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We are supposedly going to sprinkle in some freightliners with next years fleet purchase. Think they learned their lesson with the Internationals and are only purchasing a few to try out .
 
bigbuck said:
That ship has sailed mates. What's in the past will stay there. My issue with the company aside, you can't deny the point I am making. It happened more than once, me sitting home due to being short a tractor. Conversely, not one time did I hear of linehaul sitting home for the same reason. It is what it is. Just sayin
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I agree with Big Buck on this. I have seen oddball trucks, usually an International, show up in the yard. The city guys like them because they are new. Once, someone came thru and grabbed my Volvo. Probably because it had fuel, it was clean, and it was a Volvo.
 
The more I think about it, maybe the whole line of thinking (philosophy) is flawed. Linehaul takes a city tractor because central says to, and it gets justified with "they know the drill." But, that also creates a situation where we are not getting deliveries done (failed service) and missing pickups. On the other hand, linehaul does need to move their freight as well. Seems like the logical answer is to keep one or several backup units at each terminal (depending on size, location) in order to eliminate some of these headaches. I understand that equipment is expensive to keep and maintain, but that's what you deal with in this industry. Heck, a few years back they took away my tracto, which was an '06 Volvo. Ran like a champ, had 680000 on it. Company took it and got rid of it because it was "old and past its expectancy". That made no sense to me.
 
Jack Knife said:
my 13 gets a vec sensor error, all the time, has been to the shop but never fixed. I don't write it up anymore.
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I think that vec light has something to do with the vorad up front. When i had that truck it came on occasionally. The first time was when it was covered with snow.
 
I don't get it. Why buy different trucks? That's just more parts that the shops have to stock, and more headache. You'd think they would have learned their lesson with the Internationals. Stick with what works.
 
PistonRing83 said:
I don't get it. Why buy different trucks? That's just more parts that the shops have to stock, and more headache. You'd think they would have learned their lesson with the Internationals. Stick with what works.
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It keeps the truck manufacturers hungry to get more of our business. If we are 100% Volvo what initiative do they have to give us good deals on trucks. And Freightliner probably would give Saia a sweet deal to get there foot in the door.
 
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