stop” you from going through the windshield. Lol. Good times and nobody died!!!!
@@danokerr9929 one is much less likely to be able to control their vehicle when they're not in their seat any longer. This absolutely affects the safety of those on the road around you. The helmet only matters when all is already lost.
@@ProleDaddy we can debate this all night. I’ll leave this one with you. I rather drive a old car with no safety or no seat belts considering new cars are recalling all new airbags because they have metal that’ll turn into metal shards going into your face. The new age seatbelts cause whiplash and can cause your neck to snap. I would also rather have a all steel car that won’t crumple on impact versus a plastic piece of junk
Loud and clear, Steve. Remember that I'm 13 years older than you = knowing the good ol' days including the seatbelt issue... lol, but true. Be safe, Steve.
Back in 78 my dad rolled a cab over if he would of had a seat belt on, he would of died. The cab got crushed he got pinned on the floor board under the wheel with the top smashed down to the wheel. He still drives 42 yrs now, and the chicken coup is the only place he wears a seat belt.
I was 10 when in 1968 (or 69) my parents bought their first car with seat belts, a Volvo 145S station wagon. My mother took delivery of it in May in Paris during the middle of the severe student riots of the time. She had to drive a brand new car through burning cars, people throwing petrol bombs, police charges and tear gas everywhere. Every time she tried to drive down a street she was stopped by a gendarme who said you can't go that way the students are rioting, eventually she got out with her and the car unscathed, it became one of her list of dinner party stories and was told for many moons afterwards. Volvo was one of the first to introduce seat belts other manufacturers caught up by about 1970.
Once upon a time, lap belts were all you had! Just wait until someone has the bright idea of mandating all old trucks to be retrofitted with shoulder belts, ELDs, DEF tanks, and all the driverless crap!
Luckily to much liability to back implement such equipment....has to be designed into the vehicle and crash tested etc...not gonna happen....one good thing about having as many lawyers as we do...
They won't mandate you retrofit. They'll just mandate your truck has to be outfitted that way to get a plate. You'll have the option to retrofit or buy ready to go is what they'll say.
Thanks for another entertaining vid . We appreciate all you do, on UA-cam and in the real world ! When and Where I grew up truckers were revered as real American hero's !
In 76 I bought my first car, a 69 Chevelle and in Ontario at the time we didn't have to use the PITA shoulder belt. Keep up with the informative, entertaining videos Steve.
1985 moved to England while in the Air Force. Ordered a brand new vehicle. When the vehicle came in went to dealership and discovered rear seat belts were optional. Our son was 6 months old. Plan B went to the used car lot on base and bought a Volvo that had rear seat belts already in place. Took about 2 weeks for the rear seat belts to come in.
Lol you crack me up. Love that Jersey NY mentality! I'm from Texas and I lived in NY for a few years and I literally fit in perfectly up there because I have the same mentality about things as most NY and Jersey people. Never really fit in down in Texas for some reason. Enough of that. I'm a few years older than you and when we were kids we used to ride in the back window of the car and just the thought of that by a millennial sends them into cardiac arrest and a mental breakdown swearing your parents abused you as a child. These young adults today would be absolutely horrified if they knew half the shit we were allowed to do as kids. Even telling them that we always were playing outside without our parents well past sundown sends them into a complete mental breakdown lol. But cars (for you millennial gens) cars used to have a dashboard under the rear window and there was enough space for a kid or two to lay there and ponder the mystery of life and think about what we were so going to do when we became adults. It was a highly covenant spot to be while on a out of town trip. There's been great negotiations and deals made for the spot between siblings. Bribery was a big thing to. I'm going to tell Mom and Dad about so n so if you don't let me have that window seat 🙃. That was always used as last resort tactic from younger siblings. Seat belts? Lol. Yeah there were no seat belts for the back window and look most of us survived against all odds. I had a real nice Buick when I lived in Upstate NY and out on a weekend drive through deserted parts of the Adirondack mountains I let my daughter experience the beloved spot of the back window. This was early 2000s and yes people would have clutched their pearls had they seen that but you gotta live a little while you're here. But she survived and absolutely loved being in the back window that one time. Keep your skirt on millennials she survived her childhood and lives in Massachusetts now being her best self
@@matthewforrey9956 exactly why I let my kid ride in the window on a back mountain road. Didn't want to get arrested lol. Our parents were the last parents to truly let their kids live without them hovering worrying about what the neighbors would think. Back then if you messed up and other parents caught you it was Carte blanc standing they were allowed to yell at you and some even chased our asses with a stick lol. Imagine that today and every parent turns into the world's biggest Karen. And then cries "my baby never does anything wrong!" Yeah and what's wrong with kids today? Not enough boots up the backside when they totally screw up. Now they get called victim and get a $500. Gaming console. America is truly fucked up and just fucked in general lol. I haven't had grandkids yet but look out back roads when I do. Gotta pass a tradition on! Lol
Excellent video. I remember the first car I had 1968 Plymouth Barracuda. It had lap belts all around and separate shoulder belts for the 2 front seats. I rarely used the shoulder belts myself. Most of the idiots complaining are probably young ones that don't know any better. Nice old cabover by the way.
My first truck was a 1978 GMC Astro. All it had was a lap belt and back then you didn't have a seatbelt law so I never used it then, but I would now! Steve hoping to catch you sometime rolling through Indiana , I definitely will want to interview you. Watch your channel all the time! Just about every load I haul is Permitted! Get the frustrations ! Huge fan
Man, I had a 2018 Kenworth T680 at my last company... no airbags to be seen. I guess they figure if you wreck bad enough to need airbags, you're dead from other forces anyway (namely, those rolls of steel you got chained down to the deck breaking free and crashing into the back of the cab)
I don't mind the music or no music all the same. But listening to that Cat 3406b sing is Awesome the shifting threw gears. Love it never gets old.. I drive a 1986 western star 4964 log truck with an 3406b around 400hp. Fresh Inframe rebuild we done on it. I wish we painted it white like you done. Damn happy with our rebuild tho. Anyway love your videos and the hard work you put in to everything. Good stuff thanks.
Another good video. I liked the music at the beginning of the video. There are definitely some crazy, impatient drivers out there. Stay safe and keep on trucking!
Truck sounds badass! Road designers certainly did not have trucks or long trailers in mind when they built many of the roads in the northeast. Drive safe.
9:50 i haven't driven anything newer then a 2014 but i have only ever seen airbags in volvos, the newer petes and kw and freightshakers might have them but i dont know. I also want to point out that seat belts for passengers in semis were not required until relatively recently.
Check DOT regs. Lapbelt only required. It becomes a hastle with scales wanting to see your seatbelt. I have even had DOT turn around and chase me down.
After 41 years of local and over the road work lap belts were not used that much reason in case of accident in a cab over YOU were the first on the scene best thing I can say about the traffic and all is DATS TRRRUCK DRIVEEN HHAAA be safe
Right, still use stock belts in my 70 Chevelle. And I do clip on the shoulder strap, keep it draped down just behind seat when in n out through the day. If parked for a while, place it back into clips. My friend in HS had a '63 baja bug and decided to install belts, which was basically necessary where we took it in the NoCal mountains! In cab mic sounds fine, yellin' or not it is like i'm there with ya. Bummed for Matt, went through that situation with a 496 Mk IV when I was driving from NoCal to Pensacola. Oil press. dropping before Flagstaff. Most mains were shot.
I don't understand why people badger you about a damn lap belt? Please explain to me why someone doesn't understand this was an era where people were more concerned with what was under the hood. I know for a fact my Dad's 73 trans am originally did not have shoulder belts because if you got into a severe accident, it was easier for the medics to cut the belt to get you out versus having to worry about your throat. I grew up in a time of the late eighties to early nineties where some cars had shoulder belts but others didn't because again, lap belts are easier to deal with and don't lock up like shoulder belts do.
I remember that my parents had a 72 Pontiac safari wagon and some ignoranus inspector said it had to have seat belts to pass so he convinced them to purchase the belts from him and have them installed. He drilled holes into what he said was a solid part to hold them. He only required them for the front seat but not the middle seat nor the backwards facing third row seat. About a year later was in an accident and that secure mounting tore right out of the floor when got hit from the front. And we were only going about five to ten mph. That was the end of that car. We replaced it with a 69 Ford wagon with dual facing third row seats. There were belts for two outside seats on front and 2nd row seats but not for the person sitting in the center position and only two of the seats in "dfrs" so only six of "ten" seating positions. DFRS was what was supposed to accommodate four people with legs mashed together in a space that was do uncomfortable wondered what genius engineer at Ford thought up this design. By the way "DFRS" was dual facing rear seats. This was supposedly a design making it a "ten" passenger station wagon. The outside seating positions of front and middle row seats had shoulder belts that you could clip into the seatbelt or were folded and placed into a wire hanger along the edges of the ceiling but if you didn't want to have it cutting into your neck. You also need to remember that the dashboard of this car was steel and not covered in padding like cars of today. No airbags or anything that might even be considered soft if you were involved in an accident except your head as you were sent forward. Also the center seat positions could fly right up and out the windshield since there was no restraining device for these. We then replaced that car with a 72 Pontiac wagon that now had the third row facing forward but as previous wagons no restraint for center position of any of the rows of seats except the front row now had integrated shoulder restraints in front row seats only. Middle and third row seats were attached with center position now had a seatbelt only. Still would like to see one of these cars try to get a DOT inspection today and have pass without some "KAREN" inspector try to have you modify something to meet current standards. Only reason I say this is that a friend of mine just tried to have his 1970 car inspected and was failed until he had padding installed on the dashboard. Yep he's still trying to have it inspected by two other inspection stations but since it was failed for no proper padding on the dash, those inspection stations it gets failed by them as the last inspector said since it was identified as a discrepancy he can't have another inspection station pass it. Now whomever has intelligent brain matter needs to train someone to use their noodle and think before they just rubber stamp "FAIL". Alright now if you've got a single functioning brain cell step to the front of the class.😂
Here’s an idea for a shirt. Put a stripe diagonal from the left shoulder to the right bottom in a contrasting color ( orange stripe on a yellow shirt) with your logo in the middle and call it the seatbelt shirt.
Pedal pushing steering wheel holders worried about a mans lap belt when they can’t even get through a truck stop parking lot without hitting something lol
I never wear mine and neither does my wife. The seat belts are lap belts. Since my Kenworth is old 79. My wife's Yokun has air bags but I removed them from the steering wheel and also the dash board. Cause years ago a good friend of ours. Was driving one day and the air bags deployed and caused serious damages to her face and she had to get face surgery. She sued the dealership where she brought the car from cause why did the airbags deployed for no reason at all if she was not in a accident. She sued and won allot of $$$$$ the dealership was shutdown. And she had to quit her job cause pics of her was floating around at the school where she teached. After the face surgery she went back and the kids apologized to her. When there parents heard the parents pulled there kids outta sports baseball and basketball and football. And taught them a lesson. The school superintendent stated what happened if that was u kids. The kids went silent after that. All of my vehicles are old. I have a 1970 Chevelle Malibu and it has a lapbelt. It has a racing harness that I can easy remove if I ain't drag racing. And my 1969 Chevy Nova just has a lapbelt. But officers stated I can have a shoulder strap customed made. Nope they can't do anything. They have t goes to court judges dropped the charge's. When they do the officers are not happy.
Your 7 years younger than I am, I remember the vehicles back then having seatbelts but they were never used, I’d lay down in the back seat, played board games if some friend was with me for the ride, a seatbelt law back then if there was one I didn’t know about it, or at least up until the police started handing out tickets like they were passing out water….
a question steve, i notice you pulled out the parking lot but next to you was a semi truck carrying a boat? have you ever carry a boat before or you just do your regular deliveries....
I've never done boats on that type if trailer. Those trailers can haul many regular sized boats on boat trailers similar to a car carrier. Also haul single large yachts. Gentry & Sons has the same type trailer. He hsuls lots of boats.
Seatbelts were not required in vehicles until 1967 and trucks until 1971...at this time they were federally mandated to be standard equipment in all vehicles...states implemented mandatory use at different dates as time went on...to keep federal highway funds like the 55mph speed limit....these laws could not be forced upon the states but they would lose federal highway funding if they did not comply...
My first real car was a '68 Volvo 122S with separate lap and shoulder belts. Fasten the lap belt first, then clip the shoulder belt in and adjust both separately. Done right, one did NOT move around much on a rough road, and Lord knows we had plenty of those.
Love this channel. Don't change nuthin'. I enjoy my rides in Orwell. fyi...Dont be afraid to swear when needed. Not healthy to keep rage bottled up inside. Drive Safely.
Hay steve Thomas I love the music and. The awesome work and content thanks 👍 for sharing your everyday life with me your friend Thomas from Franklin Ohio Warren county Ohio USA
I know its the wrong channel but can i use a regular pd scanner for train traffic? Idk what it is fsc an trucking with Schmidt but these 2 drivers rock!!
Wish it was back in the day when all trucks only had lap belts. Different kind of drivers today. Everyone living on fast food. Most don’t seem to shower. Glad I’m just about to retire.
You still have to keep the axle weights legal with a permit. With the spread axle you can go to 40,000 on the trailer, 34,000 on the drives and 12,000 on the steer which would be 86,000. You need the permit to exceed 80,000.
My first car out of high school in NYC Cars, Trucks, Bus Had NO seat belts, no FM radio AM only cb gas 15cents into a 25 gallon tank Mopar under the hood. :) 🤣 👍
No, don't put your hands in front of you. You can get broken limbs or burns on your hands if you leave your hands on the steering wheel. The professional driver who constantly crashes vehicles for a research company always puts his arms out like a scarecrow before the impact. Pretty much straight out to the left and right. 13:04 Yes, but most cabover sleepers actually have a belt to keep you in the bed in case you are team driving. 23:06 Phoenix Metals?
I wear seat belts in everything because of my racing years….. but i just never felt comfortable in the big truck or snowplowing wearing them .1977 my first year outlaw trucking NJ NY Ct Ma PA Oh bought first truck 20 years old. Trip leasing. 🤣 Too long in most states conventional 62 ft when weight was 732800 55 ft Steve that ole cab over sounds great!!!👍👍👍👍 Good videos
I’m 50 and we had a 69 Cutlass Supreme as a family car. With two brothers and a sister in the back seat I was the youngest and always on moms lap. Shifter and console in the middle.
so many good drivers in new jersey, nice video, crossed the wide river and never mentioned the Boat Goals, the water looks nice, but most water in jersey is dirty from all garbage. i can knock New Jersey i was born and raised in jersey, great video. thanks pull toy here
Why do people even give a shit about seatbelts. Sounds like they're trying to sound more "in touch" than the rest of us. They just need to worry about themselves.
Seriously? You do realize your comment is hypocritical. You are telling people to worry about themselves while worrying about people who worry about what others are doing.
New York and New Jersey are some of the worst, most oblivious drivers on the face of the earth. You absolutely need the patience and tranquility of a monk to navigate the roads of those states. Whether you’re driving four wheels or eighteen.
reminds me of stories from people who own old truck and get pulled over for not were seat belt but ether have a lap only belt or none at all 50-60 i believe. then the cop comes up with you have to have install a 3 point or one to b legal. if i had the money or didnt live in a rust belt state i'd love to daily a older truck without a seat belt or lap belt, would make you think be for driving stupid and be attentive to surroundings
Orwell looks like a truck that used to come into the Cat dealer I worked at in the late 80's in MA. Did you have him since new. Great truck! 3406B mechanical 7FB?
@@scottberry5266 Just giving out genuine information for the old truck enthusiasts. There is always someone out there to correct you or provide information.
New to channel, like your content. One question, does your truck have a auto stick feature when you shift gears? I don't see you shifting gears once you get to higher speed. Thanks!
Your channel has the best camera angles of any truck driving channels I’ve seen. I for one appreciate the time and effort that goes into getting those shots. 👍
How many times does he have to explain that these older trucks only has a lap belt. I thought that was common sense.
Common sense has long since flown out the building.
And why do people even care. It’s Steve that’s going to get in trouble if isn’t wearing a seat belt not the person commenting
The Woke generation doesn't give a rat's ass about common sense.
@@larrykeenan598 only about running everyone else's lives
@@bryanphillips6666, You got that right.
Man, I was up in a North Bergen, NJ a couple weeks ago. You really gotta keep your head on a swivel up around those parts in a semi. Tons of tight turns and narrow streets. Always a moral booster when someone gives you a thumbs up for a tight maneuver. 👍
Between the rim and the seat belt ya just can’t catch a break. One, the way Orwell looks, he’s got the “Rat Rod” look 👀 Two, the seat belt is what it is… Ur videos are All Great an content in them…. I’m greatful that Ur even havin us ALL along for the adventures in Ur life…. Thanks brother Steve
I’m 46. We rode for many years without seat belts. We fought over who slept in the back window of the nova on longer trips. If you rode in front seat with dad and he locked up the brakes…. Get ready…. That big paw was coming across your chest to “stop” you from going through the windshield. Lol. Good times and nobody died!!!!
I'm 78, and we didn't have any seat belts when I grew up. So, it's a wonder I'm still here (sarcasm)..
My 1950 dodge wayfarer has no seatbelts and never will have them. Also look at the giant steering wheels and they are a made of metal! Lol
My grandmother was killed in a highway accident in 1970. No seatbelts of any kind in their old car.
@@ProleDaddy sorry to hear that! But does it matter if other people wanna not wear them! It’s like motorcycle helmets
@@danokerr9929 one is much less likely to be able to control their vehicle when they're not in their seat any longer. This absolutely affects the safety of those on the road around you. The helmet only matters when all is already lost.
@@ProleDaddy we can debate this all night. I’ll leave this one with you. I rather drive a old car with no safety or no seat belts considering new cars are recalling all new airbags because they have metal that’ll turn into metal shards going into your face. The new age seatbelts cause whiplash and can cause your neck to snap. I would also rather have a all steel car that won’t crumple on impact versus a plastic piece of junk
WOW, love that blues music... I'd have watched the video just to hear that low-down beat.
Loud and clear, Steve. Remember that I'm 13 years older than you = knowing the good ol' days including the seatbelt issue... lol, but true. Be safe, Steve.
Back in 78 my dad rolled a cab over if he would of had a seat belt on, he would of died. The cab got crushed he got pinned on the floor board under the wheel with the top smashed down to the wheel. He still drives 42 yrs now, and the chicken coup is the only place he wears a seat belt.
I was 10 when in 1968 (or 69) my parents bought their first car with seat belts, a Volvo 145S station wagon. My mother took delivery of it in May in Paris during the middle of the severe student riots of the time. She had to drive a brand new car through burning cars, people throwing petrol bombs, police charges and tear gas everywhere. Every time she tried to drive down a street she was stopped by a gendarme who said you can't go that way the students are rioting, eventually she got out with her and the car unscathed, it became one of her list of dinner party stories and was told for many moons afterwards. Volvo was one of the first to introduce seat belts other manufacturers caught up by about 1970.
Once upon a time, lap belts were all you had! Just wait until someone has the bright idea of mandating all old trucks to be retrofitted with shoulder belts, ELDs, DEF tanks, and all the driverless crap!
Luckily to much liability to back implement such equipment....has to be designed into the vehicle and crash tested etc...not gonna happen....one good thing about having as many lawyers as we do...
They won't mandate you retrofit. They'll just mandate your truck has to be outfitted that way to get a plate. You'll have the option to retrofit or buy ready to go is what they'll say.
Won't happen. EPA just wants them off the road.
Thanks for another entertaining vid . We appreciate all you do, on UA-cam and in the real world ! When and Where I grew up truckers were revered as real American hero's !
In 76 I bought my first car, a 69 Chevelle and in Ontario at the time we didn't have to use the PITA shoulder belt. Keep up with the informative, entertaining videos Steve.
1985 moved to England while in the Air Force. Ordered a brand new vehicle. When the vehicle came in went to dealership and discovered rear seat belts were optional. Our son was 6 months old. Plan B went to the used car lot on base and bought a Volvo that had rear seat belts already in place. Took about 2 weeks for the rear seat belts to come in.
Lol you crack me up. Love that Jersey NY mentality! I'm from Texas and I lived in NY for a few years and I literally fit in perfectly up there because I have the same mentality about things as most NY and Jersey people. Never really fit in down in Texas for some reason. Enough of that. I'm a few years older than you and when we were kids we used to ride in the back window of the car and just the thought of that by a millennial sends them into cardiac arrest and a mental breakdown swearing your parents abused you as a child. These young adults today would be absolutely horrified if they knew half the shit we were allowed to do as kids. Even telling them that we always were playing outside without our parents well past sundown sends them into a complete mental breakdown lol. But cars (for you millennial gens) cars used to have a dashboard under the rear window and there was enough space for a kid or two to lay there and ponder the mystery of life and think about what we were so going to do when we became adults. It was a highly covenant spot to be while on a out of town trip. There's been great negotiations and deals made for the spot between siblings. Bribery was a big thing to. I'm going to tell Mom and Dad about so n so if you don't let me have that window seat 🙃. That was always used as last resort tactic from younger siblings. Seat belts? Lol. Yeah there were no seat belts for the back window and look most of us survived against all odds. I had a real nice Buick when I lived in Upstate NY and out on a weekend drive through deserted parts of the Adirondack mountains I let my daughter experience the beloved spot of the back window. This was early 2000s and yes people would have clutched their pearls had they seen that but you gotta live a little while you're here. But she survived and absolutely loved being in the back window that one time. Keep your skirt on millennials she survived her childhood and lives in Massachusetts now being her best self
The crap we did as kids will go down as legends of our past( love the storytelling). Half the crap we did would get us all arrested today
@@matthewforrey9956 exactly why I let my kid ride in the window on a back mountain road. Didn't want to get arrested lol. Our parents were the last parents to truly let their kids live without them hovering worrying about what the neighbors would think. Back then if you messed up and other parents caught you it was Carte blanc standing they were allowed to yell at you and some even chased our asses with a stick lol. Imagine that today and every parent turns into the world's biggest Karen. And then cries "my baby never does anything wrong!" Yeah and what's wrong with kids today? Not enough boots up the backside when they totally screw up. Now they get called victim and get a $500. Gaming console. America is truly fucked up and just fucked in general lol. I haven't had grandkids yet but look out back roads when I do. Gotta pass a tradition on! Lol
Seatbelt...lol...I remember riding in the car with my grandfather, while standing beside him on the front seat. I survived just fine...
Good for you. Have you seen the list of those who did not?
Excellent video. I remember the first car I had 1968 Plymouth Barracuda. It had lap belts all around and separate shoulder belts for the 2 front seats. I rarely used the shoulder belts myself. Most of the idiots complaining are probably young ones that don't know any better. Nice old cabover by the way.
The lanes on the old Outerbridge crossing are narrow for a 4-wheeler... a real squeeze for a big truck..
I've been across it a few times in a big rig. I've always wondered how man truck mirrors are laying at the bottom of the water lol
Not for the faint of heart...
"He must not be from round here"! Classic Steve.
Glad you finally sprayed those back rust rims!
Should have sprayed the rest orange lol
That smooth jazz with great this morning at 6:00
The weather stripping on the driver's door drives my ocd crazy 🤪
Hello Steve, thx 4 sharing & rite on w/ planing ahead w/ how the land lays where U park to sleep.
Wake up Indiana drop PITTSBURGH Cape cod mass same day how do log that
Great video as always brother. Love the sound of the old cat💪 keep cabovers alive!
beautiful footage of the river you were crossing Steve
My first truck was a 1978 GMC Astro. All it had was a lap belt and back then you didn't have a seatbelt law so I never used it then, but I would now! Steve hoping to catch you sometime rolling through Indiana , I definitely will want to interview you. Watch your channel all the time! Just about every load I haul is Permitted! Get the frustrations ! Huge fan
Man, I had a 2018 Kenworth T680 at my last company... no airbags to be seen. I guess they figure if you wreck bad enough to need airbags, you're dead from other forces anyway (namely, those rolls of steel you got chained down to the deck breaking free and crashing into the back of the cab)
I have airbags. They're in my suspension.
I don't mind the music or no music all the same. But listening to that Cat 3406b sing is Awesome the shifting threw gears. Love it never gets old.. I drive a 1986 western star 4964 log truck with an 3406b around 400hp. Fresh Inframe rebuild we done on it. I wish we painted it white like you done. Damn happy with our rebuild tho. Anyway love your videos and the hard work you put in to everything. Good stuff thanks.
Cabovers also have a 100 percent better forward view and a side vision advantage.
That bridge going into 440 is a real buttclench. Near impossible to even fit cars two wide there.
Another good video. I liked the music at the beginning of the video. There are definitely some crazy, impatient drivers out there. Stay safe and keep on trucking!
Uncle's got a 1970 Chevy Impala. Just as Steve says in the video, lap belts and shoulder straps were the only options on those older vehicles.
I had a 90 VW Vanagon with a couple of lap belts. Those were the great memories.
Great channel, great explanation of all things trucking. I've got mad respect for what you do Steve. Let's hear that Jake Brake!
Hi Steve thanks for the info about where you were on LI it would of bothered me hahaha keep on trucking safe
All the hard work you put into the job and the channel, and people focus in on the seatbelt. It's hard to figure some people. Keep up the good work.
Great video Steve love the camera angles and the music for when you are traveling. For what it's worth I enjoy all of your channels stay safe Steve.
"It's legal if you pay em. Most people call that a bribe."
Most people I know call that legal for the rich.
Truck sounds badass! Road designers certainly did not have trucks or long trailers in mind when they built many of the roads in the northeast. Drive safe.
Janet: Yo Stevie Fuzz Cheeks, you gotta wear that seat belt while at my gas pumps!
🤣🕺🤸♂️👌👍🇺🇸🇸🇪
Almost all accident reports in the news state “the truck driver was not injured “, while the car driver had serious injuries.
9:50 i haven't driven anything newer then a 2014 but i have only ever seen airbags in volvos, the newer petes and kw and freightshakers might have them but i dont know. I also want to point out that seat belts for passengers in semis were not required until relatively recently.
Love it when he hits that jake brake and raddles some 4x teeth..🤪😵😆😆🤣
Check DOT regs. Lapbelt only required. It becomes a hastle with scales wanting to see your seatbelt. I have even had DOT turn around and chase me down.
You're getting multi-platform. You only need to do aircraft as well and you'll have about covered all possible interests
After 41 years of local and over the road work lap belts were not used that much reason in case of accident in a cab over YOU were the first on the scene best thing I can say about the traffic and all is DATS TRRRUCK DRIVEEN HHAAA be safe
When will people come to their senses and ban "self driving " cars.....they are inherently dangerous
Right, still use stock belts in my 70 Chevelle. And I do clip on the shoulder strap, keep it draped down just behind seat when in n out through the day. If parked for a while, place it back into clips. My friend in HS had a '63 baja bug and decided to install belts, which was basically necessary where we took it in the NoCal mountains!
In cab mic sounds fine, yellin' or not it is like i'm there with ya.
Bummed for Matt, went through that situation with a 496 Mk IV when I was driving from NoCal to Pensacola. Oil press. dropping before Flagstaff. Most mains were shot.
Music combined with the engine sound is the best solution, like you did on the previous video.
I don't understand why people badger you about a damn lap belt? Please explain to me why someone doesn't understand this was an era where people were more concerned with what was under the hood. I know for a fact my Dad's 73 trans am originally did not have shoulder belts because if you got into a severe accident, it was easier for the medics to cut the belt to get you out versus having to worry about your throat. I grew up in a time of the late eighties to early nineties where some cars had shoulder belts but others didn't because again, lap belts are easier to deal with and don't lock up like shoulder belts do.
Best cam work on YT love it this channel is spot on and so are all the others you have :)
I drove a 1969 Impala two door with a 396 in high school. It had a lap belt and the shoulder strap that was folded on the roof.
The seatbelt it legal because it came off of the line that way! UGH. Dad had a 70's Chevy truck with lap belt only. Nice truck.
Hey Steve, who was that doing the blues jam at the beginning of your clip?
Totally kick ass tune.
Peace.
I remember that my parents had a 72 Pontiac safari wagon and some ignoranus inspector said it had to have seat belts to pass so he convinced them to purchase the belts from him and have them installed. He drilled holes into what he said was a solid part to hold them. He only required them for the front seat but not the middle seat nor the backwards facing third row seat. About a year later was in an accident and that secure mounting tore right out of the floor when got hit from the front. And we were only going about five to ten mph. That was the end of that car. We replaced it with a 69 Ford wagon with dual facing third row seats. There were belts for two outside seats on front and 2nd row seats but not for the person sitting in the center position and only two of the seats in "dfrs" so only six of "ten" seating positions. DFRS was what was supposed to accommodate four people with legs mashed together in a space that was do uncomfortable wondered what genius engineer at Ford thought up this design. By the way "DFRS" was dual facing rear seats. This was supposedly a design making it a "ten" passenger station wagon. The outside seating positions of front and middle row seats had shoulder belts that you could clip into the seatbelt or were folded and placed into a wire hanger along the edges of the ceiling but if you didn't want to have it cutting into your neck. You also need to remember that the dashboard of this car was steel and not covered in padding like cars of today. No airbags or anything that might even be considered soft if you were involved in an accident except your head as you were sent forward. Also the center seat positions could fly right up and out the windshield since there was no restraining device for these. We then replaced that car with a 72 Pontiac wagon that now had the third row facing forward but as previous wagons no restraint for center position of any of the rows of seats except the front row now had integrated shoulder restraints in front row seats only. Middle and third row seats were attached with center position now had a seatbelt only. Still would like to see one of these cars try to get a DOT inspection today and have pass without some "KAREN" inspector try to have you modify something to meet current standards. Only reason I say this is that a friend of mine just tried to have his 1970 car inspected and was failed until he had padding installed on the dashboard. Yep he's still trying to have it inspected by two other inspection stations but since it was failed for no proper padding on the dash, those inspection stations it gets failed by them as the last inspector said since it was identified as a discrepancy he can't have another inspection station pass it. Now whomever has intelligent brain matter needs to train someone to use their noodle and think before they just rubber stamp "FAIL". Alright now if you've got a single functioning brain cell step to the front of the class.😂
That turbo sounds so good
?????.I dont think I have ever complained about any of your videos steve...I enjoy em all my friend...keep em coming...
Here’s an idea for a shirt. Put a stripe diagonal from the left shoulder to the right bottom in a contrasting color ( orange stripe on a yellow shirt) with your logo in the middle and call it the seatbelt shirt.
It has been done and will get you red lighted at most scales.
I saw a freightliner cab over today.
Pedal pushing steering wheel holders worried about a mans lap belt when they can’t even get through a truck stop parking lot without hitting something lol
My freightliner has air bags. Point less. If I hit some thing hard enough to need it I will probably be dead.
My Grandmother's car (1960s Ford Escort) had no seatbelts in the back at all.
The 1979 Ford LN9000s we had at work all had one piece seat and shoulder belts.
A lot of us used to ride in the back of pickups when we were kids.
I never wear mine and neither does my wife. The seat belts are lap belts. Since my Kenworth is old 79. My wife's Yokun has air bags but I removed them from the steering wheel and also the dash board. Cause years ago a good friend of ours. Was driving one day and the air bags deployed and caused serious damages to her face and she had to get face surgery. She sued the dealership where she brought the car from cause why did the airbags deployed for no reason at all if she was not in a accident. She sued and won allot of $$$$$ the dealership was shutdown. And she had to quit her job cause pics of her was floating around at the school where she teached. After the face surgery she went back and the kids apologized to her. When there parents heard the parents pulled there kids outta sports baseball and basketball and football. And taught them a lesson. The school superintendent stated what happened if that was u kids. The kids went silent after that. All of my vehicles are old. I have a 1970 Chevelle Malibu and it has a lapbelt. It has a racing harness that I can easy remove if I ain't drag racing. And my 1969 Chevy Nova just has a lapbelt. But officers stated I can have a shoulder strap customed made. Nope they can't do anything. They have t goes to court judges dropped the charge's. When they do the officers are not happy.
A Peterbuilt cabover for the v12 Detroit. I saw a video that featured a 352 and he had set the engine parameters to specs. That engine sounded sweet.
Your 7 years younger than I am, I remember the vehicles back then having seatbelts but they were never used, I’d lay down in the back seat, played board games if some friend was with me for the ride, a seatbelt law back then if there was one I didn’t know about it, or at least up until the police started handing out tickets like they were passing out water….
I like the 5 min intro with the music and you driving over the bridge . Nice, good way to start the vid. You have some good taste in music.
a question steve, i notice you pulled out the parking lot but next to you was a semi truck carrying a boat? have you ever carry a boat before or you just do your regular deliveries....
I've never done boats on that type if trailer. Those trailers can haul many regular sized boats on boat trailers similar to a car carrier. Also haul single large yachts. Gentry & Sons has the same type trailer. He hsuls lots of boats.
@@fsctrucking cool i would love to see you do something like that in the future if you into it
Seatbelts were not required in vehicles until 1967 and trucks until 1971...at this time they were federally mandated to be standard equipment in all vehicles...states implemented mandatory use at different dates as time went on...to keep federal highway funds like the 55mph speed limit....these laws could not be forced upon the states but they would lose federal highway funding if they did not comply...
I never used seatbelts until i started driving truck in early 80's and bought a Freightliner COE...
My first real car was a '68 Volvo 122S with separate lap and shoulder belts. Fasten the lap belt first, then clip the shoulder belt in and adjust both separately. Done right, one did NOT move around much on a rough road, and Lord knows we had plenty of those.
Love this channel.
Don't change nuthin'.
I enjoy my rides in Orwell.
fyi...Dont be afraid to swear when needed.
Not healthy to keep rage bottled up inside.
Drive Safely.
I got brought home from the hospital in a 49 Packard. No seatbelts in that bad boy. 😂😂😂 My dad wouldn’t drive anything but a Packard.
Hay steve Thomas I love the music and. The awesome work and content thanks 👍 for sharing your everyday life with me your friend Thomas from Franklin Ohio Warren county Ohio USA
Just like roll down windows. 1st job 84 cab over coyote International. 350 c 9sp. great job great videos. keep safe.
I know its the wrong channel but can i use a regular pd scanner for train traffic? Idk what it is fsc an trucking with Schmidt but these 2 drivers rock!!
I enjoy your videos and talk. The content and audio is always great.
Awesome intro edit 👍☠️☠️👍 KEEP ON TRUCKINGGOOD ✌️
Wish it was back in the day when all trucks only had lap belts. Different kind of drivers today. Everyone living on fast food. Most don’t seem to shower. Glad I’m just about to retire.
Staten Island....just passing through, nothing to see here.
Greetings from New Jersey.
You still have to keep the axle weights legal with a permit. With the spread axle you can go to 40,000 on the trailer, 34,000 on the drives and 12,000 on the steer which would be 86,000. You need the permit to exceed 80,000.
My first car out of high school in NYC Cars, Trucks, Bus Had NO seat belts, no FM radio AM only cb gas 15cents into a 25 gallon tank Mopar under the hood. :) 🤣 👍
No, don't put your hands in front of you. You can get broken limbs or burns on your hands if you leave your hands on the steering wheel. The professional driver who constantly crashes vehicles for a research company always puts his arms out like a scarecrow before the impact. Pretty much straight out to the left and right.
13:04 Yes, but most cabover sleepers actually have a belt to keep you in the bed in case you are team driving.
23:06 Phoenix Metals?
I wear seat belts in everything because of my racing years….. but i just never felt comfortable in the big truck or snowplowing wearing them .1977 my first year outlaw trucking NJ NY Ct Ma PA Oh bought first truck 20 years old. Trip leasing. 🤣 Too long in most states conventional 62 ft when weight was 732800 55 ft
Steve that ole cab over sounds great!!!👍👍👍👍
Good videos
You're doing just fine keep on Trucking everybody is citric.
I’m 50 and we had a 69 Cutlass Supreme as a family car. With two brothers and a sister in the back seat I was the youngest and always on moms lap. Shifter and console in the middle.
That use to be a liquor warehouse a friend of mine worked there as a a delivery driver
so many good drivers in new jersey, nice video, crossed the wide river and never mentioned the Boat Goals, the water looks nice, but most water in jersey is dirty from all garbage. i can knock New Jersey i was born and raised in jersey, great video. thanks pull toy here
Why do people even give a shit about seatbelts. Sounds like they're trying to sound more "in touch" than the rest of us. They just need to worry about themselves.
Seriously? You do realize your comment is hypocritical. You are telling people to worry about themselves while worrying about people who worry about what others are doing.
New York and New Jersey are some of the worst, most oblivious drivers on the face of the earth. You absolutely need the patience and tranquility of a monk to navigate the roads of those states. Whether you’re driving four wheels or eighteen.
reminds me of stories from people who own old truck and get pulled over for not were seat belt but ether have a lap only belt or none at all 50-60 i believe. then the cop comes up with you have to have install a 3 point or one to b legal. if i had the money or didnt live in a rust belt state i'd love to daily a older truck without a seat belt or lap belt, would make you think be for driving stupid and be attentive to surroundings
Something tells me not to many people care about the seatbelt, lol 😆
G'day Steve tell em to get F about the seat belt bunch of harf wit's great video all the best keep on trucking latter
Orwell looks like a truck that used to come into the Cat dealer I worked at in the late 80's in MA. Did you have him since new. Great truck! 3406B mechanical 7FB?
Orwell was a Keen Tranport truck out of Carlisle PA brand new. Always stayed in that region until I bought it.
Sweet Pete, bro!
My 1990 Volvo White GMC WIA has a lap belt. My 1974 Transtar has one too. If you're into older trucks you know these things.
1959 volvo invented three point seat belts...was available for all volvo vehicles
@@ed46thompson52 My Volvo White GMC is a semi truck.
@@tomchristopher71 : don’t ya love the people who want to argue over stupid stuff.
@@scottberry5266 Just giving out genuine information for the old truck enthusiasts. There is always someone out there to correct you or provide information.
3 companies name on one truck. Odd
New to channel, like your content. One question, does your truck have a auto stick feature when you shift gears? I don't see you shifting gears once you get to higher speed. Thanks!
Awesome videos mister As always great camera set up Always great full shot no matter how u set it up. Be Safe Good Day
honestly I don't know how I haven't found this channel sooner, love the content.. #Subbed