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If you are considering a lease purchase through a private individual, whatever you do "BE CAREFULL!" Our first truck was purchased this way and ours is a success story. Yet friends of ours have tried the same route with other truck/fleet owners, only to loose or have the truck taken away.Plus...

Our ARI sleeper that is mounted on our Kenworth came complete with a TracVision L3 in motion satellite system. It is connected to a Direct TV tuner box. The sound system is a surround sound system. We find that the system works well with the exception of interstate cloverleafs and 90 degree...

For the husband and wife or male/female teams out here I would like to add this advice and suggestion: Regardless of whether it is day or night, if the female partner needs to use the restroom or leave the truck, the male should accompany her. That is unless she can walk a few feet from the...

We are really enjoying the Onan 7500 generator on our new KW. We are complimented almost daily on how quite and clean it runs. What I mean by clean is this, think of the person parked next to you with the exhaust from your genset spewing directly under their sleeper! The only improvement in the...

You call sitting in your favorite motel room this weekend and watching Nascar on the cable working? Party down dude!!! Happy birthday wishes from Shawna and me!:7 :D

Are there loads to FL? Every time we want to go home we can't buy a load to FL! LOL Seriously, if you except a load to FL you should factor in the deadhead miles back to Atlanta. Use that figure as your total pay per mile. If that amount is exceptable to your needs then take the load, if not...

Yea, it didn't upset me quite as much when I had smaller fuel tanks and cost us less to fillerup, only not be able to get a parking space afterwards! My strategy of late is to park first, drop the trailer and bobtail to the fuel island. Guess you could call that "reserving" a space! Bet you C...

A question I would like to add to the pot is this: You deliver late in the evening and head to the only truck stop in the area. Before parking you put $500.00-$600.00 of fuel in you tanks. Then you go looking for a non-Idleaire space only to find non availible. Since we have a large fully...

Our favorite place to park in Las Vegas is at the Rio Hotel and Casino. We had our wedding there four years ago. What a fun place!!! They have secure paved truck parking that you can stay overnight in, or longer if you want (you can see it from I-15 as you pass). Just don't throw trash or pee...

Could it have been at FDCC Corporate or somewhere between Canton and Cleveland? We're currently at the TA in North Canton.

Thanks Phil for helping me get the photos online. We had request from some of the EO members to post the "office area" photos online. That is one of the best things we've ever had in a truck. I spend alot of my off time in my office taking care of business while my wife enjoys watching TV from...

Those actions by certain forklift drivers is exactly why I wont allow them in our truck. They are told to drop it on the dock or wait until I drop it there when unloading. Many don't seem to care that you own the truck and what you have invested in it. It seems they are more than happy to tear...

That is an interesting combination indeed. We had heard Bentz was now building 150" intergrated sleepers for the Columbias. We have been in Freightliners for years. After reaching a point in our driving careers that a 70" condo wasn't comfortable anymore (affordable yes), something had to be...

TA @ Canton,OH. We're the unidentified KW T600 bobtail in the back corner. Sold our DR-unit last week. We are waiting to to get our FDCC door signs and Qualcomm installed once our base plate gets sent up from Fl. Maybe we'll see you in the morning! :)

What I'm finding interesting is the clearance (or lack thereof) between the reefer bottom and the top of the sleeper roof. Could it be an allusion caused by the camera angle, or is it as close as it looks? Granted, its a great looking truck. We actually saw a simular one (dry unit) while we...

Our current truck (2001) has the Thermoking UTS. What a workhorse of a reefer it is!!! Unfortunately,per a conversation with our Thermoking dealer, the UTS is no longer available in the US. It does not meet the latest emmissions requirements. Until it is brought up to the current EPA standards...

OK, heres one for all of you that have built a CR or DR unit: What is the reason for 99% of these units (uncluding our own) having the belly mount reefer hung on the passenger side of the truck? We are about to embark on a journey to build a CR Unit on a 2007 KW T600B chassis with a long...

After thinking about it for a few minutes, I have to wonder if that was a FedEx Supply Chain unit? If so, different division.

I find that rather interesting and wished we had see it ourselves. What's even more interesting, I would like to know how it got leased on. We are currently in the process of buying an 07 tractor to lease on and were told no less than a 48' reefer trailer is acceptable. Could this unit be an...

Phil, As you may already be aware, we run Centramatic wheel balancers on all three axles of are DR-Unit. When we bought the truck it came without them. According to the maintenance records, the alignment had been regulary maintained by the truck's original owner. Yet, we only ended up getting...