The '08+ trucks all have what looks like a straight pipe. Something about the DPF taking care of most of the muffler's job. Are your daycabs autoshift's as well?

Demo, we were told all '08's were auto, daycabs included.

I got a brand new A/E freightliner.I spent a lot of time in the shop with that truck. I was towed 3 times because of that automatic transmission.Spent 2 days in a hotel. By far driving over 20 years.That was the biggest pile of crap I have ever driven.I see why FL is losing sales to international.

I'll keep my '06 daycab with the cassette deck and the manual transmission, thank you very much. At our house, most of the daycabs, mine included are at or right over 1/2 million miles. Now what they are doing is sending us low mileage daycabs from all over the system and getting rid of our high mileage units. I thought they were going to run these daycabs a million miles.

Picture this scenario. A service center dictator recieves a message that he is losing a tractor to another terminal (he doesn't have the freight to justify the equipment). He looks to find the biggest problem child tractor and sends it on it's merry way. The reason, most likely, that it has low miles is that it was mainly used in the city (and we all know what city drivers do to a tractor). It is assigned to a shuttle run and for the next 6 months, the shuttle driver is constantly having the tractor repaired for this and that. I saw a fairly new (newer than mine) tractor that came from another yard. Had low miles on it. Opened the door and looked inside and it was disgustingly filthy. I could have grown tomatoes inside it.

I don't recall seeing any new daycabs in these photos. Why? Because there are none.

As for that automatic transmission; does a place where the sun don't shine describe a good place they can put them? Yes it does.

Thanks for these pictures Ricky.

#1 - Freightliner's are pieces of !
#2 Freightliner's with automatics are pieces of dog !!!!!

This isn't exactly the way I would have worded / pictured these statements but my sentiments are the same. JUNK!!!!