bj928
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 02:45 AM |
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Hi from the other side of the pond
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
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Ivan
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 03:42 AM |
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That's impressive - how many hours a day do you drive and what is your cruising speed? 
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 06:03 AM |
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Nice!!!
Gotta love american trucks. Your not doing the whole custom paint thing the seems to be quite popular then?
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 06:24 AM |
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Nice toy
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James
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 07:20 AM |
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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
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
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eddie99
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 07:21 AM |
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Sounds like fun, glad your enjoying it? Picking up lots of parts for the kit i hope 
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coozer
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 08:00 AM |
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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]
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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bj928
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 11:33 AM |
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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
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bj928
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 11:35 AM |
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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!!!
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bj928
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 11:37 AM |
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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.
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bj928
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 11:41 AM |
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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!!!
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RK
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 12:14 PM |
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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!
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Canada EH!
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 01:41 PM |
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so What's under the hood (bonnet) a turbo 6 Cummins?
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bj928
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| posted on 1/7/10 at 08:57 PM |
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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
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RK
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| posted on 5/7/10 at 01:26 AM |
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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.
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iank
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| posted on 5/7/10 at 08:19 AM |
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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.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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