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I have a bad habit of not taking them as long as have hours. If I have at least 10 hours to use for two days, I will roll as long as on the 3rd day, starting to get back hours. In 10 hours, can get a 500 mile load. Make a little. Just give me 2 days to deliver. For me, a 34 will either be in Fontana, PHX, Sparks, Vegas or home. If not there, not taking one.

 

Good night for a few hours from wells

 

I try not to take a 34... But usually am forced to two to 5 days befor hometime... Just don't understand... How I can go almost 4 weeks without one but then they think I need one when they send me home....

 

Pull a trip work it in.pull a trip work it in lol

 

Ran out of gas 35 miles west of the Ontario OR Pilot where I spent the night. Well, I should have had close to 100 gallons left in the tanks but the gauge was showing dead empty. Dipped the one tank without the antisiphon was showing 5 inches of fuel in a 24 inch tank. I had been ignoring the gauge and using a benchmark of full tanks backtracking back a few days to Sparks NV I had filled up, delivered in SLC and put in 75 more gallons for the trip to Portland OR.

So Onroad sent a guy out with fuel. Got her started then I left and stopped at the first truckstop which was Durkey (?) something like that, they don't do comdata or ATM's so gave the guy all the cash I had in my pockets and we put in 20 more gallons. Then went to the next place and put in 50 more gallons with the comdata card. The best the gauge would show after all this was 1/8 tanks. By the time I delivered 300 some miles away the gauge was showing empty again with little red light. So came over to the Jubitz Portland, put in 110 gallons for free dinner and gauge now showing 5/8ths. Going around the corner first thing in the morning for check and advise at Kenworth.

Oh and lost my 2800 mile load to Florida and the free dinner only cost $17 bucks out of pocket and Abby still stinks....I guess I should be happy I didn't get busted for parking too close to the road with hazmats. What else can you do when your truck shudders mightily and dies-- and won't restart.

 

dang scottie hope ur luck changes soon

 

was watching a youtub video and a guy was splitting gears in a 13 speed and takin it out of gear of split his half gears. do any of you guys do this?

 

Was it that black Peter built iirc?

 

What is the link to the video? Maybe I have been doing it wrong lol.

I go from low range 4th to high range 5thlo. Then as the rpms rise up, thumb the splitter to 5thhi and let off the gas pedal, it automatically upshifts. As the rpms rise up again, say 1400 rpms, while still having my foot into the gas pedal, I preselelct the 5thlo and upshift to 6thlo, usually don't even need to depress the clutch. Rpms rise and thumb it to 6thhi and let off the gas pedal again and it automatically upshifts. Keep doing it this way to 8thhi, easy money.

To down shift is just the opposite. Let's say 8thhi, rpms are dropped to about 1200 or slightly less, thumb it down to 8thlo and throttle up it will automatically downshift. While my foot is still in the gas pedal I can preselect 8thhi again and as the rpms drop and speed drops, then downshift to 7thhi and keep going on down to 5thlo.

There is no reason to take the main gear shifter out of gear to split gears. In fact I would say it is dangerous especially if one was going down a mountain. The beauty of the 13/18 speed for downshifting is the fact that you only need half the rpm drop to downshift that you would need for the 9 speed.

If I found that 7thhi was too high of a gear for the downgrade, I apply the brakes get the rpms down, (1200-1300 rpms) then select 7thlo and bump up the throttle and it downshifts, apply the brakes to the appropriate speed and rpms and can go to 6thhi then 6thlo if necessary while in the 9 speed the driver is still working the brakes pretty hard looking for 1100 or 1000 rpms before taking the chance to downshift to 6th.

 

Then you need to look closely at how you run and see if you can smooth it out. I can usually average 8-10 hours (on-duty) a day and never need to take a 34. This last week forced me to run out my 14, take a 10 hour break, then do it again 6 days running. It's only because I stood my ground (yesterday) that I'm not running today. I slept 10 1/2 hrs last night, something I haven't done since I was sick last December in Laredo.

There's nothing WRONG with the "run hard 5 days-take a 34" way of driving, I've just found that I feel better when I do not do it.