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ijustam posted:A load that wide (I can't really tell but it looks like it overhangs each side by several feet) they may not be able to drive in certain areas at certain times or they may have to wait for escorts. If it's just a mockup you wonder why they don't just cut it in half for shipping
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Yeah braking near houses should totally be banned. But then they're going to complain when the next truck ends up their living room.
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DonVincenzo posted:Yeah braking near houses should totally be banned. But then they're going to complain when the next truck ends up their living room. I don't see how the guy doesn't realize the correlation between living on a busy street, and said street being noisy. But, I mean, the guy is a Social Studies Teacher, not a rocket scientist or something, so he probably wouldn't understand simple things like how a truck works.
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To be honest.. tall, large diameter stacks with minimal muffling in the system make my pantaloons quite humid. When driving a car, I enjoy being able to hear a fellow truck driver coming up from behind me from a distance that gives me time to acknowledge them so I can prepare for what could be described as a blood flow displacement from most of my body into my pelvic region. The sounds of a large displacement engine with it's jakes fully engaged and creating over 500 hp of brakinNNNNYYEEEEUUUGGGHHHH give me a moment. Anyway, gently caress that guy. *suddenly ends up giving interceptor one heck of a nice body massage
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nutcup posted:*suddenly ends up giving interceptor one heck of a nice body massage That's all I heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww3GTNv9hHk
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 Days like this, it makes me feel good to know i've only got 5 months max left in this truck. a 12 liter diesel engine with half of the radiator blocked off propelling 40,000lbs to 70 miles an hour isn't enough to heat the coolant over 110*f. I actually have to hold my hands against the heater core to warm my fingertips up.
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Powershift posted:
Getting cold as gently caress up in the Great White North? My tranny is being a whore it's been so cold. It's like trying to gently caress a pail of frozen molasses to shift until I can get the needle to move.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Getting cold as gently caress up in the Great White North? My tranny is being a whore it's been so cold. It's like trying to gently caress a pail of frozen molasses to shift until I can get the needle to move. A couple weeks ago i started the truck at -31*C, when i let the clutch pedal out, it stalled. i couldn't even move the shifter. The range shift sycnhro is a sensitive little bitch, and there is no approved synthetic fluid for it, so i'm stuck with it. I was sleeping in the truck the other night in grande prairie, it hit -32*C, woke up at 3am freezing to death. the coolant temp and oil temp weren't even on the gauge. I couldn't be hosed to get out and cover up the rad, so i just cranked the RPM up to 1500. Even then it didn't drop the fuel more than an inch. I'm almost certain the thermostat is stuck open, but considering my intercooler is behind the rad, it gives me more horsepower so it's not gonna get fixed.
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So what you going to replace the Mack with?
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InterceptorV8 posted:So what you going to replace the Mack with? A new truck or a new career. Haven't decided which. If it's a new truck, i'm leaning towards a Kenworth W900l glider kit with a pre-EGR cat. Specifically, this one. http://www.truckpaper.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=4565579
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Powershift posted:A new truck or a new career. Haven't decided which. That's pretty drat sexy, if there's one thing American's do right, it's make sexy trucks. There's a few Peterbilt 379's getting around Australia now, but they're more a novelty than anything because of their length. I've seen a crazy purple tri-drive, twin steer rigid getting around my local area though.
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I've always wanted a pete 359 shorty with a coffin sleeper. http://www.truckpaper.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=3285731
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gently caress Christmas, gently caress holiday travelers, gently caress high freight volume, gently caress inconsiderate customers. Happy New year fellas
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0rganDonor posted:gently caress Christmas, gently caress holiday travelers, gently caress high freight volume, gently caress inconsiderate customers. Heh, you mean low freight volume. Unless you are UPS and fell asleep at the switch, this year was pretty chill. Which means they went stupid trying to get the next holiday in the door because of low sales. Yeah, who delivered Valentines poo poo and BBQers on Xmas? In 10F weather?
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Powershift posted:
Couldn't you just throw a different thermostat in it? seems like that is abnormally low, even my simple little 4 cylinder diesel warmed up in Wyoming hotter than that on -40 degree days.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Heh, you mean low freight volume. Unless you are UPS and fell asleep at the switch, this year was pretty chill. Which means they went stupid trying to get the next holiday in the door because of low sales. Yeah, who delivered Valentines poo poo and BBQers on Xmas? No, high volume. GM increased their orders 100% so there wouldn't be any stoppages when they opened the plants back up next week. There are piles and piles of unassembled cars in trailer lots from Lansing to Bowling Green right now with hardly anyone to move them and what am I doing? In Texas, waiting on a trailer full of soup to take over to Mississippi. For fucks sake operations, I AM AUTO DEDICATED!
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0rganDonor posted:No, high volume. Hahaha I love that loving poo poo. "Hey can you run this over to the middle of Oregon and then we will work you back to somewhere going somewhere?" "What fleet am I in again? Random bullshit that isn't my loving problem fleet, or specialized shorthaul?"
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Well I about flipped the poo poo out at work today, show up and give a once over on my truck and flip the gently caress out. Someone stole my motherfucking mudflaps. Now I'm about to get really loving rage angry for a couple of minutes just because why steal my motherfucking mudflaps other than the fact you can't loving drive you worthless gently caress and you ripped your mudflaps off. I took a quick look around the yard and found a Volvo sporting International mudflaps. So I reclaimed my mudflaps and about threw their old mudflaps through their loving windshield and poo poo in their driver seat. Instead, I relaxed, got over it, and just going to loving lock my mudflaps up. I think I'll use my unused gun cablelocks.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Well I about flipped the poo poo out at work today, show up and give a once over on my truck and flip the gently caress out. Just go to a customer with high curbs in their drop yard and there are piles of mudflaps laying around.
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InterceptorV8 posted:I think I'll use my unused gun cablelocks.  Someone found a use for those! Let me know if you need some extras, I've been trying to figure out what to do with them for years.
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madeintaipei posted:
You could always determine their ballistic resistance.
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Or you could make a Cat-O-9locks with a hickory tire thumper.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Heh, you mean low freight volume. Unless you are UPS and fell asleep at the switch, this year was pretty chill. Which means they went stupid trying to get the next holiday in the door because of low sales. Yeah, who delivered Valentines poo poo and BBQers on Xmas?
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CannonFodder posted:FedEx had loads of third party carriers showing up (including my old rides of CRST and Werner) and they still had some late deliveries. And they wanted us to drive out on Christmas Day. Hahaha no. "So we get Holiday pay??" Yeah that shuts them up every time. Next year I'm taking the week of Xmas off, just because. My company charges $200-$250 for Holiday pick-up and/or delivery but doesn't pass any of that to the driver. Tight rear end fuckers.
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 The guy pulls in at an angle, then reverses out, and I figure he is going to get it in the generous, well marked bay that way- hell, even the best of us don't get it right first time all the time. Nope, he just needed to make sure he was parked straight, bays be damned.
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I just worked straight through the holidays and made less than what I would have one my dedicated route. gently caress you PAM! GM opens next week, I can't wait. _________________________________________ DesperateDan posted:
Wrong thread?
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That will teach me to post sober
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PAM: Penny A Mile In other news, we had a bunch of trucks turn into 40 ton paperweights because the drivers didn't idle them and the fueltanks turned into puddling pops. Well no poo poo, the higher we idle, the slower we go, and we all know that you won't wave that, so have fun thawing out rigs rear end-jacks. It's really funny when a Texas truck gets routed north. Texas uses, what, 5%, 10% bio, so it starts to cloud at like 45F, and the company doesn't want you to used #1 when you get up in the cold states, so what happens? Hell some truck stops are warning people that the diesel in the fuel pumps are starting to freeze up, so be careful. Like that's going to improve when you put it in an engine and run it at 65mph in -20F. Now let's see if I can get the shop to replace my tires that are at 4 thou for wintertime safety.
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InterceptorV8 posted:PAM: What, nobody carries Diesel 911 up there? I always dumped a cup or so in whenever I filled up.
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CommieGIR posted:What, nobody carries Diesel 911 up there? I always dumped a cup or so in whenever I filled up. How cute, you think the company will PAY for that! Simple cure, in cold weather, idle the truck and burn .3G/hour and keep everything from freezing, but it's cheaper to thaw out a bunch of trucks than burn fuel!  In other news, I got new to me drive tires and steer tires! A couple fresh mismatched set of recaps! Except They installed them wrong. I don't know how they installed them wrong. I mean I know HOW they installed them wrong, but it is such a rookie tire mistake that I can't loving believe it. So now that I am back home, I get to go back to a professional tire shop and have them completely dismounted from the wheels and remounted as a complete set. Can anyone tell me how to not correctly mount dual tires? Let's see if you are better than our paid tire service personnel! Oh yeah, and aligned too. After all, somehow my truck has gone through a couple of sets of steer tires, being told it needs an alignment, telling the shop it needs an alignment, but getting ignored over that fact for 180,000 miles.
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InterceptorV8 posted:How cute, you think the company will PAY for that! Simple cure, in cold weather, idle the truck and burn .3G/hour and keep everything from freezing, but it's cheaper to thaw out a bunch of trucks than burn fuel! Directional tread? And I thought you were done with recaps.
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0rganDonor posted:Directional tread? I've BEEN done with them, the company still and always will have a hard-on for them. Nope not directional tread! It's even more basic than that. I'll let this go for a little while longer before I answer!
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Mounted the wheelpair the wrong way around so that both valve stems point inward?
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Deedle posted:Mounted the wheelpair the wrong way around so that both valve stems point inward? That's getting close, but not quite!
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You no longer have duals on your drives.
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Duals on one side, singles on the other.
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They didn't balance them. Most time they don't put tires on the machines and balance them, they do the runout mark on the sidewall, and if you are using alloy wheels, match them and call it good. They didn't even do that, then instead of putting the valve stems 180 degrees out on the duals, well, they next holed them over. With a trailer, I have a hard time keeping it straight because it shimmies a little, bobtailing? I'm loving Micheal J Fox, truck driver. I thought it was the roads because of the cold they buckle a little, it wasn't until I dropped my load, completely lost the damping of the trailer weight that I figured something was more wrong than green tires being a bit squirmy. Some of that might also be because on my steers, they didn't remove all of the wheel weights when I had them balanced. I found that out when I looked at the brand new rubber on my dirty wheels and saw some dirty weights.
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InterceptorV8 posted:They didn't balance them. I's always a comforting feeling knowing that the one thing that keeps you on the road was done properly.
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I saw something ages ago that still pops into my head from time to time. Saw a big truck going down I-35E between DFW and Waco. The trailer was cocked about 5-10 degrees compared to the truck. He was taking up a small chunk of the shoulder, with his steers almost into the next lane. Still doing about 60 mph. The tires didn't sound or smell happy about this arrangement. I've seen similar a couple of times, but usually it's 1-2 degrees. Never seen anything that bad since then. Cause(s)?
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