North by NorthEast by Choice - the saga of sadwar continues

By far best trucks I've ever driven in my 17+ years where the international 9400 series with cummins isx

 

Don't like what us old timers have to say put in ear plugs. Just like today's cars, they don't build them to last.

 

What, no thanks for my post?

 

Your really 42?
Calling yourself an old timer?

 

Age alone doesn't make some one a old timer out here. Yes I'm really 42 may not look like may not act like it buy I'm really 42 by my birth certificate.

 

My guess is he hauled a truckload of throw away truck parts in his new throw away truck

 

Exactly. Stop listening to those guys at lunch counters. You can get mpg out of a hood of you know how. And the throw away trucks are shakers due to build quality. Then it's international. Today, the build quality fell in trucks. And if you need to look at mpg to make money, somethings wrong.

 

People seem to forget, engines not long ago needed in frames at 4-500k miles. Today's engines can go well over a million miles with proper care.
I don't really like all the plastic body parts, but they are lighter, more resilient, and don't wrought out like metal. And as far a s the 5700 being another throw away truck, you haven't even seen one, how on earth can you say that, unless of course you heard it at the lunch counter.

 

I've driven freightliner that were manufactured/assembled in Mexico. Total pieces of crap. My current one that I leased was manufactured in North Carolina. A huge noticeable difference in quality. I would never touch that Mexican crap in 1000 years.