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Discussion in 'Swift' started by scottied67, Feb 24, 2011.

  1. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    but dont buy them at kw--generally their prices are really high for shiney stuff---if you go thru greencastle pa there is a good chrome shop
     
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  3. KevinUnserJr

    KevinUnserJr Light Load Member

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    okay REDD junior.....lets see another 5 posts with different wording basicly saying the same thing. okay?

    if you dont mind working, you wont get 'taken'. the ones who have been 'taken' have allowed themselves to be. If someone is doing it, and being successful at it....let them be. So what, they might be driving 400 mi more a week than you making the same money.....again....SO WHAT. you've stated your opinion....probably more than once in other threads....but if you got nothing productive to say to scottie on this thread....then you need to make one of your own about how you hate the lease deal....
     
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  4. Hamshoe

    Hamshoe Medium Load Member

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    I like the lug nut covers and caps. I like lots of lites also.....
     
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    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    me too--i like shiney things very much
     
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  6. scottied67

    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    Yes I have what I need. Plus I lightened my load by a little bit. But if I knew of a place that could fix them, in the future I will prefer to get them repaired rather than toss them in the scrap heap. I see broken chains all the time, behind the Swift shops, piled up on the ground at shippers/receivers/truck stops etc. Sometimes they just fall off because they were put on too loosely.

    You just reminded me, when I was in the shop and we were looking at the maintenance history, the guy had run the truck out of fuel at least twice in its life, the batteries had also all 4 had been replaced last August due to being drained so low they were damaged. He probably left the fridge on for several days of hometime or something...
     

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  7. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    no magic trick to fixing chains--there is a tool looks like a big pair of bolt cutters---and then you need the replacement links
    sounds like swift maintenance could be saving a lot of money by just fixing chains
     
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  8. KevinUnserJr

    KevinUnserJr Light Load Member

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    they could be saving MILLIONS if they'd just get employees who cared. Next time you're in a terminal, look in the junk bin behind every shop. Just the other day, i was in Lancaster, and they were throwing a way the scrap of a frame or something. The mud flaps were still on it !!! perfectly good flaps. What about those hoods they replace? still have the lights and mirrors on them. If they spent the extra time (which might be an extra man hour or two per person per week) swift could save $1,000,000 without a sweat, i think. But they think it is easier to shaft the company drivers out of a penny a mile, then turn around and buy the shop brand new shop trucks.......Spend a dollar to save a dime....
     
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    KevinUnserJr Light Load Member

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    i will let you in on another secret. When you're fuel light comes on, and the needle gets down to the "E"...you can actually go 90 miles pretty easy. I didn't do it on purpose, but i had a load that i traveled thru the middle of Wyoming, dead of winter and it was about 6 degrees out....made it to Casper, and stopped at the first truck stop that had #2 diesel. 93 miles with the needle below the "E" and with the red fuel light on. try getting tired behind the wheel under THOSE circumstances....LOL

    here is a good fix for your bunk bed....so it dont look so.......eh.......ghetto? buy a 1x1 or 2x2 at Menards or something, cut it down to 4" in length, and stand it up on the ledge on the sides of the sleeper that help support the bunk....right behind the cabnets. would eliminate the rope....
     
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  10. KevinUnserJr

    KevinUnserJr Light Load Member

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    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    I was just thinking of better solutions and came up with the idea of taking two 2x6's about 14 inches long and ripping them with my skilsaw at the perfect wedge shaped that the bed angle is at now and slipping them in at the ends of the bed on the shelf that it sits on. They would be trapped in there by the cabinets from going forward, and the bed from going backwards. Can't go side to side as the bed and the side wall hold them in that way as well. Yeah I'm not to hip on this rope trick because the action of the bouncy road eventually something will wear out like that seat belt mounts which are bolted in the bed and the back of the sleeper -- not good.
     
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