Why the long Hoods?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by HoyBoy53, Sep 15, 2013.

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  1. JPenn

    JPenn Road Train Member

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    Y'all keep your Toyotas, with their economical price and good fuel mileage. I'll keep my Benz, which didn't cost me that much more and gets similar fuel mileage. Oh, and parts prices aren't that different either...just a lot of mine are still metal. I walloped a deer yesterday at 40ish mph, pulled the bumper off the steer tire. And kept going. Just another reason I drive what I do (though now I'm pricing out bull bars :)

    You pay your money and you take your choice. Unless you drive for someone else, but this is the O/O forum. Lease and company are over there... ---->
     
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  3. Dice1

    Dice1 Road Train Member

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    Thank you to all the hood drivers and fuel wasters for making my profit margin larger. Please continue the good job out there you are doing and please don't go buy a more fuel efficient aero truck and mess it up for those of us that already own one.

    Thanks Again!
     
  4. rickybobby

    rickybobby Road Train Member

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    Same ol thread us vs. them.......
     
  5. kwloo

    kwloo Medium Load Member

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    Glad you like your truck Dice. If it gets your day done and you're happy - then its done its job.
    I drive a luxury car, live in a nice house and drive a big car. Life is good. I run 65 all day long and my yearly average is just over 7. The company has a New T680 with a weed burner spec'd the same as my truck and it is averageing 7.7 for the 5 mths its been on the road. We all do the same routes and variety. He runs 62 and less on the hills. Pretty nice truck but that half mpg vs the fact he is always almost an hour behind me each day leaves me feeling kind of smug on Thursday night when I'm home. Plus, he hasn't gone thru a winter yet. BTW- he came out of a hood where his 3yr average was 6.8 running at 62mph.
    He likes the room between the seats but he knows it doesn't ride like my truck.
     
  6. wore out

    wore out Numbered Classic

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    Wants a hood so bad he just keeps stuttering about that fuel mileage poor guy.
     
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  7. G3Truks

    G3Truks Light Load Member

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    Last time I checked we were still kinda free......free to choose....so...if a person wants to shake chickens over their head, bite the heads off rats, wear a tutu or a speedo while driving a truck, drive a little plastic mini van looking truck and get on an O/O forum and cry.......I guess they can do that.

    as long as they don't step on my toes or get in my bubble.....
     
  8. Oscar the KW

    Oscar the KW Going Tarpless

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    Are you 2 years old?
     
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  9. yotaman

    yotaman Light Load Member

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    I have read some of your threads about what you do with solar, and other things you do to save fuel and such,thought you were a pretty clever guy,but your recent posts make me think you are just an arrogant #$@%. just sayin.
     
  10. highside

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    Yeah I'm still trying to figure out what he's trying to prove with his childish posts. He's got some kind of obsession with fuel mileage for sure, as if it's the ONLY way to make money in this industry.

    If you want to get him fired up, just question the effectiveness of MicroBlue, or the credibility of his crush Kevin Rutherford.
     
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  11. 7.3 cowboy

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    How effective is micro blue?
     
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