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Old Crank

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4. That is 12 hours of driving at 50 mph.

Reply to Emile (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 2, 2025, 07:52 AM

Jul 2

You must have lived in your cab and driven 24 hrs straight. Ranges given are now around 600 kilometers or 360 miles. There are plenty of places that a semi could run with a 300 mile range, about 6 hours straight driving. I would guess that most of them are in places with shorter runs. Switching the trucks coming out of the Port of Oakland would be a great step in lowering pollution.

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That is 12 hours of driving at 50 mph. Old Crank Jul 2 #4

I drove from Covington, Indiana to Veedersburg, Indiana. Emile Jul 2 #5

So not a normal cab route. Old Crank Jul 2 #6