My "New" 1999 Pete

Ok. I'll take your challenge. Let's reduce the boredom talking about elogs and qualcomm.

I will work on some of your points and you work on mine.

You stated in the second sentence that you don't mind Elogs. Fair enough. I bring up your next sentence, you say that you are free, "FREEDOM!!!" From working 18 hour days that won't stop. Fair enough.

My counter is this. What are you going to do when Dispatch says you must be somewhere in a short time and no excuses? How would you feel knowing that you will be fired and replaced by someone for failing to cave to dispatch pressure? You would be gone, making a claim on the Home State's Employment Line without documentation of that last day at work down to the minute written down as you lived it?

The Justice Center for Truckers is encountering a explosive rise in what I would call malice firing of Truckers who think they are professional enough to "Dare to clock out" when the logs say so for the rest of the day or Night.

There are so many truckers coming here knowing nothing about all of the laws, controversery etc. Nor do they care? As long this last, the over supply; that is: you are going to be left in the cold.

How do you feel about that? I'm interested in your answers.

Me? Firing and threats to fire don't scare me. I'm around for so long in life that if things have gotten to a divorce with a possibility in a trucking company it's long past time to go.

Moving on to the next one... You showed me that you are no one's pushover with your determination to enjoy life on the road. I lay out the second half of the story you wrote very well (NO offense, you made a VERY good case for reducing work place stress and you also really made a case for truckers to take advantage of a 1200 mile work week with all sorts of time on the day time work place clock. NO stress at all. So what if ou stopped somewhere to soak up the sun for 4 hours and feed the ducks for same.

I would be attracted to that life again one more time. Not necessarily the soaking sun part. Some things are best left unseen LOL. I would absolutely bomb around the USA like the Blues Brothers sacking out where necessary and enjoying the local offerings where possible without a schedule in sight.

Going into a extreme from burning three logs, drug assisted running very intense mojokrakentrucking hot wheels and 5000 miles in a week by yourself. (I once average 18,000 a month, the two oil changes per month did me in on monthly logs because the hours just won't reconcile as well as the distances between the two oil changes...)

Down to a work week that contains at best 30 hours driving max and a load that can wait until next week Mon....

The more I think on these lines as a Nation, the more I grow interested in what you have to say to that?

Have a great morning. And a good day!

 

Not a bad looking truck ,but I noticed it lacks the full gauge package.

 

I think he can put a full gauge package in, it's 25 bucks a stewart werner gauge not too expensive considering the life long quality on those things. I think there abouts 100 plus gauges and 60 plus switches that can fit on a panel to the right of the cruise control in the petes. You might want to not use chrome rimmed ones though because the sun on them is painful for a few hundred miles at times.

Another thing is to put a matte (Flat, not gloss) color on the hood. Suggestion either dark olive green or Charcoal against the sun that reflects upwards into your eyes in winter. Not always welcome when you need it. We used to put a sun filter shade along the lower half of the windscreen for that reason.

One of these days Im going to find a proviterabal 2000 dollar 379 pete needing some TLC in a field somewhere and intend to slowly do what it is necessary to have it in a proper working condition. I will never be a showboat trucker because Im not rich. But perhaps a pete going from show to show will highlight what trucking was when I started.

That's my motivation anyway.

 

Sir, Your first post was the Gold. It's a awesome experience it is working for a laid back company.

Everything else I built on a high pressure company standing on the stressed drivers to make deliveries they are not able to legally.

Throw away my second point there is no point anymore. Again you are laid back and doing well. I don't have a leg to stand on anymore.

What I will do is this. I wish to thank you kindly for a wonderful talk and Im encouraged that companies like yours are doing well in this industry, that tells me that there are indeed changes happening for the better.

Im a old man, and if I wanted to be stubborn and mean I can do that but I wont. Again, your posts was well appreciated and is a positive sign to me that yes, things are improving out there.

I wont be around when it's time for your children to get licenses and ask you how well trucking is turning out to be for them because of the efforts your company is making to improve quality of life all around.

I for one am speechless. But it's a good thing because Im very happy to see these positive changes. It makes me want to see a brighter future for everyone. But....

The Feds have to back off the new laws. They are making them faster than I can keep track of, I need to find a daily or weekly "The Trucker" Newspaper publishing so I can keep up to date. If they still publish that particular paper.

Have a good morning, Today is Monday I take it. It's going to be a good day.

 

They make a 2pc style that compresses the nut if you have short studs. They're about $4ea but they're way stronger than the regular thread-on type

 

Nice truck bro. Mines just like it except green under the hood.
Tell you what when these ole girls are cleaned up they draw a lot of complements just because there are few on the road that are taken care of.
Very interested in what you find with the headlights too.

 

Exactly the truck I dream of getting a hold of. Think about her everyday. Seriously. Man do I love em. Good luck to you kind sir. Going to bed thinking of this truck.

 

Nice ride.