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i think it has something to do with the fact a clutch pedal is the new antitheft device.

the price already dropped 35 grand in the past two months. i am hoping by september it will be back down around 185 like the 2022 cab chassis was,.

my 2022 Kenworth T880 was $239,000 delivered with body, high lift gate, and pintle hitch attached plumbed for air brakes. the 2023 on order was quoted at $265 for cab chassis. dealer is pushing for signed contract and wanting $10,000 deposit. we are waiting for the price to drop 80-90 grand.

take a few pictures of the sprockets and rollers for us to see. that will help in identifying condition of the undercarrage. track loaders used smooth grousers on the tracks. dozers used big cleats on the grousers..

new jersey started driving school a must have for CDL last july. we also have auto trans restriction. if you take the road test on manual trans, you can drive anything. if you take the road test on auto trans, you are only licensed for auto trans truck. before we sold the pete the boss asked me to run it over to a friends shop and move a machine for him. with three other company owners standing there i said "i cant do that. i have a class A license, that means i can only drive an automatic trans truck" and walked away from him. took him a minute to realize what i said and did before he came chasing after me cursing up a storm. the other guys were rolling on the ground laughing. 🤣

i will verify with the hoe a wide track dozer is very tail heavy. never ran a loader with hoe attachment though.

i am sure i told the story here a few dozen or thousand times, but when i went for my road test at 17 i took a 49 international L-190 single axle tractor.. BIG 406 CID "Red Diamond" gas engine and a quad box. inspector would not take me for the road test because he could not drive a truck with "three shifters" i bitched to the station manager. he asked what did you bring down. i pointed out the window. he said you drove that here 45 miles? when i said yup, he stamped my permit passed. and i did not even have a licensed driver with me. the "third shift stick" was the parking brake. but i did not tell the dipstick inspector that.

looking at first picture, i am going to say he was going way to fast, drifted off the road and tried to power back up on the road instead of stopping. you can see where he was off the road for around 100 foot before rolling over.

all my trucks shut off at 64 mph. can they do 85? hell yea, one we sold last year had the speed limiter removed and has clocked at 85....and he still had more to go. the company truck foreman that now owns #8 asked me why i don't max out the speed, and i told then these trucks only have 45 mph brakes when loaded.. why would i want to go any faster than that? luckily the owner and his #2 (the construction super) both like me and tell everyone to leave me alone. all their project supers like me too except for one. he is always saying i am goofing off because i do at least one load less than everyone else. but i do not go over 50 mph loaded. so i just do not go on his jobs when i rent out to them.

15,700 lbs for the machine. figure another 2,000 or so for attachment, so between 17 and 18 thousand pounds.

i am pushing 54 years on the road. if i was not bored sitting home i would quit. sitting in the truck is pretty much the same as sitting home, but i get paid to sit on my keister and do nothing.

yea buddy!!! we have a quarry i deal with occasionally about 35 miles south of me. leaving the quarry to the main north/ south highway. if you go straight across rt1, there is a right turn 300 yards past the light that accesses the local high school. people regularly get left lane than fly across intersection and make a right for the school. ther ehave been many accidents there over the past 20 years. with the advent of big engine automatic transmissions, we now hang the cars out in the left lane pissing off all the people behind them because they actually stop in the left lane to wait for all the trucks to pass for an open lane. to make their right turn from the left lane. the cops have taken to sitting on the side road and issuing tickets for obstructing traffic and illegal turns to the idiots. they do not realize with a 550-600 hp and allison transmission, you can go from 0 to 35 mph in the 120 foot to cross the highway. with 4.56 gears my Kenworth T880 is faster than most cars....loaded at 80,000 lbs.

for over the road/long haul work a manual trans is fine. preferably an 18 speed. the 8 is ok, but it is severely lacking that "half gear" when in hills but since i do local paving work, the clutch while milling will have my knee the size of a football after 4 hours.

they are decent machines for their age. the clutch adjusters tend to seize and when they do turning gets very difficult. and around 10 years ago parts were no longer available new. even used parts were next to impossible to find. also the neutral safety switch is in the trans on the shifter and they tend to wear out so you have to platy with the shifter to get it started.

it has more to do with cant find people with brains that want to drive anymore, so you have to hire what is available. i have been looking for drivers for over two years now. the only thing out there is wanting $40 per hour to start, auto trans, and work 5 hours but get paid for 8. another thing about automatic trans. they are the only think keeping the older drivers in the trucks. ya cant drive if ya cant step on the clutch. i told the boss in 2019 i was done . i could no longer step the clutch down....even AFTER having left knee total replacement. he bought me an automatic truck. after driving mine, he sold the other truck and replaced that with an auto trans too.

boss took this picture of me christmas eve. i was under the truck feeding wires up to santa...😁

gee Joey, you are even ugglier than i thought you would be.

here is jersey there is a bill to be voted on for dropping the front plate. surprisingly, it has support from police departments.

we were on a LARGE parking lot job in 97 or 98 and everyone centered near my truck at beak time. i was the only one with an "old" truck. everyone else had mid 90's or newer macks with 400 or 427's, and one 460. there were also a few kenworts with cummins and cats in the 425 hp range. well the 237 sounds quite different from the newer engines, one of the youngsters opened the door of my truck to check it out and came around front to ask what engine and trans combo i had as he had never seen twin sticks PLUS a two speed rear switch in a truck before. the senior "old fart" on the job was a real joker, and was even quicker with a comeback. ...he told the kid that the truck had an old school 325 HP six cylinder mack engine and a quad box with two speed rears. he also told him that the larger engine and 40 possible gear combinations was why i could keep up with everyone on the road. the kid believed every word as gospel truth, and for weeks after that whenever i was around the big joke was asking me what gear i was in. mike had the new 460 powered truck with an 18 speed, and on the hood was painted " if ya can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch" i was one of the very few old trucks allowed to "run with the big dogs" another one was a 69 Autocar with a cummins and 18 speed. that 30 year old Autocar was washed every night and parked in a garage. it also had a chrome plated engine you could use as a mirror.

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the 237 will do anything the 460 will. just slower. my 79 DM 800 with worked 37 and twin stick trans would run alongside 400 and 460 trucks.............until we got to a hill. than fall flat on it's face. it had 285 injectors, a 5 inch turbo instead of the 4 inch, and the injector pump was turned up to match the injectors and turbo. the dynatard was messed up in the injector pump. straighten the rod and put it in. it would work properly one time, than bend the rod again. so i pulled the wire off the injector pump and ran it inside the cab. mounted a two speed rear switch on the main stick, and grounded one side of the switch. when i wanted the engine brake flip the switch up. switch down and engine brake off. i could speed shift by simply snapping the switch up for a second between gears to bring RPM's down faster to slip in into next gear. that truck won a whole lot of races against trucks with much bigger engines. i really hated it when they sold it.

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welcome to BMT!! good on you for saving another old dog! since you have air started the electrical should be 12 volt positive ground. unless it was converted to negative ground sometime over the past 60 years.

there is still the same amount of mentally ill in the country. the difference is now pedo joe and company are demanding the mentally ill become the majority, and the 99 % of "normal" people become the minority.