road turtle
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Snowbird friend that left yesterday said truck stop Diesel price is $5.50
. We head back home in a couple of weeks. I should only have to use truck stops twice.
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2 hours ago, Dayshift said:
Tesla is worth around 886 billion on just $17.7 billion in sales and $2 billion in profit. (New tech company)
Ford is worth around 65.9 billion on $136 billion in sales and $10 billion in profit. (Old industrial company)
Irrational Exuberance
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On 3/15/2022 at 4:49 AM, JT42 said:
Please post some photos when you get it in and get a chance!I was probably the original poster on the bullet point. I absolutely love it. Still want to get the dash cam added to the bracket, but need to figure out how to add it, given my cam's unusual mounting hardware
Holds my phone's wireless charging base and Garmin 890 without moving.
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10 hours ago, hayweezie said:
Very nice. Is that one of the ones that you can lock in place at any position on the track? I am trying to decide what to get and not interfere with my 5th wheel.
The factory unit does, and it apparently can hold 500 lbs. I stood on it to wax my trailer
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2 hours ago, ButlerDan said:
I ordered the hard folding tonneau cover with my F350. I really hope there won't be any issues with leaving it on while pulling my 5th wheel camper. Guess I will find out soon...
Saw '21 CCSB with a hard folding cover. Folded up, it was about 2" away from his sliding hitch. Based on that one example, you should be ok.
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We personally know about a dozen friends and relatives that have either been harmed or killed by the jab. That's not an insignificant number. Most recent death, our daughters future mother in law. She developed the all to frequent leg clots. In an attempt to clear the clot, one broke off and damaged her heart. THREE unsuccessful open heart surgeries later, she starts having strokes. Total time in the hospital, most of the 3 months in ICU, can't even begin to imagine the cost of her care.
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On 3/12/2022 at 2:55 PM, Glenn in AZ said:
Yes, I've seen this but when I read it, I think Ford is telling you what the minimum pin weight should be for safe towing. Real world examples from dry weights of 5ers are more like 22%+/- 3%. That doesn't include anything you might load into the trailer. That's why I'm looking for real bed capacities.
In any case, it looks like the F-350 DRW in any configuration will be able to handle whatever I throw at it.
If you're going to F350 DRW, might as well step up to F450 and get the improved turning radius and bigger brakes
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20 hours ago, IUEC135ELEVATOR said:
You need to reduce weight to conserve fuel...I suggest find a PROPER place to dispose of wine and ammo. There is just such a place I know of, just north of Charlotte NC. Exit there, 5 miles, left turn, 2nd house on road, has a 2022 silver f350 sitting in the driveway.? (is proper ammo disposal place!)
Sorry, got rid of some ammo today in an IDPA competition. Came home and wife helped my drain another bottle
Our trip ALMOST took us past you. Long story, which you wouldn't care about, we're heading up and stopping in TN for a couple of days
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In FL near Tampa, non freeway station, $5.49. I'm not looking forward to driving back to MI and fueling in truck stops
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12 hours ago, akirby said:
Teach a man to fish……. ?Another good one is urban dictionary
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On 3/12/2022 at 7:45 PM, Alex Kreh said:
I was surprised as well! I’m hoping I hit it at the right time. He explained to me how the process works for dealers and it was very interesting. Basically, before all of these supply chain issues dealers would get an allocation, so say a dealer gets 15 trucks allocated to be delivered and sold off the lot for march. We’ll when a customer would place an order it would add a spot to that allocation, so the dealer would still get 15 lot trucks,
That contradicts what ICE has told us. I either misunderstood what he said, something changed, or your dealer is full of brown stuff. Retail orders do not replace dealer stock orders.
Problem is, customer orders have gone through the roof. I saw a stat last week, where Ford said in a press release, customer orders are now something like 75-80% when they were previously typically at 25%. Dealer orders occur AFTER retail orders. Ford's having troubles filling all the retail orders, so dealers aren't getting inventory.
Global shipping is getting more and more difficult. I manage a segment of prototype builds. I received a VP award with my management of our builds and deliveries when covid first hit. We met all build requirements. Now, it's actually getting worse. I could ship stuff to Europe, literally over night. Now, I'm planning on 2 weeks to Europe and 4+ weeks to Asia. It's getting crazy, and shipping costs have gone absolutely through the roof.
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2 hours ago, FirstFord22 said:
I will say this, walking up to a car at 3 in the morning with limo tint is a very uneasy feeling, but rolling down the windows could not be better advice! After 22 years, I finally gave up walking up to the car and just simply asked the driver to step out. I have NEVER written a citation for tint, and in my last 3 years I am very confident I will close out my career without ever writing one! I’ve never truly understood tint laws and why they vary so much between states. If you want to black-out your windows I say go for it, but clearly legislators disagree! I’m going with 15% all the way around, and the clear ceramic on the windshield… and until I just read @danielj post I never even thought about the sunroof.
At least in MI, state police have convinced our legislature that banning tint on front windows is in their best interest. Cars registered out of state are exempt and can have any amount of tint. Apparently, criminals don't come from out of state
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Vehicles today are really good at not rusting. I've live in MI, and my vehicles get exposed to all that wonderful salt, and haven't seen rust on newer cars in a long time. Also keep in mind the aluminum bodies don't rust like steel does.
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59 minutes ago, Glenn in AZ said:
Seems like everyone has a different "rule of thumb"! Everywhere I look, I see something different!
I'm going to reweigh on our way home, and also get my truck weighed separately. On the way down to FL I was about 25% using a surrogate truck weight.Kind of makes sense, I have a lot of heavy stuff in the front compartment, and we were carrying a lot of wine and ammo
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3 hours ago, casperok said:
I can only assume part of it is they don’t want to have excess parts for a truck they won’t be manufacturing for much longer moving to the 23MY.
That has nothing to do with it. Supplier capacity has a lot to do with ability to produce trucks. Manufacturer's will balance out at the end of the model year. We're still very likely several months away from changeover to new model year
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14 hours ago, TinManVT said:
My local dealership told me that they don't even quote the ford extended warrantee or maintenance plans.
They only quote NWAN NAE/NWAN (naenwan.com)
Anyone have experience with them?
Thanks
That sounds really odd. Flood Ford is one place that sells a lot of FORD extended warrantees.
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1 hour ago, JT42 said:
What tonneau cover we going with these days? The truck will be more or less a pavement queen, with limited towing and or 5th wheel use. I haven't had a tonneau cover on a truck in the last 15 years, obviously the tech/market has changed since then.
Quality/UV protection/Rain & Snow protection are high on the list. From casual research I have looked at retrax, BAK, roll and lock and diamond back.
Leaning toward retractable style over the tri folds, the diamond back HD looks interesting but looks like it could be a pain in the ass as well.
Thoughts?
I have the Ford factory roll up, mfg appears to be retrax. I love almost everything about the cover, including being able to stand on it to wax the 5th wheel
What i don't like is how much bed space it takes up, which is part of my reason for getting LB. While towing the 5th wheel, cover locks down just in front of hitch, providing pretty good protection from weather under the cover.
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6 hours ago, fmccap said:
Interesting, so people who took the vaccine are essentially lab rats?
Dr. Peter McCullough: Findings From Early COVID-19 Vaccine Studies Potentially Alarming
There's reports in IRC, in France, that the life insurance company is not paying out for deaths due to vaccine
Friend of my wife's had a relative that died in a motorcycle accident that tested positive for covid and didn't payout on life insurance, because pandemic.
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14 hours ago, paintguy said:
This time, with BEV and PHEV on tap, will we avoid it? The transplants and Tesla have a reputation advantage. Products built at non US facilities (Mach E) helps the corporation, but little for UAW represented facilities.
This oil price shock is going to have massive and long term impact. Look at the ratio of ICE vehicles currently registered compared to BEV.
Consumers feel the pain and start buckling down. Which means no new cars, no new construction projects. Construction guys, see fewer people requesting quotes, and don't buy the new work truck,... and on and on.
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8 hours ago, CBears said:
Figures. Guess that will be on my list also. Not going to replace my weight dist hitch.
2" hitch? do you even need a wt distribution hitch?
I picked up a 3-->2.5-->2 inch adapter from etrailer.
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2 hours ago, 4thTimer said:
I just checked Texas law on tint and apparently the limit is 25% on the front windows and no limit in back as long as you have side mirrors. Also, you can get a medical exemption to ignore the 25% on the front.
I wonder though would you be at risk if you drove to another state?
MI law specifically excludes out of state vehicles from our ridiculous tinting law.
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36 minutes ago, 4thTimer said:
Is the wench a good cook?
At 12,000 lbs, probably
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2 hours ago, RedHoncho01 said:
Shale oil production in the US stopped when the pandemic hit because the price per barrel fell so low it made it financially impossible. Most of the shale oil producers went bankrupt. Until we get that capacity back, we are reliant upon the external market.
From a friend of a friend (alleged VP from a small producer), so take it for what it's worth...
Big oil companies bought up the assets from the shale oil producers and destroyed the equipment.
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1 hour ago, 35FordTudor said:
Can anyone confirm that our new trucks do not come with the reduced sleeve? My dealership said that Ford has discontinued these? If so I’m looking for the best reducer? If there is such one, didn’t like 2017 sleeve, will need to upgrade the hitch’s, more money gone.
My F350D came with a 3-->2.5" reducer
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