Freightliners

I had multiple Detroits as a company driver, each one blew up on me and left me stranded. One truck specifically more than once... which one of those times had my engine die on the George Washington bridge.
That in part is one reason I didnt want to get in another freightshaker.

My opinion now is that ALL these newer emission trucks sucks.
Each and every single brand.

 

Cascadia seems to be pretty good until you hit 350k miles, after that you'll become a platinum member at the Howard Johnsons down the street from the Freightliner dealer.

On my 5th one now, as a company driver. Same issues, every truck. The engines do seem to be strong, but the electronics are junk, the, DEF systems are junk (which is probably true for all trucks that have it).

Ive also had a few internationals, 2 with the ISX and two with the maxipad. In my experience the difference has been that I never (not once) had to be towed with an International. With the Cascadia I've been towed in every single one

 

My first 2 company trucks had detroits.never had a problem and don't remember having too add oil
My current company used to own a mack dealer and is 95 precent mack.
People beat the hell out of them.
I had 2 newer ones and after reading about the emissions problems on here I followed some ones advice.
After the dpf was cleaned I only idled fast with the cruise when in line or not at all and had no check engine lights or regen till I got back in the old trucks

 

There is a sucker born every minute..the classic styled trucks are sold at higher prices..because people want to look wealthy.
I prefer to look wealthy at home..not at a truck stop.

 

I seen a 98 Cascadia that was still in good shape...

 

They didn't make the cascadia in 98. You saw a columbia or century. Or got the year wrong.

 

What? Paccar owns Peterbilt, Kenworth and DAF from Europe. That engine was first used in DAF. Renault is owned by Volvo, and uses Volvo engines. Typical trucks stop expert

 

I was using it as the European Truck model #######! Meaning they arent something your aversge jo schmo mechanic likes to work on. The pacaar engines are #### and everyone knows it. Me, Myself, and I google DAF Trucks, Pacaar and Renault and you will disgracefully not comment again.

 

The Crapcadia is a poorly engineered truck assembled in Mexico with cheap labor. That is the only reason fleets use them.

While the Crapcadia is the same price as anything else on the showroom floor, that is not where fleets buy them. In fact most fleets do not buy them at all; most lease them. However, wether leasing or buying, the Crapcadia is the truck of choice because of the deep discount fleets get for getting large quantities of trucks. The low overhead of the Mexican labor force, allows Freightliner to give a deep discount on quantity truck sales or leases.

Freight liner couldn't give two squirts about selling to an independent. They make their money selling to fleets. They keep the price of the truck high to give the perception of quality to the the independent buyer.