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. As Ben said, sorry to hear about your husband and also thank him for his service and sacrifice for our country. As for most of the rest of us here, many are more level headed and many are also drivers or former drivers just as your husband is, I myself have been driving for almost 17 years with well over 1,000,000 save miles during my career, and trucking is in my blood. My brother drove for 12 or 13 years before being killed in an accident in 1992, then 6 years later I followed in his footsteps and began the same career that claimed his life. In fact, I'm posting this from my phone comfy in my sleeper for the night. Also, let your husband know if there are undesirables he would rather not have ruin his experiences and not miss some of the fine work that is posted here, there is an ignore feature he can use and ignore the posts of those he would rather not read. It works very well!

Just to add a little info from Chucky's post, the FLD frame also has updated large single airbags instead of the double stacked pancake airbags in the other non Pete frames.

Hmmmmm.....something must have gotten lost in translation!!!

I think that the builder of that was a little off on the height of the trailer.

I have to say I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the Allante. I don't know why, but I do!

Hmmmmmm.....other than not knowing if there was a stock grille, Revell offered the S10 with a waverider based on the GMC Syclone kit and AMT offered normal mid 90s S10s and GMCs. As for your question though, other than being an "off" scale (guessing you meant that as not a popular scale), I actually liked most of the old Lindberg offerings from their 1/20 phase. They weren't hard builds and actually in my opinion, with some work which should be normal basic building skills like mold like removal and such, actually build into some pretty nice models. There also are some subjects like the Nissan hardbody and 90s Toyota pickups or the early 90s first generation Ford Explorer that you either can't find in any other scale (Explorer and maybe Nissan) or a plain Jane stock version (Toyota) in another scale.

I see these on the road every day, new cars that must have dimmer switches as optional equipment that the buyer didn't pay the extra few bucks for!!

That's all thanks to those huge mufflers and DPF filters in the exhaust system nowadays. They're too big to hang like the old mufflers. My 13 Cascadia at work doesn't even have a stack, it's a grass burner!

Quite a bit of stuff, too much to remember! And I know it was around in 99, but nothing like it is today! It's doing good as long as I don't lift anything heavy or anything like that. At least with this new job, the most I have to do is drive and hook and unhook the trailers, all I do at the stores is watch the store associates pull their skids off the trailer and if a skid tips over in the trailer (which happens often because common sense isn't a loader priority ) I watch them pick up the fallen product. This job is truly 100% no touch. The most that I have to do at the stores is lift the bulkhead doors in between zones in the reefers, since all of them are 3 zone trailers. Yeah, while I was off, I know the feeling, even though sometimes I'd like to just hang it up entirely. There are drivers (car and big rig) that just drive me nutty!

Thanks, and no confusion Jim, I did drive for Werner, twice. Once was way before the interweb back in 1999 then again in 2012. I was off from them in October 2012 after hurting my wrist closing a stubborn trailer door latch and while I was off on comp for that, I fell and broke my back, getting a compression fracture to my L1 vertebrae. I was out of work completely til August of last year, when I went to work for a small local joke of a company near the house, then finally got fed up with them in February of this year, when I made the call to go to Schneider and their dedicated fleet operating out of the Walmart distribution center about 20 miles from the house. The steaks I can do Tom, but not the beer! There are some grocery items like bread, milk, and beer to name a few, that comes in from local vendors and never sees the Walmart DC.

That's cool to know, Chris. Whereever it spends the rest of it's life, it was a good truck to me.

First off, nice jon so far Marshall! I see you had the old Qualcomm, I had the new MCP200 touchscreen in my Pete. As for the question on the vents, Crete uses some sort of APU unit that takes up the passenger side sidebox. I'm not sure if they are diesel or electrical, but behind the vents there is a fan. I'll see if I can remember when I see one at work again if I can find out more information on them.

Yep Charlie, just like James said, with one addition. The brand new trucks (which I even delivered one back to the shop at the Walmart DC I work out of in Wintersville, OH with 33 miles on it when I traded my old truck in to the Columbus, OH shop) have and orange border around the black "road" stripe and "Schneider" in orange on the doors. My old ride before this one though was still one of the "pumpkin" trucks, a 2006 Freightliner Century that had a little over 652,000 miles on her when I left her in Columbus. This was the old girl. While I do miss the old truck, I'm happy with the new one. It has much more room and is a double bunk condo, so I can start taking the better half along without being cramped into the small single bunk of the old truck, and I can stand up in the new one. The Century was a flat top cab, and to stand in it I had to hunch over or be about 6 inches shorter! There are some new features I'm still trying to get used to with the new Cascadia also, the biggest being it's "smart" cruise control system. It has a radar mounted in the front bumper that will match the speed of the vehicle in front of me if that vehicle is going slower than the cruise set speed. If a little old lady in a station wagon is doing 50 MPH and I have the cruise set at 60 MPH (the company speed limit), the cruise will automatically slow me to 50 MPH, and also tell me on the in dash display how close the vehicle in front of me is for crash avoidance, and that is whether the cruise is on or not. The cruise control also has a predictive mode, which on certain roads, will use GPS to adjust the speed for hills and curves. It will "know" from the GPS that a hill is approaching and actually go more than the 60 MPH set speed to try to maintain the set speed up the hill, then reduce the cruise throttle at the crest of the hill. The only problems I have had adjusting to the new cruise is when there are some gentle curves in the road not enough to need to slow down for and there is traffic in front of me, the radar momentarily loses the traffic around the bend and starts to resume the set speed, than when the radar "sees" the traffic again, it will slow down again. The only other issue I really have had with it, which I told the shop about when I dropped it of for it's scheduled PM Monday night while I'm home, is that I had it slam on the brakes while I had the cruise on and nothing in front of me! I had a car beside me passing me, which the radar may have caught for a second, but nothing in front of me. I told them I'm used to driving the truck, not the truck driving me!

Yeah, that was not long after I started playing, tried to take an offramp at about 90 MPH! It's good I don't drive the real things that badly! I managed to drift a trailer on rain slicked roads a few times too...... ......and save it from jackknifing after taking that screenshot!! I'll have to see if I can find the one screenshot again on my laptop (these were on my external hard drive connected to my main computer at the house), but I forget what caused it, but I had one flying a couple hundred feet in the air!!

They would all be Revell's W900 or Pete 359, those are the only ones I've ever seen in the stores carrying models! Anyway, that's not my department, I haul for the grocery side, not the GM (general merchandise) side.

Actually Chuck, you have probably seen more than that one and just not realized it. Almost all of Walmart's older dry goods trailers are Pines Great Danes. They are easily recognized by having three marker lights in the body of the van, near the area of the DOT tape in the trailer you pictured. I pull at least two or three of those a week on average depending on how many dry grocery loads I haul.

Looks interesting, but there is one that I play called "Rig and Roll" that is very nice. I found it at Walmart, and it has all American trucks in it, and Freightliner branded trucks are the actual truck names. There is also some Pete and Kenworth trucks, but they have fictitious names, but still look like the real thing, inside and out.

I got a new (to me) ride at work last Wednesday. I'm not sure what year it is, I think it's a 13 but not sure, I didn't look at the door sticker. It replaces my 06 Century I was driving, which from what my dispatcher said is getting traded in and going to be heading to South Africa.

Actually got this last Wednesday, but I got a new (to me) ride at work.

I didn't know it had the "Historic Series" markings either. Also Force, you are right on the original offering of the Can Do being in the early to mid 90s (and 93 sounds about right), but it was also reissued once before in the early 2000s, somewhere around 2001 or 02. I had both issues at one time, I lost the original in a house fire in 1997, and still have the reissue from the early 2000s. Ironically, I bought it while I was working driving heavy wreckers! Just a side note on the name of the newest reissue, Stepp's also had a wrecker that was "Can Do's" little brother called "Will Do".

The Can Do isn't based off the Revell snap kit. If the kit is the small bunk 359, that is the old Revell snap kit, but the large bunk 359 that Can Do and the new reissue is based from, as well as the one that included the car hauler, and has also been reissued as just the tractor, is a Revell of Germany kit. If the kit in question has a large bunk, TV in the bunk, a Cummins engine under the hood, and opening doors, that is the Revell of Germany kit reissued in a regular Revell USA box, not the old snap kit.

As everyone has said, the frame is generic through all of Italeri's truck kits except for the Peterbilts. As far as I know though, the FLD frame is the only one that has the more modern large air bags instead of the pancake stack style bags. Also as mentioned, it does have pieces to modify the front spring mounts for the SBA, but the Ford Aeromax (and probably the Western Star Constellation since it has an SBA as well, I don't have that kit) also has the modified spring mounts. The SBA mounts probably wouldn't be an issue for the cabover, but even the frames with them included would work since those are separate pieces and just mount to the SFA mounting holes to relocate the spring mounting holes farther rearward.

I've seen quite a few of them around my area, there is even a nice shiny new red day cab sitting at O.S. Hill International in Wheeling, WV that makes my drool every time I drive past it! There is also a company near the house that is ironically called Brownlee Trucking (no, I don't know if I'm a relation) and they run quite a few Lonestars, and most of the fleet is International. Smith Transport out of Rolling Springs, PA is also running some Lonestars in their fleet, even though with Smith's reputation of running some of the prettiest company rigs on the road, I'm surprised that their Lonestars are grass burners, and just do not look right without stacks. I'll see if I can get some pics here and there.

Actually Ed, I think those kits like the Bekins and one I have, the Honest Johnny (or something like that) missile transporter, are 1/48th scale or close to it.

Thanks, and after finding out that I did have sleep apnea, it made me wonder just how long I've been living with it. An ex fiancé of mine that rode in the truck with me actually wanted me to be tested long before now, things just came up that I never followed through with it. I still talk to her on occasion, and she was not surprised when I told her she was right in believing that I had it 2 years ago.