peterbilt best truck hands down

Whether you like it or not, it is the truth for the most part, it just doesn't pertain to peterbilt owners alone.

 

do you always open your mouth before you know what your talking about? i have witnessed this myself with a friend of mine and others as well. Went out and bought this truck, 04 Pete flattop, 300" wb, man the truck was gorgeous, came from Kansas City Pete, well anyways the truck Had almost 875k on the clock - he wanted like 60,000 or something crazy for this truck and he thought he was getting a good deal. Well before buying it, and I mean the week before. The owner lost the headgasket in El Paso. Drove it back home to PA. Charged my buddy for the rebuild at Cat. He ended up, well, attempting to, purchase the truck for 75,000...just because it had a yellow motor and long frame rails. Drove it like he stole it. Hell i remember he needed some band clamps for the exhaust, he didn't have the money to buy any because he had the tanks polished and the truck washed. This is what im talking about....mind you he was running chicago for $950 out and about $900.00 back, GROSS MIND YOU(you know before the company takes there 30% cut) ITS 60 BUCKS ALONE IN TOLLS OUT THERE. main concern, i have to look good. i have to look good. when the truck needed some work guess what?! IM BROKE BUT HEY MY DASH IS NICE AND CHROMED OUT!!!!!! Look how many guys go out and buy a big petercar and have 2500.00 truck payments?! THATS INSANE. it cost on average between 1.00 - 1.40 a mile to run a truck. Thats before you make your profit. $2500.00 a month-----just for your truck payment----then factor in fuel, because the odds are someone like this is running long. You can do better within a 500 mile radius - this is in our case though, others may be different. Some can do this and make it. More power to you! Congratulations! Were doing good and thats all that matters.


You totally missed my point here. Me and my dad both do our own maintainence - on our tractors and all of our trailers. If it pays less that $2.35 a mile, the truck doesnt move. We both haul steel here in the northeast. We operate under our own authority as well. (No $300.00 trailers here, our plates-our insurance-our everything) So once again if you dont know what your talking about, than dont open your mouth until you know all of the facts. I polish my wheels and tanks and i've got lights and chrome everywhere but you know what, somethings just come first. Like FUEL. like MAINTAINENCE. like WORK. The guys i was speaking of are the reason the rates are in the tank because there the guys who will haul the load 1000 miles for $1000.00. Just because i turn down a load that doesn't pay enough means NOTHING to a broker or a company because theres always some ####### who will haul it. Another reason for the wonderful CSA for being the crock that it is; but thats another debate.


Bottom line is I love my job. I like starting that truck every morning and driving it everyday, I couldn't do anything else, hell I dont want to do anything else. Wanna know the best part of my day? Watchin the smoke roll out of those 7" stacks and all my chicken lights sparkelin as im heading out to haul my $3.00 a mile load.


I'm sorry if I offended you, I probably could have went into better detail on explaining it but the fact of the matter is that its true, NOT IN ALL CASES YES I DO UNDERSTAND, but a large factor is just that - some peoples priorty lists are in different order than others. If its a new bumper, or a some other stainless or chrome trinket to make it look better, or to replace a leaking wheel seal or to reline the drives. Im gonna pick the wheel seal or the shoes, because at the end of the day if that truck isn't making money neither are you.

 

ALSO------ I was agreeing with him because he was right, as am I, your right to a certain extent in your arguement, you were doing fine until you started assuming I was wrong lol.

 

I don't think it's true at all.
Usually, a sign of cleanleness and personal hygene translates into organization, pride and success. I guess there is something to be said about an all-out road grunt who doesn't have time to clean up. God knows they're everywhere, but they're probably taking more pride in they're 4,000 MPW grunt work for low pay, instead of maximizing their bottom dollar by using their brain.
Also, clean trucks make some men to feel good about themselves, and a clean surrounding make me feel great. I am a clean and polish kind of guy.
Personally, I can't believe how some of you guys live in a rathole truck.. Doesn't that get depressing?

 

I get a kick out of suckers like yourself. You're the type who goes thru life judging people by how they look and what they drive instead of who they really are.

As for the rathole truck, well I can't tell you how depressing that would be as I don't have one. But I will give them credit for going that route instead of some L/P scam.

 

If you don't think preception is reality with the rest of the world, then you have lots to learn.

 

Perception isn't everything. But I can see at 52 you haven't figured it out so I highly doubt you ever will.

Good luck, you're gonna need it....

 

men lie,women lie,numbers don't.

 

But yet a man or woman can make numbers lie...

 

My 379 is paid for and I can buy and polish all day. do'nt have to move it even.