Sunday morning "easy watch"- back story of chicken trucks running from the 1970s-2005

[GON]

Nice step back in time, good watch for a Sunday morning drinking a cup of coffee.

The story behind the chicken trucks. A time when trucks were about chrome, working hard, having fun, and making good pay. A five-minute watch. The last 45 seconds of the video shows some awesome trucks- something rarely seen today but were not so hard to see on the interstate not so long ago.

 

[Kira]

"3 log books"...hmmmmm
"....EPA and Carter"
I wonder where Chicken Truckers could and couldn't stop for sleep.

 

[Chris142]

"3 log books"...hmmmmm
"....EPA and Carter"
I wonder where Chicken Truckers could and couldn't stop for sleep.

The chewed on drug filled toothpicks to stay awake.

I never did that but I did run more than 1 log book

 

[wpod]

When I driving truck out of the Teamsters line drivers local casual, I had a log book for each company I drove for. I made some wonderful $$$ back then . Driving was lots of fun back then and for some reason, loved driving a semi. A friend living in Guadalajara would send me Captagon for emergency use,, great stuff. I loved going from the San Francisco Bay area to Portland, Salt Lake city, Idaho and Washington State [ going through the mountains was especially pleasing.]

 

[supton]

Some of those trucks are long... Better ride I'm sure (or more space for the sleeper). I know pulling a long trailer is its own headache, but I can't imagine dealing with the turning radius that some of those trucks must have had.

3 log books? I could see one for pay, one for the fuzz, but what's the third for?

 

[andrewg]

When I driving truck out of the Teamsters line drivers local casual, I had a log book for each company I drove for. I made some wonderful $$$ back then . Driving was lots of fun back then and for some reason, loved driving a semi. A friend living in Guadalajara would send me Captagon for emergency use,, great stuff. I loved going from the San Francisco Bay area to Portland, Salt Lake city, Idaho and Washington State [ going through the mountains was especially pleasing.]

Captagon. Known now as the Jihadist drug.

 

[wpod]

Some of those trucks are long... Better ride I'm sure (or more space for the sleeper). I know pulling a long trailer is its own headache, but I can't imagine dealing with the turning radius that some of those trucks must have had.

3 log books? I could see one for pay, one for the fuzz, but what's the third for?

The log books buys time.

 

[wpod]

Captagon. Known now as the Jihadist drug.

I was pre Jihadist. Or Maybe I was a pre Jihadist?

 

[wpod]

Captagon. Known now as the Jihadist drug.

I can understand.
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[wpod]

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