1.5-2yr experience driver looking to buy first truck

@mbodall

I have been in a 2015 Cascadia since last August. It had 373k miles on it when I got in it, and now it has about 451k. It has gone to the shop 5 times for emissions issues, and right now it has a check engine light on. This time it’s an easy fix I think.

I drove a Volvo for 500k miles, and rarely idled it. The only emissions issue it had was cleaning the doser injector, new Nox sensors and the dpf cleaned twice. If you are going to buy a Cascadia make sure it has an APU and check the idle time on it. These trucks cannot idle without clogging these systems up.

 

You might want to start a new thread for that post and I’m sure you’ll get a LOT of reply’s.

 

Don't let anybody stop you, run your numbers, calculate everything in a long run ( what I mean by that is determine costs for the life of truck " before rebuild") and if that make sense go for it

 

If it makes sense to them?

Without understanding how things work and what is reality, how can they make sense of anything?

 

I'm of the opinion, that the money is in the trailer. Find a spec'ed trailer, giving yourself as much diversity as possible. And then the backhauls you couldn't go after before, are now there for the taking.
Put, a mechanically sound truck ahead of it, and now you got yourself a money machine.[/QUOTE]

 

Sorry I haven't read other posts, all I am trying to say is that you have to know your numbers
Here is an example of what I mean by that

 

Is your center column monthly costs?
And if it is, I can see plenty where your off track, take for instance your 2290? How is that factored at $90/month? 10% dispatch? more like 5%. Oil changes? $551? Where do you get your oil changed? Do it yourself.
Not trying to be an A%&, but, I'm not agreeing with your figures.

 

If you look carefully those numbers for 2 trucks
2290 is 550$ per year divide it by 12 and you got 45.8$ a month multiply it by 2 = 90$ for 2 trucks
Oil change is the same ( usually done at Speedco)
10% is dispatch fee running under my authority ( 2% going to factoring company and 8% goes to company)

 

OK, that makes more sense.