Never Stand Still

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Mike2633, Aug 23, 2016.

  1. Shep Shiloh

    Shep Shiloh Medium Load Member

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    Why not a 379/W9 straight truck?
     
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  3. Shep Shiloh

    Shep Shiloh Medium Load Member

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    Falcon doghouse.
     
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  4. Mike2633

    Mike2633 Road Train Member

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    Well we have 2 straight trucks in our fleet a 1998 International 26ft and a 1995 GMC Top Kick 20'.

    I could look into leading a W9 Straight truck built to our specifications.
     
  5. LoneCowboy

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    Most of the C and B straight trucks we see around here are like PB 330's (not sure what the KW equivalent is), maybe 9L motors, etc. Short, small and light. They don't need huge power because they aren't hauling huge loads.
     
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  6. Ruthless

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    Bunch of the meat distributors round here run them n 330 model Petes for their single axle trucks.
     
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  7. Shep Shiloh

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    Before we switched over to all Hinos I split my time between a T300 and a Sterling Acterra that had both seen better days. Both were the last manuals in the fleet. I called the KW "James Bond" because it's number ended in 007.
     
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  8. Naptown

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    That's funny. My favorite truck's number also ends in 007. Since its a Freightliner, the joke is the load ends up on the dock "shaken, not stirred."
     
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  9. Mike2633

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    JFC International and Eby Brown both have fleets of Freightliner Cascadia Straight trucks with the tandem axle.

    A lot of our straight trucks around here vary but the majority are Freightliner M2 and usually 20-26ft cargo hold isn't that uncommon.
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  10. Mike2633

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    There's a flour company here in Cleveland that runs some rough and I mean rough equipment and they have a couple Sterling Acterra's both straight and semi and there trucks you can always tell them because there's usually a big gash down the cargo body of the truck and everything is all duct taped together (figuratively speaking) and filthy. One of our drivers used to work for them he said he had to drive there straight truck an old beat Sterling far away once and it was in the winter he said the thing had barely any heat and it was all rattle and creeky.
     
  11. Shep Shiloh

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    There is a company about a mile down the road from us that has everything from cargo vans to semis. Two weeks ago one of their semis burnt to the ground and heavily damaged the one parked next to it. The one that was heavily damaged had been owned by Towne Air Freight and was used to haul Notre Dame's football equipment trailer. At one time they also had at least one of our old Sterlings. Even though it had their signage on the door, enough of our old logo remained visible on the box that it might've made some people scratch their heads.
     
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