Getting used to a smooth bore tanker

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  1. EZ Money

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    Yep!
    I check it over good before I roll out.....I usually spend about 30 minutes checking everything over,tractor and all.
    Thanks for the tips guys!

    It goes in for service soon too.....Get that factory oil out and fresh filters.
     
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    ^^^^ and hit Rank up for his PB to pull that beauty! LoL~
    Kudos and good luck, man. Sounds like you landed a winner. Good lookin out on your double-checkin.
    Be safe~
     
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    get hit in the back a few times and you will figure it out,lots of throttle control,when you feel it come forward pour the coals to it,when you feel it getting to the rear lift off the throttle,youll know when in a short time
     
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    10-4.....I had that figured out my first run up the W.VA Turnpike....lol.
    I did about 2800 hundred miles this week and am already got it down smooth.....digging it man!

    Going tomorrow to put some chrome on it...chicken lights next!
    The Boss is so cool about dressing up the truck.
    I turned him on to Empire Chrome Shop....lol!

    Trying to talk him in to a chrome drop visor too...
    To only have 12000 miles on it they have it set up to pull.....I figure that will get even better when it gets broke in.
     
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    Was told yesterday when they add another truck I can pick out a new Pete and spec it like I want!..
    They were looking at new Peterbilts but the driver wanted a Cascadia....Dummy!
    They fired him after one trip in it! Said he was a slob...They found wizz bottles in the sleeper and he rufused to wear a Tyvek suit and got black goo everywhere on the first trip.
    It is a decent truck though....I can live with it for now.
    I have the interior spotless now and it gets washed tomorrow.
     
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    ^^^^ You can actually GET a Pete?!? Wow. . . how cool is that? Now @rank is gonna have some competition, LoL!!
    Man, that slob .... i'm speechless. You're driving his "old" truck? Hope you de-loused it. People like that give our industry a bad name.
    Happy for YOU tho, man! Keep updating; I love success stories in the smooth-bore world!!!
     
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    Don't really see the need for a smooth bore tank if your not washing it out between loads .....

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    ^^^^^^ the only way to fly. With baffles!
     
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    ^^^ asphalt and "sticky stuff" doesn't do well with baf's. That's a good lookin can, man. Is that what you haul? What product?
     
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    I haul etnyres~! A lot older, not as shiny. Didn't even RECOGNIZE it, as purdy as she is!!!
    That's one of the things, working with a smaller company, the equipment isn't upgraded as often as with the big-guys. I'm so used to the surge, I wouldn't know what to do with baf's.. LoL.
    Nice, man. Whadya pull it with?
     
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