new house/ truck lol (peterbilt inside)

Capt'n Obvious · Post by **Capt'n Obvious** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:09 pm

08 peterbilt 389
550hp cummins
18 speed
leather interior/ nav/ sirius (boss pays for it)/ keyless entry/ carpet all the way to the front blah blah blah its loaded
290in wheelbase (bout 7 foot longer than most trucks)
also got a flat screen in the back

the interior pic did not turn out for some reason

MasterTech95 · Post by **MasterTech95** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:08 pm

I always wanted to be a trucker.. The job come with a nifty hat or what..

Capt'n Obvious · Post by **Capt'n Obvious** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:25 pm

ummmm.... i won a hat at a truck stop. job came with a paycheck and a nice one so im happy

civicex · Post by **civicex** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:34 pm

Capt'n Obvious;269047 wrote:ummmm.... i won a hat at a truck stop. job came with a paycheck and a nice one so im happy

my uncle does loads like that, i work for a ltl company so all of our trucks are dumps compared this

exnissanguy · Post by **exnissanguy** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:56 pm

are you actual otr? I run a crane truck for united rentals and when the branches hire we start at 24 an hour.......I was a short haul driver for a farm for two years and drove a stretched framed white fld120 freightliner and hopper bottom. Now I make 10k more a year, better insurance and am home everynight! You should look into rental companies with the flatbed experience its pretty easy to get on, with lowboy experience you can get hired extremely easy. Just trying to help a fellow honda guy out!

twkdcd595 · Post by **twkdcd595** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 6:21 pm

Nice looking Pete!

My dad use to drive otr trucks, had a Peterbuilt as well... although this was back a long time ago but he ran a stepped on twin turbo cat motor.

Awesome trucks. We have one every once in a while that delivers to my work for a company that brings us conduit... thing is nice. Older Peternbuilt, full fenders, hell of a frame stretch, lowered, all black, monster sleeper, big stainless sunvisor, etc. It is almost to nice to be hauling with.

LSEKHatch · Post by **LSEKHatch** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:10 pm

Nice truck sorry bout the engine though

sammybammy · Post by **sammybammy** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:36 pm

Wow that's a big truck. Would hate to have to fill that thing up.

Capt'n Obvious · Post by **Capt'n Obvious** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:05 pm

thanks yeah im otr i just visit relitives whenever i want to 2-3 weeks just got back from gulfport ms beach spent the day there swam a bit could have stayed a few more days but last night got the cravin for truckin and couldent sleep till i jammed some gears so im home now leaving tommorrow

the 4th time this year i was on the beach at work

and i love the motor smoked a oo 379 with a 500 cat pulled a truck length from 40-70 both 77000
its not turned down at all i can take it to 2100 if i wanted to but never took it past 1620
also kept up with my coworker with a 500 tt cat he was bobtailing i was pulling a doublestack trailer
also tied with a hemi ram bobtailing

only thing that i would prefer would be a smaller sleeper

Capt'n Obvious · Post by **Capt'n Obvious** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:23 pm

18 speed

has one switch for the range and one for spliter

first hi/ lo third hi/lo
low second hi/ lo fourth hi/lo

flip range

fith hi/ lo seventh hi/ lo
sixth hi/ lo eigth hi/ lo

i do loaded first hi second hi third hi fouth hi fith lo/ hi and use every gear after like a 13 speed

light i do third lo fourth lo firth lo sixth lo/ hi and use every gear after that

guys on other forum were confused