New rolling glider

Because as long as gliders are allowed,any brand making them loses marketshare if they just stop making them.
Once gliders are no longer allowed they can pull out with losing sales.

 

You mean to tell me that manufacturers are selling gliders at a loss just to have more market share? If that is their business plan, they deserve to go broke.

The items they leave out on a glider ( mostly engine and trans), the manufacturers usually don't build anyway. All they are doing is building a truck that skips the part in the assembly line where they add the engine and trans.

 

IDK. Elaine Chao is Mitch McConnel's wife and will be far more concerned with spreading the construction project graft around than she will be in rocking the boat over what will seem to her to be settled environmental policy.

 

There are many "settled environmental policies" that are going to be turned on their head in the coming months. The proposed head of the EPA Scott Pruit is already giving the opposition fits. Any policy that was not specifically voted on by Congress is going to be fair game, including the Phase II GHG rules(concerning gliders and other aspects of heavy duty trucking design) hastily written into the Federal Register and put in place in record time(less than 60 days). It took over 20 years through multiple administrations to get the ELD rule written into the Federal register.
But this is all speculation. We will see.

 

I was talking to another driver on Friday, and he was saying that certain parts you could buy for some of our older trucks, were between $50-100 and could be installed by the least-trained person on the yard. Now these newer 579's, those same parts cost hundreds-thousands and can only be installed by trained techs.

Why wouldn't they want to kill off the trucks that are hurting their bottom line by being too reliable?