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Two and a half years. In to the half million kms club! (300k miles)

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I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one. After 20 years spent in a chair controlling rail traffic, I decided to take to the road in a flatbed tractor and trailer. I'm already approaching the 3 year mark. Where has the time gone? Anyways, as i was rolling into Charlotte NC yesterday, the odometer flipped to the half a mil kilometres, or 300k miles! I gave myself 5 more years of this before calling it quits and retiring. Let's see how many more i will add!

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I had this one strapped to my wrist for the occasion..
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FREDMAYCOIN
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Congratulation on the miles logged. So after 3 years what do you love and what do you hate about your new venture? Is this your own rig or are you driving for a company? How often do you get to go home?
 
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Congratulations on your KMs milestone 😉

😁
 
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I guess my real question is why is a US market and US made truck in KM first?
 
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rcs914 rcs914
I guess my real question is why is a US market and US made truck in KM first?
Because @Faz is based in Canada?

Besides this is not as unusual as you might think. I used to drive Saab cars in the early 2000’s that had trip computers where you could program any one of 5 languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian or Swedish) and would give you fuel efficiency measurements in miles/gallon, km/liter or km/imperial gallon (4 liters).

Your choice.
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miramogge miramogge
Is that water temperature gauge nearly at 200 Celsius??

Well by looking at the numeric figures at the red zone of the gauge one would assume it's not Celsius...
 
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rcs914 rcs914
I guess my real question is why is a US market and US made truck in KM first?

Because that is the law up here in Canada. I see he has miles per hour in smaller numbers on the speedometer, that is allowed. Personally I have not owned a car that had miles per hour shown on it for well over 30 years now...
 
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You drove 500k km in 2 years? That's around 14k km per month! I prob don't do that many in a whole year 😲
 
Faz
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FREDMAYCOIN FREDMAYCOIN
Congratulation on the miles logged. So after 3 years what do you love and what do you hate about your new venture? Is this your own rig or are you driving for a company? How often do you get to go home?
Pertinent questions indeed.

I'm assigned the equipment by the company that hired me. I'm actually home every weekend.

What I love is the fact that my "office" view changes constantly. Some of the vistas are spectacular, especially in the Appalachian ranges. No bosses. The interesting people I get to meet.

What I dislike? The waiting time. Low pay if you count all the hours. Winter. Especially that I'm often traveling around the Great Lakes. Since I do flatbed, tarping in cold weather with frozen tarps that can weigh 100lbs ....

Cheers,
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Faz
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Is that water temperature gauge nearly at 200 Celsius??
Yes....that's the normal operating temperature. It'll get up to 225-230 when pulling a heavy load up a steep grade.

Edit: Fahrenheit that is...
 
Faz
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I guess my real question is why is a US market and US made truck in KM first?
It's actually a Canadian market truck...so Kms first
 
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Faz Faz
Yes....that's the normal operating temperature. It'll get up to 225-230 when pulling a heavy load up a steep grade.
So what's in the radiator, can't be water?
 
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m84 m84
You drove 500k km in 2 years? That's around 14k km per month! I prob don't do that many in a whole year 😲
Average week is 4,000 km....or 2,500 miles.
 
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