Saturday, July 25, 2015

"Lydia" #11

Neither of my parents drove and after a season of renting drivers, D.R. Miller came out to the Concession Dept. and told me, "Be at my trailer in the morning, You're going to be a truck driver!" shocking news since I couldn't even drive a car.

Posted by Buckles at 7/25/2015 05:38:00 AM

9 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Reminds me of a quote from

a new Georgia Tech graduate

"Yestiday I kudent evin spel

engeneer & now I are one"

25 July, 2015 09:49
Chic Silber said...


Here are 2nd 3rd & 5th gears

You don't never need them others

25 July, 2015 09:51
Bob Karczewski said...

Chic, you must have learned the "granny shifting" method for driving a stick shift!

25 July, 2015 13:29
Chic Silber said...


I learned on a Cornbinder CO200

just like Buckles early horse in

photos with Barbara just married

Walt "Sputnik" Pamphilon was the

show electrician on Reithoffer's

main unit & I became assistant

when I was 16 That truck had

an electric 2 speed Road Ranger

I learned "granny" was low 1st

only in deep mud (no elephants)

Double clutching was tricky

25 July, 2015 19:26
Chic Silber said...


A few show trailers had vacuum

brakes but we had dummy air

hoses & rode without brakes

(also without half a brain)

Just my dumb luck held out

25 July, 2015 19:28
Chic Silber said...


If this was still 1951 then

you would have been 16 also

25 July, 2015 20:09
Bob Karczewski said...

Chic, "granny shifting" was shifting from 1st to 3rd when driving a three speed in a car or pickup truck. Most people have not a clue when you talk about the granny gear on a multi- speed transmission. It was usually used only in situations like you describe. I had a 1971 Jeep CJ5 and I always said that if you got stuck and could not get out in two minutes using first gear low range in four wheel drive, you needed to start shoveling your way out.

26 July, 2015 08:01
Chic Silber said...


Never new that use of the term

but I learned that method by

necessity in my 1st car when

I was 12 & my 33 Plymouth coupe

with a rumble seat had many of

the teeth worn off 2nd gear so

I had to run 1st up screaming

& quickly slam into 3rd Bob

I had learned to drive at 10

on an IH "Farmall" tractor

Most 10 & 12 year old kids

nowadays can't tie their own

shoelaces (they aint no more)

26 July, 2015 10:33
Chic Silber said...


I'll bet EVERY real trucker

surely knows granny gear Bob

26 July, 2015 10:38

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