Oldtrucks.com has been online since December 13^th 1998 and has made many great improvements over the years. We first started off on a small server offering the "Readers Trucks", "Big Rigs" and "Farm Finds" sections.

When we wanted to offer our readers online classifieds we were forced to upgrade servers and to seek advertiser support through the banner system. All was going well, the site was growing and receiving an increasing number of visitors. Then on Wednesday, Nov 15^th 2000, we were added to the Yahoo! search engine. This instantly doubled our traffic and flooded our email boxes with readers questions and comments.

All was going well until our site started to get shut down because we were exceeding our daily server usage. This forced us to look for a new server (which isn't the most enjoyable thing to do) that would accommodate our bandwidth and server usage. We found a server that was reasonably priced and could handle our new requirements. As it turned out, this server was worse than the old one, which resulted in the "No Website Configured At This Address" error when you tried to access the site.

This began the search for yet another server. We once again switched servers and set up the site, which went smoothly for once. The new server came online around March 10^th 2002 and everything was going great, people could access the site with no errors. It seems as if people missed the site and wanted to look at every page we had, especially the classifieds. This used up a great deal of bandwidth and forced us to start charging for classified ads to help cover the costs.

January 1^st 2003, we added a discussion forum to help reduce the number of emails that we receive each day. The idea of this is that readers can help other readers solve problems with their trucks or just talk about trucks. We hope this will help everyone who enjoys old trucks and will inspire people to restore older trucks (or cars) instead of sending them to the junk yards.

If you enjoy the resources provided on oldtrucks.com, such as the year identification, readers trucks, farm finds etc. then please consider showing your support by donating to the site. This will help us continue to be a quality source of information, resource and enjoyment for every truck enthusiast out there. We are seeking donations because our advertiser support has declined in the past year and our costs have risen substantially due to the popularity of the site.

Any donation is greatly appreciated, large or small. We understand that your truck can be a burden at times, and if you can't donate, we hope that you will continue to visit oldtrucks.com. We wouldn't be here if we didn't love the trucks too! If you can donate, please do so through our PayPal account (account ID "paypaloldtrucks.com" or by mail. Please email us for our mailing address.

All donations over $25 are entitled to an "oldtrucks.com" email address for one year. This can be used to forward email to your current address, or as your primary email address to send and receive email.

We would like to thank the following people for their generous donations:
Steve Rhinehart Raner, GA - $25
Dan Von Holten Kennewick, WA - $5
Ed Moore Fort St John, BC - $250
Butch O'Connell AZ - $39

Thank you for your support,