For anyone that hooks a wire or takes down a telephone pole, I recommend accelerating once you've made contact, because with the truck under power and pulling hard, the camera might not get triggered.Didn't see anything, wasn't me, what happened, What are you talking about? Etc....Deny Everythingforgot about camera
Not really. I have one of these city units. Nice truck if it was a box truck. Couldn't pull Kleenex out of a box , much less a set.you wish you were this driver. brand new tractor (sticker in window), 2 brand new pups and only thing old is the conjob dolley
Again , a really nice truck , but it is not meant to pull a set. It would be nice if the company took a look at the policy of making a linehaul driver take one of these when a PM is needed for terminals that have no shop.you wish you were this driver. brand new tractor (sticker in window), 2 brand new pups and only thing old is the conjob dolley
They are to slow, hooking takes awhile to get used to I know, what I don't like is how slow they are taking off from a stop sign pulling out onto a road. I know you can use the manual, like on an old pick-up truck, but it's hard to get used too,. Plus, I keep putting my hand down to grab the gear shift, and it's not there....
if you work p&d, a city truck can get you 2k extra on your yearly earnings correct?if i was p&d i would demand a city kitty
Well I'm not P&D, Thank goodness.
I also catch myself trying to push in clutch, I got over that, but still catch myself grabbing for gear shifter..Plus I like to lay my hand/arm on gear shifter and not there, I like them once the cruise is on and going down road. But, yeah hooking isn't that fun, have to have foot on brake and in neutral before you can put in drive or reverse,if your in a hurry, forget about it..
Unless we get hammered in March and April with snow and freezing rain, weird being this warm in Jan almost Feb, I hope we escape this winter without some big storms
we are almost 100% green up UNBELIEVABLE! BIG STORM TONIGHT calling for an inch of snow
El Nino
so then what your saying is we need to stop buying city kitty's?
I heard that we were going to stop buying city units and only buy and use road units, more cost effective
That's been said before when we did the switch from Sterlings to Freightliners. The cost difference in a city ( light duty ) unit and a road ( heavy duty ) unit is a decent amount of money. A city unit is around $70,000 and a road unit is around $100,000. Also , think of the service life of a city unit versus a road unit. City unit can hang around a lot longer than a road unit , uses less fuel , and has less electronics.
Good point, guess that's why they haven't done it, I heard that a couple years ago
well we had a sterling road unit with 1.6 million miles and a sterling city with 700k when they got retired city truck was pure junk, road truck could have been used for a few more years it looked and performed better so is cheaper better plus i cant haul 42k of paper with a city kitty no versatility. death to all city kitty's please
