Gliders - Pros and Cons vs DPF / DEF Trucks?

So that's where that ended up. That is one sweet ride. I think stingray also has a fair amount of 12ga stuff.

I've never really been a star car guy... those trucks are more for folks who do real work

 

The driver used to run for a local equipment hauling outfit that we had contracted. He showed me a few progress pics as the build went on. I left that place before he took delivery of it but my buddy sent me a few pics when he brought it by the yard.

 

I'll have mine. Someday. Land + yard space + shop is my next financing plan. 2019/2020 start that.

 

That is true. Start the truck at the beginning of the trip, shut it off when done.

 

We have 25 Western Star Harrison built gliders at my company.

All Detroit factory rebuilt 12.7s.

All right around 300,000 right now

Had one drop a valve and c.o.c.k. the piston and destroy the skirt last week on a fellow employees truck just cruising down the flat road leaving the yard

Got interrupted when talking to the mechanic rebuilding it at our shop so didn’t get the details if a keeper let go or it broke at the stem

Metal through the whole system

Poop happens.

 

I'm not sure if you understood me. You leave home, start the truck. You return home, that's when you finally shut it off.

 

There are plenty of Glider builders out there besides Fitzgerald; do some Google research and you can find them. Gliders are definitely cool and I love the way the pre emission motors sound and all the tuning stuff you can do to them. However, the new trucks, 2017 and beyond, are pretty solid. The reliability is much better than, if the only emissions truck you’ve had experience with was a 2010-2013. The oil drains are longer with great results, fuel mileage is excellent, and maintenance costs have gone down considerably on both the motor and the emissions components.
I’ve been posting a lot in a thread regarding the new International Truck motor, the A26. I have it in my 2018 LT and have 126k miles on it now. Average weight 73k, around 17% deadhead, reefer central US to East and back, 8.63 mpg average, and no problems out of it. The new motors are very capable of big mpg numbers. The Run on Less Campaign participants had an average gross weight in the mid 50s and the group averaged 10.1mpg.