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Post by loghauler70 on Jan 9, 2010 16:59:59 GMT -5
My favorite truck was a 94 KW W900B black with flames N14 Cummins 18 speed with Eaton Double lockers and a Whit Log trailer I wish I was still driving it but my boss sold it so I quit now I driving a 378 Pete.
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Post by rkennerley on Jan 29, 2010 10:22:45 GMT -5
for me it will have to be the truck i learned to drive in an old e series Oshkosh with a 290 cat and 9 speed fuller box they just dont make them that good anymore
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Post by 262emeryville on Sept 20, 2010 22:21:03 GMT -5
ll the comforts of home! I always felt" the better the truck the better the job". Later Straycat.
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Post by rotoruafireguy on Oct 2, 2010 5:49:45 GMT -5
I drive a 2003 scania 380 with a container sideloader behind. I glad is has a sleeper and opticruise transmission. With me it goes into alot of very small spots that cars would not want to go.
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Post by extruckerman on Oct 16, 2010 22:33:23 GMT -5
I bought a new 379 Ext Hood back in '94. First year for the UNIBILT sleeper. I spec'd it out & waited 5 months for it to come in. It was sweet! Such an improvement from my '78 359!
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Post by crackerboxkid on Dec 10, 2010 6:29:12 GMT -5
When I first began driving ('78) I hauled produce, and it was a "slip seat" operation. Most of the time I hopped between CO4070's and Astro's. However, there was one KW conventional in the fleet. It was a former O.O's tractor, and had all the bells 'n whistles. It was powered by a 380 Cummins (pretty big power in those days) and a 13 speed. The senior driver had that truck permanently assigned to him, but one summer he decided to take a vacation, and I got the nod to drive it for a week. 'Thought I'd died and gone to heaven... That was the kind of truck I had dreamed of driving as a kid, and I finally got the chance to make that dream come true...
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Post by 262emeryville on Dec 26, 2010 14:16:33 GMT -5
the worst truck i ever drove was a '66 transstar c/o 4000 with a 238 detroit 15 spd. low hole with 4.33 gears-what a boring truck to drive, no power, too many gears and too slow. Thats what happens when you're the youngest brother i guess!! later, matt.
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rnagle
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Post by rnagle on Mar 5, 2011 20:38:53 GMT -5
For "cool" I would say the '89 Superliner I drove when I worked for J&F trucking back in 96/97. 350 Mack/15 speed: Fast forward to last fall, after 13 years away from the "big trucks" my work bought a tractor/trailer rig for deliveries, we do some structural steel fab/install and had a good sized job in northern Ontario, hauling our own product made sense both economically and from a scheduling/logistics perspective. Fair amount of looking before we finally ended up with.......another white Mack! 2002 Vision, 460 Mack/13 speed and I'm very happy when I get to drive it!
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ed
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Post by ed on Jun 19, 2011 18:25:06 GMT -5
This One!
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pa
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Post by pa on Aug 13, 2011 5:20:49 GMT -5
Well here in sweden we dont have the fancy US cruiser... But to share my world of trucking. The favorite has to be the Volvo FH16 660hp logging truck! Now we got the 700hp and its realy nice!
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Post by roadranger on Nov 2, 2011 16:36:09 GMT -5
Started driving in 1968, gas powered straight trucks and mixers.
#1 favorite was a 1975 White Road Boss single drive with a 238hp 6-71 Detroit Diesel with a 10 spd roadranger. Hauled bales of corrugated boxes grossing not more than 50k, and just loved making that sound of the Detroit bumblebee symphony, stroking thru that 10 speed over hill and dale thru out New England. That short wheelbase tractor was very nimble getting the 45 ft. trailers in and out of small congested New England towns and industrial areas.
#2 favorite was a 1985 Peterbilt 359 day cab with a 425 (4 and a quarter) Cat with a 15 spd. in sand and gravel service. That truck had just a fantastically nice ride and handling, and was weight balanced just right to where I could get on and off job sites where no other truck in the fleet could.
Nowadays I'm driving a 10 yr old Pete 379 day cab with a 525 Cat and 10 spd with 890K miles on it hauling rock and landscape material at a permitted 92K gross in an aluminum frameless end dump from quarries thru out the Rocky Mtns into the metro Denver/Pueblo Colorado area.
Sorry to see Cat has exited the truck diesel market - their C-15 is the best pulling engine out there. We've had several new Paccar and Cummins powered large block engined trucks come into the fleet, and they don't hold a candle to the C-15.
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cutter
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Post by cutter on Jan 12, 2013 9:17:56 GMT -5
Freightliner FLD 120 condo and a '99 Volvo. Both trucks were ungoverned . The FLD 120 had a 13 speed Eaton Fuller transmission and a series 60 Detroit engine and the Volvo had a 500 Cummins engine coupled to a 13 speed Eaton Fuller transmission. Wish I was driving either one now instead of this Freightliner Colombia I'm driving now, 10 speed with a Mercedez engine that can't pull it's self out of a wet paper bag with a full load on it, plus it's governed to 63 on the foot and cruise.
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Lance C.
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Post by Lance C. on Jan 20, 2013 20:08:23 GMT -5
a tie between Ford and Western Star as for all time favorite's, here are my 2 favorite trucks I operated too 1999 Western Star 5964SS 1998 Ford Aeromax AT-9522 I have now Idea what happen to the Ford, the Western Star had a sad ending when it was wrecked 4 Fridays ago
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blackwolf
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Post by blackwolf on May 19, 2013 21:11:36 GMT -5
My favorite truck I had driven would have to be the W900 with a 4.25 kitty bored to 500 kitty car hauler I drove for Harris Auto Transport. Now I'd wish I would had gotten some pictures of it.
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mart
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Post by mart on May 20, 2013 3:55:12 GMT -5
I very much loved the MAN F 2000 and an older F 9 with Eaton Twin Splitter (best Tranny, I ever operated!) . Also the DAF XF 85.480. I have no pictures from those trucks but will show you similar ones: MAN F 9: MAN F 2000: My current Scania R 470: Sorry, no pic of the DAF Whilst a vacation in WI in '96 it was a pleasure, to drive some different US- Trucks like the Ford LTL 9000, a WS 49, an Inter 59 and a Mack RW 700 (or 713?) An experience, I never will miss! I also like my Ranger: Martin
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