CAT leaving the "on highway" truck engine business

Don't you have a Cummins or a Detroit to nurse up the hill at 35 mph with the 4-ways on? Instead of harassing honest hard-working people.

 

Ask around,I'm sure you can find plenty of drivers that do.

 

No,I don't,how many have you seen? I just got done inframing one that had 920,000 on and was never apart before.

 

And you know why that is? Because rookies who have no clue about engines run their motors without watching gauges and run in 110*F heat without even touching the manual fan, wait for the AUTO to come on at 217* and keep gouging on it. Over heat and bye bye O rings. This is not a CAT issue only its every engine out there. The masses are ######### as someone said.

I watch my temps and i am pushing over 1000 crank hp out of mine, no issues and that goes for my 2 previous ones. Had a N14, thanksm almost put me out of business. And as far as the cummins=better mpg argument, give me a ####### break the 525hp N14 i had got worst millage than any 550 CAT i had and shut down on every hill do to high oil temps.

That being said i got 6.2mpg average (paper and pen) running a 4500 mile trip, with 80k lbs, over the mountains and get over 7mpg local out of a truck with building like aerodynamics and 6 feet gap between sleeper and trailer.

 

Mr. Wrench,

Doesn't Cummins issue any notices on the parts they are going to stop making? If not, then they need too. However, I have heard nothing bad about a cummins from a truck driver. Heard bad things about a Detroit but nothing related to cummins nor cat.

Hunter