Running with JCT

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I think that there's plenty of room here for questions about how JCT's trucks are spec'd. As for the rear ends, I'm in the dark too. I'm pretty sure that for a Cascadia to be an, "Evolution", it has to have the DD15 engine. The standard 2014 Cascadia may have the old 2012-style fairings too.

 

I dead-headed over to Van Buren last night to pick up. It was a live load that Tyson, in their infinite wisdom, loaded onto a Southern Refrigerated trailer. Would have been a nice drop-n-hook since the SRT trailer looked better than the one that I had. So the yard dog and I backed into adjacent docks and the switch was accomplished without difficulty.

The 04:00 Monday appointment wasn't looking doable though. I think that it might have been possible in theory, but then time travel is possible in theory too! The Qualcomm woke me up with the welcome news to meet a team in Sayre, OK for a swap. I've been wanting to get rid of this trailer since I got it! It has no aero doo dads, but at least it has super singles.

My team showed up on time in Sayre and the first thing I saw was that I was actually trading down for one of the dreaded "R" trailers. No aero, no singles. The good news was that they were very light with a tomato load scaling under 20,000#. Three stops: St. Louis, Cleveland, and New Haven, CT for about 1,650 miles ending on Wednesday morning. Pretty good deal!

I hooked up and boogied east getting 8.5 mpg. Stopped tonight in Big Cabin, OK. Tomorrow will be a quick 360-mile dash to Troy, IL to meet an old friend for some steaks, football, and beer.

 

No probs. We're getting the 10-speed Eatons still. I really want to see some real-world numbers with the Detroit DT12 automatic.

 

Not rude at all. I'll check when I go back out to the truck.