What is the Ideal Peterbilt for a wanna-be O/O

So if I want to stay on paper it's best to get 2000 or older

 

Very useful information. Appreciate the insight.

 

That's right, OOIDA is trying to fight it but I doubt they'll win.... This Totalitarian government we have wont go back on their stupid rules... All in the name of SAFETY which is ########.. they just got money from companies so they can sell more of their ######## elogs... I used Elogs with Knight, it's not bad, but what's ####ed up is the HOS tbh.. We need more freedom to move around.. I don't mind the elogs, problem is the HOS! Knight uses Zonar and it's easy to cheat it I learned a few tricks lol.. but yea stupid fmcsa needs to change the HOS to something that allows us individuals to work individually.. how ever we see fit as long as we stay safe and not tired. I feel if you give people the responsability they'll make good decisions, do not drive tired. If you have an accident due to fatigue then prison time, easy as that.

 

I completely agree. I feel elogs would cause more accidents because if you're tired you can't stop & take a nap because you're racing against the clock. If you were on paper that would be a problem.

 

If u were on paper that would NOT be a problem***

 

By paper he means three log books and no elog in sight. FREE BIRD!!!! ...

Driving tired is same as driving drunk. Ive almost killed a dozen or more doing that over the years, enough. I don't even drive my personal when tired.

 

I know little to nothing about ELogs and what is required. I consider myself a opponet of them due to restricting of common sense freedoms allowed to a Trucker for practical things on the road that involve driving here driving there for a list of reasons not covered by the law.

 

1999 and older

 

Looks like you really thought this thru... where are you going to lease this old inefficient truck on to? That will require thousands in maintenance due to its age? How do you plan on paying for these things? Do you have enough to buy one outright and spend $5k or more getting it ship shape? Plus have a good sized nest egg for any major work it'll need down the road?

Are the older Pete's cool looking? Sure, but this day and age they just aren't a good option. When it gets 4mpg, and the KW T660 you didn't think looks cool gets 8mpg + you'll regret going for pretty!

 

Eeyore speaks well.

Thousands? Hmm... what breaks on a Pete? I remember we took our dump mack super 500 and tore the bearings out, threw them away and installed and greased brand new bearings one year between the two of us.. to me weighing 140 nought that work was awesome moving duals at a time after tonnage jacking under there. I sometimes hate age and wish I had that again. (Not happening.. lol) Saving the labor costs of a shop. Took half a day. But it was OUR joy, our day to work those 4 cursed bearings haw.

Here is something else. You never ever get below 1/3 tank. On the fuel. Why? Let's say you are cheap skate and try to run that engine on short fuel. You starve it running out, all of a sudden your filter stack on the left side are sucking air. All of them will likely need replacing. I hear they are expensive. Cheaper to fill (And get thee locking gas caps too... you can play chrome later)

Battery and Battery cover on a pete. Make that Batteries plural. In winter they are gonna get colder.. but not too much more so once the snow and ice encases them.

Your glad hands. Hopefully they are mostly rubber lines, otherwise the synthetics break like a dry stick when you are dealing with -50 in a howling dakota winter. Ive had them go snap on a heavy jack... which eventually led to frozen brakes fast to the drums requiring ME to crawl under there with a peen hammer rather than pay someone a bunch of money to get them unstuck. It was scary when the rig above me got loose and leaned creaking on the chocks and one chain I wrapped a wheel in on the drive thinking about running my crab ### over. sheesh.. (Yet another story...)

That little repair cost me 9 hours placing Boston delivery in jeapordy. It was further degraded when the alternator burnt in Minnesota. By then my boss Mr Dowdy was having a fit sweating out my delivery date and time to Boston Market ... but we got her done. Tick tick tick tick...

There is not enough money in the world to fix a truck and preen it to prefection, you gotta let it go a little bit here and there until you get home and learn to fix it yourself. I hope.