Absolute pos

Yea, I misread that. Thanks. I’ve been in a Freightliner that was traveling down the freeway at 123 mph. I was not driving it but the person who was had already buried the speedometer in 8 low and then they flipped it over to 8 high and got the rpms up to around 2500-2600. They thought they were cool or something and argued over the radio with DOT who told them to slow down because there’s no reason to be doing 200 mph as they told them they put their truck on a dyno and it can only do 123 mph. I assume they were doing the maximum speed the truck was capable of going because the speedometer stopped at 85 mph and it took them about 3 football fields worth of stopping normally before the speedometer would start dropping. And then more recently I was driving through road construction zones where the radar detected speeds pop up warning people to slow down. Most people pretend speed limits in construction zones are irrelevant so they don’t even slow down and those people were doing 74-75 mph. And then I had a person fly past me and pass those people faster than the people doing 75 mph passed me when I was doing the speed limit of 55-60 mph, 65 mph at the most because that’s what my company governs their trucks at. That person was easily doing at least 105 mph. And yea Kenworth T680 is a whole different set of problems compared to Freightliner Cascadia. I actually used to like Kenworth before Caterpillar dropped out of the semi-truck engine industry and before Paccar started putting automated transmissions in their trucks. Now you can get any Kenworth you want as long as it has a Paccar MX13 and a Paccar 12 speed autoshift. Two total piles of shit are required as stock options and Kenworth doesn’t show any alternatives for these on their website. If you go over to the other Paccar company you can get either Paccar engine or a choice of one or two Cummins engines plus you can select between two different lines of Eaton automated manuals, two different Paccar automated manuals (12 speed or 18 speed) and any of the Eaton manual transmissions still being produced. If you want a Paccar vehicle and you don’t want it to be a total pile of shit you basically have to get a Peterbilt with a 560 or 605 hp Cummins and either the 13 speed or the 18 speed RTLO manual transmission made by Eaton. Detroit is not much better than Paccar in terms of engine quality but at least Detroit has more experience at making engines even before they were bought out by Freightliner and they decided to connect their own automated manual transmission behind their engine because they designed them to work together as a package. I’d prefer a manual transmission but the Detroit autoshift works well enough to get the job done once you stop getting annoyed by the way it shifts.