An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

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    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    My PTA isn't until Wednesday, but I already have my load, and it's one of my favorites. Deadhead to Ladson, SC to pick up the 737 engine inlet load going to Kent, WA for ASAP. I love this load. Looks like things are picking up right where they left off before hometime.
     
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    holy #### man. great work. i have never even got close to that.. nor do i care to lol... very impressive for open deck work
     
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    And the sky is not falling since the Wiley buyout. Glad to see ole Snackbar happy!
     
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    Let see our wheelbase is about 250 inches, which is down from 260 on the 567 Heritage trucks - the new 567’s have been shortened and the 579’s and Cascadias all look pretty short as well. We can slide our 5th wheels back a decent amount so unless you go reefer short I would hope you guys don’t run into any issues.

    For your sake I really hope they decide to go with Cummins on the heavy haul trucks as the new Paccar motors still have injector issues and require regular additives to keep them from gumming up. I believe the new Eaton heavy spec trannies are holding up so far, we went with Allisons and the drivers I have spoken with like them so far.
     
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    Yep my old truck was right at 34K as well, those Cummin’s plants weigh a ton compared with the Paccar’s…
     
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    I am now striving to join the 15,000 mile club. I would have possibly made it in March had it not been for several multi-day visits to the shop.
     
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    The Allison 6-7 speed automatics? If so, I’ve used those while hauling on and off road dump for a mine. Not gonna lie, they really surprised me how easily they would pull 95-100k off road when the belt went down and we had to run off road up and down hills lol.
     
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    They ran Allison's in the military M315s we ran in Iraq. Ran 110k+ and they ran like a raped ape. Course with the low geared rears they could barely hit 60mph.
     
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    Yeah the drivers thus far seem to like them…
    Yeah heavy hauls I believe are now governed to 65 mph but I haven’t confirmed that with anyone in the know…though when you’re rolling with 180K speed really isn’t your thing lol.
     
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    Same for the Mercedes Benz and Scania cabovers I drove in iraq...we would gross out at 120,000 lbs with ice...but they pulled like trailer was empty...only bad thing was sleeper bed was so small
     
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