Kevin Rutherfrauds $200000 Signature glider truck has complete engine failure!!!

Yes an no...
Pretty rare that anybody is looking out for your best interest: especially a stranger when it comes to your business/money.


I feel bad for them: but at the same time they are representative of all the new entrants to the industry that think they have a plan and they will set the world on fire with some new way they do things.

Maybe one day I'll see something that really does change trucking in a big way- but spending ### loads of money on equipment to start a business you don't know anything about, in an effort to run at a lower operating cost to net more money on lower rates....
Sounds like a dumb plan to me.

@TripleSix has that good story about the two ######. Accurate analogy to say the least.

Running into a new business you don't know about and throwing your beliefs behind someone who has their own interests and not yours on their mind- seems like a pretty fast road to failure. Fast is relative: what'd it take here, 11 months?

I feel bad for these folks on a personal level: we all know people in our own lives that have made decisions for themselves, that were clearly foolish to everyone but them.

Just gotta shake your head and move on with your life.

"You can't tell anyone anything"

 

My opinion is that they were the ideal guinea pigs for KR's needs. Inexperienced drivers, with lots of money, and the bulk of their info regarding the trucking industry was from KR. They would toe the line, and KR could have his, well, the admin here correctly likes to keep it clean, so let's call it his nocturnal fantasy of a truck on somebody else's dime. I think KR was as surprised as anybody that it didn't get the mileage he thought it should.

But in the end it cost him nothing. His detractors hated him more, but his sycophants still buy his advise, and no money out of pocket for him.

 

I don't think it cost KR nothing, maybe in dollars, but his reputation took a hit as well as PP had some people say never again. Tuition in the school of experience, just how do you price that?

 

Especially in trucking.... This industry attracts shysters, hucksters, and sharks of every stripe at every level. That a driver always expects to get screwed by the people who have freight, dispatchers, or whatever should be a huge red flag to outsiders looking in, how bad this industry is, that people in it think that way. And anyone who has been in trucking, even if for only a few weeks, figures this out really fast. To come in green newbies and get taken for a ride is not so surprising. The sharks are always circling for the blood in the water.

 

well...really hard to feel bad for someone when they treated it like it was a facebook event.

seriously,facebook? "like" me,"like" me!

 

Why would a new glider have old coolant in it??

 

My understanding of the situation is the Evans was added after the truck was built and ready to go.

 

It's now a bad thing to experiment with new ideas and to try to lower operating costs so one keeps more money?
Good thing nobody thought about putting a Diesel engine in the old gasoline powered trucks

 

How's your turbo 3000d working out?


Professing to be an expert giving "expert advice" when in fact, one is only a paid endorser- that is a fairly consistent explanation for those of us that run successful businesses as to why following advice of a radio show host that isn't taking any risk: isn't wise.

 

Turbo 3000d is so 1990! Isn't that Eco- whatever the magic pipe fitting du jour?