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[Rick Ross]

To each their own I guess, although I would take a mileage run in a minute just for the money. Last year the company turned our two biggest mileage runs into 4-10 hourly runs, talk about a haircut.

We have quite a few 4x10 mileage runs, they seem pretty popular with the old timers who don't think 40+ years is enough.

I really don't understand mileage. We have a meet point and every run they have over 500 miles is payed as mileage, even extras. We have a bunch at 600+ that are hourly.

 

[Johney]

I haven't seen so much ass crack in my life. .

 

[Johney]

T/O Tractor Only? Here we call it bobtailing back.

 

[Rick Ross]

T/O Tractor Only? Here we call it bobtailing back.

We would never bobtail that far to a meet point, they would make us take bag trailers or an expiring DOT trailer if it's the last day if the month.

 

[Johney]

We would never bobtail that far to a meet point, they would make us take bag trailers or an expiring DOT trailer if it's the last day if the month.

Farthest I’ve ever bobtailed was an hour and a half maybe.

 

[Covemastah]

T/O around Boston a lot in my nice spring tractor , body aches by end of the week,, the pot holes here are brutal !

 

[Johney]

T/O around Boston a lot in my nice spring tractor , body aches by end of the week,, the pot holes here are brutal !

I've driven those roads before as much as you all pay in taxes they should be smooth as a baby's ass and made of gold.

 

[brostalss]

We got a couple guys who look like they need help getting in and out of the tractor.

I look at some of these guys and didn't know our shirts came in those sizes. I wonder how many X's they have before Large.

 

[brostalss]

T/O around Boston a lot in my nice spring tractor , body aches by end of the week,, the pot holes here are brutal !

I got the rear screws off the ground on a really good bump on the freeway.

 

[Indecisi0n]

I TO'ed the other day back just because I was feeling lazy and it was my last leg. Halfway back to the HUB I was thinking to myself this isn't even worth it. Tractors do kill your back.

 

[jaryria]

Especially those Internationals

 

[Covemastah]

Especially those Internationals

The 270’s were awful

 

[Jones]

The 270’s were awful

They finally ADA'd my 269, can't say I'll miss it.

 

[barnyard]

The old Internationals from my center are done and replaced with brand, spankin new Kenworths.

 

[Rick Ross]

The twin screws were much nicer. We had single and twins that were very close by number and the twins shifted and drove so much better than the single axles.

Surprised they scrapped a 269xxx, that's not too old compared to some I see at various hubs.

 

[Covemastah]

They finally ADA'd my 269, can't say I'll miss it.

You ever drive the 5 speed cab over international?? That was a treat !!

 

[Jones]

The twin screws were much nicer. We had single and twins that were very close by number and the twins shifted and drove so much better than the single axles.

Surprised they scrapped a 269xxx, that's not too old compared to some I see at various hubs.

They're all on the ADA list, along with the Sterlings. Basically any tractor that hasn't been retrofitted with the wingman system is living on borrowed time.

 

[Jones]

You ever drive the 5 speed cab over international?? That was a treat !!

Before my time, thank god. I heard the stories...

 

[Indecisi0n]

How many horses did it use tottake to pull a big box ?

 

[Covemastah]

Before my time, thank god. I heard the stories...