Freightrain

I was thinking the one I saw was the silver with green/yellow/black stripes(something like that).

Wasn't the PIE built by Freightliner? The CEO or such had it build fully to scale. I seem to remember pictures way back, or am I thinking of another one.

Since we have stepped into such a "grey" area, they just tend to lump us into "their normal" and let the courts deal with us. Easier on them, harder on us(since we have to pay the fines/tow bills/time, etc). It all falls into "walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it must be a duck".

The good thing with renting the truck from the test station, it was a lil DT466 Binder, single axle with a 5spd(synchro'd). 40ft flatbed. Really easy to drive, no worry about double clutching. They also had a dump with tag trailer if that was your preference. $150 for the test, but worth it for the lack of hassle. No worry about it passing the pretrip!!! They even only made me do the one side(she told me the other side was just duplicate and no sense in it). It made for ALOT of extra time to finish the test, since that was like 10 minutes saved outside. I remember back in the 80's taking my chauffers license test(written only). If I woulda kept up on it, I wouldn't have had to do the CDL thing. Oh well, who wooda thunk. That is why I waited like a month before setting appt for test. Didn't want them thinking I didn't have any driving time. I too had 10 yrs dragging my 40ft trailer around to races with my dually. Size was not the issue, just had to brush up on pretrip and air brakes. Personally I've always done pretrips everytime I drug my trailer even with my pickup. Tires, doors, etc. Just made sense to me.

"Most" new drivers use those types of firms to get a stephold into trucking. Get their year in(to pay for CDL school) and then go to a "better" place. Some never get to leave, but I think that is mostly their own fault(just my opinion). But I would guess that many think it's just pointing a steering wheel and get paid. It's more then that and they just dig a hole and never get out of it. Any large trucking firm will not hire a rookie with a CDL due to insurance, so you can't start at the top. It is fun to poke at the bottom feeders, but many have to start there.

I got mine about 10 yrs ago. Same thing, better safe then sorry. I've only been questioned once at a scale house I pass every weekend on way to track. Got red lighted and called in. She asked for license and registration. I throw everything on the desk, told her it was historical plated and she checked my GVW and said sorry to hold me up. I got the hell outta dodge. Since they changed the reading of the signs(to commercial trucks...not "all trucks), I don't stop anymore. I got the book, read it up real good, took my temp test. Waited about a month and called for test appt. Took the test(rented a truck from test station) and walked off with my CDL. No fancy school or crap. Just read the book and follow it. It's not rocket science.

I got pics but no dimensions. Have to dig through my files to find the reciept from Barry when I bought them 12 yrs ago LOL!! I do recall mine had roller bushing on one end(top?). Not brass on both.

I cut my rear leafs down to only 3, the rest were just spacers(cut the leaves down). It made no differene empty, but with my trailer it rode nice. Only problem after about 10 yrs was I broke the right rear on a trip. I made it home, with 4x4's holding it up. Those 50 yr old leaves were not meant to move as much as I made them go. They gave up. I had new packs made, but replaced it with air ride a few years later. I've also do the king pins. Actually was pretty easy, only a few hours to get it stripped down to spindles and apart. Broken spring: King pins:

Got a fellow in local ATHS club with red one like that, but a flat bed with gin poles. Isn't quite as perfect, but a very nice piece none the less.

Very nice shop!!! Jealous?? Me?? Hell ya........ LOL!!!! Nice superliner too.

Very interesting. I'd probably moved the axle back to make it ride better and not so much overhang. Too heavy of trailer and I bet it will get to bob'n going down the road.

Daggone that would make a nice lil trailer!! I have no real use for it, but would hate to see it scrapped.

Near 60* yesterday, 60* today!! Ya boy! Of course, 30's at night and few chances of sleet/rain later in week. It ain't all gone yet, but getting closer. I took the Harley around the neightborhood yesterday> Ohhhhh man that felt GOOD!

Seem to remember it being at Syracuse nationals in '05.

Man.....my back hurts just looking at that picture LOL!! Hardtail HD, going 1000 miles on the roads back then?? Ugh....I can't go 1 hour on my '07 softail LOL!! Kick start, likely suicide clutch/shift?

Noon time the roads are dry at work, Snow about gone and 41*.

Those kinda of things, I usually try to wire directly to a battery(including an inline fuse link at the battery end). Even if the unit is fused, I rather not have a glowing red wire if something gets chaffed. Maybe get a terminal post mounted inside the truck, off one of the batteries, for your power supply. Something like this: Help isolate any "add ons" and not rely on the truck wiring to handle the load.

Very nice truck. Kenworth of Canton is my neck of the woods. They had an open house about 6-7 yrs ago and I took the B. Felt outta place with all them large cars around me LOL! I have pictures somwhere. Have a buddy that still works at East, he's a supervisor.

We dodged the bullet here in Canton. About an inch of wet snow, roads only damp this morning. WHew............

Strange enough I just saw a Lil Red express last Saturday on the way to the B75 auction. Caught me by surprise cause there ain't many left. This one was weathered, but not rotted to the ground. About 25 yrs ago, there was on running around on cruise nights. Someone had put some old school flames on the front fenders. He used to try to race my old pickup all the time. That white mustang with the stacks? I hadn't seen those pics in quite a few years. They made the round of the internet about 5 yrs ago.

Ya...it's coming my way. I'm right kinda on the edge so don't know if I'll get hammered or just light dusting? They were saying 5-6", now 3-4" by tomorrow morning. Wunerfool! I just sprayed my pickup off yesterday from all the salt dust. We're suppose to get into 40's by Thursday and through the weekend. It won't be staying around long(thank goodness). Really starting to hate this crap, I want SPRING!!!!!

It was a very, very hard 127K miles. If the motor was rebuilt already? Or maybe it was repowered? I was trying to read the number on the accy drive, but just couldn't see it well enough to read it, not that it mattered. I'm trying to remember the guy in Wooster, they have that show every year. Kinda private thing, I only hear about it after the fact. I figure the truck was near 20K lbs. Maybe 12K for the chassis and another 5-7 for the bed. What is scrap for 20K lbs? That is about what I figured. The cab was junk, doors really rough. Hood and front were okay. Tow bed was usable. Yes, two guys were apparently running it up was the story I got from friend yesterday.

Here is a link to a previous post about those transmissions; http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/3463-t2180/

Ya, back before I got my B I was looking to build a COE or such to pull my trailer. Like they to today, maybe not as fancy as some of the guys do, but workable. I ended up with the B instead.

The H model mack used the L cab and stuck it on stilts. The H model Ford used the Budd cab on stilts. The RD highbinder put an "R" cab on stilts.