Any truckdrivers out there, NO not people that drive pickups, Real Truckdrivers and what is you rig and duties if thats not to personnel?
Myself its mack midliner frontload and internash rolloff sanitation but it is a town job. Many years in dumbtrucks road building and Highway and offroad logging, conventional and self loaders. anxious to hear. It can be like this in town traffic in B.C.

 

Not anymore.
Before my one and only stroke, I drove a Concrete truck for 20 years.
In amoungst, those days was a Logging truck,Lumber Yard truck,Concrete Pump truck & Occasionally a Western Star yanking on a Highboy Flatbed.


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Used to be an owner operator for years, last was leased on with Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, running the 48 States and Canada. Pull a gas tanker now, drive a 2000 Freightliner FLD daycab. Deliver gas for a chain of convenience stores in PA, MD, VA, and WV. Kinda miss having my own truck, but getting home every day and not having all the headaches is great!

 

I am not a truck driver but my Dad drives a 2001 Western Star and hauls fish and fish related products from Vancouver Island to Vancouver and Seattle.

 

I am an Owner/Operator. I have two trucks leased to FedEx Ground.
Here is one of them. 1999 Kenworth W900L Aerocab Aerodyne. 550 hp CAT 3406E, 18 speed trans, 3:55 rears.
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Hi,
I've wondered about this for years, and maybe someone here knows the answer. What was the purpose of the offset cab on the U model Mack? Was it to make it easier to jack the trailer in on the blind side or something? Thanks.

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 28-Mar-02 AT 01:43 PM (EST)]According to a book on Macks I have,it basically says the cab was offset 11 inches to the left,"placing the driver in line with the left front wheel for better visibility in tight maneuvers".This is a good explaination,since most U-models were used either in construction,or city applications.My Dad has been driving trucks of all sizes&makes since 1965.He spent 33 years with one outfit that exclusively had Macks in there fleet.I've gone for rides in B-models,a U-model,many a R-model,and their last batch was a bunch CH-600s with 300hp Macks in 'em.That company closed in 1998,but he started pulling for another company that has Volvos,and some new Internationals.They just sold off some of their old 1990 CH Macks with an average of between 680,000-850,000 miles on 'em!!!Now he has a '98 Volvo with 380hp,but says the new Internationals they have have 465-470hp.All their trucks are daycabs,so he's local all the time.When I was a kid,he had a friend with a Pete that he used to do runs to Detroit,and the Cleveland areas with. I would have to say my favorite truck that my Dad drove was his (then)new 1986 Mack R-series which was bright red,with a gloss black frame&tanks,and black&silver Mack spoke wheels.That had a 300hp Mack in it,with a 5-speed.I think the tandems were 38,000#,or 40,000#.I've always liked Macks,although his Volvo pulls REALLY nice,and it is a lot more comfortable.He should get one of those 465-470hp Internationals within the next few years.

 

I drive a dump truck part-time, for a friend. 89 model 357 Peterbuilt,heavy spec. tri-axle. N14 350 Cummins, 13 speed. BTW Bigdeezel that is a SHARP truck!

 

That is one good looking large unit there BigDeezil58! I used to be leased on with them too, back when they were RPS. Loved it until they took me off the extra board at night and put me on a daylight run out of the Harrisburg (Lewisberry) Terminal to the at the time new terminal in Queens NY. Couldn't get any miles running at night anymore and hated the Queens bid, so I took my Freightliner and left .

 

I used to own a 1978 Marmon Conventional with 66" sleeper spicer 15 Dbl OD and Cummins big Cam III with 3:56 gears 7" straight pipes, air ride, 268" wheelbase, pulling a 53 ft dry box
used to eat 425 cats for breakfast and lunch in the mountains of Wy
man I miss that truck when I moved to Wi I bought a 1988 International Eagle Conventional man those leather seats were a pain in the summer
International had problems with their AC units in those things always burning out compressors but she too had a Cummins Big Cam III and alittle work to the pump and push rods Spicer 15 Dbl OD 3:56 rears
set back front axle 255" whl base 64" sleeper dual 7" straight Ca drag pipes dual 200 gal fuel tanks used to call her my mean green corn pick'n machine she would top out 105 mph loaded

Does anyone remeber the truck a big black Pete and black trialer he used to run the southern states called the " southern shaker " man that truck would move the hell out wondered howhe could keep rubber on her

 

DiGideo,
Thanks for the info!

 

About the only thing I haven't hauled is HazMat. I started out back in '77 driving a White 9000 twin stick with a 220 Cummings. That had a knuckleboom on for unloading drywall. Spent 15 years delivering board. 25 ton would be carried into various job sites BY HAND! Man I used to be one strong MF! I have now graduated and have 2 Petes. One hauls cement powder in a pnuematic tank and the other hauls oversize flat/stepdeck loads in all 48. Both are 3406 Cats & 18spds. A day cab for the powder and 278" flat top for the really big loads.

 

As far as I know Southern Shaker has retired and is living in South Carolina. I used to run west coast out of Atlanta and ran into him once in awhile. I now run local around Atlanta pulling a flatbed hauling building supplies. Have a 379 daycab Pete with a 600hp cat with a 18 speed tranny. I just got tired of spending all my time in my big truck. Now I work 5 days a week and am home enough to put a few miles on my 1973 F-100 Ford.