Swift

I just got done with my six weeks of training. The top bunk is not nearly as bad as some have mentioned. Opening the windows all the way up there and just relaxing is not terrible at all. Sure it's hot at first, but if you just calm down and maybe take your socks off/roll up your pant legs it's fine.

This is truck driving, not an all expense paid luxury vacation .

 

Good luck getting a ProStar as a new driver. Those are reserved for existing drivers. Newbies get older models until they prove themselves.

 

Then you wait, you havent slept up there when its hot. Whenever its hot on the bottom buin k its alot hotter up there remember that when you are sweating downstairs

 

Not true! You get whatever is next in line of course, if it's a piece of junk, you don't have to accept it but you might wait a while. A newb had this ProStar before I did and wrecked it somehow and the paint is peeling off the thing where they "repaired" it. Newbs can get a brand new truck and a vet can get a piece of junk (if they choose to accept it that is).

The ProStars aren't all that great IMO. I liked the 07' 670 Volvo much better! For one, the Volvo had the TAS system (temp-a-start) so you didn't have to worry about getting out of bed to shut the truck on or off or falling asleep while idling running your idle time through the roof!

Storage is a HELLUVA lot better in the Volvo though the Columbia's beat the Volvo for the most part. International and Peterbilt could use a lesson from Volvo on storage capacity and placement. Hell, where do you put paper towels in this friggin' ProStar!!!????!!

The Volvo is the best truck out there IMO. They really have a ton of storage and a much more "driver friendly" layout of the controls, gauges etc.

The only thing I like better about the ProStar is the controls for headlight and marker interrupts and the radio/cruise controls on the steering wheel.

It does ride a bit better than the Volvo but not really much different than the Columbia.

The sleeper is bigger in the ProStar but I don't notice much more comfort than the Volvo and the ProStar is harder to keep clean!!! I could go on and on lol.

 

the prostar has almost no storage

 

Ah, good to know. I had been told that the new trucks are not given out to new drivers. Perhaps holding out for a new one if given a clunker is not such a bad idea.

I've been driving a Volvo these past six weeks and it's alright. The ProStar I checked out in Portland was way nicer. True there isn't as much storage, but it's so much more open and easier to move around in. I don't plan on filling it up with all kinds of junk either. Some drivers seem obsessed with cramming every little tiny thing you can think of in their trucks!

 

I wouldn't try to hold out too long as a newb, they might tell you to take a hike lol. It's the luck of the draw. What I really mean is if it's a POS mechanically and all that.

 

i have only had shakers but have seen inside the prostars. The volovos i have no direct knowledge. but i know the prostars storage is not only slightly smaller it is alot smaller and if you arent buying the fuel it doesnt matter. But the prostar is a great fuel mileage vehicle.

 

Right on... I'm pretty much just going to take what I'm given unless it's falling apart. I've found the less I expect, the less I'm disappointed .

 

Well the Volvo and the ProStar have been about the same for fuel economy. Both have Cummins ISX 400's but this ProStar has the regen which the Volvo didn't.

Already have had false level 3 and 4 regen warnings in this thing and had to be towed to a terminal because I received a level 4 which means shut er' down or it'll shut down for ya.

Of course this was a false warning but how was I to know? Turns out the sensor was getting overheated somehow. Let me put it this way, if I had a choice between this truck and my last one and I was buying it, I would buy the Volvo in a heartbeat.