Going a little fast there bud

ANY YOU OLD TIMERS REMEMBER A COUPLE STORIES FROM BACK IN 70S AND 80S OF SOME FAMOUS DRIVER'S I THINK FROM OKLAHOMA HAD TRUCKS THAT RUN LIKE 127 TO 135 MPH THEY WERE DOING CALIFORNIA TURNS BACK OKLAHOMA. GOT CAUGHT COUPLE TIMES THEW IN JAIL GET AND DO IT AGAIN. FINALLY LOST THERE CHOUFFER LICENSE. THINK THERE NAME'S WERE LIKE COPPER HEAD AND NIGHTTRAIN SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

 

Hmmm
You say that as if any of us have a #### back then.....
Let’s see .50 fuel
Set of 10x20s under a grand...
$450 a month truck&trailer pymt insurance included
$290 mortgage
Runnin produce up/down east coast on a bill of sale...averaging bout $2.50 a bushel to truck...,Floor loaded..bout 1700 bushels
Laffin out butts off and out nettin the most senior teamster boyz after expenses
Life was good we were young had fun
Now those of us who lived thru that and are actually still out here...learn every day how little we knew and how WE screwed everything up for everyone today

 

This is what a cow hauler's speedometer looks like ..

 

Lol. No doubt. Like my grand pappy used to say. Got to stay ahead of the smell.

 

LOL..The picture I quoted of yours is that a Is mechanical speedo ?

 

Series 60's like 2450rpm, engine will free spin 3000rpm. But likes to break injector rockers about 2750rpm. Some Big cams and N14 like 2500rpm.

 

Cut my teeth, and gear teeth in a Rtoo. Man they always had at least one loud gear in them. Just straight cut gears.

 

Yes. Replaced the worn cable a few years ago and played around with different calibration boxes on end of the cable to dial it in better. But 4 mph either way is as close as I can get it. Rather have it read fast. Lol!

 

SPEED… I AM SPEED!!!

 

You bet ..lol so me and another member were having a discussion the other night about when Peterbilt changed from Mechanical to Electrical speedometers on the 359's .. cause I was thinking it was 84 or 85 he kinda was too