New Pete concept https://www.fleetowner.com/emission...49/peterbilt-showcases-supertruck-at-atas-mce
Yuk.
Autonomous as well YUK
Apparently its being hauled show to show on a lowbed. I'd rather see it driving. Kind of a proof of concept sort of thing.
I caught this trailer queen in July of '21 near Grantsville, MD. Last I saw of it
Headed back to New Jersey plant probably. That is a great looking truck/tractor. These designers know how to irritate the masses. The one good thing that KW finally made a decision about--2024 is the last year the W900L will be produced. The two 2022 W900's the company owns are just possibly the crappiest of late model to work on, even worse than a Freightliner Cascadia, and I never though that could be possible. You have to slide under on your back to floor no creeper, zero room. Good looking tractor but a turd otherwise. No cab room, the doors open a third less than a Cascadia and undo the mirror brackets to get the top off air cleaner to change filters. Old design that needed to go down the road, been in production since 1982.
The only trucks Paccar makes that I'll be sad to see go are the T-800 (which I'm told this is the last year for it) and the C-500.
Just been reading that the Germans are dismantling a wind generation farm to enlarge a coal mine. Everything is nuts
My favorite trucks too. I'll need a tandem front c500 someday
Don't have a long enough extension cord???
As long as it has a cat and a 18 speed no one will care
It comes with top of the line power plant--a 238 and a 5spd.
It's not about looks, or comfort or maintenance on any piece of commercial equipment. It's all about money. If the truck makes money it will be in.
Truck herders today will not care, just a place to park their butts. Can almost expect to start seeing Scania and other EU series COEs imported to US Better as to practicality. This Pete reflects the old stub/bubble noses that were never gems to work on either.
Might be like the Ford diesel super-duty trucks. Lift the cab fenders and front end off to work on the engine.
Right now it's about fuel mileage-that will be the controlling factor from here on. Our two W900's 4.9 average with X15, our W990's X15 5.1 tops, our Cascadia's DD15 5.8 to 5.9 average. All grossing the same.
Hard to ignore a 20% difference in fuel fuel savings( from 4.9 to 5.9), especially at $5+ per gallon.
90+% is driver, foot in and making miles to earn more payroll is less economy. Was getting my work done, kept engine in strong decent power rpm and avoided at speeds against the governor and was averaging over 5.9 in a dump truck. Fella driving the twin could not keep 5 average.
Only in a few cases like yours. Max logged miles with breaks legally is 660, with a 53 to 54 mph average to stay within mph average between scales. Cruise control has to be used anytime it can. The more tired a driver gets the less consistent he or she is. Any company fleet only has maybe 5 percent that don't herd their truck. And there are no two trucks that run the same, we've had drivers move from one truck to another their fuel mileage didn't stay the same it went up. Out here the constant grades from Pendleton Ore to Ontario Ore tells the story. Since we went to AMT gearboxes in the Cascadia's the mileage has been consistently higher than any we have had with manuals.
It's flatter here's with hardly any scales. I was talking with a dot service guy awhile back that knew his stuff and he said, I can remember exactly, that your average speed couldn't be over 67 (or 73) and that was if you were resting on the on ramp and hit drive then floored it and drive to the next off ramp and hit not driving.
Yes out in the fly over land average will be higher. If the sign says TRUCKS 65 MPH it should have a average of 62 on flat ground just because of other traffic. I'm waiting right now as I type for a truck that left Twin Falls at 8:00 am with a stop for fuel at Arrowhead truck stop Pendleton Or included he will just make my shop in Walla Walla at 3:00 pm. 380 miles running a mile or two per hour over the posted limit. And that's staying after it as a driver.
I'm lucky to average 30, with a top speed of 45, slowing down for bumps, turning s lot, stopping to put stuff back on the rig, stopping at every gas station for a drink.......
It's like side boobage on a woman, ugly to look at, but you can't help to stare at it and wonder.