Paccar continues to soar, sees only good times ahead

I'm driving a "plasticky" '19 Cascadia right now just rolled up 500k on the clock and crazily it is not a complete POS rattly, squeaky like a typical plastic truck I have ever seen before. Very quiet and tight cab. Comfortable. I remember the garbage Centuries. It's actually nice which I'm sure is hard to believe but it's true, at least for this one.

 

You spend a lot of time buying Peterbilt parts?

 

The old flat dash from the 80s thru 2001 is superior for leg room. The steering column doesn't have that huge plastic square cover down to the floor. Your right leg isn't cramped against the cup holder/cubby. The dash doesn't come out near as far. Even with the cup holder/ cubby on the old style you can put your foot on the floor next to the right side of the pedal. Even had option to order without cup holder/cubby. Just a small ashtray instead.

 

I drove a 98 flat dash W900L for a few weeks several years ago but it had some wooden homemade cubby hole cup holder set up next to the right leg. It looked nice but it created kind of the same problem as my T600. But I see what you're saying.

 

Dang! Wasn't that the cats meow back in the 90s. They made that after market wood crap that glued all over those kenworth dashes. To match that center piece.

 

I just spoke to my salesman. He said 2nd quarter 2023 he’s way short on slots for what he needs. I told him to be in the lookout for 2 680 Cummins slots for me. We’ll see.

Hope I didn’t miss the boat. I honestly thought things would have slowed much more but guess there is a big back log of old equipment needing replaced.

 

Needed 4, can only get 2. Only got those because i've bought multiple trucks every year for 30 years from them. Was told 1st or 2nd quarter or 2024 before back to normal.

 

Lol, I thought it was hand made.

 

I thought things would be back to normal too. Auctions prices for tractors are almost back to normal while reefer trailers still seem to be high.

I was thinking about getting a 389 next year since it's their last year but when my salesman told me it would be ~$240K for the exact truck I paid $205K for in July it makes no financial sense beyond saying I purchased the last model year of a 389. Heck it might make more sense to trade my 389 in and go to a 579 or T680. I love how they redesigned both plus it would lower my operating costs by ~$0.20 CPM, which at the end of the day is all that matters.

Any savings you can find is going to be needed. A regular lane we do got pushed out so I was on the board looking for Monday and oofff just pure trash. I'm right in the heart of chicken/turkey country and if brokers are out here pushing $2.25 reefer freight in November it's going to be ugly when it's really slow. Unfortunately I do believe those are the rates we need to see to take the capacity needed out of the market because right now on the reefer side rates are still profitable or at least they were in October.

 

Let’s make no mistake about it, Pete and KW held out the longest. The rest of them have been sucking for a long time. Now they are all just plastic throw away crap.