Thinking of buying, feel like I'm missing something

Holee Schit !!!!!
Walleye, if your truck was running why didn't you turn on the heater?????
You have to turn the "engine" off to save fuel Walleye, not the "heater"..

 

Did you turn the fan switch and temp controls to the right? Thats toward the seat without a steering wheel in front of it!

 

There are reefer companies where you can lease on to, but I'm not familiar with any in your area. Houg is one, but they're in Colorado.

I don't have an APU on my truck. I do plan on having some sort of system in place in the new to me truck, but that won't happen until later 2010 if things continue to go as planned.

 

Asshatts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,..............

Gouged not once,...But twice!!!

I would like to think yous knew what I meant,...But I'll reword it,..
When I was running my trucking operation I wasn't idling at night, Thus I spent many long cold miserable nights trying to sleep so as to conserve as much fuel as possible because I was the one paying for it,....

 

Well the pleasure was all yours Walleye..
I try to only gouge a gouger, you know how it is..

Now that you've set things straight, might I suggest a sheepskin blowup doll to cope with your anti-idling ways..

 

Oh,..I know how it goes!!,....lmao,

Fortunately I no longer worry about idling,....I just go home after work,...Though thermostat is set at 60 degrees,...

 

He definitley needs to make sure the carrier is going to lease him on. And promises they make on the phone don't mean anything. We've all seen the stories on here from newbies crying about having a pre-hire with a training company only to be tossed out during orientation. I know owner ops who've bobtailed 600 to 1000 miles away to lease on with a carrier because they were told they'd be leased on over the phone only to find out differently in orientation.

And look for a truck that already has an apu on it. They're just as plentiful and cheap as the ones that don't have them. But remember this, just because that truck you may be looking at has a nice thermoking apu on it does not automatically mean the truck's value is $10,000 greater. Which is exactly what some dealers will try to tell you. If it's a genset that's several years old and has a few thousand hours on it - it most likely only has a residual value of about $1,000 to $2,000.

 

There was an old T600 this summer at a dealer up in MI that was purchased, driven down to TX to the co. the guy was going to lease on with & got turned away. Think they said he tried several other avenues before turning the truck back in at a loss to get some cash back in his pocket. That was their story, can only imagine what his point of view was.

 

my friend peace of advice !!!!thats a good way to bend a valve,and about 5 grand in damages so id think twice about reveing that engine and its not under a load comeing down a hill ,its a retarder to slow all that wieght down ,not to be played with but alot of people do but dont understand it to slow you down and save your brakes for when you realy need them