An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

My guess would be the tall roof. Usually flatbed companies run midroofs.

 

The short story is we had terrible results with a test batch of 579’s about 5 years ago. I think 3 of the 5 trucks blew the engines is the first few weeks. Leaking windshields and poor build quality that the dealership was willing to do nothing about.


We voted a year ago to go to KW and Volvo, phasing out freightliner and internationals. This was to reduce maintenance costs.

We run about 90% condos.

 

Arent most petes heavier than KW?

 

Not necessarily, we run Pete 567’s and T680’s, all midroofs. We tried the W990’s but they where to heavy.

The 579’s were notorious for leaking roof caps, I had mine reinstalled when I worked at Magnum. Weight on most Paccar products are fairly similar in weight if spec’d correctly and yeah the Ultraloft is a spacious truck, but so is the Volvo 860…

 

My personal experience with a Pete 579 is that it was the biggest piece of garbage I had ever driven… Worse than any Freightliner I ever drove as far as mechanical issues

 

I wonder if it’s the way Crete specs their trucks out too …

 

What I like about the 579/567 is that you need to take a brand new truck back to a competent dealer to have all the production issues worked out, after that they’re not bad….

Of course sorting everything out at production would be better….

 

Mine spent more time in the shop than on road..electrical issues and dpf issues constantly.