Joe & Tow's new trucking adventures/ex GTI thread

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Hey joseph...

there is some guy on the gordon thread who says he just ran 18k miles in 5 weeks with gordon....

i do believe the BS is strong with this one...i do believe he just out BS'd you.....

 

A single bunk condo is lighter than a midroof + fairing (although the newest Cascadia EVO midroofs are more aerodynamic than condos)

 

Well I would maybe believe 18k (most likely a typo of 15k) on 5 paychecks.

All It would take is one delayed/held trip pack and a second that gets scanned on the start of the following week and one scanned @ the terminal on the last day of the last week. Then you are actually looking @ 6+ weeks of running on 5 checks.

 

what the heck I'll ask you folks first.

I'm looking at buying a dry box van with Aluminum (not wood) floor. Any issues from a drivers perspective?

No coils or forklifts. What else requires nailed blocking?

 

Gti used to haul a lot of ingots that had to be nailed and braced...paper rolls on occasion

 

I wish I could bs! I'm always going going going. 18,000 in 5 weeks? That's totally possible. Not with a 60 mph truck and e-logs. 75 mph and paper? Totally. That's 3600 every week, 514 every day. In a 60 mph truck. With e-logs. I guess we are stupid!

 

Like Tow said, paper, steel products, stuff like that.

 

If I had to pull that trailer around I would crash into something too.

 

I did some counting during my 597 mile trip today from Nashville to Wisconsin (still haven't broken the 600 miles yet, even with my new barn burnin' 64 mph speed) and here is the tally:

Gordon truck pulling Heartland trailer: 11
Gordon truck pulling GTI trailer: 0

Coincidence or updated business model? Me thinks the latter.