Are The New Petes better than Cascadias?

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  1. bzinger

    bzinger Road Train Member

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    I'll admit I like the looks of the new Pete's but not so much that I'll take on another 5 years of payments .
     
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  3. Knightcrawler

    Knightcrawler Heavy Load Member

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    Amen. I have a custom Western Star 5700 I got 3 years I was thinking about trading in, but new Petes are 100k more than I paid for this one. So unless they are willing to give me about 150k on a trade in - it aint happening...
     
  4. YardMule89

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    The Cummins distributor I used to work for ran 24/5 in the 70's & 80's. Cummins had a large market share back then, but those guys weren't sitting around playing checkers all day either.
     
  5. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    My old paid off freightshaker never looked better than in this cheap freight environment.
     
  6. Rideandrepair

    Rideandrepair Road Train Member

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    Thought you had a KW.
     
  7. OLDSKOOLERnWV

    OLDSKOOLERnWV Captain Redbeard

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    Absolutely, no one can disagree with that for sure. I’ve experienced my own over the years.

    But on the positive side, unless it’s major failure, lot of the older trucks can can be stitched up enough to come on in with bailing wire & duct tape as a figure of speech.

    I tip my hat to guys running the trucks that are at the mercy of a computer when it starts throwing codes, and shutting down. We all are out here to make a living, sucks seeing so much pushed at us and the owner is the guinea pig while the manufacturer figures it out….
     
  8. OLDSKOOLERnWV

    OLDSKOOLERnWV Captain Redbeard

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    Local guy here that builds big apartments/ condos/ office buildings got persuaded to get in to trucking by his employee.

    He bought 2 GM Duramax trucks along with 2 new gooseneck trailers. Then 2 class 8 trucks and dry vans.

    Talking to his brain employee one day, his brain explained they hauled strictly from load boards and had no direct customers. And even tried to cross broker freight.

    Well he is all done now and the trucks are sold. Took about a year and it flopped. The millionaire is back to building only….
     
  9. Jacoooooooo

    Jacoooooooo Heavy Load Member

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    I don’t usually head to shops for dpf issues. I fix it myself. 99% of a time it’s a sensor and regen that’s all it takes. I don’t play lottery either. Just life choices. And yes, this truck has never been towed as far as I can remember.

    New stuff always breaks and is worse than old, until it becomes the old stuff than what came after it is the bad stuff. Cycle repeats.
     
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  10. Knightcrawler

    Knightcrawler Heavy Load Member

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    Well, one thing about old iron I will say...

    At least you can work on it yourself without needing R2D2 and a truckload of super secret passwords (that void your warranty).
     
  11. Long FLD

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    If you maintain the new stuff it isn’t the boogie man it used to be. My 2017 was never towed and was only in a shop away from home one time. The other times I scheduled for it to be in the shop at home when I was taking time off. It had 600k on it when I sold it and the emission repairs in that time were 2 NOx sensors, def level sensor, and a new particulate filter. The problems start when people just drive them with no thought about preventative maintenance. When one thing is ignored it creates a problem down the line and when that problem is ignored it creates a bigger problem and so on. Then the next thing you know you’re the guy who rolls into my friend’s shop in MN that’s done nothing except clear codes on his Cummins for almost 500k miles and then wonders why it’s so expensive when the have time basically replace everything.
     
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