Bullheaded

A company I used to run for many years ago had 70 plus trucks. Everything from R's to Superliners and two MH Ultraliner V8 cabovers. Along with the newer CH's and CL's. They still have almost all of them sitting in their back yard. Just rotting. Got E9 500 V8's in storage trailers, brand new rebuild kits for them. Won't sell anything and no intention of doing anything with them. Just let them sit and rot and go to waste. Probably enough good stuff there you could build a new R model or Superliner. I get depressed every time I walk through the yard.

Was just talking about this with someone the other day. I spent many years in the bush with 38,000 rears in my 78 IH. I finally broke one axle shaft and I wasn't stuck or spinning. But the truck was bought used and was wore out already, LOL Also drove a DM dump truck with a 237 and 5 speed Mack. Probably why the highways were safer back then too. Well mostly because we were better drivers, but the average speeds weren't as high in days past. Most of out trucks topped out at 55 MPH at 2100 RPM in the old days, LOL

Ya, if it's all trumps fault, then why is Canada also short and having stores price gouging right now? Give me a break. I WISH we had a Trump running our country instead of the loser we got now. I sure wish Harper didn't retire. He was about the best we ever had. At least he had our budget balanced.

That's what I was thinking.These would be a good coal hauler or mining dump spec. And the MP8 is all the power you ever need there with low axle ratios. Logging (at least up here) I don't think the road trucks would spec anything like that, and the off road trucks are using planetaries. Most of the road trucks are running 46's on 52,000 air suspension, but many still running rubber block. As for power. I pulled 140,000 pound loads up and down 12% hills for many years with an E6 350 and they did the job just fine. Even did it once with a 300 plus. Having said that....I like power!! LOL. And often times big power means the difference between chaining and not having to chain up.

OK, thanks. I had forgot about that.

We may as well kill time until we see some new Mack 85,000 pound rears at work, LOL.

I wanna see more of this extended hood CH/CL!!!!!

Beautiful! What is the BCR again?

Well they did say if you we are hauling supplies needed for the pandemic we can run overloaded with no log book!

The big steel mill here that is a BIG supplier to GMC posted today that they will not pay any sick leave to any employees and the steel workers union had no comment. Wonder how that is going to go over when even the government is trying to lock everyone up?

I just ran the Star car to town to drop it off at dealer for the annual saftey before construction season starts. First thing I see at the city limits is a big lighted road sign "Essential Travel Only." Get to dealer, all the doors are locked. They have a walkie talkie outside on a table that apparently is OK for all kinds of us to touch, LOL You have to speak to them inside over the radio then drop your keys in a drop box. Mechanics that were working outside all had medical facemasks on, LOL And every parking lot I passed was empty except the liquor stores.

Aren't most of them? I know they are here, LOL

Agree tenfiveO. Both my kids are out of work now. And I just heard here they are even letting low risk inmates out of of prison?????

Well all the trucking trade shows up here have been postponed, and so have all the antique tractor auctions I follow.

I'm in a different country, but I can say, I'm not taking any of these special payments or anything. Because the one thing I do know is, when it comes to the gov, nothing is "free" You are going to pay for it in the end. Or you are signing over your properties to them. Just going to work and carrying on like every other day.

Yes, Nortrux Mack in Calgary sells a lot of those. They have even been doing tri-drive Anthem's. https://www.nortrux.com/index.php?area_id=1001&page_id=1098

I wish someone would invent a time machine so I can stay stuck in that era.

Just got a spy photo of the first new product announcement to come from the new VW/International Traton partnership. Introducing the new BeatleStar 5000.

Agreed. We can get the subject back on track if we can ever find a customer in North America that will actually order these new axles and see the truck.

Well my friends that run the highway hauling heavy seem to have good luck with their new emission motors. But I know they don't like stop and go construction work and light load snow hauling in cold temps. But I will say I am seeing way better performance and much less problems with my 2020 Detroit than I did with the 2013. Yes it's still new, but the problems with the 2013 started right away. I just hope that trend continues, LOL

Holy! That's cool! That's quite the beast. What motor in it? It didn't have a tilt hood originally?

I had a similar experience. Several years ago forestry dried up here (coming back online now) and dump trucking got bad for me for a while. So I bought another highway tractor and went hauling Coca Cola and Labatt beer and groceries between Ontario and Quebec. I found that any where you went, you as a truck driver where treated as a piece of crap. There was no respect anywhere. So quit doing that and went and hauled new RV trailers from the factories in Indiana. Every where you went you were treated great. They offered you drinks and coffee, clean facilities to use. Pretty much treated you like a respectable human being.

And especially with these new engines. How come we never hear any long term reports? Lets here from some fleets on how the emissions systems and regens are doing after a few years and a 100,000 miles. I don't care about their opinion after a ride around the block in brand new truck.

I wish there were still some credible trucking publications still around. Rolf Lockwood used to do a good job too. it should be like the auto industry. The truck manufacturers should give new models to independent testers to take out, put a REAL load on them and spend some time in them. Then report what was good and what went wrong so buyers can make a somewhat informed decision. I was lucky years ago. Even while I owned my own trucks, if I had periods of no work for mine I had a big local steel hauler fleet I could go drive for any time and they had every brand of truck and updated constantly. So I got to try every make and model that came out. Unfortunately they sold out and it went to crap now. But it used to be great trying all kinds of different trucks to see how they compared.

Yep, same with when they do a "test drive." Back in the day Merv Orr would do them for Driver Owner I think it was? He would haul real loads, do a real trip and do stuff like drop one side off on the shoulder to see how it would react. Now these new guys take a bobtail or put a whopping 30,000 pounds on the deck and take it up a 3% "hill" and tell you how great and powerful every model is. I really laugh every time a freight hauler brags up his 80,000 pounds. I put more on my dump truck bud. LOL