Buying your own truck...what kind would you get?

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  1. truckerjoe06

    truckerjoe06 Light Load Member

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    I'm just curious if you were to buy your own truck what would it be (make and model) and what type of transmission automatic or standard (what speed?)
     
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  3. Voltrucker

    Voltrucker Medium Load Member

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    Peterbilt 389 or Kenworth T660. 500 Cummins with 10 speed :)
     
  4. Trucail

    Trucail Medium Load Member

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    Kenworth W900 studio with a 13 speed.
     
  5. MNdriver

    MNdriver Road Train Member

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    07 Century, Upper and lower sleeper windows, APU, Dry van, 515hp, 14L DD S60 w/ 13 spd, 3.42 rear ends, Meritor Air Ride front axle.

    Oh wait, I did last July. ;)
     

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  6. Florida Playboy

    Florida Playboy Road Train Member

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    Nice truck MN. I love Centurys too bad they stopped making them. Cascadias are butt ugly in my humble opinion.
     
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  7. MNdriver

    MNdriver Road Train Member

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    Thanks.....

    Uh....news to me they aren't making them anymore.

    http://www.freightlinertrucks.com/Trucks/Models
     
  8. Trucail

    Trucail Medium Load Member

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    The Century and Columbia got replaced by the Cascadia years ago.
     
  9. Trucail

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    The only good looking Freightliner was the Classic.
     
  10. MNdriver

    MNdriver Road Train Member

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    I'd put the Coronado up there too.


    I paid the right price for mine for what I got. Only truck I could find that had EVERYTHING I had on my spec sheet. Including the front axle air ride.

    Couldn't even find a Pete or a KW with those spec's.
     
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  11. JPenn

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    MNDriver...how'd you happen across a Century with air-ride steer axle? Spec yourself, glider, lucky find? I drove a Classic with the same setup and loved it, but it seems they're rather scarce on the used market.
     
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