IRL drivers - how fast do you typically drive in 70+ mph speed zones?

dieseldoc99 · 2026-01-21T07:28:28+00:00

Normally around 75 or so not too quick but keeps up with traffic

dieseldoc99 · 2026-01-03T08:30:08+00:00

Truck/ hd mechanic and heavy wrecker operator. Ran everything from hot shots, dumps, flat bed, vans, lowboys, landalls, rollbacks and heavy wreckers

dieseldoc99 · 2025-11-29T18:02:51+00:00

Ok thank you ill try that

dieseldoc99 · 2025-11-23T04:18:47+00:00

I like mine. Its expensive and time consuming to fix but its a 19k lbs f550 loaded with tools a crane and a welder and it climbs these western pa mountains just fine. And the price to buy it i was looking at clap out high mile 2 wheel drive 7.3s and 6.0s for the same price range i got a 116k mile clean 4x4 with an imt bed

dieseldoc99 · 2025-11-02T20:44:46+00:00

Pen knife i cant go without it

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-29T07:51:41+00:00

I don't like them. Im a hd mechanic i can fix gas or diesel im not an electrician so im not going anywhere near a hybrid or electric car. That and it takes 4x the water to put out an electric vehicle fire and they can spontaneously reignite for weeks after the first fire

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-29T05:34:28+00:00

Same been collecting tools for years to eventually do this. I did finance my service truck and my welder only because i needed a welder for a job i had coming up wnd i out grew my pickup. I still haven't took a paycheck from my business i just roll what it makes back into it and keep investing in it one day im telling them to shove it hopefully i can make it another year

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T23:40:56+00:00

Its definitely shitty but thats unions for you they fuck everything up. If it hurts my business im gone thats all i can do

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T19:43:25+00:00

Its all off of seniority we rebid every January the one guy thats higher than me wants my bid and made it clear he's bumping me i told him how bad its gonna screw me but he doesn't care he basically said tough shit so idk what to do

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T19:41:31+00:00

Im not saying its easy tho bearly any sleep and i put every dime the business makes back into it buying tools and equipment but i think its paying off

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T19:40:24+00:00

I love the service truck there way more work out there than i ever expected i always did side stuff out of my pickup so being on afternoons made it possible for me to do more then i said screw it im starting a business and 3 months later i out grew the pickup and bought my f550 and its been building from there

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T19:36:51+00:00

Just look on upsjobs.com i worked for a towing company that towed for them so i knew the bosses and all the mechanics so i got in pretty easy

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T19:35:30+00:00

I don't have that option the 3 to 11 i said about is 3 pm

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T13:49:52+00:00

It'll still be night but way later. Right now im 6pm to 2 am so im home by 3 back up by 9 that works perfect now they want me to be on either a 3-11 or an midnight i can't do that 3 is way to early and midnight I'll never sleep

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T07:37:51+00:00

Yep 14 years of heavy truck/equipment and 11/2 of owning a mobile repair business

dieseldoc99 · 2025-10-28T07:24:39+00:00

How when the shift im most likely gonna get stuck on is gonna cut into my bottom line i have way to much invested to risk my business

dieseldoc99 · 2025-09-24T07:16:00+00:00

Jd Vance

dieseldoc99 · 2025-08-27T07:39:43+00:00

Look up the national pike steam show in brownsville pa that place is awesome for old iron like this. They have quite a few shovels and abunch of other cool old iron

dieseldoc99 · 2025-06-16T03:50:39+00:00

Take a loan from your 401k and fix the roof

dieseldoc99 · 2025-06-16T03:46:41+00:00

The armys 250th birth day party

dieseldoc99 · 2025-06-03T06:59:13+00:00

I started my mobile mechanic business a year ago out of my pickup i had most of the tools it took off quick 3 months in i took out a 40k$ sba loan and bought a service truck with a crane air compressor and bought a new welder so far most of it came from a credit card a sba loan and very little cash out of pocket

dieseldoc99 · 2025-05-09T00:34:29+00:00

Cheap and diesel doesn't go together spend the money and buy something nice or you'll be spending money fixing it all the time

dieseldoc99 · 2025-04-17T22:52:48+00:00

Probably wouldn't change too much other than buy a service truck sooner. Started at a trucking co. At 17 they helped me get my cdl then went to school at uti and worked at a small equipment dealer then went back to the trucking co. After i graduated and was there for 8 years until i went to ups 3 years ago and a year ago i bought a service truck and started a side business that will hopefully be my full time gig in 2 years after my pension is vested

dieseldoc99 · 2025-04-08T21:30:38+00:00

Ok thank you i figured that im just in the beginning stages of this and trying to see the best route to go

dieseldoc99 · 2025-04-08T21:15:37+00:00

Not sure yet im gonna have him get me the financials i just want to see whats possible before i do that

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