What's wrong with East coast trucks?

My old boss has an 05 int 8600 with an ISM and a 10 speed. Has 200k miles on it. That truck is the main reason he now owns 2 brand new Mack trucks. In 20k miles that truck went through 3 egr valves and a turbo. It constantly derates for reasons anyone has yet to figure out cuz the code goes away. We were also having a big problem with it completely shutting off randomly. Nothing like pulling out on a busy road grossing 90k with grain just to have the truck shut off then not start again for 5 minutes

One night the boss hisself was driving it home with a load of corn after he quit shelling for the day and was pulling a long hill and the truck derated and would not pull the hill. Nor would it take off again. Thankfully the guy that was running the grain cart was behind him and closed the road down at the bottom of the hill and when everybody else finally passed him he was able to back it the whole way down again

After thousands and thousands of dollars he decided enough was enough and bought a new Mack. He tried to trade it in but they wouldn't touch what he had in it so he kept it for a spare truck.

 

Run the rig dig report. Don't see any thing major. Needs a alinement and at least the drivers side steer, I replace as a pair (ware bar is showing) . Internationals have a steel cab, check real good for rust. Frame just blast and reshot. Should serve you well .

 

maybe they just sell trucks on the other coast for to much money and the east coast trucks just look cheap lol

 

Ever try to work on an East Coast truck? One word......RUST!!

 

Roadrite mn in St. Cloud has some single axle trucks. There a buy here pay here place. Got a 03 sterling m11 10spd for 9500. And you know cash talks. They will go down on prices but not a lot. Just look at what they got. They don't have too bad of trucks.

 

East Coast = Rust