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bj928 - 1/7/10 at 02:45 AM

Hi All, hope your all doing well, i'm really starting to get the hang of it out here now, did a wopping 12650 miles this month, and as i'm getting a bigger faster truck on friday i hope to top that in July, didn't see or get held up in a single traffic jam, or roadworks, off to colorado in the morning, just north of Denver.

this is the truck i been driving for the first 3 months



little sunstrip so people know to let me pass

Ivan - 1/7/10 at 03:42 AM

That's impressive - how many hours a day do you drive and what is your cruising speed?

speedyxjs - 1/7/10 at 06:03 AM

Nice!!!

Gotta love american trucks. Your not doing the whole custom paint thing the seems to be quite popular then?

mangogrooveworkshop - 1/7/10 at 06:24 AM

Nice toy

James - 1/7/10 at 07:20 AM

Nice truck!

Nice to hear from you.

Are the roads often in that sort of condition? Just thinking what it must do to your lovely paintwork!

Cheers,
James

eddie99 - 1/7/10 at 07:21 AM

Sounds like fun, glad your enjoying it? Picking up lots of parts for the kit i hope

coozer - 1/7/10 at 08:00 AM

Its a beauty! Can you enlighten me into the procedure for acquiring a job doing the same?

Funnily enough we were speculating on your V10 build last night in the pub

LG,
Steve

[Edited on 1/7/10 by coozer]

bj928 - 1/7/10 at 11:33 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Ivan
That's impressive - how many hours a day do you drive and what is your cruising speed?


this truck is a slow one, only cruises at 70mph, but can do that for 11 hours straight if i want. normal day is 600+ miles

bj928 - 1/7/10 at 11:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
Nice!!!

Gotta love american trucks. Your not doing the whole custom paint thing the seems to be quite popular then?


if it was my truck then maybe, but a company truck, no, and thoses dirt roads would kill the paintwork, 55 mph on dirt really kicks up the stones!!!

bj928 - 1/7/10 at 11:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by James
Nice truck!

Nice to hear from you.

Are the roads often in that sort of condition? Just thinking what it must do to your lovely paintwork!

Cheers,
James



the roads are crap, i thought british roads were bad, but i take that back now, some of these dirt roads are better then the interstates, don't travel on to many dirt roads but as i collect from quite a lot of farms i do see my fair share of dirt roads, and your aloud to cruise a 55 mph on them so they do kick up some crap and dust.

bj928 - 1/7/10 at 11:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Its a beauty! Can you enlighten me into the procedure for acquiring a job doing the same?

Funnily enough we were speculating on your V10 build last night in the pub

LG,
Steve

[Edited on 1/7/10 by coozer]


the built is still happening back in the uk, slow but happening,

about the only way to get a job driving trucks in America as a Brit is to get a job on the harvest, i'm lucky, i found a harvest company that as driviers out on the road as well as on the harvest, once job offered you sort out an H2A visa and fly out, from job offer to landing in America took to weeks!!!

RK - 1/7/10 at 12:14 PM

And the ones in Canada are even worse - a lot worse, due to the winter. Have fun in the land of big hair and fat people!

Canada EH! - 1/7/10 at 01:41 PM

so What's under the hood (bonnet) a turbo 6 Cummins?

bj928 - 1/7/10 at 08:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Canada EH!
so What's under the hood (bonnet) a turbo 6 Cummins?


CAT but i don't know what model, but it pulls like a train, running at 90,000 most the time, made it sweat a bit going over the rockies, coming down was fun as well with no Jake brake and its auto, doing it all on the foot with 90k pushing, brakes were smoking a fit by the bottom

RK - 5/7/10 at 01:26 AM

Question for everyone: when did you stop calling them "lorries"? That's what they were called when I hitched around the UK in the late seventies.

iank - 5/7/10 at 08:19 AM

quote:
Originally posted by RK
Question for everyone: when did you stop calling them "lorries"? That's what they were called when I hitched around the UK in the late seventies.


We didn't stop, both lorry and truck are common usage. They also get called waggon's colloquially.