{"id":17193,"date":"2024-12-16T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/the-journey-begins-purchased-a-truck-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T08:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:03:02","slug":"the-journey-begins-purchased-a-truck-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/the-journey-begins-purchased-a-truck-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"The journey begins &#8211; purchased a truck. | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAfter Rig Digging and ECM reporting and dyno testing a few trucks, thrashing figures, annoying forum members, used truck dealers, friends and relative strangers . . . <\/p>\n<p>I finally bought a truck.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a<b> 2001 KW T2000<\/b>, N14, 13 speed (new), with 3.55 rears on 22.5 lp tires. 960,000 miles on it. Lifetime 6.8 &#8211; Driving 6.7 mpg. $12,500 cash. Ex CFI truck. 2 owners. And it&#8217;s red.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the last two days cleaning the interior and polishing the outside (with ladder and buffer, no less). <\/p>\n<p>Landstar called yesterday and approved my application, so it&#8217;s just a matter of time now.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Double Yellow, Cowpie and jldilley and Big_D409 for putting up with my incessant questions. I really appreciate it. Thanks also to the forum for having put me in touch with such good folks.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck folks &#8211; I&#8217;m going to need it!<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/styles\/default\/xenforo\/smilies-vb\/roundies\/biggrin_25523.gif\" class=\"mceSmilie\" alt=\":biggrin_25523:\" title=\"Biggrin 25523    :biggrin_25523:\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/the-journey-begins-purchased-a-truck.268615\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Rig Digging and ECM reporting and dyno testing a few trucks, thrashing figures, annoying forum members, used truck dealers, friends and relative strangers . . . I finally bought a truck. It&#8217;s a 2001 KW T2000, N14, 13 speed (new), with 3.55 rears on 22.5 lp tires. 960,000 miles on it. Lifetime 6.8 &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}