transporting a new truck
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by MedicineMan, Dec 28, 2007.
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If you remember on an old R-Model mack, there was a bar that ran between the rear spring hangers of the steering axle. All the time guys would leave it off or let it run loose thinking all it did was hold up the fuel crossover lines and the battery cables.
Well nothing would happen right away, but in about a years time they would start to crack cross members. Then they would crack the cab in the upper rear corner of the door jam.
On the later R-Models this was just a little tube with a bolt going through it. It really looked like it didn't do anything. -
well that is what my father told me which is why it is still on there. I'm going to cut out as much of the plate as possible and mabey half the square stock essentially turning it into angle iron. Try to remove as much weight as possible but leave enough for support untill I can find a crossmember for it
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I'm of looking for a job now so I can get some more cash to dump in this thing. I spent a bunch of money I had planed to use for the truck.
ANyone need a driver? -
Yesterday I pulled the passenger seat and belts out of my truck. it has pnly half mounted and had no belts. Well it had a shoulder belt someone added to it. These trucks have lap belts originally. SHoulder belts would be nice but the newer trucks have mre structure in the wall where the top of the belt bolts up. This guy decided it was enough t remove the screw from the coat hanger hook and use it to secure the shoulder belt
Like to see that hold a 300 pound guy in!!
While I was doing that I turned my radio on and got nothing from it. I just installed this radio. It was one I had in my jeep. It has power and ground and thefuse is good so I don't know what happened to it. That wasn't a cheap radio either. My batteries are going dead every few days so I may have fried it between trying to start it dead and the battery charger. I don't really know.
I talked to Deboer about running TX, NM, AZ regional. But they say I'm too fat to drive for them -
I hear a lot of guys haul pipe out of Hooooston for major coin. Going to WY, CO, SD etc where the oil and gas boom is. Some of them don't haul any thing going south they are so well paid. A few yrs ago when TX had a drought and was gobbling up all the hay they could find, all those jack legs pushed the price of hauling hay out of this county to as low as $0.55 a mile. None of the rest of us that were not on the inside loop of that pipe contract could haul for that money. All they were after was fuel money having gotten paid $3+ headed north. And yet they killed the price of hauling hay. -
Ya I remember when that happened. I had a buddy who hauled allot of hay.
Thee is allot of that oilfield stuff around here. Problem is there is lots of unemployed drivers too and they don't pay worth a darn. Lots of the oil and forest product jobs pay $8 an hour -
What's up with the "too fat" thing? Tell them you are going to sue! Have you ever looked into CTI Trans out of Philly. Tony Cap Sr. was a good friend of mine. Sadly he passed on last year, but his son, Tony Cappola Jr. is running the company and doing a pretty good job of it. He moves a lot of freight, not to mention he has a marine drayage operation going. I think the Old Man had about 400 trucks when he died. I think Jr has added a few more. If you call ask for Bill Ethridge in safety.
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well I read a post in the Bad Co's thread entitled DeBoer weight limits.... The guy said he got a bus ticket to the terminal and they told him they wouldn't hire him because his BMI was over 40%... I thought "no Way!" so I set out to find out myself and it's true. Go read the thread I posted about it. I have all the emails too.
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I got my new tractor protection valve today. Now if it would only dry up long enough to put it in.
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