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    Cat 3176

    There's a 95 Frieghtliner for sale with a Cat 3176 engine. From my research its a L10.2 so it would not be to powerful but only need it for local grain hauling. Have heard good and bad about it but if it ran this long the bugs are fixed just waiting for new bugs. Does anyone have any experience...
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    Semi crazy

    The milk hauling company I was driving for last winter went out of business. Since I was a kid riding with dad to the produce terminal, I always wanted to drive a truck. Things didn't workout that way, but now that my knees and back are not cooperating (too much concrete and crawling on my...
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    Frozen roads

    The frost heaving up at culverts on small state roads is bad enough but hitting the ends of overpasses when the blacktop is humped up makes me cringe. Riding on air is better than on springs but doing 65 MPH and hitting one has me afraid I'll look back and see the tank split and 50,000 lbs of...
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    Comp. pay

    Saw in the news resently about a driver that was holding a load of frozen chicken ransom for his compensation pay. The story wasn't to clear on the details but he abandoned the load at a truck stop in Utah. The reefer ran out of fuel and the chickens thawed and after a couple weeks juices...
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