Automatic trucks

[mader656]

Tell them the truck identifies as a ev that does not pay fuel tax... therefore it runs red fuel.

[mike newman]

Automatic Trucks  eh ??

Spent not many miles but several years  in our International   6x4's    on Forestry roading......Cummins and Alison Auto's...all on new carriage ways and some miserable grades in the New Zealand hills where the Californian Monterey pine grows like weeds.....

Nothing better for that application...end of story !!...I replaced them with Macks  After several years   of  constant over loading , and because of the old Hendrikson back ends   started to cost big dollars to maintain...and also the Mack   truck, being the greatest  truck ever made , did not disappoint, with its 18 speed G box...and tremendous torque for hooking up big loads of gravel ...always uphill......

I am aware this comment will disturb some of the old truckies  on the site.....but that was back in the 70/early 80's, when  men were men, and women ate their young.....times have changed...however.....

Mike

[supermpuller]

17 hours ago, mader656 said:

Tell them the truck identifies as a ev that does not pay fuel tax... therefore it runs red fuel.

EV  trucks and cars  pay a fee yearly and some states have a EV surcharge tax.

[bitty]

Our crane truck is a 466 and Allison..twin screw truck and it's gutless but we have hills