Ok for anybody who is interested myself and 99LRDISC will be off roading the second weekend in July in ******* MI, actually 20 miles or so south of there in Waters MI.
There are hundreds of miles of trails with varing degrees of difficulty, lots of things to see and plenty of places to get lost.
So anybody who is interested let me know and I can send you a PM with the address.
My wife and the kids and I will be staying at my mom's in Water's, we will leave here after I get home from work on Sat. the 11th and then Sun. is wheeling and then Mon we will be heading home.
If you want to come up Sat. thats fine but you will need to find your own lodging.

 

I would come but it's a little bit of a drive for me

 

Come on AK, your working again, just get a load to Centeral Northern Michigan and you can ride with me.

 

The furthest I go on my route is Cheyenne WY. I'm home every night which is good considering they took me tractor with the sleeper away and gave me a KW day cab. The best part of the day cab is I had it up to 85 and still haven't found a speed governor.

 

I only had one overnight route when I drove.
The route went to Alpena MI and you just ran out of hours, with no expressways over there it took forever, 450 miles for the whole route, which can easily be done in a day as long as you have expressway, but with 2-lane county roads...cant be done.

 

My usual route is 430 miles but most of it is on I-25. I go from Denver to Cheyenne, get the truck loaded then have to go to Cripple Creek, CO which is west of Colorado Springs in the mountains. Take me about 2.5 hours to do the the 150 miles from Cheyenne to Colorado Springs provided I don't hit much traffic coming back through Denver. Once I turn off I-25 in the Springs I only have about 40 miles to Cripple Creek and that takes me 1.5 hours. The road winds back and forth as you climb from 6000 ft to 9500 ft elevation. And just to make things more interesting the trailer I pull is a smooth bore tanker so as I'm trying to shift on the hills the surge in the tank is just beating me up.

 

Dude, a smooth bore tanker? Through the mountains? Thats sucks ***!!
I used drive a vacuum truck too, that had baffles in it but you could still feel the surge if you hit the brakes to hard.
Then depending on how much sludge you had on that was a whole other story.
Sludge does not surge but it does move, slowly, if you stopped on a hill it would all move towards the low spot, and then sit there.
You def had to use creeper gear to start from a stop on a incline.

 

man I wanna be a truck driver. my parents would KILL me though, I'm supposed to be the college kid that gets good grades but has no idea what a transfer case is.

 

Truck driving is like being a cowboy, never home and you always sleep alone.

 

I could deal. I'm still in college-used to never being home. I've been single for like 6 months so I'm used to sleeping alone too! :P Besides, I LOVE the rigs. How could you beat driving a truck with a trillion pounds of torque and 500,000 gears? (give or take)