tjc transport

my bossman in constantly getting on my case about the truck being dirty on the outside. but you can eat off the floors inside. i wipe the inside down at least twice a day. and clean my boots before getting in. outside is a different story. one trip into a quarry at 5 mph and it looks like it has not been washed in 6 months. why? because all the askwholes that run by the ton go 50 in the quarry and kick up tire spray that will get a truck 100 foot away dirty. they simply are too freakin stupid to realize if you see dust, you are going too fast. and the only reason the water trucks keep the roads soaked is because they speed and create massive dust clouds. then they get out on the road and speed, run the left lane and shoulder, run red lights, roll over, run over cars, spill loads all over the place, blah blah blah. and bitch about the cops busting their balls instead of going after criminals.

and really good when a toolbag stops traffic in the left lane of a two lane to cut off someone 200 foot before the right turn with his window open. this is when you lay into the throttle on your pre emissions truck and fill his car up with heavy black smoke...😁

i prefer "weed burners" too. but the bossman likes chrome stacks.

this is one of those things that can best be answered with: whatever someone is willing to pay for them. i have seen two identical part sell for $50, and $500 on the same day, 100 foot apart. difference was the $50 guy was only willing to pay that and seller wanted to get rid of part. the $500 guy just knew he had gold, and the buyer had more money than brains.

You think that 12-24 price is bad, try pricing a 14-24!!

i am great with kids......as long as they don't bother me and do as they are told. other wise, some little brat is gonna be hurting when they try sittin down..

that's all rite, he don't know who is president either. for the past 14 months he has been referring to barry or Trump as president, not himself.

that is a really good setup. i wonder what the empty weight is? probably close to 40k.

if i knew then what i know now, i would have made a few investments and done money a little different. like bought into amazon and microsoft. just imagine what a $100 investment into each of those companies when in their infancy would be worth now. and i would not have left any money in the teamsters annuity fund either. that mistake alone cost me over $300,000 in "disappeared" money. but oh well, live and learn.

i used to run between 500 and 700 miles a day with the other company. this was in a 12 hour day. my average there was 125,000 miles per year. the past 12 years i have averaged between 50 and 200 per day. if i am dragging the trailer and machines around, it is on the low side. if i am milling and paving it will be higher, 150 to 200 per day. here i put around 30,000 miles per year on the truck

unfortunately with todays trucks you really can't fix them without first plugging a computer in. the 2016 ha da check engine light on for close to 45,000 miles. ran perfectly, but had the light on. we sold it last week so i took it to a friends shop to see what was triggering the light. the freaking outside air temp sensor was bad, and turned on the CEL . that sensor has absolutely nothing to do with truck operations, it is simply there to tell the steering wheel holder it is cold outside, put on a jacket before getting out.

simple. it iscalled demonrat mathematics. there are 40million unemployed in the country. but only .04% are COLLECTING unemployment. so unemployment rate is .04% as for the 430,000 increase in jobs, the demonrats lifted stay at home rules so 430,000 people went back to the jobs they already had instead of working from home. so 430,000 increased jobs. real world mathematics tells you the unemployment rate is 40%, and there is still a 45% decrease in jobs because employers are replacing low level food service employees and cashiers with computer terminals so they do not have to pay $15 per for a brain dead highschooler that can not do math without a calculator and has the attention span of a goldfish.. 😁

what he meant was 7 years out of the casings. not 7 years on the caps.

old company used to love recaps. brand new trucks had caps put on the rears before they even got lettered. we averaged 20-25k miles on the caps. the guy i have been with for the past 12 years flat out refuses to have caps in the yard. the cooper dealer gives us $125 for the cores last time i got tires. but then again, we replace tires when they got down to around 5,000 miles left on them. and we also do not hit things or sidewall rub tires either.

yup, same here. 60,000 on the steer axle, 50-55k on the rear axles. i rotate rear axles front/back every 10k miles for even wear pattern. yes in hurts a little paying for 8 tires instead of 4 at a time, but i prefer having same wear on the rears instead of front axle 50% and the rear damn near bald.

yes it was, but i would not trade the memory of those days for anything now. i truly believe those days are what made us what we are today.

i think it is amazing we all are still alive with some of the pranks, or stupid stuff we did as kids. but then again, we are probably still alive only because out parents did the same stupid stunts.

the cooper roadmasters on my trucks are all made in america. our cooper dealer is in the building next to us in the industrial park.

similar story here. when i was around 14 i came out from under a car covered in trans fluid. mom see it and almost had a heart attack!. to this day, i still call blood trans fluid. get a cut and blood dripping down the arm? damn it! i sprung another transmission leak! 😆

it is still a rare animal, but i would expect to put about 20 grand into it to make it rite.

add another 5 speed box to that, and you will have the trans in the 59 autocar with 16V71 detroit i ran to move a cracking tower 5 miles back in 87. 5 speed under drive, 5 speed main, and 5 speed overdrive. it had a top speed of around 35 MPH. it also had 100 ton planitary axles under it with 14-24 tires on it. the cheveron refinery was being closed and dismanteled, and they needed a cracking tower in louisiana. so they loaded it on a large 40 axle trailer and i hooked to it and drug it across town to a waterfront where A.J.Ross had a yard with a crane large enough to lift it off the trailer and onto a barge. took two days to make the move because halfway there someone missed on the route and a railroad crossing had crap in it and blew out 20 tires. the move was supposed to take around 15 hours at 1/2 mile per hour.

it needs an engine bob. the one currently in it is apart. and the interior is most likely messed up too with all the removed engine parts stuffed in the passenger side.

very interesting and informative read. thanks for that! 👍 i was not aware they were that far into the technology.

i am still waiting for he drive from home option to be developed and perfected. 😁

i saw a peterbilt a few years ago with a wheelchair lift built into the sleeper and no driver seat. same deal. once in the truck the driver would lock his chair in and off he went.