Last one I drove was a Ford L9000 with a Cummins BC 350. Early 2000s maybe, a 4000k water truck. I’m sure it would take me a bit to get back up to speed.
So I’m trying to sell my old cabover and I had this kid from mt call me last week. Homie sounds super professional on the phone, talking all this “my family runs 10k head of cattle” ish. I let him beat me down to my bottom dollar and hold the truck a week, turning away potential buyers because he says “I want you to consider it sold” He shows up, we go for a test drive. I drive it 5 miles into town, pull into the gas station and let him drive it back. In 5 miles we have to completely stop twice for him to clutch it back into first because he can’t shift a freaking semi. I was right on the edge of being like “hold up pard, I’m taking back over.” He didn’t end up buying the truck. Which in some ways is a relief because when I asked “do you know the pattern for a 9 speed?” And he said “no” I was really wondering how tf he would make it back to Montana.
Come on Montana, you can do better. Cowboy my ass. Where are these western boys at when they say they’re doing all this and all that?
$65,000 if any of you girls want it. 125,000mi on Ddec 2 60 series.
it's been years since I drove old cabovers. I learned to drive a 72 KW cabover it had a Cummins in it but I don't remember which engine for sure and a super 10 transmission..
then I graduated to like a 77 model with a 13 speed..
many of our current dump trucks are 9-speed lowboy trucks a13. it's actually getting pretty hard these days to go buy a brand new big truck that's not an automatic.. in many may not realize nowadays if you take a CDL test and you do not take it in a standard transmission your license will be for an automatic transmission only..
Texas got populated when we ran the horse thieves and Q U E E R S out of Tennessee. The horse thieves stopped in Texas. The Q U E E R S kept running until they got to the Pacific ocean!