Long nose please- company driver

If I own the thing, something with a hood so I can work on it easy. Company driver, give me an aero truck. If the company paid well I wouldn't give a rats ### what they put me in to be honest

 

I've got a regular hood W900A I messed around with before tearing it down. Honest to God I loved my old man's T800's way more when it came to visibility.

 

Scottlyn used to have company drivers however you buy 6 to 8 loadlocks straps etc as a company driver... also most of those shiny Pete’s are on the never never plan.. PS guess whose truck lot resells the trucks later

 

I need to correct you on Monson from Britt Iowa running Paccar engines. Their 389's are powered by 550 Caterpillar. They are glider kits. I worked there for just under 2 yrs. They ran pretty good for being governed at 70

 

You may have to build your dream rig.

First of all, pad your bank account. If you cant do that at your current company, go to a place where you can. Bank your money, do your research. And these companies have their stupid ideas on how to set a truck up, idling policies. I had some heifer call me about idling my truck in MinotND during the winter. I had them castrate a 450HP truck from 68mph to 350HP and 64mph. In the beancounter's mind, this was saving fuel. The truck got 4mpg. Had to drop 3 gears going up I68 with a 5000 lb load. They wanted me to pull a load to across i70 and 4 times, they had to tow me out of the Rockies back to Denver. Any of you company drivers have trucks that constantly stay in the shop because of the regen? Odds are, your company had a beancounter tune loaded into the ECM. The federal goobermint's required tune is already bad, then the beancounters screw it up worse.

ANYWAY...(still get pissed off with all of that company truck stupidity), get your money built up first. Go pull the wagon you want to pull. Do your research. When I built mine, I was running big big loads in northern Alberta. So my truck was spec'd more western Canada and going in and out of places where there wasn't asphalt for hundreds of miles.

This video was my inspiration for my build.

So, get into the area you want to be in and make the money you want to make. Then figure out what truck you want to start with. Do your research on power trains, axles ratios, transmissions...etc. Buy the truck with the look you want, the sleeper configuration, engine and transmission you want and then build the rest. I like a small sleeper. The only thing I do in a truck is drive and sleep. If I am not driving or asleep, I am not in the truck.

Well, give it some thought, keep an eye out for posts by @wore out, and piss all the naysayers off.

Luck in battle.

 

If they’re using flashy trucks to recruit drivers and the increase in cost to run that kind of equipment, where are sacrifices being made?

 

I'm going out on a limb, but I bet it's not out of their cut.