A little background on the Million Dollar Baby

A little background on the Million Dollar Baby.
The truck is a 1992 Kenworth B Model W-900. It has a 425 h.p. 3406 B-Model Caterpillar engine, a 15 speed deep-reduction transmission with 3:55 Eaton 402 rear ends. It has the V.I.T. Kenworth interior and the Aerodyne I style 60" walk in sleeper with double bunks. It had a 270 inch wheelbase before I cut it down, and I haven't measured it since.
It has approximately 1.5 million miles on it, and I drove it about 900,000 of those miles. I had an inframe rebuild done to the engine in 1999, and it's been running untouched ever since. (Same turbocharger since then too! Today's lesson is change the oil regularly!)
It's on the third clutch since new, and I put an Eaton reconditioned transmission in it at about 1.3 million miles. (It didn't need a clutch then, but I put one in it anyway since the transmission was out already.)

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Big Trucks hauling Bigger Trucks!



I was leased to a large owner-operator company out of Louisville, and they hauled a lot of military freight. To be able to be dispatched through the house, we had to provide proof that we had a secure place to leave the load. This place had to be at the least gated and locked at night, but I had yarded before at a place in town that actually had people living on site. These people store all kinds of stuff; here's some pictures of a medium sized OTR haul truck that are commonly used in the mines around here. This one was on a heavy haul trailer that had been left in the yard.
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  1. AnonymousApril 14, 2013 at 9:35 PM

    Wow! These heavy hauling equipments are really big! These equipments are really need on hauling industry because they're the one who can carry big equipments.

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