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>call me an old wonder butt OK. For whatever good it does, buckeyewildman, you are an old wonder butt.

Consider the difference in a man in a >8X8 jail cell with a few creature comforts to a man in a 4X8 >solitary confinement cell and see who loses his mind first. It's a heck-of-a business we are in, that analogy actually makes some sense.

Here are some additonal numbers to consider. I called my Volvo dealer this morning to get them. A new Volvo day cab costs about $99,000 now. A new Volvo 780 tractor (Volvo's biggest sleeper) costs about $123,000. Thus, the Volvo factory sleeper costs $24,000. If you spent $75,000 on a custom...

>CR revenue (gross to the truck, fuel surcharge factored out) >is higher than it was when driving DR trucks with factory >sleepers. > >WHY???????? I don't know for sure but the increased productivity we gain by having a large sleeper (see above) is a big part of it. We have less down time...