How many Million Milers do we have?

22 years but not a clue haw many miles. I guess around a million. I have done super loads (so 500 miles a week was normal) for years. Boats, 20' wide is hard to make too many miles. Mobile homes, 4 hours on the road then 8 hours to park it. Fuel, 2 hours at the rack to drive 20 miles to the stop. I did have a reefer for a while but 50K per year to live in a truck wasn't my style.

No serious wrecks, never injured anyone or totaled anything. Well I did knock two feet off the roof of a house once (16' house 14' bridge, my calculator had a dead battery that day).

 

Funny no one has posted that they have more miles BACKING UP than the rest of us have driving forward .

 

Been driving since 1986. The last 20 years I've been driving a racing transporter. So I have only about 1.6 million miles.

The last two years has been real slow with only about 30,000 miles behind the wheel of the 18 wheeler

 

Why the need for a new T660 if such low miles ?

 

You talking about me? If so. To comply with the new CARB laws coming into effect the next few years

Unfortunately we are based in SoCal. We have a perfectly running 1999 T600 with the 550 CAT and less than 500K miles. But we decided to go with a new T660 instead of trying to retro fit this 99 T600. I'm actually hoping to buy this 99 T600 to run it part time for my buddy out Boise.

Sorry for the thread drift

 

Been driving off and on for twenty years and lost my job 2008 and unemployed for a year losing and selling everthing I had. Have been driving a junky truck local with fair pay ( better than nuttin' ) for 2 years now. Had an accident last June , punk boy passed me while merging off a ramp forcing a elderly driver off road sliding in front of me. Loaded heavy with nowhere to go ripped down the side of his car. No ticket ,not at fault, no injuries . Scratched fender and bent bumper on tractor that was pulled back into place by hand . Have been applying to trucking companies and found out since car was towed is a D.O.T reportable accident and held against me. Might as well make the best of where I'm at and stay on a bean and bread budjet

 

My old boss told me that and has spilled more beer than I ever drank

 

Remotely similar to what you said is why I got a job using my pickup as a Hot Shot truck.

That and staying 4 to 6 weeks out in trucks that would not idle and had no working APU!

 

Well use to haul drilling rigs, moving the derrick one truck at the front the other at the back. The men and women who do that definitely have more miles backing up than some do going forward.

So there I said it.

 

Passed a million accident free (can't say the same for tickets) sometime in 2008. Since then I had a door come loose on a trailer and jerked it clean off. Just goes to show that it doesn't matter how long you've been out here, or how good you think you are, stuff happens. What really sucks, is even when you do everything possible to be safe, courteous, and professional, someone can come along and ruin your day or even your career in the blink of an eye. In my case, someone lied on me and said I ran them out of their lane and into another vehicle, nothing at all I could do to prove I wasn't at fault. If I owned my own truck I would have so many camera's on that thing you'd think I was filming a Burt Reynolds movie.