Yea, exactly. One of my neighbors works at INDOT and confirmed the info above. Indiana's busiest highways for heavy duty truck traffic have higher design limits for this very reason.   Speaking of INDOT and EV, earlier this year US 52/231 near West Lafayette, IN became the first highway in the U.S. to wirelessly charge a battery electric Class 7/8 truck in motion:   For the first time in the U.S., a roadway has wirelessly charged an electric heavy-duty truck driving at highway speeds, demonstrating key technology that could help lower the costs of building electrified highways for all electric vehicles to use.    “INDOT is proud to partner with Purdue on this project,” said INDOT Commissioner Lyndsay Quist. “While there is still more to explore, we are seeing what the future could hold for heavy-duty EV charging and transportation.”   The Purdue system demonstrates “dynamic wireless power transfer,” with “dynamic” referring to vehicles in motion. A few other states and countries have also begun testing roads designed to enable dynamic wireless power transfer. But making this possible for highways — and particularly for semis and other heavy-duty vehicles — is a unique challenge. Because vehicles travel so much faster on highways than city roads, they need to be charged at higher power levels.   The Purdue-designed wireless charging system works at power levels much higher than what has been demonstrated in the U.S. so far. Using the test segment in West Lafayette, this system delivered 190 kilowatts to a truck traveling at 65 miles per hour.  

2 more years for us

I just got around to looking at sales for the month of November, and 'Heavy Truck' (650 and 750) sales are down 27.3% compared to November 2024.  For 2025, year to date 650/750 sales are down 17.5%.  Those are substantial numbers, but I think it is important to consider the market.  Year to date, class 5-7 sales are down 9%, but Ford still managed to sell nearly 2,500 class 6 trucks, leading the market.  It is interesting to note that only a very small percentage of those class 6 sales were F-650's, most were F-550's and F-600's.  It looks to me like while F-650 and F-750 sales are in a step decline outpacing the overall market decline, Ford has been able to maintain leadership in class 6 with strong F-550 and F-600 sales.  If Ford were to drop the 650 and 750 of course it would end their negligible class 7 sales, but it would appear to have little effect on Ford's class 6 sales.   Note that overall class 4-7 sales were down a whopping 25% in October compared to October 2024, but much of that was attributable to the effect of tariffs on class 4 and 5.  Some Isuzu trucks are still imported from Japan and all of the larger Ram models are imported form Mexico, and they are big players in class 4 and 5.

When I first bought my 2005 F150 as a used truck 6 years ago, the emergency brake indicator light was on and no matter what you did, it would not go out - turns out, the instrument cluster needed to be repaired as it had bad solder connections - also had some issues with the two of the instruments in cluster. @Hillbilly Auto Supply is definitely on the right track. I sent the cluster out for repairs and a few weeks later, it was back and in working correctly. 

Thankfully, my wife turns 65 in May, so we can get her off private insurance.   HRG

GR86 has a low cowl/hood, visibility shouldn't be an issue. I'm guessing the window and windshield height (top to bottom) is similar to the Mustang.  Just ignore the caption/title. Lol    

Yeah, it's nice to know it's paid off!  About 9 more years for ours, but at 2.75% (we refi'd in June 2020 Covid rates), we're not hurting too bad on interest!   My wife is retiring July 1, 2026 after 30 years with the state (she'll retire the month she turns 50).  Since I'm self-employed, our insurance is through her.  I thought our cost of $1300/month was going to be bad, but it doesn't seem bad at all, especially since that will be covering 4 of us!

If only Ford had Class 8...........650/750 sales would be on FIRE!!! 🔥🔥🔥*                                                                                 *allegedly

F-650/750 sales down another 27.3%?  At that rate sales will be '0' by March!