Marcel67

On 4/8/2021 at 9:14 AM, Vladislav said:

In Europe you're seldome to never seeing a tandem tractor with so long wheelbase. My guess the truck was a straight truck or a chassis reequipped with the 5th wheel. Or a custom ordered one but this is not a new truck.

Nice 14L animal.

Your correct on that

Great guy, i visit him back in the day with my MH V8 and let him drive it and  had nice lunch together great guy! RIP my friend 

Saw this superliner at the TA in Ritchmond VA

Yes he lived in W Virginia. I have not heard any thing again from the owner. Just hope it found a good home. Where could I find it in this forum if it was offered for sale. Thanks 

He started with a 53 footer and when finish he got an 48 footer 🤔

Have trump stop the ELD mandate and he will get a lot of support from truckers!

Congrats sleepy!

14 hours ago, 880joe said:

A t800 kw I wouldn't consider a classic truck with its sba and sloped nose. 

Well at lease it has more character and classic lines than the new Mack! 

Hmmm what a shame a Mack with a bad Botox cure! The good old Mack is dead! Volvo poised the brand and pushing it more in the back ground. I was a Mack guy but bought a classic KW with ARI sleeper sorry 😐 

11 hours ago, BillyT said:

Marcel,I fear for the lives of your little plants! Having been a car hauler that worked at a railhead,and received cars with parts stolen while on the rail (can you believe a driveshaft!) And a freight car repairman familiar with the condition of our rail infrastructure and the work ethic (and it's lack) at an operation where seniority determines most job classifications not skill in that trade! You're not gonna believe this,but a load of new Ford's got parked on a siding for a couple of hours and they stole half a dozen engines and trannys. I was at the scrap yard where they ended up and offered a new Lincoln 460, for a couple hundred bucks! Needless to say I got out of there quick! Says a lot about rail security and the mentality of thieves who would go to all that work and sell the results for scrap metal price!

The rail is a joke! Beside my tucking gig I owned a heavy equipment dealership. We sold a Terex off road dump truck to a client in Arizona and the client decided to ship it by rail. Th Rail company lost the unit for 5 months only to find out it was sitting in a rail yard in Detroit MI.  In the mean time the customer lost his contract !

Another crap looking fleet truck! 

Well I guess plants go on the train to from Miami to New York! What takes me 2 days to deliver takes 3 weeks by train! Poor little plants are all brown when they arrive 🤓🌹💐

😂😂🤣

Well it looks like the cops can't give you a logbook violations any more ore a HOS violations do the are going to loose revenue. So now it becomes a witch hunt on older trucks and guess newer trucks for technical issues! Short mudflaps uhhh wrong socks 😂

Crazy times we live!

It's always tough to go thru however he got out with out injury. Trucks and trailers can be replaced!!

They should focus on that EGR and DEF sh*t to be reliable and working normal! Without the need to pull into every f....ING dealer to be ripped off!!!! 

I have spoken with several Guy's that are on E logs and told me that there are ways around to cheat a little. I don't know how but I guess every one is going in the same boat shortly. Me with flower and plant loads also have to slow down!

I agree it's a double edge sword. I ran new and two old tractors pre emmision. I logged all repairs and compared. It was $210 more to run the older trucks and saw over time a increase in parts cost and down time. The last tractors I bought came with full 500k warranty and after treatment warranty including DPF and sevend injector. I run them close to 500k and trade them. That was for me the most cost effective way.