No new trucks for me!!

I'm in a rental tractor tonight while my old Freightliner is in the shop getting the overheads run and a few other things to ready it for winter.

I'm in a 2010 international pro star. #94,446 miles. #ISX Cummins. Wouldn't trade my '96 FLD with 1.6 million miles for 3 of these pieces of $h*t!! #EGR, DPF, #SCR. #Already had to lose 20 minutes on a DPF re-gen tonight. #No leg/foot room. #Rides worse than any Freightliner I've ever driven. Drives horrible. #TONS of wind noise. #Leakiest cab I've driven. #Don't bother with looking in the mirrors because they shake so bad that they're useless. #####Complete failure of a truck. #Complete pile of brand new plastic GARBAGE!

Thinking of buying a ProStar? #Take 3500 or 4500 bucks and go buy a 15 year old Freightliner and put a rebuilt engine in it. It'll save you 60 or 70 thousand dollars!!!

If I new I was going to have to drive this every night, I'd go to digging ditches and cleaning toilets, or something, for a living.

 

Don't know why my phone put all those #'s in there. Strange.

 

Ha! Pullingtrucker. Mine's a Penske, too!

I can't believe how cheaply made everything is on this thing. I could literally tear those square mirrors off of the corner of the hood without trying.

There's NO WAY this pile of tupperware is going to be useable at 700,000 miles.

Oh, and I've made one more decision about any future truck I own. Not only will I never, ever, EVER again own a Super 10 tranny, I'm adding to the list of the most idiotic things ever put in trucks the 18 or 19 different controls that are on the steering wheel.

I couldn't find any of that crap in the dark and the labeling is already worn off of it. Add to it that the controls are only in the same place on the steering wheel when you're going straight down the road, so you have to hunt them. I was going down a winding hill last night and wanted the jakes. Good freaking luck finding them without turning on the dome light. How stupid. And of course, you think you find them and then hit the button, expecting to feel and hear the weak azzed engine break, only to hear the air horn. That's another thing. Designing a truck with the air horn on the steering wheel is an offense that should be punishable by stoning. In fact, I found none of the controls that were on the wheel to be comfortable or natural feeling. Who is so #### lazy that they can't reach over to the dash to flip a switch?? I can just imagine what all that crap is going to cost to replace when it starts failing to work properly.

This is the newest truck I've driven to date. From the standpoint of owning and maintaining a truck, this thing is horrible nightmare. Everything on it is plastic, hooked to a sensor, operated by a cheesy little cheap switch, or so flimsy you're afraid to touch it.

I honestly can't believe that anyone from the design team over at Inter-trash-ional got their hands on a prototype of this thing and said, "Yeah, this is exactly what we want." The folks who came up with this ought to be really embarrassed. It truly baffles me.

If this is the future of trucks, I'm about to start looking for an old 379 or something and begin a restoration and plan on keeping it forever. Driving this ProStar isn't even trucking. It's a rolling tupperware party. I'd hate to see what one of these things would look like after hitting anything.

 

Wow, I just re-read what I typed. I stand by all of it, but it sure looks angry. That ProStar put me in some kind of mood, I guess.