New Penn | Pretty Dumb Options For Brand New LTL Trucks

[seabreeze]

I have no problem with the catwalk nor connecting airlines. The catwalk is nice and wide.
But surrounded by ******** which will get broken and guys will be written up for....for no reason that makes any sense. We use them for city and road....not just road.
I'd rather have a jockey truck in the city than dumb stuff which in some way makes people think it is "professional" stuff. Some guys are all about safety and " professionalism"...and knowing every aspect of trucks and the business.
Imo the pay didn't go up with that mentality.
It went down.
To others it's a job and we want to do the job as fast and efficiently as possible and don't care about anything those " professional" guys are about.
Get the friggin truck loaded. Get it unloaded and loaded again and go home.....without any nonsense...which brings stress and risk to us, but transfers profits to others. That doesn't mean anybody wants to run into people or stuff...but we don't need any more thinking than is already required.

Line drivers don't break things like that, we just drive em big ole transfer trucks the company puts on the ready line.
I guess we're from a different hatching.

 

[seabreeze]

I thought you were giving me a Native American Greeting.....How.

But yes....my point is we are in a company who needs to come back and demand money and changes from us whenever they want....and we usually give it to them. I stand guilty of that.
But they pay people to use large amounts of money to buy stuff which also throws the stress and blame on us.
It's got to be cheaper without all of the crap back there....yet they still buy it.
And whose job gets rougher?
Ours of course.
And who has to write up accident reports and take the blame and put our jobs at risk?
We do.

And then we'll hear....you can't tell us how to run our business.
It's just a pathetic mentality and relationship.
I think the union should tell them..."if you want to buy something so stupid...then we are not writing up accident reports nor taking the blame"....blame the guys who decided it was great to buy trucks with that nonsense on them.
Total thoughtless waste....guys get paid to think.......yet they don't think.....and still get paid.

We don't all go to big DC'S all dday....small old towns are not extinct....and their 200 year old properties, docks and small routes to get there are not either.

It might not be a bad idea to ask a line driver to give you cats a few driving lessons.

 

[Hookman]

It might not be a bad idea to ask a line driver to give you cats a few driving lessons.

Why most folks can drive forward already.

 

[newpenn22]

Come on guys! They had no problem when Mr. Arnold owned NP.

 

[slavenomore]

They probably saw the waste of money and damages to that white nonsense on that old NP pic....and did the right thing...got rid of them.
Above might not be pretty but look at the space between cab and trailer.
Perfect for the job.
12'6. Not 13'4 truck.
12'6 trailer.
45'
96 wide.

THAT is the correct money making truck with least amount of stress.

 

[slavenomore]

Come on guys! They had no problem when Mr. Arnold owned NP.

The nose looks good. Nice and short.

 

[newpenn22]

The nose looks good. Nice and short.

Wasn't those linehaul only trucks back in the day?

 

[slavenomore]

Wasn't those linehaul only trucks back in the day?

I wouldn't know.

 

[Triplex]

They probably saw the waste of money and damages to that white nonsense on that old NP pic....and did the right thing...got rid of them.
Above might not be pretty but look at the space between cab and trailer.
Perfect for the job.
12'6. Not 13'4 truck.
12'6 trailer.
45'
96 wide.

THAT is the correct money making truck with least amount of stress.

Where are you going with that trailer, it's red tagged?

 

[Triplex]

They probably saw the waste of money and damages to that white nonsense on that old NP pic....and did the right thing...got rid of them.
Above might not be pretty but look at the space between cab and trailer.
Perfect for the job.
12'6. Not 13'4 truck.
12'6 trailer.
45'
96 wide.

THAT is the correct money making truck with least amount of stress.

They removed the fairings when those tractors were downgraded from road use to P&D.

 

[1984Sideways]

Come on guys! They had no problem when Mr. Arnold owned NP.

The one I was issued for a few months burned up. They disposed of it. Half the crap did not work on it anyway. Fast forward decades and if a company offered me one of those again sorry mac. Not today.

 

[1984Sideways]

They probably saw the waste of money and damages to that white nonsense on that old NP pic....and did the right thing...got rid of them.
Above might not be pretty but look at the space between cab and trailer.
Perfect for the job.
12'6. Not 13'4 truck.
12'6 trailer.
45'
96 wide.

THAT is the correct money making truck with least amount of stress.

Now there is a form of p*on in truck.

 

[slavenomore]

Where are you going with that trailer, it's red tagged?

Good. It's a liftgate with those numbers.
They'll have to reschedule.

 

[slavenomore]

They removed the fairings when those tractors were downgraded from road use to P&D.

Downgraded.
I see.
Lol.
And we don't need any of our 1000' long twinscrew road trucks either. Longer than the straight truck.

 

[1984Sideways]

Words that divide a trucker... from just another driver.

"But it wont fit in there..."

 

[Triplex]

Words that divide a trucker... from just another driver.

"But it wont fit in there..."

That's what she said....Oh wait, never mind.

 

[seabreeze]

That's what she said....Oh wait, never mind.

Been dreaming again?

 

[chiefs2020]

Did you guys ever think of backing under the trailer at a little bit of an angle so you have more room on the driver's side to get to the air line connections? Those of us on the road running tractors with airfoils for many years figured that out a very long time ago.

Or how about this, backing only part way under the trailer so you leave lots of room behind the tractor and hooking your lines before you back completely under and hit the pin. That's actually the way we were supposed to do it years ago before Maxi brakes were around.

If he hasn't figured that out, he probably doesn't understand why they're on the LINEHAUL tractors.

 

[Triplex]

How about the fact you can’t pull yourself up between the trailers to hook the airlines easy, or even wash your back window, these people have no clue. I’m surprised no one has missed the little step on these tractors and fallin on there backs. The dam plastic should be removed for safety reasons.

Downgraded.
I see.
Lol.
And we don't need any of our 1000' long twinscrew road trucks either. Longer than the straight truck.

Do what I did. I told them to remove the fairings and even the whole sleeper section so I could hook my lines more easily. Just ask, they'll help you.

 

[roadboss]

We can seperate the men from the boys right now by offering a old 59 white for city work. At 10 degrees in storm conditions. And a weed burner to boot. Whiners sent home.

I drove a 65 white 9000 with no air seat for years, Best truck I ever drove.It was tight and never rattled.