Comments By LDRSHIP

The worse parts of 294 are 90/290/88 interchanges. Getting thru is all about timing. In the morning from 0630-0930 is the heaviest. Lunch rush is 1100-1330 and evening rush is 1600-1900 except on Friday. Friday there is no break between lunch and evening rush. But evening rush tends to get done around 1800 on Friday.

294 will flow better then 94/90 downtown majority of the time. Only exception is between midnight and 0300. 94 is a ghost town during that time. While 294 still has traffic.

At Wolding trucks are initially set to 62 on the pedal and 63 on cruise. If you get great fuel economy, are a trainer, or one of the runners, your truck get s turned up to 63 on the pedal, 65 on cruise. There were a few trucks that were set to 65 on the pedal and 68 on cruise. They were experimenting with fuel economy to see how much difference it made. Some of the turned up trucks got forgotten about and never got turned back down. Kinda the luck of the draw.

I personally do not use a truck GPS. Because even they will give you bad directions. Talk to the CRST driver that drove down the Atlantic City boardwalk.

I use my Atlas and Apple maps. But the most important things I use: my eyes and my brain. Apple maps is mainly for traffic alerts. I plan my route out using my Atlas, then I follow what my eyes tell me.

As far as axle weights go. Remember, slide your trailer tandems TOWARDS the problem. If you drives are overweight, slide your trailer tandems forward. If your trailer tandems are overweight, slide your trailer tandems rearward.

When it comes to sliding your 5th wheel, you move it AWAY from the problem.

“Move” to TN. It is a no income tax state as well. LoL

Congrats Forrest. Way to persevere!!!

Wow, flashing back to my "paying my dues" first employment in this career. Bending space and time to accomplish unrealistic delivery schedules, 'creative writing' on the log books, an informal DVIR process and half-arsed repairs. Yep - BT-DT-GTT.

Just a reminder - if you use a mobile phone, GPS, or pass any license plate recognition equipped cameras or cop cars, there is a digital record of your Lat/Long/Time stamp. Should some blue-hair decide to drive under your trailer tandems and pass over the rainbow bridge, all of those electronics will get grabbed and used to convict you (worst case scenario) for Reckless Homicide.

LRDSHIP, I don't envy you for the position you find yourself in. Good luck to you.

With freight rates down and Boss man looking for something that pays decent, there isn’t too much bending of the space time continuum.

I’ve seen four small dogs, and two people, get out of a truck once, but seven cats?!?! Oh my!

There is a clever remark to be made here about CAT scans, but I'm going to refrain from posting it.

I think I'll leave that to PackRat or Tractor Man.

What’s wrong, Cat got your tongue?

I do have health insurance thru the VA. But it only covers me. My wife is SOL right now.

Just in case anybody wonders why I memorized weights of fuel it is actual very simple. I spent 13 years in aviation. Quantity of fuel on board an aircraft is measured in lbs. a Sikorsky helicopter model 70 aka UH-60 Blackhawk, carries roughly 2,400 lbs of fuel on board when full. A Blackhawk has two181 gallon tanks with each tank having a one gallon sump that cannot be used. So you get 360 gallons of useable fuel. But to achieve that requires gravity fill. You get roughly 359 gallons of usable fuel when doing a pressure refuel (most common way to refuel) and 356 gallons of usable fuel doing closed circuit refueling.

And there ya have it folks. Now if you want to go over engine start procedures, join the military, lol.

You could always weigh it, lol. #2 Diesel weighs roughly 7.2 lbs / gal. Kerosene weighs roughly 6.8 lbs / gal.

Just to show an example JP-8 weighs roughly 6.7 lbs per gallon. JP-5 weighs 6.8 lbs per gallon and JP-4 (no longer used) weighed 6.4 lbs per gallon.

JetA (civilian jet fuel) roughly weighs 6.75 lbs per gal. JetB (civilian jet fuel) weighs 6.5 lbs per gallon. AVGAS weighs 6.0 lbs per gallon.

Now all weights are approximate. They can and do change dependent upon temperature, impurities, additives, etc...