What happened to smoke stacks?

Mpgs can make quite a bit of difference to the bottom line. But its just one part of the equation. Lots of other parts make just as big, if not bigger, difference to the bottom line.

 

Dude there is plenty of money to be made out here. Sure it's a little harder to make than it was 20 years ago, but it's there. Just got to weed out the garbage and you will find a lot of gold.

 

I know. I just mean it can be discouraging to some who hear a lot of doom and gloom from other truckers, and are concerned about the future of trucking. And perhaps aren’t getting the money consistently for whatever reason.

 

I just had some real stacks put on my truck this winter along with front bumper and sun visor. Im just a triaxle dump truck owner but what do you think. the before picture was from a few months ago and with only one pipe which bothered me. I chopped the cab protector to allow for straights. Also had the cat worked a little so im gettin smoke now

 

Looks a lot better. The visor and lights in the breathers really makes a truck look good.

 

Thank you ole buddy! im excited to hit the streets here soon

 

It might have something to do with how hot these pipes get on regen's. If not shielded and insulated, you would have a red hot pipe running up next to your cab.

If you were to take an old Pete and install electronic injection, and leave off the emissions BS, I'll bet it would get 8mpg and last 50% longer too.

Trouble is solar costs about $1 per watt installed now days. You'll discover that solar technology is over a century old when you cut through all the lies and BS. It actually originated and was first used during the dog eat dog era of telegraph, Thomas Edison, robber Barons and so forth! The technology is so mature the cost should be around 10 cents a watt or lower, inflation adjusted! The big energy players have done "buy and kill" takeovers, very carefully covered up, on most solar manufacturers that get too competitive. Wind energy is in the same boat.

Maybe we should install a wind turbine behind the drivers seat.

 

Trouble is solar costs about $1 per watt installed now days. You'll discover that solar technology is over a century old when you cut through all the lies and BS. It actually originated and was first used during the dog eat dog era of telegraph, Thomas Edison, robber Barons and so forth! The technology is so mature the cost should be around 10 cents a watt or lower, inflation adjusted! The big energy players have done "buy and kill" takeovers, very carefully covered up, on most solar manufacturers that get too competitive. Wind energy is in the same boat.

Maybe we should install a wind turbine behind the drivers seat.[/QUOTE]
Wind and solar will never replace coal or natural gas for reliability alone, if you'd take the government money out of wind they'd stop building them yesterday, last I heard they were paying landowners 11 grand a year per turbine whether it turns or not. My point was they like their pet wind and solar projects to "not use oil" and a lot of petroleum goes into making them and hauling them around

 

Ya real good. I keep looking at it for things cause at fort glance it doesn't even look like the same truck. Which it is cause the stickers in the windshield are the exact same. Probably just a slightly different camwra angle and better lighting but holy crap the difference is just astonishing.