Does Schneider color code its trucks?

Discussion in 'Schneider' started by plater1, May 6, 2019.

  1. plater1

    plater1 Medium Load Member

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    Like the title says. If yes, what are the grey trucks for?
     
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  3. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    In the early 2000s, yes. Now we just get a 50/50 mix of grey and white.
     
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  4. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    i like the grey kenworths they got, they got a nice color scheme nowadays . dont remember the last time i seen a full orange one
     
  5. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    It was much harder to dupe the unsuspecting buyer with a bright orange truck.
     
  6. plater1

    plater1 Medium Load Member

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    The grey Cascadias look pretty good, even for a Freightliner.
     
  7. Opus

    Opus Road Train Member

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    Believe it or not, as my dad used to say, "There's more truth than poetry in that statement."
    Schneider found out that it was easier and more profitable to sell a white or black truck than one that was offensively orange.
    As always, you're on the cutting edge, Dave.
     
  8. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    They also found grey/white are cheaper to buy and more importantly cheaper to replace parts on.
     
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  9. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    There's white ones appearing at CRST and Melton now too.
     
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  10. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    Yep... Don't Have to worry about repainting after replacing body panels on the trucks which is not only cheaper on that part but downtime as well
     
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  11. x1Heavy

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    So. No more Orange bombs waiting to detonate in the shop financially and otherwise.

    White, grey got it. Add that to the list.

    Maybe by now Schneider bought trucks that contains the right hand sides of the 18 wheeler... //tease... in the past they had no need of it.

    Here is another tease, every time you see orange barrels for construction, they hatch Schneider trucks. =)
     
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