Hey, at least you won’t run into the tops of the trees.

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

😂

4:38 That looks like a blindside backing gone bad. Probably because the driver's fatigue was too high. Yikes. 😬

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

I think he hit something making a turn going forward. The last axle was moved to the rear. Crazy

0:24 Was that Steve's Orwell (FSC trucking channel)? It looks like his Peterbilt cabover from 1984. He already replaced the engine and then later the transmission.

@wanderingfido

Ай бұрын

I asked if that meant he was going to stop floating the gears from now on. "Hell no." 😂

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

@@wanderingfido same truck as his but ‘82 and I got Cummins in it.

Hey Tom. Does these small multiple loads pay enough for all the bother ? Drive safely my friend . God bless you. 🙏🙏🇺🇸

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

Hi Lynn, considering today’s market and distance traveled on this particular small loads, yes. It was good pay. God bless you too my friend.

@LT.X380

Ай бұрын

@@HalfThrottleTom 👍👍👍🇺🇸

I like to sometimes try out the VNL in ATS just to torture myself. The GPS phone blocks my view of the left hood mirror. And the windshield wiper blocks my right mirror. I have VR so I can crane my head to see. But tinkering with the seat position just makes it worse.

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

I’ve never play ATS. I only have WOT 😀

@wanderingfido

Ай бұрын

@@HalfThrottleTom How can one play Word-of-Trucks (WOT) without ATS? Unless WOT means something else in this case.

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

@@wanderingfido World of Tanks my friend 😀

I wish ATS would support LTL. Maybe some day.

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

Whats LTL stand for?

@wanderingfido

Ай бұрын

@@HalfThrottleTom *Less-Than-Truckload* where a trucker will pickup and dropoff portions of the load on the trailer in one trip. I imagine lateral access is essential (ie lowboys, flatbeds, and sliding tarps). Although, a reefer with a side door might allow deliveries to two receivers at once...or four? (ie D,AB,C)

Tom, hi. High beam of new headlights for searching for aircraft in the night sky))). Don’t you have automatic weight and dimensional control stations, when you simply drive over a section of the road with overhangs and cameras, and they automatically weigh you and measure the dimensions of your cargo? In Russia, we mostly have such stations automatic, and we also have mobile teams from transport supervision, which have mobile scales and devices for monitoring cargo dimensions. We periodically have problems due to automation, that is, you can get a fine for being overweight when the body is empty, but such a fine can be challenged and canceled.

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

Hi Sergey. Yeah, lights are adjusted perfectly for looking for aircraft’s 😂. And yes, we do have automatic weigh and dimensions check just before almost every scale station, if not before all of them. But I think this weigh in motion system giving them approximate measurements. At least when it comes to axle load. Not sure about dimensions, but they do have devices to see, if your truck and trailer does have brake malfunction. We do have mobile teams with mobile scales as well, I’m. It sure about this overweight automatic tickets 😆 even when you drive empty, this is crazy, at least this have never happened to me.

@Sergey_Bryansk

Ай бұрын

@@HalfThrottleTom The overweight of the empty truck was due to a malfunction of the automatic weighing station. But the very fact that drivers received a fine for “overweight” outraged them. It seems that the prosecutor's office carried out an investigation into this fact and the fines were cancelled. I haven't heard of such facts lately. They've probably put the weighing stations in order.

Dave from Smart Trucking still doesn't like Volvos. He claims they're too heavy for normal payload weights.

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

😆

New manifold? Or have those welded? Or triple turbos?😂 add a propane tank so you can shoot flames 🔥 🤪 out of the stack!!

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

New manifold option would be from pre EGR D12 motor. But I don’t know if they are the same. Welding? I think this is cast iron, it would crack. I like the triple turbo option with propane tank best 😆👍🏼

@ManMountainMetals

Ай бұрын

@HalfThrottleTom they would probably use brass brazing rods, I don't know 😕 enough about welding to give you a knowledgeable answer.

@HalfThrottleTom

Ай бұрын

@@ManMountainMetals Same here, I don’t know nothing about welding sir.