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The rotator, has there been a more ingenious tow truck made?

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Did you ever wonder where and when the saying “Built like a Mack truck came from?” As you know Mack truck trademark is a bulldog. In 1917 during WWI, Mack trucks earned its nickname when the British government purchased 6000 Mack AC model trucks to supply its front line with troops, food and equipment. The British soldiers were so impressed by the Mack trucks they dubbed the trucks, “the Bulldog Mack.” Its pugnacious, blunt-nosed hood, coupled with its incredible durability, reminded the soldiers of the tenacious qualities of their country's mascot, the British Bulldog. So, it was only natural for British soldiers to name the American trucks, “the Bulldog Mack”.

But when did the Bulldog first appear as a hood ornament on every Mack truck built? In 1932 Mack's chief engineer Alfred Fellows Masury carved Mack's first bulldog hood ornament while recuperating from an operation. Masury applied for and receives a U.S. patent for his design; the bulldog hood ornament has adorned every Mack truck ever since.

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In my last video I talked about the Boeing Gas Turbine/Jet Engine Powered Kenworth and West Coast Fast Freight. I bring this up because Watson Bros. Transportation, the subject of today’s Fallen Flag video, was a major partner of West Coast Fast Freight. To go along with the Mack Trucks fallen flag today, I’ve got a free checklist of the entire DCP by First Gear Fallen Flags Series. Grab your copy here https://bit.ly/Fallen-Flags. You can also purchase many of the Diecast Promotions Fallen Flags series on my website: http://www.farmtoysandmore.com

I also talked in my Ringsby Freight System video about the ICC or Interstate Commerce Commission and how they regulated the routes trucking companies could use.

Well West Coast Fast Freight wanted to expand their service to Chicago so they could serve their customers better. To do this, West Coast partnered with a company out of Omaha Nebraska called “Watson Bros. Transportation Company Incorporated”

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The west coast has brought us some of the largest and most famous trucking companies. Pacific Intermountain Express comes to mind right off the bat. But many others were running on Highway 1 California like West Coast Fast Freight Inc.

West Coast Fast Freight was formed at the end of World War II. From a small beginning, it rapidly grew through acquisition, and dedicated service.

Innovation was another area West Coast used to stay ahead of the competition. One such experimental truck was built by Kenworth and powered by Boeing.

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Mack Trucks, is there any more iconic east coast manufacturer?

I thought it’d be fun today to talk a little on Mack trucks of the 1960s.

Mack Trucks was in its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. Course these two decades were tremendous with growth and expansion in America as we had put the men from WWII back to work here and the Space Race.

But many changes headed Mack’s way were to happen in the 1960s. Like the discontinuing of the famous B-Model.

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A truck camper is any RV that can be carried on or in the bed of a pickup truck. The first type of RV is the Camper shell, the second is the slide-in camper. Especially in the 1960s, the slide in truck campers made up a substantial part of the RV market, but their popularity faded as other RVs emerged, especially conversion van-based Rvs. Those van-based Rvs soon took over the market. Van RV's offered more room and could be used for many other purposes. But the truck camper’s versatility remained unmatched as the slide in camper could be easily dismounted and leaving all the versatility of a conventional pickup truck.

I thought it might be fun and interesting to look at two Greenlight offerings of slide in campers, and the legendary pick up truck's that carried them. The 1967 Dodge Winnebago Camper and the 1968 Chevy C10 Silver Streak Camper. In each case I will first discuss the truck and then I will talk about the camper.

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J.W. Ringsby better known as Bill founded Ringsby Freight System in 1928 with 1 truck, a REO Speedwagon. He first started hauling coal around Denver Colorado.

From these humble beginnings the line grew in scope and size. Much of the company’s growth was attributed to numerous acquisitions. The ICC or Interstate Commerce Commission regulations of the time made acquiring new territory very hard and expensive, so rather than go the hard route most carriers just purchased their competition to get into their territory.

At their peak, Ringsby operated 43 terminals in 26 states. And By 1981 the fleet had grown to over 6,000 trucks.

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Little Audrey’s Transportation was started in the late 1940s. It was after the war and Refrigerated van trailers were just coming into their own and Little Audrey’s was one of the first to jump and focus on Refrigerated Freight.

This was a huge turning point in freight. Cold freight was no longer limited to distance between ice houses where the trailers would be iced down. And as you know with ice and warm temperatures it melts. Now in the winter with below freezing this wasn’t a problem, but the rest of the year it was a big big problem for moving cold loads and pretty much just forget moving frozen loads.

The founders at Little Audrey’s saw this as the future of trucking and incorporated their company in New Mexico but headquartered it in a tiny hole in the wall office in Fremont Nebraska. That little office only had a couple of dispatchers and office staff needed for sales and paperwork. Their office was just a converted 2 bedroom house on a big lot that was paved so trucks could pull in and park. I’ll bet the neighbors just loved that.

The legend goes, Little Audrey’s was named after one of the founder’s wives’ name. Probably some truth in that as not many trucking companies were named after women back in those days. There were a few, but not many.

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Vintage trucks are the latest craze in the 64th scale truck market. Models of trucks from the 50s through the 90s are the rage and DCP by First Gear has released many of them in their fallen flags series. Grab a copy of the entire fallen flags series with the link in the description below. Also be sure to subscribe as I really appreciate each and every one of my YouTube family.

To go along with the DCP by First Gear Fallen Flags series, Tuff Trucks of Australia, that’s Simon Rogers’s company has produced several runs by DCP of vintage Australia company trucks. The latest release is a Kenworth for TNT Express Refrigerated Services.

While TNT is still operating, the old divisions have been either consolidated or sold off today, but back in the 70s and 80s TNT operated multiple divisions. One of which was TNT Express Refrigerated Services…

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Freightliner Cascadias and Blank Utility trailers. Is there any better combination for making a custom fleet truck?

I know most of us truck collectors want the fancy show trucks. I get it, but really how many of those fancy show trucks do you ever see on the highways?

Fleet trucks really are the norm out there and our collections should reflect that.

I have made several custom trucks with these blanks. Like a custom of a friends Schneider tractor. Or a custom UpStage Lighting & Rigging truck for Taylor Swift’s Reputation tour. But what would you do with blank trucks?

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