Engine Odometer vs Total Engine Run Time when buying a truck?

Some guys just LOVE to idle.
Had to move from a knothead the other day.
55° and a good breeze.

He had his windows down and idling away.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt for a while.. he cut it off and went inside.

Came back out... cranked it right back up.

I get it if it's hot or cold... you have to run a CPAP and don't have an APU..
But some are just addicted.

I like the peace n quiet.

 

Why are truck prices about to drop?

 

I would get the one with less hours on a truck that new your filter will plug up sooner with soot

 

A flood of folks that got into business last year on soaring rates, going out of business this year as rates stagnate in the toilet.

Just a guess.

 

If you know the pedigree of the truck, then you can determine if it's idling or, for example, PTO work like unloading a tanker or walking floor, or something else PTO driven - we run a fish pump with our PTO, which is about 40% of the engine time. There is a little load on the engine (25 hp in our case) and it runs at 1,100 RPM's, but that would still put a load on the after-treatment system, if it had one.

In my opinion, the best odds with a used EPA engine truck would be one with as much long distance highway miles as possible (less stress on drive line components), serviced at the "heavy duty use" interval, and operated by a team. I suspect that lots of cold starts are probably as bad as lots of idling, if not worse.

 

I’m with you.

 

The one truck we had as a team, a 2000 freightliner we put about 7500 hours on the detriot OTR as a team. 5500 of those hours were putting away the miles that year in 10 months 221000 total. 2000 of that would be idletime give or take a little bit. About 60+ hours a week. We never shut it off. We did run high idle. 1100 or so most of the time and a few extreme winter situations at -55 we would be idling at 1500 set. There was no emissions anything in those days to worry about. Just a automatic transmission that required a shut off 30 days every 7 days per manual. Otherwise it will brick and you needed a tow.

Regarding the prices, miles etc I don't know. Those computers should be able to be pulled from those engines and generate a chart that detailed it's habits to the Nth degree.