THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Its actually a nice little oc for being basically a droplot. Its like obetz, smaller building, and no shop. Vending machines, transflo, and a usually clean bathroom.

 

My next truck (or maybe I'll decide to drop an 18spd in this truck I have now) I will have an 18 speed double over with a lower rear-end ratio, probably 3.36... maybe a little lower, but I don't want to go TOO low as I really like being able to creep back nice and slowly when reversing. Most driving will be done in overdrive, 16th gear, then have two more gears for when its GO FAST time. My truck with these rear gears and transmission now needs some extra gears for going fast, its just too low! I'm at 1600 RPM at 73 MPH... peak torque on this isx is at 1200 I believe... now you all see why I drive at 60 MPH LOL or it just KILLs my mileage.

 

Yep it is, office section is closed off but you can still get to the small breakroom/restroom area.

 

So I dropped my load in NC and was about to bobtail 120 miles back to the house but decided to take a look at the load board and found a load headed from nearby here down to GA... so I sucked it up, bobtailed back up to the gate, picked up an empty, and tomorrow start the trip down to GA. Sucks, I wanted to go home, but I had absolutely no need to, having just spent a 34 at Obetz. I couldn't pass up an easy run down to GA, haven't been down there in a while so I actually really look forward to it. There are plenty of times when I could have stayed out and chose to go home instead, so guess it won't kill me to do the opposite sometimes!