Magnum ltd - fargo, nd

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  1. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Open deck has a tendency to screw your MPG's....I am sitting at 5.2 for the month myself, but it has been a HOT month, so my idle time is thru the roof. Good thing we don't get paid like Magnum's bonus system works, we'd be screwed.
     
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    True that!
     
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    What’s this new fancy term open deck for flatbed?
    Is that kinda of like transportation relocation engineer for truck driver.
     
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    Ok door swinger lol. Open deck is just so you don’t need to say step vs flat or glass vs rgn...kind of like saying your a van...
     
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    Like @Winnyf1 said, open deck covers the full spread of our type trailers....I pull flat, single drop and double drop trailers (along with the occasional van/rack load just to remind me of how much I have grown to dislike pulling a box behind me). Really, it is just semantics, like when tanker-yankers call you door slammers "freight haulers"...even though all drivers pull freight of one type or another.
     
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    It was a joke
     
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    Well in your heart you knew we’d poke back...glad to see you had a good trimester dude
     
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    Gotcha...guess I worked around too many Shaffer drivers who couldn't take the joke when people would call their puffin logo a penguin.
     
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    It is a penguin isn’t it? LOL
     
    supersnackbar Thanks this.
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    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    One plus about getting crappy mpg's (at least for the driver)

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    I'll be at diamond level at Love's by the end of this week