Finally got my own truck

what kind of trailer do you have?

 

@BoyWander ...

Get a creeper (cheap @ harborfreight) if u gonna do some DIY pm, or just looking around the bottom of the truck (yanking out a stuck mattress....lol)

You'll thank me later...lol

 

Dry van.

 

New from the factory Volvo's do not have greasable u-joints. My buddy had an 2007 VNL780 and it had no grease fittings on the u-joints.

 

@rollin coal ...that's what I suspected

 

Don't worry about the deadhead, I DH 4-500 miles w/o blinking, back to the direct customer. I won't burn time looking. @BoyWander

 

In Denver on DD15 500.00 bucks way to much for what they do.


Be Safe Out There


Captain Dave

 

I got lucky and got the truck I wanted for cheap. I figure that I will need some work, but if I can work it while fixing it, I can have real nice one for under $20,000. The transmission howls in od, so I might be able to get by rebuilding the splitter instead of Trans. The clutch looked to last for a while, but the throw out went, so as long as the trans comes down, a clutch goes in.

As far as the bickering back and forth about cheap freight, sometimes it pays to take it, sometimes it doesn't. A friend of mine took a load from NJ, where he lives to Alabama, where his customer is. The load took 8 hours to deliver, and paid around a buck a mile. Normally it would have paid, but for the day he lost, it didn't. How was he supposed to know?

 

Don't forget the siphon hose to fill those fuel filters before spinning them on.