PRIME drivers...What's your 20?

Drop your trailer, bobtail over to Walmart - just east of Cargil on IL 125. Get the number from the guards (I think its on the mac19 page) and call and check on the load. Smells better over there!



Just don't forget to be there in person at DDT!

You want to cinch it up as close as you can, maintaining enough clearance underneath to the landing gear to swing the tractor around. My preference is a position that I can scale a max load for my tractor with full fuel and be legal on the steers. I think the Peterbilt site had a paper on fuel economy posted that indicated you might get as much as 3% improvement over a guy who has it all the way back - no indication of what that meant in terms of distance from the back of the cab though...

 

At Gadsden, al petro heading to Brookhaven, ms to mclanes this has been a great week!!! Silent eagle that's a good idea mite do the same!

 

Made it to Cheyenne despite very high winds and sloppy roads around Elk Mountain - as usual! At least there were no road closures. Unloading at the WMDC then waiting to spin the wheel in the morning.

 

T/A at exit 142 off I10 in Florida. Dropping this Monday in baton rouge, then deadheading up to Montgomery to drop the trailer. I hope.

 

Yep, in my 12 cascadia you can move the plate all the way forward and still have cab clearance. If you have anything on the catwalk, it might hit. your first time you might want to turn about 45degrees and check it.

For those who havn't moved their 5th wheel yet, you have to:
1. drop the dollies and take the weight off of the 5th wheel.
2. flip the valve to unlock the plate. (you have to visually inspect that the plate unlocked. You might have to bump it with the hammer the first time)
3. I used my dump valve and it moved the plate forward 1/2 notch, flipped the valve to the lock position, then backed up slowly until it locked.

1 notch came out to be about 575lbs on the steers with 43k in the box. This is all subjective because it all depends on how the trailer was loaded. If they loaded the trl front heavy, it might be more.

 

Rest stop just outside Des Moines IA off I80. Feel like crap but the sunrise that is just starting looks beautiful.

 

Make sure your tractor and the trailer are VERY straight, put another way - in-line. You can get those pins out of alignment... and then you've got a problem. If they don't quite go in, flip the valve to set them and move the tractor ever so slightly to get them to slide into place.

 

Sitting at the loves in burley idaho at my 01 @ 1600 goin to kirkwood ny. Due the 9th not bad for my 1st official load with prime avg 1.51 to the truck

 

Taters or did ya go over to Green Giant?

 

Americold? I imagine frozen somethin or other gotta be at-10 any advice is welcomed not in the mood to F up haha