Should I buy a new Kenworth???

Your right but then again most the trucks these days or poorly made products probably because Americans don't build them anymore everyone has a preference I commented because I'm kw man

 

Troll he says last I checked this is a trucker's blog I've probably been driving longer than you

 

You're time as a driver matters how?

 

A start would be leaving the cats at home

 

It's not easy, the insides are small as can be but I feel out of place in a sure enough stabbin cabin lol

 

I love petes. I got a model of a 1948 Pete day cab sitting on my shelf. Two of them One hauling flatbed with coils aluminum eye to sky and another with a basic reefer 40 foot LTL side door trailer. These two models take me back to my days with Petes.

The problem is no company buys Petes long noses to give to company drivers. I have maybe touched Petes three times in company work ever. Long enough to understand they are VERY good trucks and a good fit for me, particularly the older iron ones before the computer crap.

B&B Concrete had a 379 day cab airride pete for bulk work. My trainer specifically QUIT and told the bossman, Scott to issue me that particular truck in order to stop me from pending quit because of that POS Paystar 9800 international they had. What did Scott do? give that thing to a rough nobody instead. One with very little experience. I finally quit soon after. But I'll not stop writing about that little outfit. It's not all bad, they had some decent autocars believe it or not. I loved them.

It's not for everyone. Ive had pretty much all the trucks out there. But I came across two petes in the auction house, one sold for 34000 and the other for 45000 on the spot. The 34000 tractor was the best. ive spent roughly 6 years working that auction house with trucks and Temp CDL crew as a boss and just about all the trucks had issues. With the exception of that pair of petes that day. I would have without reservation bought the 34000 one in particular personally if I had the money to write a check that big then. Instantly. I only drove it a little bit around the huge lot and discovered that everything is right and tight on that truck. Essentially brand new and only 350,000.

No wonder the bidders went crazy when I purred into the barn with that thing.

I run my mouth a little bit thinking about that particular tractor. It's better to fall in love and lose it rather than to have loved it at all.