interesting trailers... the one on the right, must be a traveling camper trailer? Or a livestock trailer?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1586672665652477&set=gm.1507222250455606&idorvanity=319578812553295

enjoy the eye candy of 60's race track cargo delivery trailer with an unusual set of axles, and look at those huge exhaust pipes!

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dog427435/3019339031/in/photostream/lightbox/

the bullshit truckers had to put up with, licensed and registered in every state, I'm looking at all those license plates... and now? Anyone from Mexico can cross the border with a truck and trailer, and drive anywhere, without an American drivers license, is teh way I understand it. No smog check, no American insurance, etc etc . All the crap American truckers have to do. Am I wrong, 'cause I'm sure as hell uneducated on the topic, and always looking to learn from those of you who know what's what

and I'm not racist towards Mexicans, some of my good friends are Mexican, I'm just still pissed at Clinton passing NAFTA and screwing the American truckers (of which I'm related to several) by allowing competition in from other countries who aren't good for a trucker trying to earn a living driving... also, the increase in pollution by loading up on fuel in Mexico, which isn't regulated to the standard of fuel purchased in California (or Arizona, or Texas)

Look at all those damn license plates. That's bullshit. Ditto the long list on the door, box behind the cab, and front of the trailer. 

Anyway, if you know about the topic, feel free to share some info (Facts please, not opinion, I'm all full of uninformed opinion) with me and the other readers

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-cohort/cohort-vintage-photography-a-gallery-of-1955-1957-new-chevy-trucks-and-a-few-others/

Gary shared:

Multiple license plates have not been required for 28 years on big trucks with two exception I believe. Trucks are not generally required to have smog checks per se as modern trucks have have systems that basically have cleaner air coming out of the stacks than going in the engine. White smoke is just water vapor. Mexican drivers allowed to cross the border usually require licensing in both Mexico and the US. The drivers for the past 20 years coming from Mexico usually have attended modern truck driving schools in Mexico that make them familiar with our laws and log requirements. Drivers who only operate only in Mexico may be a different story. I covered the crossing of Mexican trucks from Laredo to Texas one day and took 500 plus photos for a leading truck magazine and only saw one truck in shabby condition and it was a truck that just shifted trailers from the US to Mexican warehouses on the other side of the border and never go past the 18 mile limit in Texas. I also live in a area with trucks from Mexico are quite common and never see a difference between those rigs and our own. However sometime local truckers hauling low paying gravel and scrap do have have rigs that are somewhat shabby, but again they are just local trucks. And as far as I can tell the only big rigs that have been caught hauling illegals have be US trucks and drivers acting on their own accord not with permission of the owners of the trucks.

wouldn't it be damn cool to drive cargo around in this? Well, after you add AC and a good radio with XM, and a subwoofer. I mean, lets have a blast while driving... right?

https://i2.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15748429739_bc3371c2d3_k.jpg

must have been someone's pride and joy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/676841185784386/permalink/1609543212514174/

a truck and trailer that looked so nice they used it to advertise the manufacturer

Lucky? Or crazy... I'll bet he was crazy and had many concussions and some brain damage. This was before HANS devices and good helmets

and check out the tiny semi, and the tiny trailer... that trailer is only about 20 feet long, based on the estimated 16 foot long car jumping it

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/7679003-post23665.html

How is an artist this talented working on the street, for free, and not making money by the shovelload in a gallery?

https://swarfs.tumblr.com/

Russian artist Nikita Golubev has been using the name "ProBoyNick" he has drawn various designs in Moscow for the past three weeks and sharing his work online.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39640344/these-dirty-vehicles-have-been-turned-into-art

If you get into the old Chicago Tribune issues of 1917, between pages 74 to 78 are the car and truck ads ... and the Smith Form-A-Truck and Form-A-Tractor

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1917/04/29/

the 100th Bomb Group with a semi and trailer, I haven't seen a tractor trailer with bombers before... huh

It's a mobile shop - a Field Shop Repair Semitrailer, Steve found it in the manual of WW2 vehicles, TM-9-2800

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205360970

1918 15-ton Couple-Gear gas-electric powered tractor-truck by the Couple-Gear Freight Wheel Company of Grand Rapids.

the middle guy above, seems to be in the drivers seat below

From 1918 to at least 1922 Fageol designed trucks to replace the mule trains that were then hauling ore out of the mines of the American Manganese Products Company in California. They experimented with different combinations of axles and drivetrains, including the Couple-Gear chassis, which appears to have been the largest. In the end they settled on a Fageol designed six-wheel-drive 10-ton truck towing two 5-ton trailers, built by the obscure Rogers-Unit Drive Corporation.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/20990  and   http://www.shorpy.com/node/21034
thanks Steve

I don't think I've seen or posted the Shelby Cobra enclosed trailer, damn shame it's only in the background of photos

https://revslib.stanford.edu

Holy Kafoozulem! That's house is WRECKED!

the other type of tractor trailer was heading down a road in Belgium, and braked to avoid a small truck, the driver lost control of the tractor and it went through the corner of the home... solid brick!

The kids were all at school, and the mom was chatting with the neighbor in the backyard... so, no one hurt who lived there, but the tractor driver was injured, though not life threatening

http://kw.knack.be/west-vlaanderen/nieuws/ongevallen/tractor-rijdt-woning-binnen-in-ichtegem-ravage-is-enorm/article-normal-212885.html

Tasca's race car hauler.. nice, very top shelf

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/getting.there/942515632523254/?notif_t=group_activity

cool old 1930s Hayes semi with a flathead conversion work

As a fuel tank, this oil drum is cooler than a beer keg. I learned it's aged vintage look is deliberate, and wow, did they do a great job

http://www.webbflatheads.com/#!webb-flatty/vgbzv

Galpin has a really cool wrap on their toy hauler trailer

this is a game changer.... a dual Harley puller, wow.

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/1631935880418477/?fref=nf

https://www.facebook.com/bigislandchopper

August Fruehauf and Otto Neumann, blacksmith and wagon makers invented the semi-trailer in 1914 for a local lumber tycoon in Michigan, hitched it to a modified Ford Model-T, and founded an industry

The Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society (FTHS) announced today the opening of an exhibit on Sunday, June 7, at the Detroit Historical Museum

http://www.truckersnews.com/history-of-fruehauf-trailers-on-display-in-detroit/

The Fruehauf Trailer Company operated from 1914 to 1997 across the United States, Europe and Asia introducing such revolutionary inventions as hydraulic dump trailers, bulk tanker trailers, the automatic fifth wheel hitch and the shipping container in 1956.

“Over 1,000 inventions, 150 for the military alone, helped the Fruehauf Trailer Company attain the rank of 75th largest company in the world

DHM exhibition will feature photographs and company memorabilia from the family’s collection focusing on the key Fruehauf patents and innovations to the trucking industry. The exhibition inaugurates a new DHM gallery and will remain on view for the next nine months.

Over at the Ford Piquette Model T plant they have a 1916 trailer on exhibit, and a Model T restored by Randy Shelton, a Ford powertrain engineer  http://www.at.ford.com/news/cn/Pages/Ford%20Employee%20Restores%20Model%20T%20to%20its%20Original%20Splendor.aspx

Have a look at this incredible restoration project from Members Randy Shelton and Jim Basile.  It's a Smith Form-A-Truck Model T and represents the world's first 5th wheel tractor trailer.
https://www.facebook.com/techshopdetroit/videos/995135267172890/

http://www.singingwheels.com/the-detroit-historical-museum-presents---fruehauf-history.html

By the mid-1920s, trailer sales passed the million-dollar mark, and by the mid-1950s, Fruehauf had expanded into nine plants across the United States, Canada, Brazil and France. Along the way, the company secured hundreds of patents for trailer innovations, including the automatic coupling, hydraulic dump trailers and bulk tanker trailers. In 1956, Fruehauf even had a part in developing what we now know as the intermodal shipping container, designed for simplified shipping of goods on train, truck or ship.

After the company fell out of the family’s hands in the mid-1960s, Fruehauf began to diversify, eventually buying up subsidiaries such as Kelsey-Hayes. But by the 1990s, power struggles and financial problems within the company forced Fruehauf into bankruptcy, leading Wabash National to buy Fruehauf’s main U.S. business in 1997.

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/06/05/fruehauf-exhibit-to-highlight-the-history-of-semi-trailer-titan/

https://www.facebook.com/TheHistoryOfTheFruehaufTrailerCompany/timeline
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FruehaufTrailers/

Heavy haulage. A 1929 Scammell, 65 ton rating

Heavy rivets holding that together... and a good visual description of why they were called semi-tractors or tractor trailers http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/656662.html

Not many people have been driving for over 30 years, fewer have been truckers... and they have wisdom to share. Sandi is 71 years old.

Found on http://www.livetrucking.com/71-year-old-female-truck-driver-that-hauls-bombs-gives-her-advice-on-making-it-in-the-industry/

This article brought to my attention a website for women in trucking  http://www.realwomenintrucking.com/

 which I browsed and read an article http://therumpus.net/2009/09/the-rumpus-interview-with-trucker-desiree/  by Claire who interviewed Desiree who mentioned how rough and shitty it is on the roads and truck stops: "I had someone get my door open one night, but I had the seatbelts strapping [the doors] down so they left."

Desiree has her own blog and lets the outside world get a full understanding of truck drivers work conditions and the shortcomings of corporate rules versus drivers realities. http://truckerdesiree.com/

Such as "shipper and receiver facilities atmosphere that cultivates animosity toward truck drivers."

Respondents to the truck parking survey occasionally included observations that once their trailer was loaded or unloaded, they were expected to leave the property regardless of area safe parking conditions or their HOS. These same facilities enforce strict appointment times and often detain truck drivers well past scheduled appointments.

 Mentioning the names of the shippers and receivers is a sensitive topic as many drivers fear retaliation for doing so. 2059 respondents skipped the “naming names” section in the national truck parking survey. Out of over 1800 respondents who did have the courage to answer question 35, Walmart was mentioned 1048 times as one of the worst."  http://truckerdesiree.com/2014/06/15/walmart-crash-hours-of-service-and-truck-parking/