My dad used to let me fill in his logbook, had a tiny red clear plastic ruler to graph out stop and driving times

Watching for quick peaks of the Statue of Liberty between high rises. Still the only time I’ve seen it beyond from a plane window.

Driving to the beach for a few hours in a rig when he had loads in FL

What in the unholy moly. Thats a deeeeep discount. Nearest one to me is London i think, but that’d almost be worth the trip tbh.

Ima 10.5 US and I got 10.5 in tachyons and for hard use mine word down in about 18 months. I would say the lowas are more buy it for life mine went through a deployment and hundred of hours of training and still feel brand new

The engine and transmission haven't been overhauled yet. Still getting good oil sample analysis results

I don't know if you have an actual store in your area but they do a sale about once a year where they drop prices by almost half in mine. I picked mine up for $75 instead of the 300 that usually retail for.

Ah really? I really want a pair i’m just waiting for that magical combo of drunk and just paid to occur so i have enough courage to pull the trigger haha. They just went up £25 as well so that isn’t helping!

I looked at the SFB’s as well but the rounder toe box won me over. I dig the SFB’s overall profile though and a lot of people seem to love that shoe :)

The heels kinda give away they're not just normal dress shoes.

Gotcha, thanks for the advice. My last vehicle had the transmission go out at 160k miles. I'm going to try to stick to every 30k.

I wear genuine ugg boots, use a microwave wheat pack (buy a new one every few years as the wheat is eventually super dry and a fire risk), and a good quality wool blanket—mine’s from Waverley Mills which is an Australian company—they last forever, just wash with wool wash on delicate/cold at the end of winter and pack away with something to stop clothes moths getting to them.

Duuuuuuuude carbon-copy logbooks!!!!! I remember looking at it and my dad complaining about having to keep it up to date manually. Lol

I never understood those lines and always thought he was doing futuristic calculations

Edit: also remember helping him clean out the trailer with a broom and running around the aluminum grooved floor thinking the whole inside was HUGE

And ferries - when the tractor counts for length, the 1-2m hoods cut into cost

What sort of overhauls have the engine and gearbox been through?

Keep an eye out for those fake reviews!

Pretty much everything in the driveline that is a friction surface and/or isn't a heavy casting or made from steel would not last for that many miles, most of it would require replacement multiple times. Things like Bearings, seals, rings, cylinder sleeves and water, oil, injector, and fuel pumps, etc.... none of that stuff will last that long.

I wouldn't say I really use them for any activity minus some light hiking. They have been my daily driver boots during fall and winter since I bought them this September. I probably wear them 5/7 days a week. I've owned a pair of SFBs and a pair of Paladium jungle boots, I feel these perform similarly to the SFBs.

That's quite a bit more, over here (Germany) a semi still tops out at 16.5m or 51ft while a truck+trailer combo can be a good bit longer at 18.75m or 61.5ft. No individual part of that combo must be longer than 12m/ 39ft though. There are some experiments with a semi plus another extra trailer that can be much longer but those are the general restrictions.
From personal experience driving such a ~18.5m truck+trailer combo already massively sucks if you're driving on twisty single lane roads or through old villages so even as I really like their looks i don't think we'll ever change laws to bring back standard cab semis.

I did carpentry, warehousing, trucking, manufacturing, and a bunch of other things in between.

I know just what you mean. The smell of an old-school diesel's exhaust is nostalgic for me. I remember hiding out in the sleeper when we went through the scales or somewhere to unload. All the trucker chatter on 18 and seeing my dad scramble to turn the volume down when the talk went inappropriate (about every 37 seconds or so). The smell of the pages in the carbon-copy logbook. Counting down milemarkers. Breaking out the giant road atlas to look at maps. The air ride chairs. All the junk Truckstops sold.

What a time.

Or until a crackhead pulls out in front of you lol.

Where’s the Time Machine?

Interesting. I’ve heard thinner sock can help with some of the snugness. What sort of activities do you wear yours for? Do you feel like they do the job well for what you need?

I just have the regular Coyote colour ones.

There was a part rubbing against the knobby part of my ankle that bothered me but it was fine after a couple weeks.

Did you buy the GTX model or the regular ones? I’ve also read elsewhere that they can take a little time to break in.

Love those cab-overs. Nice truck.