A truck you understand inside and out, with the proper specs for what you plan to do with it.
If you want to stab yourself in the back running cheap freight, then I would go with a Freightliner that has a Detroit engine and a mega fleet type gear ratio in the 2s. You're going to be living from advance to advance and a hour lost will bankrupt you so might as well buy a truck that truck stop shops see the most of.
What is Good Truck for owner operator!
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If I just got as hard as you, I'd turn tail & run too..kwswan Thanks this. -
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Besides properly speccing a truck for your intended use, going with a truck or engine model that a mechanic you trust is a major factor in my opinion.
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LOOK,,,we're in jeopardy of losing this thread because we're in different universes and you're heck bent on making your case, which is typical. I didn't say I couldn't make it, after doing the math,, and where just fuel itself went in 1993 ( most I ever paid for fuel was $1.49) it, for me, was smarter to have a company job. Btw, I sold my '72 Pete in the avatar in '93 for $3 grand more than I paid for it 8 months later. I've driven every truck made, ( and several that aren't made) and a Pete or KW to me, was the nicest. I drove plenty of Freightliners, and all adequate trucks, but nothing I'd go out and buy myself. I mean, why buy ground chuck when you can have ground sirloin? If you like your Freightliner, by all means Freightliner on, I just think, from experience, there's nicer trucks. And I didn't turn and run, I did have things to do today, possibly, unlike you. I just didn't want to bother everyone with our dribble.
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Is there anyway some of you can weave in an argument over the authenticity of the Dead Sea Scrolls? LOL
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Do I really need to go back to post 48 & quote all that crap again.?
It was your bs comments of how owner op's won't exist, & one can't make it unless their family owns the Co. they pull for..
You deemed yourself unprofitable in 1 post, yet say you was making it just fine 5 years the next. Which one is it..?
You going back to Co job is a non issue. Go where the money is. But you obviously weren't making it if a company job paid you more..
We're only out on our own because we can't follow orders, & haul at a loss.. Another bs comment.
This is the garbage you spewed that set me off. All you want to do now is quibble that Paccar makes a better product because it's the only peg of a leg ya got left to stand on. Yet its putting words in my mouth cause I never claimed one was better than the other..
The funny thing about all this is, you still don't even understand stand what I've been arguing about. Maybe 3rd times the charm..? -
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