What if it Snows?

New automatics reverse actually turns the truck around for easier backing.

 

Cool old trucks, tough as nails. But you had to get out of the cab to change your mind.

 

For some of us the stuff you run won't do the work, Like run into Cali. or run e-logs. or be fuel efficient enough to be competitive.

Nothing wrong with what you folks are running. Just not the best choice for most of the folks that mostly run STAA specs and south of the 49th parallel.

 

I certainly don't dispute that, you can't make money running OTR freight with old iron unless it's just a hobby. Gotta have the aero and be as light as feasibly possible to have a chance against fuel and insurance costs putting on highway miles. But you can't argue the reliability of some of that old junk. It just kept running thru thick and thin.

 

Sounded to me like someone cranking on the truck in the RH top of pic, it firing, goosed it a time or two then die. cranked on again, repeated the start and rev , then die. If I am right, you are ###### lucky the truck is still there.

 

If you have a competent mechanic the older stuff can be wonderfully reliable.

I figure in another decade or so the "modern" electronics may evolve to handle the "outside of design criteria" conditions you folks operate in everyday.

Just the pretty boy "engineer" typically has no clue about what the true working environment is.