Classic Trucks

While completely true
I have also watched many a good man loose his butt buying his dream truck
ex: a 600 hp cat an 18spd and 46k rears with a big apartment doesn't make much money if your getting paid by the ton

 

Wanna stay in business, you gotta know what will and will not work in your business.

 

Absolutely true.. it happens alot. What I drive is not my dream truck I simply can not afford to have it at this point in time. But having a truck that I am proud of, that looks good, runs good and is overall good enough to get its job done day in and day out works for me right now. I enjoy getting in it and getting down the road it's not the fastest or the prettiest but it's mine 100% and it makes me a decent living. That's good enough for me.

 

Funny you should mention that, we have a couple with big sleepers and they have about the same weight as the trucks that have the winches on them. We can scale between 62 and 64k on a 4 axle flat depending on the individual truck.

If you are running 80k all the time then I would say you are correct but a lot of people go way beyond that. All of our trucks have either a C15 or C16 with an 18 speed and 46k rears with a drop axle. All are 500+ horsepower and it is rare that we are under 80k at all. If we need more weight capacity, we just grab a trailer with more axles.

 

those "conversations" are the reason I cant keep a real job other then oo working on my own...

Last place I tried to lease my truck to didn't work out well cause of a conversation like that. Convo was more about time and my choice of were I spent 5 minutes of MY TIME before I got to the yard. His exaxt words were "I demand to know were you were that caused you to be 5 min late to work today?" I sht you not. I couldnt make it up.....

It ended with me asking a question to the terminal manager after I responded by explaining to him that I own my truck, pay my fuel myself, pay plates, do my own work on it or pay someone to do it to my standards, and drive it myself all while doing my own book keeping....and any other paper work.

My question to him was "are you ##### stupid or are you just makin believe?"

Long story short, I am not there and I doubt he would come up to me to say hi on the street if we see each other. I live 5 min from the terminal HAHAHA

 

7 MPG isn't unheard of with a west coast curtain van, but it ain't exactly common. 6.2 with my 2009 Cascadia, that had every fuel saving spec you could get, 6.4 with the 2013 Pete 386 I'm in now. I don't know anybody who claims they're getting 7 that is actually calculating it tank to tank. Point being that a new aero truck probably wouldn't save you as much as you're calculating.

It also wouldn't look as cool and and would be a lot harder and more expensive to work on.

 

sometimes that works and I know what you mean I have been playing this game for about 24 years most of it in the oil field
but sometimes it doesn't like when your scaling out of a quarry and you are not going to get out past legal at 20 per ton times they 2 tons you are losing per trip to have all that stuff times 4 rounds a day that is about 800 a week that stuff is costing
it also cost a hell of a lot more to fix when it does break
all I am saying is always do the math it never lies

 

Hi Brucesmith, I apologize. Fuel mileage is like asking what someone makes a year. You'll get 10 different answers from 10 people that do the same job. That's because, there are so many variables in fuel mileage. As a rule of thumb, I always used 6 mpg. Some drivers say this LP gas now, does a little better, but basically, trucks are still the same as they were in the 50's. There's only so much you can do with a diesel.

 

Yes and when they were new some O/O's were still buying and driving "older trucks", it's a revolving door in a sense. Always be new trucks that turn old. I think Largecar359 was sply stating that a new truck's first accomplishment is to make money for the manufacturer and the salesman....? I remember jumping into a newer truck and thinking WOW, after having experience in a 1973 Freightliner Cabover that was wore completly out but it was still going and making that company money when needed. BTW...nice looking 660.