Your trucks brand new. No miles .his has over 600k. Come back and talk to us then before you say somebody's lying.
Advice, please?
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by brsims, Jul 2, 2019.
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Pump the brake there buddy, he has a point too. Give them newer Volvo's some time and they will be the same turds as everything else. That's not me hating on Volvo's because if you check my posts I'm probably one of the most pro Volvo people in here. Does every truck have a ton of after treatment problems...no, do most end up with some...yes. This is not coming from the position of a driver with any brand loyalty...I fix them. Doesn't matter if you are Billy big rigger the big hood ###### hitting the Jake at 3am in your straight piped Pete or you are a Russian dude in a track suit with a rusty white Volvo....you are gonna all have the same problems eventually. You live in NE Ohio... it's only a matter of time until your def system decides it doesn't want to do cold anymore and give you problems same as any truck will. Give it time and miles is what he was saying, the problems will probably come. For your sake I hope they don't but the odds are against you. Do you plan on trading trucks soon? There is a reason why all the huge carriers than can afford to swap out trucks every 5 or so years do it.
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In my opinion you will be much more comfortable in a Volvo. They drive like a gigantic car, I love them. I think they can look good too. Don't get me wrong I love me some long hoods, if I were to build a truck as a toy it would definitely be a 359 mid roof lowered and stretched until it was no longer usable as a work truck lol. But that being said if I were to go out and buy a truck to go make money in and have to live in it would definitely be a Volvo. I'm a mechanic so take that for what it's worth, I have to fix em but I have never done any further than a 1100 mile trip in a truck so it's not like I have experience living out of one.
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Let's see and start with absolute disrespect to HOS and crazy log falsifying, having 5 trucks on insurance, but running 15, having multiple MCs and switching loads between them, lying to o/o and skimming money from the top, illegal double brokering, trailers with modified doors, so they can be removed without damaging the seal and another load can be double stacked, rolling miles back before selling trucks, hiring people with no legal status, not having drivers registered with insurance and tons of other crap.
Due to recent tightening of immigration laws, insurance cracked down and just less immigrants coming in, the madness is on decline.
I am from Eastern Europe, myself, I lived here for 15 years, majority of my friends are in trucking and I know absolutely everything about the so called "1099 Chicago trucking business".
You can go tell your fairy tales to someone else.
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