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crazy price for Health-Mor UPRIGHT Vacuum Cleaner !!
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It is the American heavy truck driver's license. I stay around a major city and haul construction materials. My truck gets filthy, so a vac is a necessity. Owning 2 vehicles and having a house to clean, my equipment gets used a lot.
Good thing it is proper equipment!
No matter what it is, I buy the best. It pays off in the long run.
After the sweetness of low cost has faded, the bitterness of low quality sticks around.
That is very true. Running an extensive fleet of well maintained older equipment built to last is actually cheaper and cost of top of the line older is usually similar cost to low end new. I would take a 10-15 year old top end Cadillac with low miles and immaculate maintenance at the same cost as a low end new car. Resale will be close to my cost of entry also.
Precisely. I forgot to mention, that was me trying to remember a quote. the correct quote is as follows, The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten. That quote is from Benjamin Franklin.
That is very true today 200+ years later!
Yep!
I drove trucks or worked in transportation management for way too many years. Crummy pay, ridiculous hours, employers always looking for ways to cheat you on your hard earned, dishonest shippers, dishonest customers, dishonest dispatchers. Even mighty FedEx Ground was crooked. Every employer in the industry was up to something illegal and unethical. It drains your soul to work for crooks and get screamed at because you won't do dishonest things for them. I went back to school, earned a Masters Degree which led to a great job at a military weapons lab and never looked back. As soon as my license came up for renewal I dumped all the commercial ratings. Burned that bridge. Now I'm retired and don't have to ever go back to that misery.
My favorite tractors are Volvo VNs and Freightliner Columbia Class. Petes, Cornbinders ( Internationals, or Intertrashionals ) and K-woppers ( Kenworths ) are too cramped for me. I feel like I'm driving with my knees in my chin, especially Kenworths with their angled toe board and the sloppy 8-Bag suspension with a loaded gasoline tanker is downright scary. I drove those things with my knees in my chin and my arsehole chewing the seat cushion for too many years. Volvos and Freightshakers were the only cabs had enough room to let me drive in comfort instead of pain. And they had the best ride of the bunch.
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Good to know! Some industries are just like that.
The Volvos rode so nice and had such good seats and thoughtfully laid out interior and controls that other than its size and having ten speed gearbox they are like driving a nice European luxury car. Very quiet inside, big deep seats with lots of adjustment so I could drive with my arms and legs out in front of me, BIG windows, nice interior finishes, just a nice place to spend your work day. Modern Freightliners are about as nice. But I can remember a couple of International tractors I had to drive that were so rough on LA freeways the steering wheel shook so hard it was difficult to hang on. The whole cab would be shaking back and fourth on the expansion joints. I called that one the "penalty box". A Pete another employer had would slam the whole seat against the back of the cab on bumps. Some of the drivers wouldn't drive it. I did but you learned to sit forward in the seat on certain parts of LA area freeways and hang on to the wheel. After a night of that you are pretty well wrung out.
Funny thing, after leaving trucking and going to work at that weapons lab I saw the penalty box sitting in the lot behind a local gas station. Damn thing followed me all the way up here! A local company must have bought it. Still had the same unit numbers, 103 & 103A on the tractor and trailer. Bad juju to see that thing again. I'd hold my fingers up in a cross and hiss.
Funny thing, after leaving trucking and going to work at that weapons lab I saw the penalty box sitting in the lot behind a local gas station. Damn thing followed me all the way up here! A local company must have bought it. Still had the same unit numbers, 103 & 103A on the tractor and trailer. Bad juju to see that thing again. I'd hold my fingers up in a cross and hiss.
...and you thought the Kirby salesmen were bad!
I think the Henry Company ( Chicago and Hammond area ) are the only bricks and mortar store selling Filter Queens.
There is one somewhere in Canada I think.
I have a Kenworth T880 and it's a nice truck had 2 Volvos before
I only drive for family owned local companies because if I can't call the owner, they are too big. I used to be a swine technician and automated feed mill operator and still do it part time. Dump trucks are now my day job. More hours equals more money take every load I can get. I also do some farming on the side so in hot season 60-70 hours a week is the norm for me. I do local exempt work only so no logbooks or ELD. I have drove them all with my favorite being a KW T800 with a C12 Cat. Drove a friend's late 90s short hood Pete semi once was the nicest truck I have ever driven given I drive new stuff daily. I enjoyed listening to a set of 7" straights screaming! Dump trucks ride on pad suspensions not air ride. I prefer to shift my own gears which is rare for a guy in his 20s.
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Manuals are better. Cheaper, more responsive, cheaper, easier to repair, etc.
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