Wrecked my truck & 5th wheel

[BHuebner]

Well i found a replacement truck in Denver. one owner 01 6spd 2500 P. O. never towed with it. 130K miles. has 4. 10's. avg 18 mpg at 70mph on the way home. no codes... . yet

Feels good to be back behind the wheel of a Dodge diesel. It was ironic though... i filled up my new truck for the first time at the same pump in Cheyenne WY that i last filled my old 95. sounds crazy but i almost feel guilty driving another diesel... . so here we go again





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[HBarlow]

Nice looking replacement truck! It appears to be a clean well-cared for truck.

 

[BHuebner]

Thanks Harvey. yeah i was impressed with how clean it was. installed the wheels & tires i had purchased for my older truck.



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[bheiting]

We were traveling in Nova Scotia and came across a pickup-trailer roll over. The truck was of course totaled but still in one piece. The trailer was in splinters all over the median. Only thing left was the chassis. I hope no one was riding in the back. A lesson for us more fortunate. This happened on a dry road in the middle of summer.
Thank God you and your family are OK.

Your new truck looks like it just rolled out of the show room.

Take care

 

[DaveHess]

Glad to hear nobody was hurt there and Harvey I like reading your stories. Seeing things like this is a good reality check for a guy like me. This past summer going east on I94 (I90 ???) east of Bozeman, MT climbing Homestake Pass with my 29' Jayco TT in tow. I climbed that pass in 3rd gear at 72 MPH and EGTs at 1350 showing off to all the D-Maxs and Power smokes as I blew past them and cars never thinking on how absolutely ignorant and stupid a stunt that was with my family in the truck not to mention every other family sharing the Interstate with me. Just flat stupid on my part. All it takes is one moment of carelessness. As much as I feel for a man and the loss of his truck it is a sobering reminder to some of us to start acting our age (me!).

 

[HBarlow]

It's hard to avoid the temptation to demonstrate how a real truck engine pulls the grades to the GM/Ferd owners sometimes.

You brought back a memory. I have a story to tell about Homestake Pass. I was pulling a heavy trailer one morning for Horizon Transport before daylight when I hit the westbound base of that pass in a heavy snowfall. The caution lights were flashing and it was still very dark so I U-turned and returned to the truckstop on the south side several miles back. A big truck driver in the lounge asked me where I was going and I told him and also told him I was scared of that snowcovered pass. He was pulling a loaded flatbed @76k pounds and told me to follow him when it got light and he would show me how it was done. I agreed and when it got light he said, "okay, let's go. " I followed him.

He got half way up the east side and the snow on the highway was increasing. He called me on the CB radio to tell me he was locking his differentials then 1/2 mile farther up he called me and said he was losing traction and stopping to chain up. Here I was in a little Dodge dually and no chains with white knuckles. I didn't know what else to do so I told him farewell and pulled out into the slush lane and started around him as carefully as I could drive. I could have kept a fresh egg under my accelerator pedal I was pressing it so carefully. I made it over the grade with very little wheelspin or slipping and sliding with only a good set of Michelin highway treads and 2wd. As I started down the west side I passed a big truck that had jacknifed in the ditch on the right side. It was a scary morning and one of the events I'll never forget.