NEED YOUR ADVICE ON MAC VS FREIGHTLINER

The one SD model freight shaker i used in the oilfields fell apart too.

Also @op. Im not saying this to be a dick. But if your not even sure what specs you need to do the job you plan to do. Maybe you should hold off on buying a truck. Using the wrong truck for the wrong job is a surefire way to end up broke in a #### hurry.

You wouldnt use a camery to pull a horse trailer. You dont use a fleet model truck to do oilfield work. Same issue.

 

Won't last long in oil field... Cheap rate and heavy off road beat the hell out of plastic trucks.
It's like a merry go round here in La one leases on while 2 go broke.
Company's blow smoke up their ### about how much work they got.
Make one trip and sit for a few weeks........

 

Older Mack. When I was in the gravel biz, I'd say 80% were Macks. If oil field is anything like dump work, the toughest job for a truck known to man, then an older Mack would be my choice. The Superliner (77-93) is an outstanding truck, none better, and that's from experience, not fluff. Freightliner is a good truck too, but in its own arena. Didn't see many FL rock haulers. Superliners were very popular, especially out east, and you shan't regret it.

 

I ran an SD122 freight shaker in MT and WY year-round pulling unbaffled heavy tankers and occasionally rocky double end dump sets.

600hp, 2k tq, 18 speed, double framed, full lockers, no nanny ######## like auto braking, adaptive cruise, aggressive un-dissable-able TC, etc.

Did pretty well but not a ton of offroad. Suspension was shot by 400k miles. All original though, even the shocks all the way around. Didn't like running the wet kit in -50 but what truck does? Air dryer didn't have a sniffer on it which is desperately needed operating below -20 but LA corpo bean counters and lawyers said no. Just let a tow truck come out here and there when the air dryer fails or freezes and let the driver sit.

Typical freightshaker electrical gremlins that they all have. Switches failing, gauge cluster dying, etc. Had a def pump die once, derated to 55 for 500 miles. Then derated to 5mph 1 mile from the yard lol. Def pumps die like clockwork every 300k miles it seems.

Overall not too many complaints for a modern emissions rig. I treated it pretty well mostly. Cascadia's are absolute garbage though. Volvo's are junk too. Never had any mack's when I worked that job. The Cascadia's would fail like clockwork. 50k dollar repair and tow bills constantly. Especially once they got over 500k miles. The Volvo's were sold off after 400-500k miles. Dealer service was atrocious and the trucks were somehow even worse than the Cascadia's. I can't imagine modern Mack's are any better than the Volvo's.