Peterbuilt. Brass tacts question.

That's what I've always heard. You could look a little less cool and get double that with a newer truck. What's the end goal here, look cool or keep the money you make?

 

It's all in how you drive it. I've been doing 6 mpg pulling my hopper around at 90k pounds, and I don’t putter around at 60 mph either. That's in the midwest though no mountains. If you want a large car get one, there's no point in owning a truck that you don't want or don't like. You may have to work more to make the same money as a guy driving Cascadia, that's the tradeoff you make and entirely up to you whether it's worth it or not. There's always going to be Freightliner drivers who think you're dumb, stupid, or compensating for something.

 

What year truck are you looking at? If you live in the mountains and that is the area you're primarily running in it doesn't matter what type of truck you have your fuel mileage is going to suffer

 

I hear all these wonderful mpg numbers of the new curbsniffer trucks. Then I hear about the cost and downtime often involved in maintaining the emissions systems and such.... Just depends on what you really want to wake up to and deal with on a daily basis.

 

Running the 81 corridor in pa and ny im always in hill country. The truck in my avatar hardly dips below 7mpg and the other 1999 we run is a steady 6.3-6.5

I know apples to oranges comparison since we're running little baby 11.9L Lol

 

I get about 7.2-7.5 fully loaded on pa but it starts dropping in NY cause the cops like to stop you for riding hills where’s as after Scranton going north you barely see cops maybe cause the roads are terrible.

 

Lol true that. I live a few miles off exit 230. I always get off 223 the New Milford exit. Refuse to run anymore of the rough than i have to

 

Are you a company driver now?