Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

The engine recently went down in my FLD so I'm at a crossroads. Company I'm leased at loaned me a 2019 Cascadia for as long as I need or want it. Has all the fuel mileage specs. 12 speed auto trans, carrier apu. Not the coolest looking but it is a really clean and nice truck. It's like driving a car. Pretty much everything you've always said about old versus new, I see it and agree. First couple of thousand miles looks like about $500 in fuel savings at a typical week versus the old truck. Not the first to the top of the hill but easy on the wallet and perfect for pulling a reefer.

 

If they end up mandating ELDs in old trucks, it's even less reason to keep it around. It will still probably be a while before it gets implemented, though.

 

Just a reminder there were people running old trucks before they were eld exempt. Some of us just like running old trucks.

 

Dang, @rollin coal, whenever I am in Tennessee ...be it Manchester, Lebanon or Murfreesboro I still kind of look at those ant-eater shaped KWs - as in your avatar, wondering if that is not you...but you changed it twice already. Sorry to hear about your engine problems.

 

Got rid of that one 4 years ago due to the ELD mandate. Miss that truck it was a good one. Wasn't near as comfortable as this newer one though and of course the fuel mileage was also awful in it.

 

I left to go camping and ride my bike. Nearly 4 days without phone service. It was just what I needed. Then I turn my phone back on and the internet is losing their minds about the possibility of ELD’s for pre-2000 engines.

 

That's the therapy I need. No phone - except for emergencies - so phone yes but turned off, No Internet, No TV...maybe a book printed on paper.

 

I was up in the Black Hills in South Dakota. It’s surprising how little phone service there is outside of the towns. It’s nice to go camping where there’s no service and get away from all the junk.

 

Good read over here
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreightBro...ging/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

 

Wow...
I thought that he language level could not get worse than the one I see here sometimes.
It must really be that bad out there for those with truck payments and high insurance costs who started when 4 dol per mile freight was not much to write home about and now they get excited for anything that's more than $3.