What truck company is 100% American?

If only our politicians were as half as smart as truckers, we would be out of our recession fast. Close the borders to all imports. Start our factories back up and make the stuff ourselves, and export for a profit. We still have more food than any other nation. so we sell them wheat, corn, etc. We pump our own oil we dig our own coal, we bottle our own water. we make our own parts out of steel from our own country. Right now everything is imported. even the Salmon at Wal-mart. now what is with that. I live in Michigan where we ship our salmon to south America while our Wal-mart ships it in from Chili! that is just WRONG. no wonder we are in a Depression!

 

My brand new at the time 2006 Dodge CTD was built in Mexico, and I dumped it after a year because of electrical issues. It was towed twice. Many stories in the oilfield about quality issues on Ford/Dodge trucks. I started seeing the new 2007 Tundra's out there when they came out, one owner said the domestics were junk.

Also, American co's have overseas operations like Ford, GM of Europe, so why is it ok for them to profit in foreign countires, but not ok for foreign co's to profit in the US from well made products?

 

I had a '06 5.9, you couldn't idle it for two reasons: fuel would build up in the cylinders and the 48RE auto trans couldn't be left in park as it wasn't pumping fluid. You basically had to high-idle it in neutral with the parking brake set as a work around. I worked in the oilfield and it was my truck/office/home requiring a lot of idling to run the a/c, heat and inverters.
I would take an older 12valve Cummins with a manual over the newer models with DPF's, regen (the reason the fuel economy is so bad) and the electronics..

 

I have a 07 5.9 cummins in my Dodge. It has 214,000 miles on it. It has idled about 5 nights for heat. I have the high idle feature enabled. It works by turning the cruise on and setting it. It idles at 1100. It does not have the fuel buildup at this speed.

There are many discussions concerning the idle and the transmission issue. I have done it both ways and seen no effects. My tranny fluid is changed at 50,000 intervals.

 

My '02 Dodge diesel is fixing to turn 65k mi.;
Low miles, but a kazillion idling hours, (in park, at idle).
No issues yet
Same story for my '98 Dodge Diesel that I traded with 157K, and MULTI-KAZILLION idling hours.
Same story for my '97 Dodge Diesel that I traded early -92k. (I had to have the '98, which had the 2 small doors on the extended cab section)

I traded off my '96 with only 37k; and also LOTS of idling;
The trans was acting up, and after third trip to the dealer who could not find anything wrong, I shucked it.

 

I can get you a 100% American truck, all parts disinged, made and bulit here in the good old USA. But it will take about five years and 10 million 100 % US dollers.

Just let me konw how many you will be needing.

 

that would be an interesting approach...except that the price of everything we buy would go through the roof. Let's face it, Americans' standard of living is high because we have high wages. We compensate for the higher wages with higher productivity. Building cars on an assembly line is not high tech enough to allow our much better trained but higher wages (plus benefits) employees to compensate for the much lower costs of building cars in other places.

What would you tell the employees of Boeing...and Cummins...and Caterpillar (construction), IBM, Microsoft...and just about any other major company that benefits highly from exports to these foreign countries that you want to lock out of the USA ?

We're in a global economy and that improves product value in the long run but it comes with a cost. That cost is the need to constantly take excessive cost out of your products/services and improve quality through productivity and other efficiencies.

You'd be surprised at how much the USA depends on exports. Now when it comes to oil...I agree whole heartedly. I'd love it if we got 100% of our oil from North America and we could watch those Muslims in the MIddle East starve.

 

and jews too

 

Frightliner started by consoladed fright, peat& K.W. bult by packcar in wash, and texas

 

I believe I saw something on the news several months back where Freightliner closed their Washington plant and moved the operation to Mexico.

I don't remember seeing anything about a Texas plant.

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OK, I just Googled this. The plant in the NW was in Portland, OR. And yes, the are going close it and move it operations to Mexico.



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