Truck and engine dependability

Some companies will upgrade the fleet to attract drivers. Some companies will sell off trucks to downsize. The newer emission control engines are going through growing pains while sorting out issues.

My C-15 Cat was considered high tech at the time.......go figure! The EPA has the trucking industry in a flux right now. Too many rule changes.......too fast!

 

Volvo D12 supposedly are 1.5 million engines.

My '01, little over million now, owned since 700,000, turbo and radiator are only major things replaced.

And oil samples coming back great.

 

Sweeeeeet!

 

Companies keep or replace their trucks for a variety of reasons. Taxes are part of it, as are several other factors like buying the salesman's pitch about improved economy and cost savings of the new models and wanting to upgrade, or realizing the salesman was full of excrement and cutting your losses after completely missing on the specs. Some companies feel they HAVE to have new trucks in order to attract drivers, while others choose payments & a warranty over slightly higher maintenance costs. Ask 1000 different owners why they run the trucks they do, and you might get 1000 different answers.

 

A lot of the major fleets only lease their trucks and renew them at 4 years or 500,000 miles if not sooner as it use to be the 5th year of operation on a bought new truck is usually the most CPM for repairs , rebuilds ( not counting the new pollution system problems )

 

I bought my t600 for $10k. Had 715k miles when i bought it. It's mbn. Planning to do a conversion to 6nz.

 

Cummins factory engine was 500k miles/5 year warranty.

No aftermarket extended warranty for emmisions systems, a major financial exposure.

So for a newer truck with 500k miles you have only minimal warranty available.

 

I just want to buy a spare 6nz engine in case of that mbn's death.