Comments By Lawrence H.

No because running so hard turns days into weeks, and weeks into years and so on. I was only supposed to be local and I always gotta ask someone what day of the week and what date it is.

Carl , s you need to go to miller/coors in irwindale. I never got a load of coors lt heading to Fresno that was less that 53 K. But usually closer to 54k. They don't care how you do it. If they can lay 4 twelve packs on the back, they do it.

Maybe that one truck you say turns like an aircraft is a W 900L that's quite a longer hood to a straight W900.

I can hop in any truck and drive it perfect. And never use the clutch.

The only place I use the clutch is at a stop sign, and that's only if I can't do a calif stop.

I don't know what grapevine you went up or down. But its 47 miles across. 5 miles on both ends, up and down in between but no hill longer than 5 miles at 6 percent grade. That means it rises 6 feet every 100 feet traveled. So first gear in highside of trans iswhere you will pull loaded. From 400 hp and up every 50 hp more you will pull another gear higher. So cat five fifty pull hill in 8 the gear with 10 speed. Detroit 450 pull in 7 the gear fully loaded.

They need to bring back the split your sleeper times. The worse thing about that 54.6 truck is I knew exactley how much time I was losing. Because when the brand new peterbilt would break down I got the rental. Bam set the cruise on 62 mph and pull 32 minutes off a 225 mile run. One way. That's when getting unloaded within two hours you could just to the 550 mile round trip legal. But only in rental truck. All trucks were day cabs so paper logs had to be pretty thought out. I got to where I was lying so much I didn't know what day it was for real.

I was running from San Bernardino to Fresno everyday in a truck governed at 54.6 mph yes 54.6. Now right out of the box if you waste anymore than 30 minutes you cannot do it leggally. Because of a traffic accident, cal trans painting new fog lines. Or shipper or reciever holding you up. If you had e logs there is no way you could run that load. Typical day get to yard, go to town 43 miles away drop trailer find loaded trailer. Is it loaded right if not slide trailer axles. Its a light load only 53,550 lbs child be no problem getting that across or around scales. Whatever it takes right. So we don't stop we leave their drive 54.6 mph all the way except bottom of grapevine that is slightly downhill so you can go 65 for 7 minutes. But when you get back your gonna get another warning for driving to fast. 4 hours and 15 minutes you get there. But wait it takes 4 hours to unload. How do I make it back. Free time ! I got paper logs.

Jeremy you can always find the real good drivers, they will be driving with those real nice driving gloves. And easy to find the companies paying the best, well that's easy there the ones with there wallets chained down.

I did six loads a day from riverside to fontana. That's one million and a half lbs a week. Always 80 k lbs. Five days a week, Saturday and Sunday were maintenance days. Local driving is a lot more turning and really takes a lot more effort than setting the cruise at 65 and holding on tight. Remember experiance is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.