OTR Team truck options

We buy and re-motor as long as the chassis is sound.

 

Great question!! and the answer depends on you. As a single the answer is simple buy and keep.
But running team its not so easy. Buy and hold, even after repairs and rebuild, will get your bank account ahead. But your still gonna be replacing after 6 years.
Depreaction vs deduction is gonna equal out.
IMHO the best thing is to BUY and trade every two years. After the first one it is just a matter if swapping trucks with a perpetual payment.

But you're always in new, always under warranty, and purely from a bean counter point of view. After depreciation the truck is almost free.

 

The after treatment systems are WAYYYY better than they used to be. But yes, they still fail. You gotta add them to your PM list with regular replacement filters, valves and sensors. Get it BEFORE its an issue. Regular inspections, ash box cleanings, the works. And inspect them before you let them put it back together. I paid for a few clean outs that never happened before I got smart. They still blind side you from time to time... but not as bad. Your bigger concern are the crappy engines that need to go down to the crank at 280k.

Freightshaker's DEF system seemed fairly stable. So does the KW. Now.

 

Then you're probably not financially ready for what you're about to do. Just food for thought.