tjc transport

happy burfday form joisey joseph!!

back in 81-82 i was helping a friend who owned a landscape supply company. his u model tractor had an air start(the truck i was driving when i broke my neck). i got to a nursery to pick up a load of trees just as lunch started. 1/2 hour later the owner came out and told me t fire the truck up, as the guys were 35 minutes into their 30 minute lunch break. i have never seen a bunch of sleeping Mexicans jump so high when i hit the starter! the owner laughed.

Working in a dry dock facility today. Sitting on the frontage road next to a massive ocean going tug and they fired it up. Was very supprised to hear it has air starters!

Not a fun thing to run, especially with a 12V71 green leaker sitting rite next to you. And with a 175 gallon hydraulic tank behind and under the pilot seat. Get in the seat wearing a sub arctic suit because it is 5 degrees out. 25 minutes later you are in t shirt and shorts soaking wet from sweat with windows and door open.

super duper secret post.

when they first put in digital scales i used to mess with people i did not care for on quarry scales by turning power all the way up and then keying up when behind them. scale would read around 5,000 pounds heavy. they would start cussing out the loader operator for intentionally overloading them as they went to dump off some as the quarry's were not allowed to let a truck leave if it was over 70,000 lbs for tandem, or 80,000 lbs for triaxle.. then they would hit the scale again to see they were 2-3 ton under weight. so they would then have to go back to the pile to get more on the truck. when you get paid by the load or ton, this was a waste of about 1/2 hour, which meant you would loose 1 load delivered that day, or force you to run extra hours without pay. especially of i was near them for 2-3 loads over the course of the day. after doing this for a few months, the scale master pulled me aside one day and politely asked me to stop doing it unless he gave the thumbs up for a "difficult driver" yes, i was being a prick, but i dont get mad, i get even when people are a prick to me.

i ran a uniden for many years detuned and hooked to a texas star 400 watt linear. then trucks went computerized and anything over around 200 watts would shut down the truck computer. so i switched to a Galaxy DX 88HL. ran that for better part of 20 years until i got the new Kenworth T880 in 2019 and the 88 would not fit in the overhead due to the side mount mike, so i picked up a Connex 3300HP. it works well, but will not fit completely in the overhead because it is a smidge too big as other dog pointed out. so i leave it locked on first click, and the mount sticks out about 1/4 inch from overhead. we mostly use the cb to talk to asphalt plants and loader operators, plus the other trucks we are running with.

while uhaul trucks are drove hard and put away wet by renters, they are also very well maintained usually.

same here, never saw one either. and i must be rare, because even the internet says there is no such thing.

yes it was. and i did not see it until just now.

i am going to say miles Joey. uhauls usually sell fairly cheap.

nothing like a NEW truck. the 2019 Kenworth T880 triaxle had 97 miles it when i got it. the 2022 T880 tandem had 200 miles, the 22 triaxle had 245 miles, and the 24 T880 had 110 miles. the 19 has well over 400k miles on it now and looks like it has not been washed since the last time i washed it in april of 22. the tandem has 31k on it, the 22 triaxle has 34k miles on it, and the 24 just turned 21k miles. we downsized drastically after 2021 with just the boss and i running the 3 dumps, the lowboy, and mason dump for the past 4 years. when i got sick we hired a friend that had just retired to help out.

Bob, he is either gonna spend money on the truck, or the race car. better on the truck.

just re read the whole thread..... i remember about 90% of the trucks posted, and sad to see that so many of the trucks are no longer with us.

bump to front page.