PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

That is a yard jockey. It is used to move trailers around the yard.

 

It was driving on a public road and has NJ plates though, so street legal...?

 

Why was it on a public road...?

 

They are fully functional trucks and street legal. It's not what they are designed for though.

 

To get from a companies yard to another yard down the street. Common.

 

It's an 'Ottawa' yard truck....

They have a hydraulic 5th wheel and entry through the back of the cab to allow for quick hook up to move trailers through yards and terminals.

I used to drive those both for a trailer ferry and at a couple of warehouses.... TONS of fun except for the rough ride due to short wheelbase. They turn on a dime!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_tractor

Some of them are street legal.

We always called them hostlers.

 

Do they have A/C and a radio, or just basic stuff like a heater?

 

In Cali they have AC.

 

Most are pretty basic, but depend on the spec. of the company.

Most have at least a two way radio so the driver doesn't have to keep running into the office for instructions.

4-5 speed auto transmissions, planetary rear ends, usually a 300hp or so Cummins engine, 3 1/2 turn lock to lock steering.

There is a video on YouTube somewhere about the history of them. They got their start in Ottawa (Kansas?) if I remember correctly.

 

It prevents hitchhikers and lot lizards.

 

They can be spec'd with AC if the company purchasing them decides to add it but AC is just a factory option like any other vehicle. Ours do not have AC but they have heaters

 

True that!

You have to leave the cab to change your mind!!

 

Originally a thread called “It’s not my car, it’s my boss’s” 1967 Mustang restoration!

This is my boss’s 1967 Mustang that he inherited from his late father in the early 1990s; It was taken off the road in 1991 and taken to my boss’s garage a short time later, and it sat from at least 1992 until January 2021.

 

January 2021; Before we removed it from the garage...

 

After we used my boss’s Escalade to extricate the Mustang from the garage where it had been sitting since 1992; Exterior and engine shots from the same day...

 

Interior on the day we pulled the car out...

 

Working on it; That's why I "reserved" the first three spaces...