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06-07-19, 10:14 AM | #826 |
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I love trailers, but I hate tractors. Trailers hold their value, trailers have no EPA mandated crap installed on them, trailers don't require $13,000 repairs because of their emissions crap, trailers don't have warranties that slippery companies can get around. I hate tractors.
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07-15-19, 12:22 PM | #827 |
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07-15-19, 04:40 PM | #828 |
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The comments say it all
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07-16-19, 12:45 AM | #829 |
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Ah, yahoo trying to make the economy look not so good because "orange man bad", just like almost every article on every subject they publish. "Not" a canary in the coal mine.
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05-28-20, 02:09 PM | #830 |
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Anybody know where you might buy a used wind blade trailer besides truckpaper.com?
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05-28-20, 02:36 PM | #831 |
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When I saw the movie Convoy on German tv for the first time in the 80's I think it was.
I was thinking..wow being a trucker and drive from west coast to east coast must be a wonderful job. Since this is impossible I have done what is second best...I'm driving an American truck in American Truck Simulator. Markus |
05-28-20, 02:48 PM | #832 | |
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Breaker Breaker! Ya got yer 'ears' on? Over!
Well for that 'immersive effect' sit in a vibrating lazy-boy chair that rocks and stick
on the stereo-for 350 days... and report back 5/13/2021!
Quote:
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07-09-20, 09:18 AM | #833 |
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Aktungbby, let me tell you about the job I had today....
https://uk.style.yahoo.com/well-that...172500230.html |
07-09-20, 11:13 AM | #834 |
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My mentor, neighbor and golf companion, a former third officer on cargo ships in WWII, was the head of General Electric Nuclear division worldwide in the 70's when I was trukkin'. His nine year project was to build the Cofrentes, Spain power plant. Because I spoke Spanish and drove; he almost drafted me for duty! http://www.cncofrentes.es/wcofrnts/gc/prod/en_US/prensa/docs/monografico-CNC-eng.pdf Hauling the cooling towers and nuclear core over the rugged mountains was amazing The stunning picture he had on the wall of his modest office in San Jose was an entire cooling tower on amazing array of flatbeds going up the pass! The facility, and nine other plants, will be closed by 2014 as Spain goes 'clean'. I sensibly stuck to delivering tomato paste into lower Manhattan pizza chains...and all 48 states.
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07-09-20, 12:23 PM | #835 |
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See that big hole with a cover on the starboard side?
I think that's a TDU trash disposal unit
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07-09-20, 12:36 PM | #836 |
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Trukkimup 101
BOTTOM LINE: someone (the driver??!!) has gotta 'thump' all those tyres generally every four hours or so to check inflation against possible tyre fyre and that's hard on carpal tunnel syndrome in your shifting hand... I had enough trouble just doing 18.... on an eighteen wheeler. So simple yet essential:
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07-09-20, 12:48 PM | #837 |
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I hope this doesn't catch on, I do not want to get "another" loan in order to buy one of those trailers.
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07-09-20, 03:15 PM | #838 |
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You don't buy trailers, you lease from McKinney Trailer!
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07-10-20, 12:12 AM | #839 |
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Yeah, I'm not sure which way is better. The thought was that trailers hold their value, but apparently that is dependent on how the particular industry is doing that uses those types of trailers. Hopefully somebody doesn't go woke on windmills because they're all painted "white".
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07-10-20, 02:27 AM | #840 |
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John McKinney was my employer for my last year of truckkin. He was a kind and generous employer. I had reduced down to instate(CA)driving by '80 to alleviate the concerns of my family who worried about my long haulin' safetywise; and was newly married. Mr. McKinny was running a local distribution(Centennial Freight)for Kimberly Clark; ie: all the Huggies and Kotex in the SF bay area... delivered on on my truck! I recall one of his conversations with me involved an idea to start a truck-trailer leasing business. As soon as my wife passed the lawyer state Bar exam I quit truckin' permanently to become a Real Estate appraiser for 14 years! Imagine my shock when I saw a
McKinney trailer featured on an episode of Rockford Files... I see them on the road all the time to this day. The man is never far from my thoughts....especially on the highway!
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