Help buying day cab

Go to a finance Company, buy @ auction, if the financing is worked out prior to the auction. you should find something at a good rate.

 

For the sleeper, We used to run all over with trucks that had sleepers that make this one look like a mansion. and they had 238s, 318s, 290s for engines. So ya, it can handle it.

posts like these show just how soft our society has gotten.

 

Prime Inc runs trucks like that one with the passenger seat removed and bull bars on it.

 

The short sleeper on the Crapcadia is because the Crapcadia is a heavy pig. The Crapcadia is a good 2000lbs heavier then the Columbia it replaced. It is also about 1000lbs heaver then the next heavy Volvo 670 and much heavier then the classic Paccar products.

While the short sleeper has always been around buy they have long been relegated to regional work, where the driver might be away from home and terminal only once a week. The mega-crap OTR companies needed to buy full condos to get people to stay out weeks or months at a time for chicken feed.

That had to change when the mega-crap companies started buying Crapcadias. That heavy pig could not scale the same loads as the other trucks. To keep the customer heavy and happy, companies like Prime, Swift, and GTI started using the mini-me sleeper again to compensate for the Crapcadia's portly attitude. Prime paid more for its drivers to take on of these pieces of crap. The others just promised more dedicated regional runs.

 

Dude, it will hold up for. You are pulling normal freight, not heavy haul. We ran over those same mountains for decades with engines half as strong.

Better question, are you really basing your buying decision on something guys on a public forum are posting? There is lots of data out there on all engines published by engineers. But instead we are relying on john smith truck driver? Really?

I've owned a lot of trucks, with a lot of different engines, doesn't make me an expert on every different type of truck and engine out there. Take the cascadia for example. Everyone likes to bash it, but unless they have owned a fleet of fifty of them, are their opinions accurate? Or are they basing their info on the last mega carrier newbie driver that cut them off last night?

 

Most of the modern engines put it trucks hold up to a reasonable life. The question becomes how much you are going spend maintaining that engine and how quick is the rest of the truck going to fall apart around that engine?

 

Yes indeed. Prime had to cut weight to keep their refer customers happy but that Crapcadia has a plastic radiator hung so low that a tumble weed would take it out. Their solution was the mini-me sleeper and ditch the passenger seat to save weight and the bull bar to keep the radiator in the Crapcadia.

Cheapskate Schneider runs bull bars on some of their Crapcadia's for the same reason.