I do love the smell of a new Kenworth in the morning. ❤❤

Had a blast thanks for letting me co pilot Mike!! Thanks to Colby and Ryan with KENWORTH!!

990 is the nicest looking new truck. Future classic!! It reminds me of the first time I saw an Autocar AT64F in the 80s. Sexy!

Mike, I started hauling dirt with B-81 around the North East back in the Sixtys. I have been driving a new Pete and sometimes a new tri axle Mack. Both Automatics around the city. Trust me , it’s like being on vacation!!!!! I shifted so much I had to have shoulder surgery.. love your videos. Keep it up .. Jim

Hi Mike, I drive a 21/22 T880 with a 18 speed mantran. The jakes come on when it goes 5 over the set cruise mph. It also has 46 rears. Been buried to the frame in mud. Yeah it’s a logging truck. Still hasn’t missed a beat. For sure a good truck

I would be the exact same way. Mike is an old school trucker. Never heard of an automatic will never own one. Same!!!

Mike was being nice he really doesn't like automatics 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 A real trucker!!

Nice Kenworth. I like the flat floor . My 660 had that step down into the sleeper. Not a fan of automatic transmission. Just had a starter issue the other day and was able to pull start it and get home. Automatic transmission would have been a tow bill . Have a great week.

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Good points as usual!

Really enjoyed the video. You would look good sitting in a W990 back in Boston with that shiny East dump trailer behind it.

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim maybe someday.

I really enjoy watching your channel and I also have a kenworth w990 with the 605 Cummins 18 speed trans MANUAL [CLUTCH) I have been driving since 1986 and this is the best riding truck I have ever bought and I have always purchased PETERBILTS no more for me I'll die with this truck it's my last new truck. Thanks for what you do for us truckers. Keep up the good work you put in on your channel. Thank you BOSTON TRUCKER STYLE

Looks beautiful

That 990 looks great

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

For a new truck it's really nice.

Raining, people walking out everywhere, cars pulling out from both sides , crazy side roads , 3 instructors, and,,oh by the way there is 45,000 lbs in the trailer 😳 Wow Mike,,

So cool.video.and I always like to meet Ingrid someday as well!! And I drive the same automatic and same engine!! hahah what a fun splashes of this video

Thx Mike......I'm still a W900 guy👍🏻👍🏻.....is that Ingrid Brown from the Boone NC area????

You look good in that truck

Thanks Mike for the Zimmerman shout-out...😂 Boston Trucker Style....

I like that lady. Seems like a great person to hang out with.

We say fridgedar in Northern NJ

Beautiful but I’ll stick with the trucks that don’t have to have all those emissions garbage that keeps us from making money

Wow I’m not an automatic guy, I do think it’s the way to go with traffic. It looked as if you were driving the family car. Maybe the auto cuts back on fatigue. I’m still a shifter at heart. Thanks Mike.

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Automatics aren't for me!

Don’t worry, I don’t know how to drive an auto shift either. 🤣🤣🤣

Hey Mike, my truck, Goliath was on your right in the background starting at around 13 minutes and 22 seconds, until about 13 minutes and 33 seconds. You could even see him through the side window in the bunk when the cameraman flipped the camera around.

Uufff 💯

Love your videos!

Make sure you go say hi to Charlie Trucker

I'll take the 900L ,18 sp.,old school any day. Thanks for the video Mike

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

When it's time I'd consider it.

@mikeglenn9800

Жыл бұрын

Great answer Mike, thanks.

That's right! It's a "fridgerata" (Baltimore native here)

990 is sharp.

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

I agree!

Western Distributing in Denver has the very first production W990 . It’s a day cab. I had a chance to have one, but that hood is so friggen wide. Interior is nice though. So I opted for the 389 Pete instead.

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Can't go wrong with either one.

Surprised it didn't derate by the second lap.

People get so conditioned to the same thing year after year. The way I look at it, that 18-speed transmission doesn’t earn you any more money than the new school automatic transmission. The 18-speed pays $180,000.00 per year as does the automatic

If you had that truck you might be wanting to go back on the road Boston Trucker Style 😂😂😂😂

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

That's very funny Glinda! I mean John 🤣😁

mike she didnt have to twist your arm for another lap!

Looks like musical chairs

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

🤣

O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 I was just NOT able to go this year. That 990 was already running when you got there & so we’re the others. Don’t they have the no idle system installed? Or is than an over ride for that now? Did you have fun driving that big automatic 18 speed KW? Automatic transmissions have their place in the world, especially city driving, but I’m sure they take time to get used to. My brother had a cabover Pete that had 13 auto. He loved it! I just wasn’t thinking that Kenworth was 100 years old yet. I know better. It just wasn’t on the top of my thoughts though. Gonna have to check them out. I’m just not a DEF lover & all this regen stuff! I do love a good hood. Blessings! 🥰😎✌️

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

People were going in and out of the rest drive trucks pretty steady but that's a good point, I'll have to find out. I do not enjoy any automatics in any truck so even if I drive it with a smile on, don't read into it. 😁👋

@the.porter.productions

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBostonTrucker 🇺🇸I get ya my friend. I’ve driven auto straight trucks & really liked them. My brother owned a cabover Pete with an automatic. He loved it & really regretted selling it. He drove it a lot to Colorado & California. It was a beautiful white truck, but I never got to drive it. He had 2 cabovers at the time & the automatic was his favorite. Go figure! Hey, I would get crazy for a chance to drive one. I would drool a bit, but all this regen stuff just turns me off! Too expensive for my check book! I love the old stuff too much! It’s always good to look at them though. Peace & Grease my friend! 🥰😎✌️

I am sorry but that takes all of the fun out of driving TRUCK'S no automatic for me😊

Did you de-louse after that automatic??

Woah woah woah… Mike in an automatic?!

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

Let me try and think about all the things I love more than having two 30 something salesmen backseat drivers tell me all the awesome things about an automatic transmission that was engineered to perform like a manual with a competent driver... 1) Shifting my own gears...

I love my 990. 565 x15 18 speed with 3:90 rears. The only thing I don’t like is that stupid seat.

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Interesting about the seat

I would love to have a bunk that big but I would lose cars

I’d be interested to know your real thoughts that only you had on the 990. I’m currently renting a 680 and it’s a throw a way. I have no desire to be in the new cab. Cheap and very unrefined.

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

I love how you put that! 😁 I really would need to be out on my own with the truck to really grow an opinion.

old school you had to man handle it new school it drive its self

Big frig??? Where i saw a cooler with a pretend frezzer. Kenworth needs to step it up big time to be called the worlds best.

@TheBostonTrucker

9 ай бұрын

😆😆😆

No disrespect, but I am not exactly feeling automatic transmissions.

Means it has 3 pedals and a shifter stick

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

👍

I'm guessing that 001 of 900, has an 86" sleeper instead of 72"

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Probably right

I didn’t know they were doing demo drives, was it open for everybody or just famous KZreadrs like The Boston Trucker? I would’ve loved the opportunity to drive to 990.

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Open for everyone just had to sign up at the Kenworth booth.

@amsoiladam

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBostonTrucker I wish I would’ve known that

I call it a fridge

@TheBostonTrucker

5 ай бұрын

Me too

But does it drive like an RV?? Like the star car?

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Lol no much better than the Allison.

@andrewsulfaro3468

Жыл бұрын

Did it shift like the pinnacle?

That w900 is the 86" studio not 72" Got me wishing, as a judge Mike you need to know your trucks bud,

@TheBostonTrucker

Жыл бұрын

Haha sometimes the words that come out my mouth don't match my brain but I'll have to study up 👋😁

@picnic9185

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBostonTrucker hahaha all good Mike me too I really like that w990, you didnt give that automated much of a chance

👀 @the.fueled