trucker86
Local Delivery Truck Driver
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Post by trucker86 on Jan 24, 2010 5:16:14 GMT -5
worst truck i ever drove was a 1979 international cab-over transtar eagle with a screaming Detroit engine and over 1,350,000 miles on no power steering and no good heat in January from Seattle Washington to British Columbia,Canada. due to my year old 86' freight-liner cab over was not legal to go into canada.... also how about pulling a set of doubles "empty" from salt lake city,UT to Waukesha,WI.. 1,400 + miles. :-Xor a cab-over international1987 bob tail- (NO TRAILER) from Stamford,ct to Roanoke,VA-with spring suspension no air ride !!!!
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Post by rkennerley on Jan 29, 2010 12:21:22 GMT -5
mine would be the 30/280 bull nose MAN i used to drive way back when it was a evil thing that used to wonder all over the road till it wondered off the road and got totaled only to replaced by a dam 18/35 eps power liner
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Post by tankeryanker66 on Feb 24, 2010 18:00:35 GMT -5
I don't remember what year the truck was, but it was a MACK, u-model, armstrong power steering, 237 hp engine, 5 speed, the cover over the engine in the cab was warped and I could see the road next to the block, burned 1 gal. of oil every 100 miles, (I called it the chainsaw), 44k rears on camelback. As short a wheelbase as possible, pulled tankers all over Ohio, PA, and NY. Bobtailing was murder, the truck would slow down if there was a grade nearby, didn't actually have to be on it, next thing I know I was in 4th doing 32 mph with the motor roaring through the holes in the floor.
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41chevy
CDL Student Driver
MY B-61
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Post by 41chevy on Feb 28, 2010 19:42:42 GMT -5
A 1967 Dodge D 700 made into a 3 car carrier....4speed/2 speed rear and a 225 ..........wheeez........ slant six.........from L.I. to Laconia N.H.empty...50 /60 mph. From Laconia to L.I. with two 1970 Chevelles....40 /45 except on long hills. I quite after that trip. Paul
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Post by 262emeryville on Sept 20, 2010 22:03:35 GMT -5
f-600 mack with a duplex two stick trans. what a piece of crap!! hard to steer, hard to get in and out of, lousey ride.. For someone who loved driving that was NOT the truck for me. Later, Straycat
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Post by extruckerman on Oct 16, 2010 22:31:01 GMT -5
Right out of high school back in '89. Drove a water truck on a road construction jobsite. Ford conventional with a 238 Detroit & a 13speed. That'll teach you how to float the gears! It had brakes on (1) wheel- period! I had a 6-7 mile turn around to the creek to get water on a winding dirt road. YOU COULDN"T PAY ME TO DO THAT NOW! Back then.. $9 per hour!
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Post by crackerboxkid on Nov 17, 2010 9:16:46 GMT -5
When I first started driving it was for a slip-seat operation, and I got stuck with an old Kenworth cabover with a 250 Cummins, 13 speed 'Ranger, and a broken air ride seat that was cocked over on the right side. After three trips out east in that thing my spine was so out'a whack I literally needed to see a back doctor! (plus the truck couldn't get out of it's own way...)
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rodfather
Local Delivery Truck Driver
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Post by rodfather on Dec 6, 2010 11:20:15 GMT -5
THE LEAN IS MENT TO BE THERE,ITS FACTORY,IF YOU ARE IN THE SLOW LANE IT SETS LEVEL,OR ON A 2 LANE ROAD,THEY DO IT AT THE FACTORY TO MAKE UP FOR THE PITCH IN THE ROAD FOR RAIN RUN OFF.Doug
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Post by crackerboxkid on Dec 29, 2010 7:47:57 GMT -5
I'm hoping you're kidding... This seat was broke.... and I do mean BROKE! It made more noise than anything else in the entire truck every time I went over a bump. Once I got through the gears, the only way I could sit upright was to prop myself up with my right arm on the doghouse! Nuthin' like being low man on the totem pole...
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78KW
Regional OTR Driver
Hard Time don't last...Trucker's do!
Posts: 2,467
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Post by 78KW on Apr 8, 2011 0:43:37 GMT -5
a 1970 International 1700,gas job, 5+2, steel body dump. took close to 20 minutes to climb greentree hill in pittsburgh. WOW! That hill's bad enough on even a LargeCar. I can just imagine what that was like.
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-DJVG-
Local Delivery Truck Driver
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Post by -DJVG- on Apr 12, 2011 23:00:05 GMT -5
Compacting my 6ft5 frame into a 6ton mitsubishi with a fridge van on the back, which had that stupid narrow japanese wheelbase (wheels sat a couple of hundred mm in from the edge of the fridge van) wich handled corners and anything over 80km/hr very poorly empty, let alone when you fill it up with pig carcaces swinging from the ceiling, and then spend up to 15hrs driving and delivering the pigs around citys, pigs weighing up to 80kg each, all for the one low (and set) price of $150?!?! haha the things u do for friends of ur family......... i only did about 5 days of it here and there, but never again.
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stretchw9
Local Delivery Truck Driver
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Post by stretchw9 on Jun 7, 2011 18:17:33 GMT -5
Ford dump truck I used to drive in Florida. Never quite handled right and you need to make an appointment to stop the darn thing. Worst brakes I ever saw. . i agre i drove a 10 yard ford dump what a pos everthing you said is right on the money you would have to telegraph 5 lights in a row to stay green so you could stop at the 6th and talk about wandering the truck sometimes thought it owned both lanes 2nd worst ride of my life the 1st was in a fld s/t century it was an old j.b hunt truck and i was coming westbound down cabbage pass headed for pendelton ore, when the jake brake quit working on the cumapart needless to say i got all the 79,990 pounds of truck and trailer off that mountain and once off i let her roll to cool the brakes back down then the company had the balls to say it was driver error but yet i have never lost a truck,trailer or load in 12 years of driving
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ap
Local Delivery Truck Driver
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Post by ap on Sept 19, 2011 13:48:35 GMT -5
My least favorite truck is the most resent truck i bought...There is really nothing wrong with it, but I just can`t stand driving the thing! It`s a 09 Volvo FM13 480hp. lucky mee that my employee loves it! Attachments:
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Lance C.
Local Delivery Truck Driver
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Post by Lance C. on Jan 20, 2013 19:51:23 GMT -5
I've only driven few certain trucks, as I only have my class B Permit, and driven a few of my dad's trucks, back when he was driving and a friend's Peterbilt 389
For dump trucks, I've driven a Mack and 2 International 4900's
I hated the 4900's so much, they only had 180HP Cummins' with 5 Speed's and the Max they would do for speed would be 53MPH and they weren't even locked
For tractor trailer's, I've driven Ford, Western Star, International, Volvo, Peterbilt and Freightliner
and out most of them I hated, it would be a tie between, my friend's 389 Peterbilt and and the 88 Volvo I drove in C.D.L. class it only had a 3406B 310HP Cat with a 9 speed direct, very hard to shift and had no power
But, my least favorite would be a tie between Peterbilt and Volvo, although I do like the Pete 351's, 352's, 359's, 362's and the frst generation 379's
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blackwolf
Local Delivery Truck Driver
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Post by blackwolf on May 25, 2013 1:45:18 GMT -5
a international with a darn Cummins engine with a Eaton Fuller 10 speed no heat in the winter and no ac in the summer months
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