Schneider Glider owners?

Imagine you get a truck with 400k miles and the oil was changed 10 times.

 

I guess the only way you can beat this, is to get a truck with very low miles.

 

Modern oil is better than 10-15yrs ago, and the reason Schneider is able to push out the intervals(with freightliner's blessing for warranty purpose) is that they are running lower rpm cruise at 61mph compared to 65-70. Modern engines also have far tighter clearances compared to 15 years ago. I believe Mobil1 even has an annual oil for passenger cars now, you just have to replace the filter every 10k.

 

The office was telling me to change oil at 15k, the shop was 40k.
I would never go 40k miles.
Plus is greasing the truck also.
They would not look at the truck.
I remember I was talking about the 15k miles , and that is what I was told at the GreenBay WI also. And some driver said if you had 14, 990 miles they they will not change oil, because is not 15k miles.
Imagine 40k miles interval now.
Is not like you hit 15k and you stop and change oil. It's when you can. When you stop by freightliner shop.


I change my car oil , put synthetic and still do it every 3k -4K miles. I don't cheap out on oil. I think it's something that I do.
My truck , every 10k miles , sometimes less, sometime 12k miles max.

 

My truck takes regular oil

 

You're talking about a 2012 truck with a 2002 engine. What clearance change. Same thing it was years ago , change every 15k miles, same thing now.
Now these older engine they can take a beating because they don't have egr and all the emission. And oil will be in better shape. But these egr engines, they will get oil dirty pretty fast.

 

Oil is oil. Before it was this engine with no emision, and people knew about the 15k mark interval. And it was ok.
Then the egr came out, and later the the dpf..
The interval was same 15k.
Now smart people realized that new engine they get oil pretty crapy after few thousand miles will turn black. That's because the egr will clean the air but will get your oil dirty. So owner operators star changing their oil sooner.
Not all of them.

I don't know anything about your clearance.

I have 1.2 mil on my truck, and I just talked to another owner operator the other day 1.4 mil miles, and still going strong. AMAZING!!!
I don't think you'll get 1.2mil miles out of new trucks, new engines.

I see on Craigslist :
2012 cascadia with 500k miles around $25k-$30k.
2007 Columbia with 800k miles around $20k-$25k

That's 5 years difference and look at the price .
The old stuff keep their value.
It must be a reason.

 

Elroy, did you get NS or ON plates ? Any problems registering it? I'm looking to buy one of this also, but i hear the MTO has some restrictions for gliders.