Just hate the way these newer trucks look

The W9 is still around, for a limited time at least...that's about as close as you can get to the old school look these days.

 

The modern aero trucks look and are designed the way they are for fuel economy first and foremost.

Secondly it's for driver comfort as the interiors and electronic Gizmo's are attract new drivers to the industry that otherwise wouldn't look at truck driving as an option.

That's why the OEM's are making automatic trucks as standard equipment off the assembly line vs. manual transmissions as a majority of new drivers don't even know how to drive a manual transmission car.

With e-commerce at the forefront of consumer spending, mostly everything purchased online is shipped by truck to its next destination.

If you want less headaches and want to keep as much money you make in your wallet, I would highly recommend keeping your pre-emission truck as these newer truck are a bigger money pit then the one you already have.

I have a 2001 Volvo 770 with a 13 speed manual that I've owned since 2004 and it's in excellent condition, but with all the problems I read and see with these new automatic transmission trucks with their critical braking and distance event sensors, yaw sensors that report everything to big brother.............no thank you.

I've sat inside a new 2018 Volvo 860 with a I-Shift and thought it would be nice to upgrade to something newer, but than I start thinking of the payments and all the potential emission and after treatment headaches and I suddenly get a reality check and say nevermind.

 

That sounds like something you'd hear from somebody who's only in it for the money.

 

I was looking at new Cascadia's over the last couple weeks and the exterior style is pretty ugly. I'm going to stick with KW T680. At least they haven't changed the look in a few years.

 

Not as much as modern truck drivers who look even uglier.

 

Aww is someone havin guy problems?

 

If you want a new truck go buy one. W900 still looks the same as it did in 2005. 389 basically looks the same as a 2005 379.

 

Then why is resale of a w-900, 379 and 389 so much higher? Just say'in. All these short hoods, harder then heck to work on trucks lose value faster than a falling star. I know they all lose value but you get what I'm saying.

 

I’m glad my boss likes trucks and trucking and takes pride in how his trucks look and gives us nice trucks to drive.

 

Have you seen what a nice say 05 379 with a cat is priced at on truckpaper, there's some wanting half or better of a new pete.

 

I think there ugly too, although let me say this, I didn't like the Freightliner Cascadia when it came out, but after a few years they started ordering them with chrome hoods and better trim basically non-base model units and those trucks started to grow on me. It's kind of like after a couple of years you start to get used to them. The new Volvo's we have at work I guess are alright. It's all about aerodynamics and sightlines and fuel economy that's a big one. The new Freightliner Cascadia I think is ugly in it's cheap base model version, but I noticed some of the companies that have flashier fleets like Coca Cola buy ones with the chrome hood and trim and they look better then the cheap dark base model plastic.

 

That may be true for you. But others obviously think different. They like long hoods for many reasons, and they are not bankrupt. When they sell it, they just get more $, and another long hood lover goes down the road happy.