Dont Buy International

You get what you pay for ... for the most part. Yes, Kenworth is a better truck on many levels but it's about $15k more for a comparable spec'd truck. Most fleet buyers figure for $15k a pop, drivers can learn to live with a few non-ideal idiosyncrasies.

 

Worst truck iv ever driven was a 9400i joke of a truck worst engine Cat I think piece of crap.

 

It amazes me how people cannot figure out how to use a power window.

Press the button down and you will feel that it has two positions. Lightly press to roll the window down to the desired position. PRESS FULLY down and release to roll the window all the way down. This is a feature to get your hand back on the wheel ASAP.

 

While my assigned Kenworth T800 had an extended stay in the shop, I was forced to drive an International (13-letter manure spreader).
No comparison to quality. Can instantly and easily tell every part of the KW was far better quality AND as if designed BY a professional driver himself, while the International had virtually none of the daily driver's tasks, hwy "functions", nor comfort in mind. Obviously designed by a "engineer" who never even sat in a tractor.

I can add a few more pet-peeves...
Always on headlights - Grrrr!!! (Can't turn off headlights momentarily to give a courtesy signal for other trucks the "all clear" after they passed at night) Forced to flash brights (again,, grrrrr!).
"Courtesy" intermittent switch - requires you to reach with right hand to dash to operate. (KW has it as easy push-button on end of turn signal lever).
Driver's seat - felt as comfortable as sitting on a wood park bench for hours at a crack.
Every interior cab item & slide-out cup holders - Cheap thin plastic "reinforced" by molded plastic 'ribs' on the backside.
Interior light - guarantees total darkness on log book, from hand shadow while trying to fill it out.
Windshield access for cleaning - takes a contortionist with a long handled bug cleaner just to try to get close to it.
Cab noise from door/window air leaks (deafening!) .... I'll stop there. ...Please don't get me started.

 

Pro Stars with the Maxx Farce are a total joke... Now a 9900 with a Cummins is a different story.

 

i'll take all that,including the weak maxforce, and trade you my 09 volvo with the volvo d-13 and @ 700k on it. drive that for a week and you will stop complaining.

 

The radio is most likely option chosen by who orders the truck, the radio I had in my prostar was back lit, the window didn't roll all the way down if you don't push the window button too hard.

 

When I drove a prostar at roehl I thought the maxxforce had good pulling strength on hills, until I got into this long nose Pete with twin turbo C-15 under the hood, I've realized how much those trucks were gutless and how bad that company turned down the horse power.

This 475hp c-15 blew me away with the power it produced, pulls hills like a champ. I really wanna get behind a 600+ horse engine and see how they do