Is volvo with Cummins good choice

Nah..shop around.
I paid 139k for mine with the apu installed.
Left over 2015 model..200 miles on it.

 

It's the other way around, Volvo makes Mack engines. Volvo owns Mack.
Mack M shift I think they call it is same as Volvo ishift

 

No Volvo makes the ishift..Mack borrows it.
The engines for both are built in Hagerstown.
Most of the technology is taken from Volvo..Mack tweaks it for lower rpm torque.
I was going to buy a Mack(i've always been a Mack guy) but Volvo beat them on price.
Plus the Volvo sleeper is laid out so much better.

 

AUGH!!! which is it?!

LOL. Maybe they call it a Macvo or something. he he hee.

 

Both trucks are good IMO.
MPG you will beat a Cummins with Volvo/Mack.
I have been hauling heavy in PA/NY..44k on the box and I'm averaging 7.9 mpg running 68mph.
That's tough to beat.
Plus I NEVER miss a gear..LOL!

 

Averaging 7.9 in PA... at 68.

Erm... you must be light loaded Best I ever did in PA was around 6.4 at most and if it aint straight up or fighting my 5th wheel straight down and crooked int the rain....

A few blocks of Camp Hill followed by the rail yards towards Duncannon easily destroys what average I have built up on 15 prior.

 

So Tuesdays and Sundays off? That's kind of a weird schedule but hey, whatever floats your boat.

 

I just humped 44k from Aberdeen to Amsterdam..7.8MPG.
Then did 43k from Amsterdam to Niagara falls..7.9MPG.
I'll get with you tomorrow as I have a heavy load from Carlisle area to wilton ny..45k.

 

The only truck OTR that has left me by the side of the road was KW660 with a Cummins. Going up that long grade out of Vegas on the way to LA on 15. Oil temp went so high alarms going off " WE ARE MELTING !!!!! ", had to shut down and let cool off about 3/4 of the way up the grade.
As far as electrical problems, I think you just get certain tractors that are lemons. I had a Century once that all the Mexicans saved all the bad harness's and put them all on that one tractor. Every month was a different harness, even the fuel injector rail, until they were all replaced.
The HUGEST POS I ever drove was KW mixer. It had a cat that was a HIGH winder. Sometimes it got 3.5 MPG. Roughest riding, forever broken truck in the known universe.

 

I remember a Brigader. Those old day cabs... to drive one is a punishment Then as bad as those were, there is the old General. I rather fight 3 bullies in a alley than get beat up by the general.. every point of contact inside that cab is metal.