Engine hours vs Engine miles

Imagine trucks that pull tanks. They probably have the most idle time.

 

Try steam trucks. One place I was at had 3 of them. Over 20k hours and under 50k kilometers on each of them.

 

So, which would you choose? 2020 480560/21651 or 2018 558910/15296

 

I've ran 7 RigDig reports, and these are the (2) trucks left. As KR would say, I'm looking for a reason to NOT buy. I thought the high Idle on the 2020 was the reason, but then I thought maybe with it having 78,000 miles less, and having 2-year newer technology, that would offset that.

 

Miles/hours does nothing for me. The condition of everything else would be what would cause me to choose one over the other.

 

To give you something to let you know both those trucks have idled a ton. My truck which has a generator and hardly ever idles has 789346 miles with only 14625 hours, hope this helps.

 

Lowest trucks I've seen so far for engine hours are the 2017 Walmart trucks hitting the market now, in the mid 500's have around 11000-11500 hrs. Everything else I've looked at, anything in the 15000 hr. range is low. Most are 18000-20000.

 

Sorry about the vague description. 14,600 hours and 436,000 miles on a x15, show that the truck has been idled a lot?

 

I ended up finding a 2020 Cascadia with 419,000 miles and 8025 hrs. Has a TK APU, and Optimized Idle. So very low engine/idle hrs.