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Am purchasing a 1996 3.8 standard, dark green in color and immaculate condition. It's going to be my spring-> fall car, and my current cav. is going to be my winter beater as i just put $1000 into it for trans. and suspension work, i've put to much into it to sell now. :bleh:

Here's the car: (i'll have more pics up shortly)
http://www.vehiclesforsale.ca/canada...rs.20715.1.jpg
-already looking for new rims for it :) just need to arrange it with owner and get them

Here's my current (and now winterbeater) rocking the steelies
http://members.porchlight.ca/cmsuzanne/mybeast.jpg
it has the 2.4 but was auto, it had just enough power to get me into trouble when i first got it (4 tickets in the first year :banghead: ) but i'm alot better now at controlling myself, and have been a part of the JCO (J-body Club of Ontario) for 3 years now

I'm 21 and I drive a dump truck for a living, it's my daily driver :)
Has the Cat C15 ACERT, 475 HP at 1700 RPM, 1550 ft/lbs tq @ 1250 RPM
Twin turbo :chacha: , i get red necked all the time for being so young and driving a $150,000 truck :)
Here's my baby.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/dohp/binder.jpg


I bought the mustang to be a realible daily driver to work, that wasn't going to cost me much money, i can now see that's going to change :)
Here's to the future :wiggle:

Sean

Let the modding begin :D

heres an idea..when the Boss is not around, take off 1 turbo from the truck and put it on the stang :D
each will have a turbo :chacha:

welcome to the board,
im sure you will enjoy your new toy :deal:

The most I've had to do to my 94 V6 was get new bushings for the front end. Otherwise in over 3 years the car has been great.

Let's start modding! Welcome! :tup

get bigger turbos on the dumper! i wanna see 1000 horses and 3000 pound feet of tourque.

i've seen a daily driven truck that the week before the one truck show they take it in the shop and boost it up to 1000 hp before the drag races, traction IS an issue :LOL:

i'll post some pics of the truck shows i've been to and some of the drag racing pics :) when i get soem time in the next week or 2

get biz and me on the 5th wheel and traction issues will vanish like a cheap hooker after you notice your kidney is gone :biggrin:

:laughhard

hey man welcome to the board... you are from tillsonburg.. not too far from me since im brantford.. if you need any help let me know


btw, the picture of your mustang is not loading up.

hey, i know about the pic.. .he took the for sale ad down :)

the car is actually from Burford, even closer to you then T-burg :) i'll see if i can't post up another pic to fill the link

Hey, my new work horse is running a 500hp ISX with the 1850trq(will post pics on my cardomain after truck gets lettered this week). Welcome aboard

what does it take to become a dump truck driver, im thinking of a career since i just graduated last year.

I don't know what it is now, but it cost me about $4000 and about 6 weeks fulltime to get my AZ license 7 years ago. I am licensed to drive everything except a school bus(extra endorsment about $15)

How do I post pic in forum/post?

even short buses? whitesnake needs a ride tomorrow morning to pick up his hockey helmet and some parts.

go to attachments when replying and the rest is pie in the sky my freind. and if you have a problem with em send em to me through e-mail @

L_COBRA_99@hotmail.com

here u go smoke! :)

Thanks, I'll figure this out one of these days.

np,glad to help. :tup

tisk tisk, all that horsepower and only pulling a tandem :LOL: i know it's nice to have the power though, i'd assume you need a little bit of grunt in the mountains so i full understand. Nice looking truck though, my dad's truck at his part time job (hauling farm and heavy equipment) is a 99 Freightshaker with the 475 Cat C15 w/18 Fuller,wet line etc
And his full time truck is a 2006 Int'l with the 475 ISX w/18 fuller (Bruce R. Smith Ltd.) hauling steel out of Stelco in hamilton. Be he has a 5 axle flat bed, actually yesterday he hauled a 91,980 pound roller :tup (20 pounds from his legal limit :LOL: )

The twin truck to mine has the 475 hp ISX, it's got a pretty nasty power curve (within about 500 RPM) but i love the sound of it and the jake, i think the driver is putting straight pipes on it this summer, and i might be also to see if i can change my fuel consumtion (i've hit 5.1 mpg for TWO days, we put 1600 km's on hauling to a landfill) that gets kinda pricey. The ISX regularly sees 6.5-7 but he drives like my grandma. My power curve is really flat compared to the ISX and makes it a little easier to drive and find the gears. And the tranny is alot nicer to drive for some reason.

As for getting you AZ, in Ontario i just did 30 hours of in truck driving with an instructor and a bunch of night classes and 2 weekend classes and i was set, cost about $4000 due to it being "drivers ed" but you could get your liscence for as little as a couple hundred dollars if you know your shite, and someone will lend you a truck and trailer.

Running a tri-axle you need to be able to feel when you are flat, as when not flat and have somthing sticky in the box ie. topsoil, if you are on to much of an angle, over you will go, i've seen it happen once and know of about 3 ppl that have done it from the area. It only takes an extra minute to get yourself set back up again in another spot to save going over.

I like my job b/c i never know what i'm doing, and i'm not dedicated to one thing (which drives me nuts) one day i'll haul loads for 4 different companies, to 7 different sites, and another day i might haul just to one site. We even have a job in a week and a half in Cambridge doing the ground work for a new Timmies :) I'll post some more pics of the other trucks and the newly painted tandems when my camera makes it back from the Dominican.

Someone take Biz for a tour in their truck :D

I'll bring the KW to the Flying J one night, let ya check out well optioned truck biz. Should be plated and lettered by next monday. $160000 power unit with a $70000 wagon, dohp the extra hp is for the occasional 6 axle load I find myself under. 132000lbs and change. But it does make the tandem work easy.

i like the sounds of this dump truck driving. ill look into it.

Being from BC what about local logging trucks? or wrong part of BC? for you

welcome to CMOC nice to see other truck drivers around. I drive an 18 wheeler (sometimes 22+ lol) and I am 20, started driving when i was 18 :tup

I use to work for Canada Cartage doing HWY, local and flatbed and just started pulling containers for Sim Trans Monday.

the only pic I have of a truck I drove at CCS for a bit
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/630542/5

cool man let me know when!@!

thats all of bc! :laughhard

Come on they must have made room for other industries by now. Or is all that MJ undergrowth in the way

mostly undergrowth, i think theres a mill somewhere in there, i know theres a labatt brewerie, other than that i dunno.

Trees dont grow back that fast do they :biggrin:

depends :wink:

Here are some pics of new truck to be plated this week.

Nice
do you mind if I ask the year/KM/price?

Im looking into buying a truck right now but dont think it will happen till next year... dont want to buy a truck thats going to be a money pit...

2006/800KM(plant to dealership)/130000+

Oops NVM, I thought it was used. Im looking into a used truck for now... what are you going to be hauling? steel?

congrats btw, sweet truck.

Thanks man! Mostly printed material, our customer doesn't mind loading dryvan freight into the rolltite. Makes it easier to LTL back. Our other customer is drywall and drywall products. Then some occasional forming equipment for my brother's company.

Cool, I did some flatbed/curtainside work with CCS but it was all lumber. I dont mind flatbed. Right now Im doing containers tho...

I have found the best return for the money has been hauling flatbeds and jobsite material. The rates aren't cut down to nothing like some other types of freight are. Little to no BS when loading and unloading, and the majority of the product goes to rural areas. With the exception to the occasional city jobsite, usaully lots of room or the street gets shutdown.

yeah thats cool, Thats the reason I like working with containers right now, its always the same rail yards we go to or most of the time same (big) warehouses and no more store delivers like I did with Canada Cartage like no frills with a 53 footer on dundas and lansdowne or other small malls, same with Quebec runs they give us from national gorcers to lablaws stores with 53 foot bunk trucks and anywhere from 1-5+ drops, I even did LCBO with 48 footer at a store in toronto on young street where I had to go into an underground loading dock which my trailer barely went under... I had enough of that crap. This container stuff is supper easy. If I were to switch companies again it would be either long haul van or flatbed...