The old trucks were the goat. It's such a shame that PACCAR bought them and Peterbilt. Now those 2 companies put out interchangeable modular junk that falls apart as soon as it leaves the factory. The old stuff is where the legends were made. A modern Kenworth will stop running every 6 months because the coolant level measuring thing gets stuck. Not kidding, call any Kenworth or Peterbilt shop and ask how often do they replace coolant tanks. (one unit) It's heartbreaking how they have fallen.
New Peter rods are junk. What I've heard from couple local dump truck drivers. 😮 I was surprised 1st time I Hurd crap talked about Peterbuilt trucks. I personally would love to find narrow nose Pete or auto-car do roll back for toy hauler 😊
@@Fossillarson They come standard with PACCAR motors now. You have to pay extra and special order a different motor. Most fleets just run the PACCAR trash. I have seen a couple with Cummins in them, and not many complaints.
Pacific Car and Foundry bought Kenworth in 1945 and bought Peterbilt in 1958. So these are not recent purchases. The name was changed to PACCAR later on
@@BrotherWitchmy 17' w9 has a Cummins that stupid coolant sensor tank has been replaced probably 10 times since new. Finally we wired ina couple resistors and bypassed it not needed open the fuckin hood and look at the coolant level
I worked on both the red 963s shown at 5:00 in the video. They where assembled in the Renton factory, loaded onto lowboys by Pete's Towing and shipped to Kenworth Northwest for some additional modifications. We had to take the stacks off to fit them in the shop.
Back in the 80s I hauled a few of those with the V radiator placement and the V 12 two stroke Detroit’s. I was Leased to PST heavy haul we used the trailers from the combine fleet with the spread axels and wide expandable well between them I still have some photos of me sitting on the fender behind the grill guard we had another owner OP to pick them up at the plant they would only left KW trucks in there T that time I had. New Volvo white flat top sleeper tri axel rear tractor he brought them to the yard then we took them to the destinations .
@@rallymana4873 I was trying to list the trucks that may be considered as current competitors for the Kenworth 963. These trucks are either still in production of have been built over the last few years. If you know of any more, let me know. The Berliet T100 was a beast in its day, as was the MOL/BREC TB800 Desert Lion.
I used to work in Saudi Arabia for the Olayan Transportation Group's SGTC division building the King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh as a sub for Bechtel. Occasionally, when we had to transport larger pieces from the Port of Dammam to the airport, we'd have our oilfield division in Hofuf haul for us and they had KW oil-rig haulers (I can't remember the model, maybe 959s, but they were 4 wheel units with massive engines and tires) and they actually would ignore the main highway from DAM to RUH and run alongside on the old desert roads VERY SLOWLY! Back then we had over-the-road units (KW900s I think) that could haul like you wouldn't believe. Huge engines!
I grew up in Saudi (father worked for ARAMCO) and remember these beasts towing oil rigs down the road - taking the whole road and then some. The only time they looked small was in the Rub Al-Khali amongst the mountainous sand dunes. Great memories.
The thing that i always notice with these giant trucks is how the cabin always looks like an afterthought. Probably because I'm so used to all the vehicles I see being built around the driver and passengers.
The 963 is kinda why I want to a desert map for Snowrunner. I wanna use the Big Kenny in it's natural environment. Maybe give an option to equip some low pressure tires for the sand but gives you damage on paved roads? Anyways, such a cool truck. Glad I can experience this and many other amazing vehicles in Snowrunner!
Hate to be that guy, but at 4:22 it's a 953 Canadian. Which was designed for the developing oilfields of Canada and Alaska. Pretty cool pieces of a fleet.
For a country that hates middle easterners (especially back in the 50s) and thinks that they're the all time greatest (really not) having a different country develop and standardise what we basically use in todays everyday basic utilities 😂
Interesting that a cabover truck from Belarus is shown but no mention of the cabover K953 that was built for use in China about 1995. I should know, I helped design and build it.
It is not always an overdrive on the thumb button…in most 13 and 18 speeds today, that is the case. They are under driven and when you move the button forward (upshift) you are shifting into direct.
NON C'EST LE T 100 BERLIET FRANCAIS 700 cv en 1956 1957 4 exemplaires construit plus un cabine avancé vendu aux états unis !!!! Kenworth==== tas de ferraille 300 cv brevet BERLIET !
This has to be written by AI. “The decision to equip dual radiators was also based on the fact that the truck was required to operate on low-pressure tires”. That makes zero sense
To bad you amerikans dont use it. Your tiny brains would have it mutch easier to work with those measurements. Btw your trucks are still 20 years behind any european truck🥱
Come work in the oilfield bud! You’ll get instructions or directions in feet, metres, inches, centimetres, miles, kilometres, NSEW, all in the same directions!!!!
@@bobbyknight3589 oh we know! Just last week I got directions to a new lease, north for 12km, right for 3 miles, east for 700’, south into Location, and load 12’x12m office shack
They’re nice for sure, but we can’t get serviceability in North America! Schlumberger tried getting a couple MANN trucks, KW mechanics messed them up so bad that they had to fly in mechanics from Germany to come fix them!
Unimog is a different dog altogether, it's about horses for courses mog won't pull three forty foot trailers at any sort of speed for very long, mog is more like a shunting train than a main engine, must admit I've only had four of them
