First truck Drive..

Ok I thought I'd start a thread about " the first time "..
The first time you actually got to drive a truck.
What was the first truck you ever actually drove??
In a paddock,on the road whatever..
Utes don't count.
Let's see where this goes....
I'll start..
TK Beddy tray with a perkins on a railway access road.
I thought I was the MAN!!
I was a bit younger then......

Good on ya Cam..
Good idea for a thread....

Well for me.....
Torquay Speedway an old Jialbar Ford water truck.
While back now, i think it was yellow, from memory.
The Ol Man used to put a coin in the throttle to hold it at a steady pace while i watered the Speedway track.
So i basically pointed it..
I reckon it was 67 / 68 or there abouts.
(Big Timmy might be able to help me out here, it was before the Ol Man took out the Production car Championship)

First semi, C line Inter C160 Cummins 5 x 2 Ballarat - Geelong in around 1970, Ol man as co pilot...
(i was 10)



chocs

Ok, I!ll bite, 8 yrs old, maple Leaf Chev carting square bales with LH International bale loader, can still remember the old man yelling abuse at me if i missed the bale on a corner into the chute, & if it went between the truck & the loader to go under the drive wheels, (20ft tray fitted to a stretched chassis), I really copped it. a couple of hay seasons later, 52 side whacker ford with a 2 speed diff, & New Holland R.H. loader, I was in heaven as master Gilly, eventually allowed to drive through the gates etc to the hay stack Then came the F600 with the 282, Wow.
Mamories

MY fathers J5 bedford tipper drove it into town by myself to get my licence. Then started carting grapes with it always grosely over loaded.; The scary part is 28 years later im still carting grapes. Still over loaded and loving every minute of it.

At about age 15, now 63 , starting and driving [STARTER BUTTON ON FLOOR ]i think a 48 or 49 chev tray top , at SHANGRILA bundanoon , nearly extended the shed as it wasnt in backwards gear , after all the years interstate and overnight , dont know if i have improved or not . :-X

Inter Mark 3 (Army 1969) when I was doing National Service, yes in was taught to drive the Army way + a number of other Army trucks. I was in RAEME and because we were a workshop based we had to do twice a year a driver refresher training course in the bush following the Burdekin River, away about a week and had a ball, beat doing test runs around camp and town
Ian

The first truck I drove on the road was a early 70's acco bogie drive, 5 speed, done 85km/h flat out. From there 2 years later I stepped staight into a 1990 western star 444 cummins, 15 speed ranger with a double road train with my mates dad, we 2 up drove it too Darwin and back, mind you I had never drove a semi at this stage and didnt even have my road train licence either...... lol

The first truck I drove was an AL160 Inter. My brother & I picked up sticks & rocks in the new spud paddocks. We also had a C1800, perkins, 5 speed for the spuds out of the paddock & market run. I recall the AL having a 2 speed diff & used to jump out of 2nd. We were about 12 or 13, early '80's. It was the best job, driving a truck & burning stuff. 30 years later,I still like driving trucks & burning stuff.

First time I drove a truck on the road was driving from the farm I worked at into Bordertown to meet the local copper to do my test. No L plate log books in the early 80s. Was a yellow ex highways dept bedford, 300ci petrol, j5?

Well I was about 20 years old and had been ITCHING to drive. A good friend who at the time was a mate of my sister and brother-in-law's had sold his immaculate T Line and pig and started to work for Camsons Transport in Sydney (a company that is celebrating its 60th year this year) and after a few years driving for them had moved into allocations. He knew my passion so got me over one afternoon and fired up a T650 Kenworth semi tipper and took me for a run loaded up to Boral Masonary at Prospect, explaing the revs and gears on the way, Big Cam Cummins with a 9 speed.

I was in awe

After he tipped off he got me into the drivers seat to steer it back and just stop and think for a minute.........still possessing a childhood obsession to drive and my first steer was in a massive (at the time) Kenworth, nothing like I had ever dealt with before. Took off in 3rd, missed 4th and rolled down the driveway to a stop. He just got me to steer and told me when to press the clutch as he held my hand on the gearstick and explained the cogs to me. We went for a 20 minute drive and apart from the gearbox I was spot on with the rest of it.

That one drive and my future was set