OK haters, here's some red meat for you...

Hi rank, why bother, the 359 has class up the ying yang, and it's like driving a classic car, it's cool. Used to see so many, but now I only know of 1 company in Wis. that still runs them, Randy O'Keefe trucking ,out of Wis. Rapids. I've seen newer trucks with them, but I believe the drivers refuse to get out of them. And to think, I sold my '72 small window for $22.5 back in '94. Still haven't stopped kicking myself for that one.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4051521]Hi rank, why bother, the 359 has class up the ying yang...[/QUOTE]
Just to prove I can LOL. Actually, I think it won't be that hard to beat the other guys in fuel mileage. I doubt if I can beat my average in my trusty little M11 though.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4051521] And to think, I sold my '72 small window for $22.5 back in '94. Still haven't stopped kicking myself for that one.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but who knew back then that things would go the way they have?

Funny story: My father bought a 100 acre farm for $5,000 in the late '50's. A few years later he sold the house for $5,000. 35 years later he bought the house back for $100,000. LOL.

 

I never got where the fact of driving a hooded truck means your making no money came from? I do quite well in my a model

 

Could you make more with aero? Some applications the truck aerodynamics might might help????

 

It doesn't say much for everyone else when the most sensible post in the whole thread comes from a guy who ran over a rock so big, it nearly ripped the whole underside off his truck .

Fwiw, I agree with everything he said.

 

Huh?

Martin

 

Hmmmm, well....
Me and another one of our drivers, same load, same trailers, same drivetrain and motor, same speed, same routing.
12'6" wide, 14' tall, @90k lbs. From Ca to Pa, always within 5 gallons of each other at fill ups.
Problem is (according to some), is that I run a square nose Western Star 4900EX and he was in his Crapcadia.
Go pull a van and let Prime etc tell you how to "make money" by getting 8mpg, or pull the bigger stuff where it doesn't make a single ounce of difference. Dont ASSume that everyone with a hood doesn't make the same as the aero trucks etc.

Next.....

Martin

 

Not enough to justify a truck payment and not driving a truck I enjoy. Driving a Volvo or freightliner would wear me out on wat trips i do make, just because I can't stand driving or working on them.

 

Pleased to see that KW is sitting on a sterling frame

Makes me feel that much better about loving my good ole sterling! On a technicality, that KW should be classified in the "exotic" category since it sits on a Sterling frame.

Off topic- my personal opinion is the 379 rides the best, after being in a handful of different trucks all along the roads in the northeast. I use to put my sterling at the bottom of the list, till recently I slid my fifth wheel back 4 notches (now all the way back) and it rides ALMOST as excellent as the 379 I rode in. An air ride front axle and I'll have the ride of a Cadillac.

Now back to that KW... if PRICE was no option and I had NO bills to pay, I would go out and buy a 96 W900 (preferably one stretched to a 300" WB) with the Mechanical Cat and an 18 spd. My dream truck. However... if that KW is on a sterling frame... well I may have to create a new dream lol!