Wheel base?

Knight_Rider · Mar 12, 2020

Pedigreed Bulldog said: ↑

I've been driving a 240" WB daycab for over 9 years now, taking it all of the same places as I used to go in a 198" WB daycab, and even into some jobsites that would've been better suited for tandem dumps rather than T/T's with 39' trailers. If you aren't good enough to get a long wheelbase truck in and out, perhaps you don't belong there in ANY truck and you should just stick to the interstates. It is about skill. Knowing what you have to work with, and how to use it to get the job done...and then doing it.

Just because YOU don't have the skills doesn't mean the task at hand is impossible or that the skills to complete it successfully are not possessed by someone else. I spoke with a gentleman a few years back...before I bought my truck...pulling around a 53' trailer behind his truck equipped with a 200" sleeper. His sleeper was longer than the wheelbase on the company truck I was driving ay the time. The funny thing is, I met him in Chicago. You know what else? His truck and trailer were clean...no scratches or dents from running into things with that long of a truck. Would I recommend that set-up for a new driver? No. I wouldn't recommend it to you, either, since you think it would be "impossible" to drive. Nothing is impossible.
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I take it you’re one of those drivers that has saved people from a burning building, jumped from a high rise to another to help a damsel in distress and drove in the center median for a mile to avoid a pileup
Then jumped back on the road and made your delivery on time eh ? you and your bs stories.

Knight_Rider · Mar 12, 2020

Pedigreed Bulldog said: ↑

I've been driving a 240" WB daycab for over 9 years now, taking it all of the same places as I used to go in a 198" WB daycab, and even into some jobsites that would've been better suited for tandem dumps rather than T/T's with 39' trailers. If you aren't good enough to get a long wheelbase truck in and out, perhaps you don't belong there in ANY truck and you should just stick to the interstates. It is about skill. Knowing what you have to work with, and how to use it to get the job done...and then doing it.

Just because YOU don't have the skills doesn't mean the task at hand is impossible or that the skills to complete it successfully are not possessed by someone else. I spoke with a gentleman a few years back...before I bought my truck...pulling around a 53' trailer behind his truck equipped with a 200" sleeper. His sleeper was longer than the wheelbase on the company truck I was driving ay the time. The funny thing is, I met him in Chicago. You know what else? His truck and trailer were clean...no scratches or dents from running into things with that long of a truck. Would I recommend that set-up for a new driver? No. I wouldn't recommend it to you, either, since you think it would be "impossible" to drive. Nothing is impossible.
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Pedigreed Bulldog said: ↑

I've been driving a 240" WB daycab for over 9 years now, taking it all of the same places as I used to go in a 198" WB daycab, and even into some jobsites that would've been better suited for tandem dumps rather than T/T's with 39' trailers. If you aren't good enough to get a long wheelbase truck in and out, perhaps you don't belong there in ANY truck and you should just stick to the interstates. It is about skill. Knowing what you have to work with, and how to use it to get the job done...and then doing it.

Just because YOU don't have the skills doesn't mean the task at hand is impossible or that the skills to complete it successfully are not possessed by someone else. I spoke with a gentleman a few years back...before I bought my truck...pulling around a 53' trailer behind his truck equipped with a 200" sleeper. His sleeper was longer than the wheelbase on the company truck I was driving ay the time. The funny thing is, I met him in Chicago. You know what else? His truck and trailer were clean...no scratches or dents from running into things with that long of a truck. Would I recommend that set-up for a new driver? No. I wouldn't recommend it to you, either, since you think it would be "impossible" to drive. Nothing is impossible.
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skill? Do you honestly believe yourself and what you’re uttering? How is skill going to help you when there is physically no room for a 53 foot with a sleeper? You’re just a wannabe newbie moron with stories you tell yourself to put yourself to sleep at night.

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