I’ve always loved sterling. It’s one of the few trucks that you either completely love, or hate with every bone in your body. Personally I think of them as the little ugly duckling. I also think it would be extremely interesting to see what they would have done these days with their styling if they were still around.
Sterlings are like a Peterbilt in my company it’s only for newer guys who started but I honestly prefer it than a cascadia but the clutch on it, it’s leg day in the city
I knew a gentleman when I was a kid who made his living driving his Sterling. This was in the late 50’s. Power was by a propane powered Hall Scott engine. What a truck.
The CDL school I went to had a sterling truck in their training grounds. It had cat c-10. I remember I played around with the jake brake so much cause of how good it sounded. It even had a Jacobs engine brake plate on it.
A lot of the oil and gas service companies in my area bought the newer Sterling’s, and got good service out of them. The only complaint that I heard about them is, they must have switched the type of plastic that used for the interior trim pieces, and dash. We had an old Ford L9000, that was 35 years old, and the interior was perfect, the Sterling’s all had a broken dash, and or door panels.
You missed the little cabover that the street sweeper market loved. I've forgotten the model name, but I remember that it was going to be phased out, but the street sweeper manufacturers kept putting large orders in.
P.S., When Freight- liner purchased the Ford heavy lineup of trucks,the old Louis- ville line had already been restyled.The sweeper truck that someone had ment- ioned , was the Ford Cargo.The cab was a replacement for the old C series city tilt.The truck used a cab made by the French truck maker Berliet( bur lee aye).
White bought Sterling, with the intentions of having a heavy chassis line, to compete with Mack & Autocar, then White bought out Autocar (Then eliminating Sterling, because Autocar was more profitable to manufacture)
I drove a Sterling mixer for a year it was a great truck plenty of room in every area, rode great. I out paced our Paystars on rough roads and the C-12 Cat with an 8LL Eaton Fuller pulled even the toughest hills in the area we served no problem I never dropped below 5th gear at 76,000 pounds GVW. One of the toughest yet smoothest riding trucks out there.
As someone who drove and worked on 'em,I can say Sterlings were more bad than good.Serious rusters,lots of aluminum corrosion,many electrical problems,plastic dashes fell apart,and the list goes on and on.On the plus side,the wiper linkage,which failed regularly,was easy to change,as was the heater core.And Freightliner warranty work generally sucked,as they didn't want to work on 'em either.
Its weird to know that daycab ones have some jackbreaking sounds to the engine and I also heard the word cabforwarded from a locomotive from the SP aka southern Pacific railroad which its cab is faced back word and it's a steam locomotive but it dose not run on coal it ran on oil
Actually I did know all 10...I drove a Sterling in 2017, loved the truck hated that it was a mixer. Cat powered with an Eaton Fuller, one of the best trucks I've driven.
Sterling is just that one truck brand you just completely forget it even exists. I think the reason why goes hand in hand to the point being made that it missed the spotlight era of trucking.
The new Sterling trucks had nothing in common w/ the old Sterling or the Sterling-White brand The video did not mention that Sterling made a tilt cab w/ backward tilt. The company used chain drive for longest time.Donner estates which held most of Sterling's stock, sold out to White Motor Corp. There was a crane carrier chassis also. The Sterling-White truck brand was dis- continued after the Autocar truck was purchased. It was a bigger seller with a new cab that White needed.
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Other than sharing a name, the modern Sterling/Daimler/Ford had nothing to do with the old Sterling, White-Sterling. I think the only connection was irony. White bought Sterling's business with the intention of shutting it down. Daimler did the same with Ford's truck business--bought it with the intention of shutting it down. At least, contrary to popular stereotype, the Germans do have a sense of humor.
Never really cared for the rebadged ford's and dodges. Just here for the history. 👍 I drove a 2000 Sterling with a small cat and a 6 speed allison auto while attempting to get my cdl at the time. That truck was slug and a turd. Lol
1-5 Probably good decades of Sterling truck brand bad after late 90s their not reliable most are either burn powertrain or interior electrical problems.
White Motor Co. ruined some classic truck brands once they took ownership and mismanaged them. Sterling, Autocar, Diamond T, and REO, all much better quality trucks than anything White ever put out.