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KOWBOY said:
JP you're an idiot ... I'm tickled pink she gets 10mpg. :cool:

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Me bad, I did not read your comment properlly did not know if you were complaining or jumping of joy, but due to gas prices and diesel I figured that 10 MPG was bad.

obviously, I am not where you are "lonely at the top w/ a great view."

I am at the bottom floor w/ no windows! Ja! ja!
 
Ja! Ja! Ja!

That's damn funny David.
I guess you're right Sir!

Looking forward to see you
 
KOWBOY said:
Have to get some stickers made up. :cool:

The gooseneck fits ... it ain't perfect but it'll work for this trip until I can do some modifyin'. :cheers:

Snow storm's gonna delay my departure a few hours but I'm still leavin' today at some point. :steer:

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what the heck happend to the weather down there? when i was at your place two years ago it was 80somethin degrees out during the day.


looking good kowboy! good thing you got room to park that big sob:beer:
 
orangefj45 said:
... good thing you got room to park that big sob:beer:
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Couldn't agree more sir ... couldn't agree more. :cool:

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Finally got through to a Sergeant in the Nashville office of Public Safety, the official word for TN is that if it is for recreational use you can use a class 6 truck to haul whatever trailer you want, including a 3 car wedge with a regular drivers licence, no CDL required.
 
DSLTOY said:
Finally got through to a Sergeant in the Nashville office of Public Safety, the official word for TN is that if it is for recreational use you can use a class 6 truck to haul whatever trailer you want, including a 3 car wedge with a regular drivers licence, no CDL required.
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same for colorado and utah. the raffle rig spent much of it's travel time last year behind a volvo wia. note the magic words on the side. i do believe daryl had to add a portable toilet to meet the motorhome classification.
btw, kowboy that disc hit the mail today.
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BikerTrash said:
Damn that is one fine truck! And you get 3 more MPG than my one ton dually
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lol....i got 10 mpg once...i think that was in my 40 down a pass in neutral with a tailwind. my powerchoke got about 10 when we brought uglibus home for the last time:frown:

people don't realize how close the big trucks are to a standard diesel. you pay an easy 40k for a diesel pickup, but you could buy a class 5-7 rig used for that, have a heck of a lot more powerful rig. unless you daily drive your diesel (at $4/gln, i sure as sh^% ain't gonna be doing that:eek:), a real tow rig might be a better option.

than, look at trailers. a one car trailer is an easy $1200-2k used. for around 2k and up, you can buy a decent flatbed to haul behind a real tow rig.

biggest issue is space. you can store it somewhere, or be creative. the wia i showed earlier has a garage built onto the side of the house. the house is on a slope with the garage on the downside, so you don't even notice that it's considerably larger than a normal garage. the flatbed is stored where they board their horses, but if they didn't have horses, it would easily fit where their huge a55 horsetrailer is, along the fence in the backyard. you'd never even know.
 
nuclearlemon said:
lol....i got 10 mpg once...i think that was in my 40 down a pass in neutral with a tailwind. my powerchoke got about 10 when we brought uglibus home for the last time:frown:

people don't realize how close the big trucks are to a standard diesel. you pay an easy 40k for a diesel pickup, but you could buy a class 5-7 rig used for that, have a heck of a lot more powerful rig. unless you daily drive your diesel (at $4/gln, i sure as sh^% ain't gonna be doing that:eek:), a real tow rig might be a better option.

than, look at trailers. a one car trailer is an easy $1200-2k used. for around 2k and up, you can buy a decent flatbed to haul behind a real tow rig.

biggest issue is space. you can store it somewhere, or be creative. the wia i showed earlier has a garage built onto the side of the house. the house is on a slope with the garage on the downside, so you don't even notice that it's considerably larger than a normal garage. the flatbed is stored where they board their horses, but if they didn't have horses, it would easily fit where their huge a55 horsetrailer is, along the fence in the backyard. you'd never even know.
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I am going to try to pretend I never read this... the gears are already turning in my head... O God please make it stop >.<
 
BikerTrash said:
I am going to try to pretend I never read this... the gears are already turning in my head... O God please make it stop >.<
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hehehehehehe...my evil plan is working. get everyone to buy trucks, then they need parts, thus keeping people stupid enough to get into this business busy. (insert evil laugh here)
 
KOWBOY said:
Does that include a Class 6 truck with air brakes??

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Yes Sir, but it sounds like TX has their own set of rules and requirements for a non commerical truck licence that other states don't have. No guarantee you will not get hassled if you get stopped as 2 of the three state troopers I asked the question though you needed one, one even though you needed a log book. Your rig would most likely not get stopped but the truck I am working on with a three car trailer might get stopped and checked to insure I am not commerical.
Ige is correct, if you look at the price of a dually and a class 6 truck new the class 6 is 20K higher but at about 4 years old they are about the same price and the class 6 is a lot more truck.
 
Checked at the drivers license office and they said that if it is pulling a trailer that has a gvwr over 10,000lbs that a person would have to have a class A cdl if the vehicle has airbrakes and that if the vehicle didn't have air brakes that even with my 1ton would have to have a class A license without air brake endorcement. I'm fixen to get my cdl's anyway but I was just making sure what licence to get. It doesn't matter how you tag your truck or what stickers you put on it, you must have the correct license. A buddy of mine just got busted and it cost him $730 because he didn't have the correct license.
 
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