InstantForum.NET v4.1.4ATHS - Truck & Transportation Historyhttp://forums.aths.org/InstantForum414/admin@forums.aths.orgThu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:36 GMT20http://forums.aths.org/InstantForum414/Topic19019-45-1.aspxMy affair with trucks began in 1970 at the age of 13. My dad got a job as a foreman of a farm and ranch in southern arizona. About a year later the farm acquired a 1965 w9 Kenworth, with a Cummins and a 4 X 4. I started driving this truck around the farm when I was 14, and drove it everywhere. I used it as personal transportation for most of a year, and then it started hauling fertilizer from Utah, so I shifted my sights onto a 4070 IH cabover with a detroit. The sound this thing made was amazing, and boy it would run, As soon as I turned 16 and got my license, I could start (illegally) pulling grain trailers to the elevator. I drove the IH and a White Freightliner, plus the Kenworth. The White and the IH had 9 or 10 speeds, I can't remember for sure. But I always loved the KW. I finally got my chauffuers license at 18, and started making night trips to Willcox, Az for fertilizer, pulling a set of doubles. We would pull up to a train car and drive a little front end loader into a box car and load our bottom dumps with fertilizer. We did it at night because the sheriffs were not out at night. <P>More later.Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:46:33 GMTSteveH.