Advice on a Truck Purchase

If I wanted a used Cascadia for flatbed work, I would find one of the off-lease Maverick trucks. They are spec'ed for flatbed work. Little things like the side fairings that extend all the way to the tandems, with steps for getting on and off the catwalk. They won't have the gauges and bells and whistles of an o/o spec'd truck, but they have what you need. The freightliner shop in North Little Rock has them. I've also seen quite a few on truckpaper. Search for 2012 Cascadia with autoshift, you'll find em.

 

But it's still.low miles/time.

 

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Team truck???


Anyway get a truck with a working APU, so you know it didn't idle.

 

Sentence of advice "Go for a glider or pre 2007"

 

Run from the c13 they are an absolute dog and pig on fuel. My last job had about 110 Cascadia's with the 455/505 dd and one never left me stranded. We slip seated and If I remember right not one single check eng light on any the whole time I was in em. If it were me personally I'd buy pre 2003 but buying newer Detroit would get thumbs up over cummins. Detroit and the mack/volvo mp8 have been good to me.

One thing I will say is get the 505/1750 the 455/1550 was a dog and they avg'd about 0.7 to a full 1.0 less a mile. 505 would avg 6.3 hauling heavy around the north east in stop and go traffic doing ltl food service

 

Get a rigdig report on the VIN number before you make a decision.

 

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