NO Easy Run Trucker

By gone days of Trucking Companies vanished from our highways.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Old trucks
• No Easy Run Johnny Cash
• Semis from the 40's-60's
• Trucks
• antique trucks

[lugger2010]

Someone who knows anything about the KWs at 2:40, please tell me about them. Never seen them before, and dying to know more about them. They look like long-haul shunt tractors.

[1968spawn]

@lugger2010 Those are Kenworth CBE Cab Beside Engine models. Made in the late 1950's many of the freight companies used them WATSON BROS. MERCHANTS and YELLOW etc... Sleeper was located behind the engine compartment and the passenger seat was mounted behind the drivers seat.

[Shield1751]

Sailor on a concrete sea....I like the sound of that!! Being an old Mclean/Roadway/ Helms/Burns/ Branch/Yellow/Blue line and now an ABF driver.... I've been sailing for 33 years..when's this thing going to dock?

[1968spawn]

@Shield1751

You are kinda like "Ole Joe".  Take Care out there.

[MrNormsHGW]

Being from a trucking family and driving OTR for about 15 years myself we used to listen to this all the time. It's a great song but now that I'm older (and retired) it got me to thinking. The Foreman is real old so we'll say he's 70. He had to be at the job for a long time to be Foreman so he's been off the road at least 15 years. If he started truckin at 20 then he quit at 55, that's 35 years truckin. All the jobs listed were about 83, that means he held 2+ jobs a year. Man! He got fired alot.

[1968spawn]

@MrNormsHGW

That is very funny! Your are right and I've heard that before. Ole Joe was a good hand around a rig but was a well known job jumper! Can you imagine filling out all those applications.

[FireCrystalPhoenix]

I'm so glad there's some classic yard dog trucks in this,can't forget them. I was born in the wrong era,even the trucks and trucking companies had their own individual character. And that's not including the character each driver brought along with them and on top of that,the character trucking as a whole brought out in everyone expose to it. Now it's all bland few big corporates verses even fewer little private companies. Am I the only one wanting to wake up from this nightmare we're living in?

[disconnected77]

1 PERSON IS A SISSY DRIVER!

[TruckersAndMovers]

Man I must be gettin old because I worked for at least four of those company's myself. Lol what a great old song.

[U686ST]

Ol' Joe must have been a "casual".

[champflyer334]

Nice video. My Dad would be out on the road and I too remember watching The Johnny Cash Show and this song. Dad was an Owner Operator and pulled for several of the outfits Johnny sings about. One thing about this song.......I think if I was a Green Horn, I dont think I would be taking career advice from "Ol Joe". I think Joe was what they called a "Transient Driver". Here today, gone tomorrow!

[Brooklyn50s]

I've read every post on this page, and what stands out for me was that nobody mentioned Johnny Cash. I remember seeing him do this on his television show and I went out the next day and bought the album. Johnny Cash was a once in a lifetime talent and he used it to sing about people and things that rarely got much credit. My dad was a trucker and I'm proud of him every time I play this song. Thanks for remembering Johnny.

[livingdeadgirl1013x]

1st of all: WAY cool video!

My dad was a trucker between the 40s-70s and he recognized a lot of those trucks!

I'm actually looking for any International or Reo or GMC from 1953-1966 that has "Miss Doe" I-VII decaled on front hood. These were my dads trucks. Im searching for these to buy and give my dad as a gift.

Any word or pictures would be helpful-we live in the midwest.

Thanks

Once again, COOL video!

[CUMMINSM11]

sounds like johhny cash?

[gwhand39]

It's still truckin' though. No matter what. It's all what you make of it. I have been at it for nearly 22 years, a ssecond generation driver. I look up to the old timers like my dad who started in 1949. I'll probably never be able to fill his shoes, but I'm tryin'. Nearly 3 million miles and no accidents!! By the grace of God it'll stay that way for another 22 years. Let's face it , the "Glory Days" are over for some of us, but for others, they're just beginning!