Van Wyk Inc.

A 2010 or 11 KW with 150 to 300K on the dash, if it has over 300K you won't have it long. As far as it being a shop queen, it's a toss up. These EPA machines can be a POS, trust me i know, i've dealt with 2 of them here!!

BTW, anyone know's how to open a stuck fridge? it's not stuck on the vent sliver piece, i think one of my drinks are hung up on the door

 

jiggle it? lol

worse comes to worse. take it out of the hole and turn it upside down?

 

Im hoping to get into sheldon sometime to get my fridge replaced..it gets keeps the drinks cold, but i dont trust it much for perishable stuff, the last thing i need is to go puking all over the dash from something i ate..lol, got out of the house and picked up going to front royal turned it around a load bouncing back up to upstate ny..$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

Hawk, try giving the door a solid (but not too hard) kick in the closed direction. Sometimes that'll free the latch from the pressure that's keeping the handle from actuating it.

@ Mic, Hawk got it pretty much right on. It'll be a 660 with middling mileage. The Petes are going fast and I think the old Volvos may be already outprocessed and gone...but yeah, nothing over 500k in this camp. As far as shop queens...well, be prepared. It is kind of a crap shoot, and it is the big red under the hood that's responsible for most of it. I've had 757 for 150k miles now and she's had some coolant leaks (got another new one just now, whee!) and needed and SCR catalyst, and had an injector go bad. However, compared to the some of the freak show problems that a few of these babies have had, everything's coming up roses for me. Another of our drivers (a friend of mine, not on the boards) has been in 5 trucks since he started last summer, just a few months after me. White smoke, black smoke, tranny issues, power issues, you name it. We've decided that God just doesn't want him driving a truck...or something to that effect.

Don't get me wrong, it ain't terrible, and you're sure not going to have to run around hell's half acre with a broken truck. If it's sick, it gets attention. If it's real sick, you get to move house.

 

Groovy thanks yall...FYI i currently m in a 13 cascadia the company gave it to me with 34 miles on it.....I was my 3rd truck at Roehl...its a decent truck..but it spends its fair share in the shop and has idiosyncrasies that you just have to get used too...i did like the dd15 motor its just that they get neutered..and governed to 60..... I didn't mind a slow truck...I just hated thst they took horses away...But thats what you deal with in the training companies...Looking forward to the week after next when i get in a blue truck

 

Plenty of power on the one i have, its got an older isx motor with just the regen on it, the trucks here will go 68-69mph but there's a nice fat bonus if you keep it under 65, i usually keep mine like that unless i need to pass someone who's going 60 (lol j/k), and also if the idle is kept below a certain percentage.

 

Hey Mic, when you get by Hirschbach to wash out stop in and say hi.

 

Sitting in Dodge City,KS waiting on my load that was supposed to be ready by now,it's not. When it does get loaded I will be heading to Gordonsville to deliver sun morning. Hope everyone is having a safe and prosperous week.

 

Made it to Big Spring, Ne today.

From Dak City > Seattle > Culver OR > Big Spring. Computer says I've averaged just over 7mpg.. Not bad

Oh. And I deliver at Hyvee-Cherokee tomorrow afternoon.