First of all GenericUserName, I have no plans to be a "trucking man"...I truck from time to time but it isn't/will not be my main profession. With...
Ummm....? The last thing on my mind when I created this post was to offend anybody... Sorry?
Hi everybody, So was presented an oppourtunity to drive a mixer for a local ready mix plant. The pay was something like $15.50/hour. I am a full...
Did you get used to it over time? I know that time after time, driving this truck and still making no progress really starts to get depressing.
I had tried doing that per request of a guy who drives Freightliners, and I simply couldn't upshift gears at anything lower than 1700-1800 rpms
This was exactly what I needed to hear. The story you told was almost exactly what I experience with this truck verbatim. Feels good to know that...
It has the CAT engine in it...300 some horse I believe? And that is one thing I noticed too was that the gears seem to be almost millimeters apart
That's what I'm almost wondering. It is just frustrating because it has never taken me anywhere near this long to get used to a truck before. I...
I would probably say slower, because I understand that with each different tractor/transmission/engine; no two will be identical, so I have been...
No I don't believe that it is a super 10, but I could be wrong. And the truck was purchased from a company called Ryder, who "supposedly" gave the...
That's what I had learned from reading about lower shift rpms on some website, so I figured that was my problem. I tried shifting around 1300-1500...
Hi everybody, So we recently bought a single axle 2008 Freightliner with a 10 speed EA. And I can not drive that thing to save my life! (And I am...
