Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 29, 2022, 02:58:28 PM
I don't think a lot of drivers go with those giant sleeper cabs because it limits the amount of weight they can pull. I believe that's correct. They would have to be new laws or something like that thing.
And who in the hell is going to load the soda dispensers in the drink dispensers? Lol. That seems like more of a pain in the bellybutton than anything.
And the driver is sitting in a death trap. Ready to be launched through that front window and eat the steering wheel. Lol.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: guncrasher on September 29, 2022, 03:27:29 PM
Gina it all depends, if you haul short distance no need for sleeper trucks. my brother is a driver he has one as it saves on hotels. he has bunk beds, 27in TV and game console, along with DVD and laptop to play online games. he only steps out basically to take a shower and go to the bathroom .
there's a couple of guys who play the hand while living out of a truck.
semp
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 29, 2022, 04:52:25 PM
The trucks have a maximum gross weight. I know a truck driver and he told me that most people would rather make more money in cargo capacity rather than lose a lot of that with a big sleeper cab or a big fancy rig.
Big Red looks like it would be massive. Probably not legal unless they changed the laws
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: Meatwad on September 29, 2022, 06:12:01 PM
I thought this was about the tasty soda Big Red
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: Arlo on September 29, 2022, 06:18:39 PM
It's about 1966. :)
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: guncrasher on September 29, 2022, 07:24:55 PM
The trucks have a maximum gross weight. I know a truck driver and he told me that most people would rather make more money in cargo capacity rather than lose a lot of that with a big sleeper cab or a big fancy rig.
Big Red looks like it would be massive. Probably not legal unless they changed the laws
they get paid by the mile. they also get paid by the hour for short in city deliveries or salary.
my brother delivers trucks to whoever ordered them. 3 it 4 I believe at a time. also cargo. just called him. he says your friend is nuts, nobody delivers if pay is based on weight, unless you are a town truck.
semp
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 29, 2022, 07:33:47 PM
I never said the pay was based on weight.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 29, 2022, 07:36:29 PM
There is a maximum gross weight limit. If you get a giant extended cab then you can haul less cargo. You can make less money. You will pay more for fuel.
But my frien
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 29, 2022, 07:37:30 PM
Also, my friend was an independent truck driver not some swift driver that makes minimum and by the hour. You get paid by the load as well. But you probably didn't know that.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: MiloMorai on September 29, 2022, 08:11:08 PM
Also, my friend was an independent truck driver not some swift driver that makes minimum and by the hour. You get paid by the load as well. But you probably didn't know that.
getting paid by the load is a local job. I have a friend that has a local school and also does shipping.
semp
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 29, 2022, 10:53:32 PM
You don't know what you're talking about.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 29, 2022, 10:54:27 PM
what is next I'm ugly and my mother dresses me funny? that would hurt a lot more.
maybe scotty doesn't know.
semp
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: fuzeman on September 30, 2022, 02:33:06 AM
Why don't you two get your ‘friends’ to post opposed to both of you bickering back and forth.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: GasTeddy on September 30, 2022, 03:02:04 AM
Hilarious. From my 37 years in labor markets, 25 was in some kind of armed forces and 12 as a trucker. So I better leave the commenting to those who know a trucker. :D
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: TequilaChaser on September 30, 2022, 04:17:03 AM
Hilarious. From my 37 years in labor markets, 25 was in some kind of armed forces and 12 as a trucker. So I better leave the commenting to those who know a trucker. :D
🤣 😂 🤣.... my parents owned their own semis (3 semis 7 trailers- 2 flatbed 5 refers) had 2 teams that drove and then my parents drove as a team... Dad's handle was "Mr. Quick" and Mom's was "Lady Quick" from 1984 through 1994 when my Dad had a major stroke coming through Tennessee on I-40 while driving, Mom had to wake up and come out of the sleeper to pull the Air Brakes and Jake Brake and trying to hold the Conventional Kenworth straight while Dad was slumped over the steering wheel...in that 10 year period my parents had driven over 5 million miles no guilty charges for speeding tickets and only involved in 1 accident where a woman turned her left turn signal on and turned into the drive tires off the right rear of their rig....the woman told the highway patrol that she never saw the semi beside her 😆...
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 30, 2022, 06:46:16 AM
Hilarious. From my 37 years in labor markets, 25 was in some kind of armed forces and 12 as a trucker. So I better leave the commenting to those who know a trucker. :D
Yeah because that's what everybody's implying here. That you shouldn't comment at all. Where do you even get this?
I guess people that aren't truckers shouldn't comment is that your point?
My points are valid. There's a maximum gross weight that a truck can have and that thing looks like it would be over that limit.
When you have a giant sleeper cab. I'm not talking about a normal sleeping cab I'm talking about those extended almost RV type rigs, those take up part of that gross weight limit and limit what you can pull as a load.
Go ahead and tell me that I'm wrong though. You real truckers.
There is also a 65 foot length limit. Any larger than that is an over-sized load.
My friend said this years ago when I asked him about the big extended trucks, because that's what I would want if I were a trucker. He told me you give up part of the GVW and it will limit the loads you can take. Plus cost you more fuel for what you are hauling.
My friend - who was also a business partner also was embarrassed that people just dismissed him as a "truck driver" - but really, driving a truck isn't really rocket science.
Oh, and I've been in the labor market for 41 year, junior. Also a business owner. Who cares?
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: fuzeman on September 30, 2022, 07:42:17 AM
It’s sort of silly relating a truck from 1966 and it’s operation then to today’s trucks, today’s trucking industry and economic situation. Not to mention new laws and requirements. How much was gas or diesel back then? Truckers pay and the loads they delivered.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on September 30, 2022, 08:06:12 AM
It’s sort of silly relating a truck from 1966 and it’s operation then to today’s trucks, today’s trucking industry and economic situation. Not to mention new laws and requirements. How much was gas or diesel back then? Truckers pay and the loads they delivered.
As I said, that truck would have been too big and impractical - or new laws would have had to be made to accommodate something like that. But even then, huge extended cabs are not as practical and way more expensive.
That truck was billed as a a "truck for the 70's"
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: Arlo on September 30, 2022, 08:11:56 AM
I knew it would only be a matter of time. :rofl
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: nrshida on September 30, 2022, 05:41:08 PM
One of the biggest disappointments in modern life is that we never got jet cars and saw a similar revolution on the road as we did with aircraft. There was a whacky Sci-Fi series in the UK in the 70s where a lead character drove a jet car. Made a Porsche 911 look like a GN Jap. Then Lotus and BRM raced them a bit. Then there was that Howmett - was it? Huey-engined I think. There's an onboard video on YouTube somewhere...
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: nrshida on September 30, 2022, 05:42:54 PM
Here it is. Totally different sort of power and flow.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: nrshida on September 30, 2022, 05:43:37 PM
I apologise for being on topic :rofl
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: Arlo on September 30, 2022, 05:48:11 PM
One of the biggest disappointments in modern life is that we never got jet cars and saw a similar revolution on the road as we did with aircraft. There was a whacky Sci-Fi series in the UK in the 70s where a lead character drove a jet car. Made a Porsche 911 look like a GN Jap. Then Lotus and BRM raced them a bit. Then there was that Howmett - was it? Huey-engined I think. There's an onboard video on YouTube somewhere...
like this?
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: nrshida on September 30, 2022, 06:24:44 PM
:aok Very clever recuperator design. Criminal to destroy most of the prototypes.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: GasTeddy on October 01, 2022, 06:08:00 AM
🤣 😂 🤣.... my parents owned their own semis (3 semis 7 trailers- 2 flatbed 5 refers) had 2 teams that drove and then my parents drove as a team... Dad's handle was "Mr. Quick" and Mom's was "Lady Quick" from 1984 through 1994 when my Dad had a major stroke coming through Tennessee on I-40 while driving, Mom had to wake up and come out of the sleeper to pull the Air Brakes and Jake Brake and trying to hold the Conventional Kenworth straight while Dad was slumped over the steering wheel...in that 10 year period my parents had driven over 5 million miles no guilty charges for speeding tickets and only involved in 1 accident where a woman turned her left turn signal on and turned into the drive tires off the right rear of their rig....the woman told the highway patrol that she never saw the semi beside her 😆...
Yeah because that's what everybody's implying here. That you shouldn't comment at all. Where do you even get this?
I guess people that aren't truckers shouldn't comment is that your point?
My points are valid. There's a maximum gross weight that a truck can have and that thing looks like it would be over that limit.
When you have a giant sleeper cab. I'm not talking about a normal sleeping cab I'm talking about those extended almost RV type rigs, those take up part of that gross weight limit and limit what you can pull as a load.
Go ahead and tell me that I'm wrong though. You real truckers.
There is also a 65 foot length limit. Any larger than that is an over-sized load.
My friend said this years ago when I asked him about the big extended trucks, because that's what I would want if I were a trucker. He told me you give up part of the GVW and it will limit the loads you can take. Plus cost you more fuel for what you are hauling.
My friend - who was also a business partner also was embarrassed that people just dismissed him as a "truck driver" - but really, driving a truck isn't really rocket science.
Oh, and I've been in the labor market for 41 year, junior. Also a business owner. Who cares?
Total lack of sense of humor and weak self esteem combined with enormous amount of sore points seems to create hilarious comments. loosen the collar a bit and take a deep breath. Rocket scientist.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: fuzeman on October 01, 2022, 07:57:34 AM
knorB, that’s one car I thought of. The Chrysler turbine. I was surprised how long they continued making a few in various forms. Another thing Steve Lehto wrote a book on.
Title: Re: Big Red
Post by: -gg- on October 01, 2022, 08:36:46 AM