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    You gotta see this truck !

    RE: Wannabe's You can head over to ICT they'll stretch anything you want over there, we had our W900 done there with a 150 inch sleeper but it started out as a day cab with a huge CTA ( cab to axle) length and it was cheaper to buy that way. I'm not sure about stability issues with a straight...
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    Automatic VS Manual ??

    Hi, I've been a professional driver, mainly in TT hauling HHGs/Electronics since like 1984 and of course those trucks were always manual. My wife and I are considering running team in a straight truck and I wanted to know ( and I know this sounds rediculous)( where the heck is the shifter!!)...
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    You gotta see this truck !

    yeah but look at the age and mileage, 97-99 ish dont you have to have a truck thats fairly new to expedite, probably trade ins there is still room for a 5 foot box on that GMC room for two pallets turned sideways, 4 if you can stack em. Ha! dukesadog
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    Commerical Truck Blue Book?

    Hi, I dont know if this will help but you can try det.com (diesel engine trader.com) it has links etc and a really good forum {like this site} just about anything you might want to know about trucks etc. dukesadog
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    Rear rubber bumper pads on straight trucks....

    Hi If you need anything made of rubber you might want to try Hecht Rubber in Jacksonville Florida, they have a web page and stock like 50,000 items the sign says "everything in rubber", they have like 5 pages of nothing but truck bumper pads. these are the guys that stock most suppliers, they...
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    A Cat in the Truck

    When I was leased to North Americans Electronic Fleet there was a team there that had 2 dogs, a cat, a ferret and two parrots in the truck which was an fld 120 condo. This is back when we all spent 340+ days on the road. I didn't notice a smell though.....maybe it was because I was too tired to...
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    fuel prices

    Okay, I'll invent an all new type of fuel that costs .25 cents a gallon but I need someone to invent the bullet proof house I'll have to live in after that:-) dukesadog
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    removing stickers

    The best way to remove vinyl lettering is with heat but heat guns are not the best way. We own and operate a vinyl lettering removal business here in Jacksonville Florida we recently did a 100 53 foot trailer job with 4 people in two weeks.Dont get gouged by a sign shop Steam is the only way...
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    Truck Financing

    Has anyone ever heard of a company called Carriage Capital from Los Angeles California?? They usually finance trash haulers, roll offs, well drilling rigs or some other equally hard to get financed type rigs, The BBB has no info on them and I wanted to pull out all the stops before talking...
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    fuel prices

    I live in Neptune Beach Florida which can be considered the Jacksonville area. Anyone who has been following the local stories in the paper here regarding price gouging by BP and Hess for the last 6 months just shouldnt buy their products. The BP on the corner by my house has had Diesel at 2.35...
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