RowdyRebel

Pictures really don't do it justice....gotta get turned around back there, but the truck just pushes and don't wanna turn in it...so ya gotta feather the throttle, giving it enough to keep forward momentum, but backing off enough to let it steer....but don't stop, 'cuz then you're stuck and there ain't nobody around these parts to help pull you out. I've had the steer tires sunk clear up to the rims and the drives diggin' hard to keep moving. If you screw up and end up in the corn field, you're REALLY up a creek, because the farmer's been turning that soil and you'll REALLY get stuck if you try driving out into that.

Who needs 6 wheel drive when you've got a Mack? I go muddin' in mine every day when I get home. Ya ain't been muddin' 'til ya been muddin' in a big truck.

...DO NOT let a friggin METH HEAD babysit your child!!! Should be common sense, but it happened on the other side of town over the weekend. 29 year old gal killed the 4 year old boy she was supposed to be watching. linky ...then this morning, this other driver is lucky he ain't driving MY truck. Guy is up on the hill waiting to load for so long, I guess the air leaked out of his truck. So he fires it up and IMMEDIATELY (as in his foot must have been holding the throttle to the floor as he was cranking the engine) the truck revs to red line. Dumbass sits there with the throttle pegged for a few minutes revving the hell out of the COLD engine. If it were my truck, he'd be in the same shape as that 4 year old boy.

The shifter knob?

That is more likely to happen than you think. The fiance is in your neck of the woods & had been going to school...then she finished school and it's been one delay after another, most recently a promotion at work (which meant 6 months before she could transfer her job up here). That 6 month time frame will be up in late April/early May...and my truck is going to be paid off in April. I told her Memorial Day weekend, I'm coming for a visit. Either I'm helping move her up here, or as soon as I get home I'm putting my house on the market....and if it sells before she gets here, I'm coming down there. Not looking forward to the move....gonna take me AT LEAST 5 trips, and that's just to get my vehicles and tools moved....then there's the matter of getting all my vehicles up to passable condition for the vehicle inspections.....and transferring my CDL (I know Illinois requires even the skills test be retaken...not sure about Texas)...which would mean finding a trailer to use for the test. Sure would be easier for her to move up here. All her stuff fits in her pickup and horse trailer.

I generally don't break cruise for anything that'll easily squish under my tires. I've hit TONS of small birds, and most just bounce away without doing any damage. This one got me right square on the headlight....and those plastic clips break if you look at 'em funny. I'm thinking about fabricating some sort of shield for 'em, but not exactly sure how to secure them. I did come up with an easy way to access that phillips screw on the back of the stationary clip, though....last time I didn't have to mess with it because it was the white part of the clip that broke, so I just removed the 6-point screw that holds that white piece to the L-shaped block. This time, that L-shaped block was broke. After fighting with it for a while, I finally just drilled a hole just large enough to pass the screwdriver through into the back of the headlight assembly. Then, after I swapped the clip out, I use a little caulk to fill in the small little hole. No, I couldn't just remove the headlight assembly. 2 of the damn screws just spin in their holes.

...that I was going to hit a pigeon.... ....and that damn PIGEON was going to cause as much damage as the 6 point buck I hit last month.... .....I would've laughed and said you were out of your friggin' mind! Part #7313-95943. Broke all 3 of 'em holding the left headlight. Last month's deer broke all 3 on the right side. The deer I hit this past spring broke 1 on the left side. ...so yeah, I've broke 7 of the damn things this year. Bought a few extra ones this time, so hopefully I won't need 'em now that I've got 'em. ...at least they're only $8 and change...plus tax.

I might throw a pizza in the oven later....didn't get to the store for a hungry-man turkey dinner this year. Oh well. I was hoping dispatch would have work for me today...

You might say she's a master baster....

$1236.61 for a pair of Michelin XZE2 LRH in 11R24.5 on 10/26 ...then another $94.70 to have 'em mounted & balanced. Normally, I do my own tires...but the last set only lasted 6 months. Breaking the leaf spring may have had something to do with it...but the wear looked like an out-of-balance situation, so I figured a little extra to get 'em spin balanced might make 'em last a little longer.

....maybe get an old trailer to go with it to drag my old 8N around....

http://www.hotrodgarage.net/trucksforsale.html http://www.hotrodgarage.net/50ford1409.html I'd love to have a truck like that....my corporate logo would look great on the door.

Yup...I've burned through more than a couple headlight switches in my '01 CH. Then I got tired of buying 'em at $30/ea and bought a 50 amp toggle switch (WalMart, Auto Zone, truck stops, etc...just a generic switch) for $5 and wired that in. That did the job (just turned all the lights controlled by the switch on & off at the same time...no "marker lights only" position) until I could convince the local dealer to look into the issue. They had heard about issues in the CX, and the recall was just a relay that would be wired in. I haven't had any problems since they looked into it....it is nice having the OEM switch in there again, but definitely get the underlying problem FIXED before you spend a ton of money replacing the switch.

One has to wonder how many of the recent driver salary increases were ate up having to buy more expensive trucks with all that EPA mandated crap built in? Seriously...$10-15K extra per truck, at a company that replaces their trucks every 3-5 years...that's anywhere between $2000 ($10K/5 years) and $5000 ($15K/3 years) that COULD have been applied in whole or in part to driver salary increases. If the driver earns $40K per year, the EPA induced truck price increase ate up a potential 5-10% pay increase. As much as he can get the shipper or broker to agree to, but never any less than his cost to operate his truck (fuel, maintenance, repairs, driver salary, insurance, tags, permits, etc...)

I need to get one of them for my rig before the deer start wising up....got 2 so far this year & been pretty lucky.

It's astonishing how much people are asking for 20-30 year old Macks....and to think some people say Mack trucks don't hold their value

@$130/ea., I can see well enough with the ones I've already got.

Cost me a whopping $9.35 to fix my truck. I swear it thinks its a tank. Score is now Mack 2, Deer 0

http://www.truckpaper.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=2743314& Wouldn't mind rolling around in that...