Just hate the way these newer trucks look

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by jbatmick, Aug 18, 2018.

  1. Hegemeister

    Hegemeister Road Train Member

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    5 months backlog for a W900. And 9 months for the T680.
     
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  3. gentleroger

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    It's easier to teach a non-syncromesh to sp1meone who has never driven a syncro. However it's easier still to teach someone to drive an auto, plus you don't have to teach them to drive for good fuel economy.

    Why the @#%$&@***@(!)#&#;*-*$;÷>-<<÷,#&<<÷&@(#[<! would I be in business except for the money? If money were not a factor I would be on a lake in the North Woods watching ducks and loons frolicking in the water.
     
  4. supersnackbar

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    One of the ugliest of them all!!!!!


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  5. skellr

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    I like that they gave some hard lines to the hood. But it looks like a Cascadia with a different hood! Check out the sleeper, that's Cascadia all over it. :D
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  6. DSK333

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    Compare the frame rails of a Crapcadia to a 379/w900 and you'll immediately see why there will always be a need for a more robust truck.
     
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  7. supersnackbar

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    To me it looks like Mack went to the local elementary school with a box of legos and had 8 yr old students design the thing. It looks weird coming at you because they put chrome up each side of the grill, but left the top and bottom the color of the body...sorta like chrome skunk stripes...maybe it'll be the next transformer...skunk-a-tron
     
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  8. Rubber duck kw

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    In it for nothing but the money is where we get the wonderful people who run their trucks with no maintenance at all, just keep it alive enough to go down the road. If that little bit of difference in fuel mileage between a hood and an aero truck is your profit margin, in the words of everybody on here "you're working too cheap." Every small company around my area, we're talking 100 trucks or so, all have hoods mostly petes, they have a few owner ops running aero Petes and a few kws.
     
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  9. rbrtwbstr

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    Interesting you mention frame rails. We've got a 2001 379 sitting in our shop with frame rails that are now paper thin right where the suspension bolts on. The truck is totally ready for the scrap yard, but our moron mechanic wants to fix it.

    We have a 99 Classic xL ( spare truck) that the frame looks like new yet. But our moron mechanic wants to rip it apart for glider components.

    I'll take my Western Star over them all. I believe they have the sturdiest frames out there, and it shows in my light weight.
     
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  10. stillwurkin

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    Lol. But Hunters had frame rails on the ground the other day when I was there. Should say Hunters is a large Pete, IH dealer. Anyway mechanic said rails for a older pete. Owner of the pete was gonna trade and then decided on new frame rails.
     
  11. Son

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    Right on Rugerfan,
    I'm running a t800 glider 72" midroof & wouldnt trade her for nothing
     
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