My new ride possibly next week.....

[spif91]

Hopefully if it's an automatic it downshifts to 11th before 50mph or good luck on the hills. The auto Mack's are terrible.


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It down shifted at about 55. Not bad. Kinda nice to pull on the highway and at 30mph hit the resume cruise button and let it do its thing.

 

[root]

That's a beautiful tractor!

 

[silenze]

You might want to ask for a 2015 ifta sticker

 

[spif91]

You might want to ask for a 2015 ifta sticker

Yeah gonna get one in shop tomorrow night. Thnx

 

[Catatonic]

Nice ride!

 

[rod]

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

In Germany, you'd probably get thrown in prison for that thing.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Not sure how the fuel tax thing would work on natural gas.

 

[silenze]

Yep they tax everything . Cng lng propane you name it.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

There are plans afoot to tax by use instead of fuel, due to falling consumption of fuels.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

There are plans afoot to tax by use instead of fuel, due to falling consumption of fuels.

...which is ironic....on the one hand, they were telling us to conserve, and when we did they started losing money....folks who have converted to alternative fuels should not have to pay extra for choosing to go green....

 

[Operational needs]

...which is ironic....on the one hand, they were telling us to conserve, and when we did they started losing money....folks who have converted to alternative fuels should not have to pay extra for choosing to go green....

It's funny. Where I live there are HOV lanes. For years, people with hybrids could drive in the HOV lanes with only one passenger, so many more rushed out to buy them. Now they ended that. Back to minimum 3 people in cars.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

I can still use my motorcycle there.

 

[spif91]

Nice ride!

Thnx..Night #2 in it getting ready to begin.

 

[Sparkey86]

What is this "new tractor" he speaks of? What does "new" mean? A 276!? For real?

 

[Sparkey86]

In Germany, you'd probably get thrown in prison for that thing.

I thought this was my package car for a second there

 

[Brownslave688]

It down shifted at about 55. Not bad. Kinda nice to pull on the highway and at 30mph hit the resume cruise button and let it do its thing.

Ok if this was the normal feeder tractor I might have to go into feeders.

 

[Dracula]

My meet guy, and a LOT of the drivers around him are having all kinds of problems with the Mack propane trucks. Maybe it's the cold, maybe it's just teething problems, but they are saying the will just stop running or run out of fuel, even when the tank says there is more left. My guy was saying his warning lights were coming on last night. Bummer for him. It was Friday, and he had 285 miles to drive home.