Day Cab O/Os

What weight are you gonna run? What kind of work do you plan to do? If its guaranteed work daycab share nice, but the sleepers offer the versatility. I would say try to buy/build a truck that is as versatile as possible, you never know when certain work may get slow and you gotta change it up a bit

 

So what's your question: can it be done, or are those good specs, or ....? I been considering daycabbing my tractor. Work may offer different opportunities in the future, and if it does I'll put one back on.

Personally I wouldn't buy a truck and build it over a 3 year period as a company driver....if that's where you're coming from. Good way to fill up your backyard with junk that don't work and never will because there will always be "just one more thing" to do before you put it to work...(aka "being scared" )

Buy something legit. Get it legal. Work it. Get it set up right for what you're doing with it. Get it pressed out and looking good. Tell young bucks how to get it done the way you did...

 

What tire size? 3.25s might be a bit low for that even @ lp22.5's...and rolling low speed with traffic as well. Your truck: your choice.

Make it happen.

 

3.73 to 4.10 range with 24.5 tall rubber......

your not not going to get great fuel milage #s pulling 100k in the NE anyways...

 

^ what he said. a friend of mine runs 3.55s on tall rubber up to about 85k, I wouldn't go lower than that.

Cat SDP: you run bulk in the northeast? Some of the things you've said in the past would lead me to believe that..

 

I agree,

Just get something that runs and you can work it. That doesn't mean you need a brand new piece of equipment, and it doesn't mean you can't work on it. But it needs to work and make you money as soon as you buy it. The only thing that wears equipment out faster than using it is parking it. The time for a back yard full of junk and broken down truck parts is when you retire.