Thinking of Buying a 2013 Freightliner Cascadia dd13 engine automatic any warnings or issues?

The most expensive time to own a truck is the older one 500,000+ miles. The cheapest is a new truck. $30,000+ to rebuild the engine if you get the bad one. The emissions system will probably need repairs that also very expensive. I had a 2011 truck at about 620,000 the emissions box was bad. It would have been a $12,000 repair. I'm back driving a company truck now.

I think these companies today like leasing even more because they only pay like $2,000 a month for a truck and it under warranty for most repairs. Then the dump the truck. They claim they can fix them better today. I had bad experience with a used 2011 truck I spent $19,000 in repairs then the emissions box would have been another $12,000.

 

Depending on how well it was maintained, the engine itself should be good for a while.
As stated the One-Box SCR oxidation wears out around 600-700,000 miles. It is not serviceable and the whole unit has to be replaced. So save up for that one. $12,000 sounds about right.

 

SCR just wears out from normal use?

 

Yes.

 

Yup. If you keep track of your DEF usage, it's pretty consistent. When it starts climbing at a good rate, time to replace the One Box.

 

man, between a 30k overhaul and a 15k one box, you're talking about an entire years wages just to keep rolling at some point. you could buy a whole decent truck for that much, cash at once.

 

Or just lock in your overhead expenses with a new one and trade for another new every 3-4yrs... The fleet model.

 

i think they do that for convenience bc a truck between 0k and 400k miles doesn't need much attention, and anything other than basic fluid and lube would be covered under warranty anyways. they give up the extra they could make with paid off equipment by trading in for new ones around 400k, in the same way i give up extra now for the convenience of having to do absolutely n o t h i n g except pick loads and do maintenance research. megas would lose more in their reputation with equipment on the verge of needing major overhaul, without knowing exactly when a particular unit would need to be pulled off the road and need major attention, with so many trucks in the fleet they'd have a lot of trucks dropping off the grid all the time needing major work, all over the place, it would be a mess.