Datsun1500 wrote:poopshovel wrote: Link is to a pic of two fat ugly people. Cool though. Bench seats promote fat, sweaty road head.I see 2 happily married, hard working people....
Yep, considering they pretty much live on the highway in a pickup truck they could be doing a lot worse. I wonder if they have to stay in hotels or can they sleep in the trailers at night.
In reply to Wally:
You cannot sleep in the trailers. Or at least they cannot know. Most of the guys run 4-door trucks and the backs look like a bedroom.
Take into account that most of those companies also have a fuel surcharge that is paid to their drivers.
There is a ton of money to be made in that job if you are willing to drive all the time and deal with their odd pay schedules.
One of my Dad's old work trucks had a documented one million plus miles on it. The transmission had been rebuilt once, the timing chain had been replaced once, and we re-ringed one cylinder in the garage with the motor in the truck. Other than that it lived on the road doing truck tire service. Heck, the air compressor and tools probably weighed one ton, plus truck tires. It was dependable though and we sold it for $500. I begged my Dad to drive the truck by the local Chevy dealer to see if they wanted to buy it, but he just said it was a work truck and he expected it to run that long. It was just a Chevy one-ton single axle truck, not any sort of commercial grade truck.
Even towing that kind of weight. Once you are on the highway, it is not that hard on the truck. I am willing to bed they can extend the oil changes a bit due to that. It is idling and the stop and go traffic that kills oil (and your vehicle)
I'm seriously considering this, I know they don't guarantee "home weekends!" Like some trucking companies do, but as an O/O I'm sure you could pick and choose your loads and be home more if you have small children like I do.
this might get you started. http://www.indianatransport.com/career.html
ProDarwin wrote: Oil change every 3k miles? WHY?
yeah, that's a lot of wasted cash... put good oil in a diesel that sees a lot of highway miles, and 10k mile oil changes would be the norm... i know that Amsoil guarantees 25k mile oil change intervals if you use their filters...
I imagine that you could prob also tow something on the way home (shipping wars, ie uship.com) to offset the cost of the return trip.
I drove almost 3000 miles this last week (TX to MI and back) and while it wasn't too bad I just don't understand how the pros can do it day in and day out...
on a side note... if anything justified a waste veggie oil system I'd say this type of driving would
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