Peterbilt 589

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Long FLD, Dec 18, 2022.

  1. Concorde

    Concorde Road Train Member

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    Everyone clams up when you ask for the ifta statement.
    Like asking a woman how much she weighs, lol
     
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  3. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    I demand a scale ticket missy!
     
  4. wifi_guru

    wifi_guru Medium Load Member

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    don't like the headlights
     
  5. ducnut

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    How do you suggest I address that? Go buy a truck and trailer to appease someone on a forum?

    I kept a ledger, at Maverick, to ensure I was getting paid the fuel bonuses I should have. That’s all a company driver can do. Where I’m currently at, I know what the uncalibrated dash display says at the end of the day. People bellyache about these displays, but, they’re closer than they’re given credit for. Of course, I pull a dry van, now, so not exactly relevant to this particular discussion.
     
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  6. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    Getting doors blown off by Prime passing you so can get a fuel bonus is dedication :D
     
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  7. abyliks

    abyliks Road Train Member

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    why do a run in 3 days when you can do it in 5 for the same money…..
     
  8. Cat sdp

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    There was a rumor years ago that a sni company guy on a dedicated run would buy fuel out of pocket like 50 gals a month so he could get the fuel bonus
     
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  9. pushbroom

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    Trux headlights, pete fender guards, 18'' drop visor, pete air cleaner lights, red underglow, new style herd bumper
    20240620_224858.jpg 20240620_224907.jpg 20240620_221139.jpg 20240620_221219.jpg Air piping is complicated. No room to run the air cleaner hookups in the cab like they used to. Shield on frame covers a webasto
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    Stacks are finally fixed. No more sliding bushings that always bang and wear out. Stacks are hard mounted to the cab, flex pipe at the bottom of the stacks.
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    Relocated the air solenoid banks into the sleeper. Stops the valves from freezing, plugging with mud and rock damage.
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    Best peterbilt accessory yet. Puddle lights that replace the factory door lights and project the peterbilt emblem onto the floor. For 160$ they are gonna sell a ton of them.
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    Flex in the stacks.
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  10. Cat sdp

    Cat sdp . .

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    Are both stacks functional, or is one a dummy? I still don’t understand the breakdown on the dummy stacks…..
     
  11. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Everything about that concept just screams “WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!” to me.

    It doesn’t take a 25 year driver, or even a mechanical engineer who actually earned his degree instead of having it handed to him through the bigotry of low expectations, to know that 1300 rpm is a hell of a lot easier on any truck engine than lugging down the road at 1000 rpm because some schwanz who never seem the inside of a truck before thought it would be a good idea to both disable the manual overrides on their garbage automatic transmissions, AND make it so 11th gear is practically unusable due to a limit on the road speed.

    I’d hate to see what the valvetrain looks like on one of these rolling mega fleet trash cans after 500K
     
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