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

Why don’t you go away??…

 

I’ll be honest with you @kylefitzy i think the silver bullet is a much sharper looking truck than the maroon/red one. Those new KW’s have grown on me, there’s a small company out of GA pulling dumps with them and they’re a head turner when they pass by.

 

Well it’s quite the ugly tarp job but it’s holding together so far. Don’t need to be water tight, just needs to keep the machine relatively clean. Boy my heart sank when they sat the load on the trailer at first. The trailer nearly sat flat on the floor. The only part in the air was right in front of the rear axle. Once aired up I had about 4” of ground clearance. I through a set of neck shims in and gained another inch.

was supposed to be a Monday delivery but that won’t happen. NM and CO are having a good old time with me. Nm is over 600 miles. 12.5/36.5/56.5 weights. A little tail heavy but it’s going to work alright. Truck seemed to do just fine with the weight.

 

What the #### are you referring to? I like SPD better than any other company I have worked for with the exception of Moore, which I loved working for. In fact, SPD is very much like Moore with the exception of being able to remain profitable and proper handling of their money. Just because my truck has gremlins has nothing to do with SPD...like @drvrtech77 has said more than once, todays trucks are junk no matter the brand or the company that buys them. So please, don't compare what you have to what I have...it's comparing apples to turnip greens.

 

That's a lot of weight in such a small package....glad it isn't on the RGN I hauled that load out of Wilmington with...that one would have probably snapped in half with that kind of weight.

 

Don’t let that jackwad stir you up. I used to give you a hard time about your weekly blow ups but only because I hoped that you’d move on to something else before your head exploded. Glad you did and glad you are happier now

 

Not in Texas tonight are you Mr. @supersnackbar?

 

They are rated for 70k in 16’. So 66k in about 12’ is “pushing it”.

speaking of pushing it, this new truck probably saved me a headache today. Running across SE Washington an alert came across the dash for high tire temperature, over 185 degrees! I thought that’s got to be an error, so we stopped to check. Sure enough all the drive tires were over 175 degrees. We backed down from 60 to 50, then eventually back up to 55mph for the rest of the day. Highest outside temp was 113 degrees, that definitely didn’t help.

In my old truck, I probably would have lost a tire today.

 

Nope, SE Ohio headed for Norfolk. Seen a couple of your company's trucks passing thru the Love's here, but flatbeds, not steps, so I figured it wasn't yours

 

Yeah ended up seeing the driver definitely not you lol. I’m in TX headed to MS and hating the heat!