Those 386's are nice trucks, I see alot of them running on the road now. I would tell them to turn the fuel to it, if it wouldn't void the warranty. The set back axle would come in handy for tight situations, but I could see losing your ride quality. Glad to see you made it back alright "being spring break weekend" Talk to you later.

Glad to see that you made your round alright. For the uninformed or uninitiated, the greatest difference in a Shetland pony and a horse, is the time it takes to do the same amount of work. When applied to a class 8 truck, it is the difference in having time to rest, and not having time. You still have to do the same amount of work, but having a horse sure makes it a lot easier.

Those 386's are nice trucks, I see alot of them running on the road now. I would tell them to turn the fuel to it, if it wouldn't void the warranty. The set back axle would come in handy for tight situations, but I could see losing your ride quality. Glad to see you made it back alright "being spring break weekend" Talk to you later.

Glad to see that you made your round alright. For the uninformed or uninitiated, the greatest difference in a Shetland pony and a horse, is the time it takes to do the same amount of work. When applied to a class 8 truck, it is the difference in having time to rest, and not having time. You still have to do the same amount of work, but having a horse sure makes it a lot easier.

We could always call Jeff & Teresa to see if they would get you a new freightliner cabover. Bad thing about those you can get the really underpowered mercedes benz motor. I've heard from a guy that hauled raw bark from the chipmill say they would just fall on their face when you would see ahill ahead. Just joking about the cabover deal. Back on track though, I didn't know you could turn that cummins up that high. I would have them turn it up and all should go well though. What trans. is coming in your soon to be new truck? Funny thing about the peterbilts though is the sleepers have remained unchanged through the years. The insides have changed in ways, but they are all pretty much interchangable.

I'm starting over- I typed a long reply-yes,with one finger-and lost my satellite signal .

Now,where was I ? Oh,i'd drive a cabover,but I might clean the ditches out 'til I got used to it again.Probably couldn't keep it in the road for a while.

The new trucks have 18 speeds in them,like we run now.I think they can be turned up to 565 hp,but i'm not sure about that. Todd bought Redneck a new 389 last year and it had a 550hp isx. That's what I thought they were getting in these 386s. Redneck could outpull my 550 cat like I was tied to a stump,but that was before Jeff had mine fixed...might be a different story now! Don't get me wrong,I don't drive fast at all-like I did in my younger day-but that's another advantage of a little more horsepower,you don't have to "sweep the bottom" of a hill to get up the other side. I can go up I-77 in Ohio from Marietta to Strasburg and never do more than "flip the button" with 46,000 lbs. on. Saves fuel too,very important nowadays. Like I said,my truck doesn't burn any more fuel now than it did before,but it's much more pleasant to drive.Used to be almost embarassing,great big 'ol Peterbilt in the right lane getting passed by every Swift and J.B.Hunt truck on the highway!

I looked in Frankie's truck last week and the cab and sleeper is just like mine,just the front-end and hood is different.

As far as turning them up goes,you can get a caterpillar turned up real cheap when it's been in service for 2 years,but it costs about $1,000 to do it before then. Not sure why,maybe warranty issues.That's why Jeff waited to get mine turned up.Billy-Bob drives his other truck and that came off the lot already a 550.I don't know what kind of policy Cummins has,but it's probably something similar,or maybe they go by milage. Just gotta "run what you got" 'til you can get it "biggerized" i guess.