Willis Bushogin
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trucks
The first truck I bought was a 1984 Ford LTL9000 quad, with a 18ft high side bed and steerable axles. It has the Cummins 400, with a 13 speed, Hend supension. This carries 22 ton and handles great. I just had the cab and body painted and it really is a great looking truck. I have used it about 3 weeks now and no repairs, no oil useage, no problems at all.
The second truck is a 1978 Ford L9000 quad (yes 1978) I could not believe how great of shape this truck is in. It has the Cummins 400 and 13 speed, 2 steerable lift axles. The bed is a 1999 19ft high sided bed, I just installed a barn door on the bed and painted the bed, looks great. It has Hend. supension, that was just rebuilt. Ive run it almost 3 weeks, no problems, no oil usage.
I am working along side of new and fairly new quads and Im sure most of them have mighty big payments and my old trucks are keeping right up with them and using less fuel in most cases. Now Im not bragging or bashing them, I just feel lucky that I found these trucks, for the price I did ($16,000 ea)
They both have real good Red Dot A/C systems and will freeze you.
I havent learned how to post pictures, but I will try later.
Im sure that these truck will not stand up to the new trucks, but if Im lucky not to have any major problems, I can save that $2000 a month payments and hopefully upgrade.
Good Luck to all
Trucking, with tandems, got so slow in my area, that I sold two of my tandeum and bought two quad axles. I did this because, I got a job with a big paving/construction company and they pay by the ton and as you know, a tandeum just cant haul enough to work by the tons.I was just wondering how old everyones truck is, and how long you keep it. Ours is a 1997, it is in really good shape as we don't put many miles on it. We have added many extras, and anytime I go thru DOT they say how nice it is. I thought maybe it would go this year, but with fuel prices and the economy so unstable I think she's here to stay another year!
Here is a link to pics of my truck after some paint last winter.
https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=2978
The first truck I bought was a 1984 Ford LTL9000 quad, with a 18ft high side bed and steerable axles. It has the Cummins 400, with a 13 speed, Hend supension. This carries 22 ton and handles great. I just had the cab and body painted and it really is a great looking truck. I have used it about 3 weeks now and no repairs, no oil useage, no problems at all.
The second truck is a 1978 Ford L9000 quad (yes 1978) I could not believe how great of shape this truck is in. It has the Cummins 400 and 13 speed, 2 steerable lift axles. The bed is a 1999 19ft high sided bed, I just installed a barn door on the bed and painted the bed, looks great. It has Hend. supension, that was just rebuilt. Ive run it almost 3 weeks, no problems, no oil usage.
I am working along side of new and fairly new quads and Im sure most of them have mighty big payments and my old trucks are keeping right up with them and using less fuel in most cases. Now Im not bragging or bashing them, I just feel lucky that I found these trucks, for the price I did ($16,000 ea)
They both have real good Red Dot A/C systems and will freeze you.
I havent learned how to post pictures, but I will try later.
Im sure that these truck will not stand up to the new trucks, but if Im lucky not to have any major problems, I can save that $2000 a month payments and hopefully upgrade.
Good Luck to all
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