An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Most grain haulers with “real” trucks aren’t at 78-79k. They’re 90k-100k plus. And with those trucks slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

 

One of my first loads with this truck was 108k and 15’ wide. It pulled it just fine. I have a 500hp paccar vs most of the rest of the fleet having a 450 paccar. This trucks pulls just about the same as my last truck that had a 500 hp cummins and an 18 sp manual. The paccar is a lot quieter and much better on fuel.

 

Do you have parvo wulfman?

 

Yes there were 5 wing team trucks ordered with 500 hp paccars and 5’ fifth wheel slides. I think only two of the five are actually with wing team guys now. One retired, one quit to go local, and one went to a senior driver on the cowling crew.

 

Wasn't that many years ago a 350 Cummins was big power

 

I had one of those! 11.1 Series 60, an old Crete Volvo White.GMC. Mine was uprated to 365HP, they told me that was the max.

 

I can't imagine these big trucks. I was so happy to drive my 285 hp Maxidyne 300 I smiled like a Cheshire cat. When I went to a OTR produce company and they gave me the keys to a Western Star CO with a KT450, 13 spd od and 410 rears I thought I had died and gone heaven.