I forgot to warn you......

I thought 5 was an awesome benchmark to achieve.

 

Lol right . Us open deck guys could only dream of that number

 

Throughout my career, I did a lot of "bouncing down the same old route" jobs. It's the tradeoff for going home every day. Line haul, dedicated routes, dump trucks ( most loads I did in a day was 27 loads of gravel from one side of the pit to the other, aka, "stockpiling",,,shiver,,at least I got to run a loader) and becomes like a factory job. You put in your 8 hours, and go home to a nice pot roast dinner, newspaper, favorite chair, and do it again the next day. The truck is not your way of life, like in an OTR situation. I had lots of hobbies during my off time, and put up with the repetition of the day( or night) job . It was still fun, unlike say, punching out aluminum screen door handles on a kick press,,not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

Hey now!!!! I got 9.5 bobtailing to Kentucky when I picked up my new trailer!

 

Boy do I remember those awful tight older Freightliner and Int'l day cabs we had. I'm totally spoiled in my big cushy Volvo. So much so that I honestly don't know how many RPM's I'm turning at 72, which is about where I keep it most of the time. It's so quiet and smooth I don't think about it.

 

Those KW daycabs were tight.
I drive a Mack, it has plenty of room. And power. But this new company castrated it down to 65. Engine cannot run in the sweet spot. But the eggheads think they are saving lives and fuel.

 

The old WS cabs were smaller than the 379s. Reach over and roll the window down, duck down and fall into the huge 66 “ sleeper, admire all the space for 60 seconds, and crash out.