Which truck should I buy??

Good grief!! You did that 5 times and with the same results? Wow.

Ya know my last "job" as a company driver they gave me a 2015 automatic ProStar. It had around 250k miles on it when I started driving it. It had problems ever so often. I've always taken note of issues trucks have when driving them because I've always known company driver was just a stepping stone to running my own truck eventually.

Anyways that ProStar had trans issues and the DEF filter had to be replaced around 330k. There were a lot of other small problems with it. The leveling valves had to be replaced and all the shocks including the cab shocks. APU leaked coolant and so had to replace a hose on it. All the bolts on it had vibrated loose causing the thing to vibrate even worse causing one of the coolant hoses to rub on something and start leaking.

It also had AC issues around 320k. The whole system had to be replaced. Turned out to be a deal that cycled the system so that it wouldn't freeze up wasn't working so about 2 hours into the drive the ac would stop working because it would freeze up. 15 dollar relay.

Each time something would come up though it would mean taking it to Ryder and leaving it with them for a couple of days while I rough it with a loan truck they provided that was never as nice as my own.

The thing was all the drivers, and when I say all I mean 3 had that exact same truck make and model wise. It's funny the guy that had been there longer than I had, he had a truck with around 30k more miles on it so I could almost plan that the repairs he had to get done were going to be the case for my truck shortly and it always was.

His truck's transmission had to be replaced around 350k. I didn't stay with them that long but my trans had been acting up also so I'm sure if I had stayed with them longer it would have finally gone out. But as with the other issues, I bet it was a 50 dollar part that they made into a 5000 dollar ordeal because they didn't know what they were doing or they just didn't care.

I had the same scenario with buying and selling car's sort of. I'd lose all my profit to the mechanics that would have to fix the cars I'd buy at the auction. I found out real quick a good mechanic and when I say good mechanic I mean a tech, not a part's changer was worth his weight in gold.

With that being said my previous job had an old 2002 Cascadia with a Detroit and that thing hardly ever had problems at least nothing major. It had close to a million miles on it.

 

10-4

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking also. Can't go wrong with the tried and true Freightliner with the Detroit. I've had different company jobs in the past that ran freightliners and never had too many issues with them. I always left them with the same thoughts that they were good trucks.

Why did you stop driving your Frieghtliner and get another one?

Were the 2 trucks you bought after new models or similar to the one you had before? Make and model that is.

 

Yes sir, I agree.

Wish I could communicate that to my wife without her having a conniption fit.

 

Copy that. Why do you think dave in AZ's is a good deal? I mean how could you know he didn't even give year or mileage on it? Yeah, those older internationals were solid trucks.

 

10-4. I agree.