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Message:: [QUOTE="Charliewayne, post: 1689762, member: 37675"]Actually Epes still has a few '05 Volvos floating around although most have been transferred to Valdosta and assigned to the former Scales Express drivers (Epes bought out Scales in 2010). Age is not their primary criteria when trading tractors, mileage is. They try to take tractors off the road before 500,000 mi. All in all they run pretty good equiptment. I was assigned a '09 Prostar when I first started there early this year and it was a piece of crap mechanically. Not Epes fault really, mostly the emissions "Regen" system that kept me in the shop. After 5 months of constant breakdowns, they finally ressigned me to an '09 Columbia. I liked the Prostar much better but at least I haven't had a lot of problems with the Columbia.Since most of their '07 tractors have reached or are close to reaching the 500,000 mi milestone, they are replacing them as we speak. They just recieved several 2011 Volvo 660's and FL Cascadias. Unfortunately (depending on your point of view), they are equipting all the 2011's with EOBR's. The entire fleet will soon have them.[/QUOTE]