Our smallest tractors are two series bigger than this one. On a large farm that would actually be able to afford one these, it wouldn’t have a whole lot of use other than be relegated to one or two specific uses. I could see municipalities buying one to use for mowing ditches. But large ag operations, not a whole lot.…

I thought it would be good pulling a feed mixer around. Never leaving the farm means a charging source near by at all times. Running a chisel plow or manure injector however, it would be out of juice pretty quickly

I sure hope the jail time is Kenworth it

The new trucks we sell at the dealership I work at are anywhere from 1500-3000 a month depending on which model you get.

You make perfect sense and I agree whole heartedly with you on that. But it still doesn’t make it reality. I’m already towards the upper echelon of the pay scale in this profession and a lot of shops are the same as this one. Diesel techs grow on trees according to most service managers.

What do you think is the easier route? Taking a $1/hr pay cut and doing a far less stressful job that requires a lot less accountability or going into your supervisors office and making the arguement that some guy down the road makes a dollar less than I do for assembling burritos for a living and you should be making…

It depends on the dealership here. One I worked at payed for uniforms. The one I work at now only pays for half of them. Which is a joke. Every dealership has specialty tools for the engines and OEMs they deal, but a lot of other tools as well. But when it comes down to all the hand tools, air tools, multimeters,…

I have heard it. It’s good in theory. When my wage jumps $5/hr then I’ll be a believer

Heavy duty truck repair is not something a lot of kids are getting into these days. The ones that have come through usually wash out because they realize we don’t do the shit you see in diesel power magazine and don’t have any mechanical inclination to begin with. The few that stay realize it sucks right away when you…

Unfortunately we live in a time where people think they’re worth more than what they are. 18-21 year old nothings think that because they’re doing a job, satisfactory or not, they should automatically make good money. We all start out as clueless young adults. Put the time in and become good at what you do so you can…

The people above me have a piece of paper saying they went to school longer than I did and they usually have no clue what any part of a truck is called. I’ve been turned down for jobs in higher positions because I didn’t have anything more than a technical diploma. That was the only reason. But that’s life. More often…

It’s got its pros and cons. It’s a physically demanding job that isn’t something you do forever. I also can get a job anywhere in the country with a single phone call and have learned to fix damn near anything I come across. Take the good with the bad

We don’t do flat rate in the heavy truck industry. You’d never survive. Far more things go wrong on a truck than a passenger vehicle. I get paid for what I’m punched in

I’m a diesel technician. I have many engine and OEM certifications and have to continually update them. I work on every aspect of a truck. Engine, transmission, driveline, complex electrical systems. And I have to actually give a shit about the work I do because if I fuck up, a minivan with a family in it might get…

Millenials have no money because a majority of them think being a blog writer or YouTube reviewer will be a successful career path

As someone who lives in Fond du Lac, is a hardcore angler, and is deathly afraid of any kind of spider- I pray to Christ I never see an actual dock spider

While Audi has always been pretty good, the TDI cars are what established them as an endurance racing dynasty. They were nowhere near the powerhouse they are now before the TDI cars

I hope they win this last race. Do it for all of us who became fans of endurance racing because of Audi’s super technical TDI car designs and engineering.

Mine wouldn’t keep the date and when I went to adjust it, I felt something shear off inside and the hour hand stayed at 7. Hopefully it was a fluke because I do really like the looks of it

I really liked my 516, for a month and a half and then it broke. Still waiting to get it back from Tissot after 2 months now. I should’ve just bought an Oris Williams edition