Tri, even when you only go to the grocery, the doctor and church on Sundays, those Volvos are still quite a bit more expensive to run than your Studebaker.Didn't much care for the Freightliners, the Petes, or the rare Mack. Give me a Volvo anytime.
If I could buy one at the auction I would make it my perpetual personal conveyance.
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PACCAR motor is just a ****ed up Cat painted black.
It's about where the lawsuit will be heard, nothing else.Yellow-Teamsters Lawsuit Won’t Head to Bankruptcy Court
Yellow Corp.’s legal battle with the Teamsters will stay in Kansas, a judge ruled, with the trucking firm extending the bid deadline for some assets.
It's about where the lawsuit will be heard, nothing else.
"Yellow Corp.’s $173.3 million legal battle with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will stay put in Kansas, dashing the insolvent less-than-truckload (LTL) company’s hopes of moving the case to a Delaware bankruptcy court.
U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson said the issues in Yellow’s suit were not essential to administering the bankruptcy estate, which includes the company’s terminals and rolling stock, among other assets—and therefore should stay in Kansas."
Yellow-Teamsters Lawsuit Won’t Head to Bankruptcy Court
The less-than-truckload company extended both the bidding and auction deadlines for its trucks and trailers.www.yahoo.com
PACCAR's engine program reminds me of Navistar's Maxxforce engines that almost put them out of business. Navistar paid out a 135 Million settlement which was not enough. Several small fleets that bought the Maxxforce engines were not able to absorb the expense. The tractors with that engine spent more time in the shop than on the road & many logged more miles on the hook than pulling loads. Caterpillar was wise to discontinue highway engine production in 2009. Of course they had lost most of their customer base & customer loyalty by then. Emission laws/standards have had a deep economic impact on the trucking industry.
Don't forget the Wizard and the Mayor of Munchkin land.
What about those wooden 5th wheels
I didn't want the younger guys to know about the (really) hard times.
I drove a 2013 MaxForce Prostar for Batesville for 6 years. We had 4 of them as experimental tractors to avoid buying DEF. $138,000 each. All 4 ended up with more $$$$ in repairs than they cost new. The one I drove was rebuilt twice in 6 years. One of those times the turbo bearings let go, oil went thru the injectors, and I had to stall the engine at 3386 rpm’s to shut it off. Bent piston rods, broke the head. A total mess. Four below zero in York, Nebraska. I blocked the I80 entrance ramp for 5 hrs because tow trucks were busy with gelled up trucks. Lucky I had an APU to stay warm!
Now my cane hauling guy is lookin at them YRC trucks and licking his lips he wants 200 of them Twin screw day cabs.
You're like the rich kid down the block with an APU, PIE couldn't spell APU.
Dead axles were banned in Tenn until Ryder acquired Hoover.
When I quickly read your post I thought you said "dead asses." So sorry about that!
Could have been, one never knows what those Hillbillys were plotting.When I quickly read your post I thought you said "dead asses." So sorry about that!
There were some local 2nd & 3rd generation trucking families who had owned Internationals since the R series, RD 450 gasoline engines days, (Breeze remembers them). They were loyal to the brand but they jumped ship over the MAXXForce engines. One later bought a Navistar with a bulldozer emissions engine which was not much better. He recently bought an older KW with a Cummins.
My experience with that engine brought me to a conclusion about it that it Could work- IF the owner of one scheduled changing the EGR Valve about every 80,000 miles? Expensive! At the time, if I recall correctly, every time the engine did bad things, it was because of the EGR, and bad things normally happened every 90,000-100,000 miles. Also, if I recall correctly, the EGR was about $1600 plus time, labor, and the truck out of service. The time on the ramp, IH concluded the EGR plugged, which made the turbo overheat, which made the bearings let go, which let oil run thru the injectors, which made the whole engine zoom out of control and not turn off.
