Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Kenworth6969, Mar 3, 2022.

  1. abyliks

    abyliks Road Train Member

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    I mean by the time it’s said and done, your going to be close to the same amount of fuel and time to run 30 out as the toll, or usually run 322 up from 81 to 80 if I’m taking the northern route
     
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  3. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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  4. Long FLD

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    The most promising thing about that truck is that it’s a diesel electric hybrid and not full electric.
     
  5. Dave_in_AZ

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    If it comes to fruition, and they get the bugs worked out, people are going to have one of those or they're going to starve.

    I'm getting around 7.8 as a whole, that's pretty good. But way off the mark from 12.8 lol.

    Hope everyone hasn't broken that piggy yet.
     
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  6. abyliks

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    Funny how Mack used to offset the cab for safety reasons on the DM so you could look down the side with your own eyes and now everyone is pushing this center driving and no mirror thing now…
     
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  7. Constant Learner

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    You mean paying 500K for this truck is what we have to do now?
     
  8. TheLoadOut

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    OK, so now that they've built it why not sell it? If someone is willing to buy one right now and put it to work in the real world and have KW stand behind it with a full warranty, why not sell it right now? All we ever see are futuristic desgins with lauded results but we never see the vehicle hit the market. Where's the Tesla semi? Where's the Nikola semi? Still in testing. Test test test. The real world is the test.
     
  9. Dave_in_AZ

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    I dunno. That's the ".... if this comes to fruition...." part of my post.
     
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  10. Dave_in_AZ

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    No you don't have to do anything.
     
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  11. Cdemars316

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    Gotta say, going hybrid is what they should have done 20 years ago, could care less about the looks of that thing, center driver and cameras for sideview are going to work like a fart in church where I am and further north, but the rest of the concept is they way they all should go
     
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