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[Duck]

... stomping on it from a dead stop like a mega driver would.

Mega fleet trucks are so neutered and gutless, stomping on it is the only way to make it go

 

[389 Hood]

You know what I meant by that.

When I had my own trucks, I sent a guy over to Naples, FL., to pick up a 345 on the beam trailer. He leaves Naples, heading back over to the East Coast to drop it off at the Cat House for service. He pays his toll on Alligator Alley and as he leaves the toll booth, like a jack ass, he just has to try and keep with the traffic out of the booth weighing about 200,000 pounds or more. I forget what a Cat 345 weighs, but it's a damned heavy machine.

His truck is a 1997 Pete 379, 310" W/B, a tuned C-16 600 Cat, RTX 18918 X-H and 390's. He thinks he can run it like a 10 speed, simply forgetting about the first 5 splits and as he leaves the toll booth, figured he'd leave them a drive shaft as an additional toll present. The equipment was late getting to the shop, I had to drive 110 miles with another drive shaft that I pulled from another of my trucks and put it in, in the middle of the road. That damned thing had to weigh over 100 pounds. It twisted right before the spline.

He drove my pick up back and I drove the truck. I deducted it all from his final check that he got when I got back to the yard. Lesson learned. Give a driver a neutered truck that he can't break. Second lesson learned. Keep one truck for myself and get rid of the rest. All you do in the end is keep an idiot in a paycheck.

 

[Rigjockey]

I drove a '91 FL, 425 CAT that was turned up and was 13 speed. It was geared wrong. This truck was made for going fast as was the style back then. I buried the needle on this truck I think the gauge went to140km or just over 85MPH.

Two others guys drove this truck and both of them dropped the drive shaft, they both blamed the truck.
The Boss said R.J. drives that truck every day and hasn't dropped the driveshaft.

The key with this truck was you had to ease the clutch and give it fuel at the same time.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I drove a '91 FL, 425 CAT that was turned up and was 13 speed. It was geared wrong. This truck was made for going fast as was the style back then. I buried the needle on this truck I think the gauge went to140km or just over 85MPH.

Two others guys drove this truck and both of them dropped the drive shaft, they both blamed the truck.
The Boss said R.J. drives that truck every day and hasn't dropped the driveshaft.

The key with this truck was you had to ease the clutch and give it fuel at the same time.

My pickup doesn't even need fuel to get off the line.

 

[BlackBart]

It was a limestone tanker truck, and you know how those trailers are basically airplanes.

Do they have wings?

How bout a propeller on the back to help get up them hills?

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

I drove a '91 FL, 425 CAT that was turned up and was 13 speed. It was geared wrong. This truck was made for going fast as was the style back then. I buried the needle on this truck I think the gauge went to140km or just over 85MPH.

Two others guys drove this truck and both of them dropped the drive shaft, they both blamed the truck.
The Boss said R.J. drives that truck every day and hasn't dropped the driveshaft.

The key with this truck was you had to ease the clutch and give it fuel at the same time.

I don't know if you're familiar with the hill coming out of the Goderich salt mine to Highway 21 but it's a little "steep" with a stop sign right at the very top.

Basically you pull that hill loaded in bull low and hope you can roll through the stop sign because God help you if you can't. I know a guy that grenaded his rear end on that hill IN AN AUTOMATIC. I wasn't there but I imagine it was fun easing that loaded 4 axle halfway back down that mother.