I had a very nice time and delicious meal at the Bay State Chapter Antique Truck Club annual breakfast at G Greene Antique Division. I can't fathom the millions of miles of trucking experience that was in this building!
Thanx Mike...good coverage. If you happen to run into Bob Greene in the future...tell him I still owe him for a parking ticket, from 1988...back when I drove for him. His trucks were red back then. His shop was on Lincoln St in Alston. He may not remember it, but tell him anyway...lol
Wow that's some of the most prestine collection of beautiful old iron I've seen! What an amazing collection of macks right through the years. Thanks so much for showing us.
I love these Antique truck shows. I'm 79 and started driving in 1960 when I was 16. I started out delivering produce to Great Scott Markets. Then I got a job delivering beef for Eastern Beef Company. In 1965, at age 21, I got into the Teamsters Union and started driving for different companies, Roadway, Adley Express (purchased by Yellow in 1977), CF, Associated, Interstate, Spector, Rand, Hemmingway, etc out of the union hall. I landed a full-time job in 1966 with Wooster Express and worked there for 5 years. In 1971 I left there and made the list at Lombard Bros. until things slowed down. In 1972, I made the list at Smith's Transfer Corp./ARA Services until 1988, when American Freight shut them down. I then went to work driving an R-Model trailer end dump and DM690 Mack's. I finally retired in 1998 because of my health. These old trucks bring back many memories. Thank you.
I was doing some work in that industrial park few years and Greene’s mechanic gave me a tour of the shop amazing collection. Last summer we installed the gas line to the new building they said he was going to be keeping stuff there too.
As always, you did a great job on the video. Perhaps I will have the opportunity to meet you at the May 18 show there in Foxboro. Keep up the good work, Mike. 😊
Cool thing is Greene and D Rounds had scale models commissioned of there Superliners a company called heavy haul replicas produced them and they are for sale now in limited numbers
Carbide lamps on the old Mack. A couple of rocks of carbide and a small water chamber that drips water on the carbide and you get acetylene gas that they light for night time. Also used smaller ones for bicycles.
I love that idea of signing one’s name on the firewall. Great idea and some great conversations will come out of that when lads are hanging round the shop with the hood open.
@@TheBostonTrucker don’t underestimate the impact you have had on the trucking community. I have sent your videos to lots of lads and ladies with no interest in trucking and they are now making annual treks to truck shows. You show people an honest view of what it’s like for a real driver in todays world with old school values. I grew up around trucks as a young lad in Ireland surrounded by real men talking trucks and life and general and in doing so imparting valuable knowledge to myself and other young lads that we still carry with us today. I bring my son to the yard on Saturdays after his Karate to wash the truck and trailer and he goes in the shop to hang out with the mechanics and watches them at work. When we are done he backs up my W9 and he is only 9 but I believe that if you give them responsibility at a young age it will stand to them later on in life. I don’t look at you as a celebrity Mike but as someone I would get in my car tonight and drive out to the Mass Pike to give you a hand if you were broke own. I know I am not the only one who watches you that thinks like that. Safe travels my friend and I will make an effort this year to meet you at one of the New England shows.
Hey Mike back in the 80s this Contruction CO in Bristol CT they had a few older Macks R I think and they had pinstripe also I think the name was Mistrot. They were yellow.
That Studebaker tank wagon was for washing streets down when people were still riding horses in cities there was a bar across the back that would spray water on the streets
