WizarDave's Trucking Page
My brother Rick and I have a 1990 Freightliner
It has:
 | a 430HP Series 60 Detroit |
| a 13 speed transmission |
| a flat top 63" sleeper |
| Around 860,000 miles |
| cruise control |
| air brakes |
| a pump hooked to a PTO off the transmission |
Rick has been trucking about 13 years and driven over 1 million miles. He taught me to drive and we ran team several years. Our record is 30,000 miles in 30 days. Since then we have driven separately and team.
We have hauled some interesting goods.
(Remember, if you eat it our use it, a truck has hauled it.)
| Ink for National Enquirer and TV Guide |
| Chemicals of all kinds |
| Products that go in soap, paint, glue |
| Hand soap, dish soap, car soap, detergents, paper towels |
| Phenol (very dangerous in the quantity we haul) - product used in Cloreseptic throat spray, among other things. |
| Products used in food - oils, fat, corn (to Fritos and others), hydrogen pyroxide, cans |
| Produce - lettuce, melons, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, corn, wheat |
| Frozen meat, seafood, cheeses, imported hams and cheeses |
| gas, oil and asphalt |
| Landscaping products - rhododendrons, trees for K-Mart, lava rock |
| dirt, bricks, lumber |
| large air conditioners and heat exchangers |
| hazardous waste, trash from New York City |
| poisons, hazardous materials, flammable materials |
Trucking's pretty fun day to day.
| You meet some great people. |
| You see our beautiful country. |
But, it's like everything else in life. It has its frustrations.
| No home life. |
| Road construction |
| 4 wheelers (cars) who think you can stop on a dime. |
| Cancelled, postponed loads |
| hard on your body (back, legs) |
| trashy talk on the CB |
| poor service in restaurants |
The average trucker makes around $30,000 a year. You don't necessarily make more if you own your own truck, even though they are a $10,000-100,000 investment. That's not a bad living until you consider how much you are gone from home. If you figured your total time away from home, a trucker probably only makes $1-2 an hour.
The average trucker drives 10,000 miles a month. The average truck gets 4-7 MPG. At $1/gallon, we spend around $25,000 a year on diesel fuel. We are working with a man who has an engine that takes energy from the air. We would never have to buy fuel again. (We would also produce no pollution.) That would do one of two things. Either take more time off at home, and make the same income. Or work just as hard and make nearly twice as much and be able to retire earlier. To find out more about these technologies, visit our Free Energy website.
2 of my favorite show trucks
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