Fact or fiction ????

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by chalupa, Oct 23, 2012.

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  1. Oct 23, 2012 #1
    chalupa

    chalupa Road Train Member

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    I was loading at a major shipper today and there were 2 co. drivers in the drivers room. They worked at 2 different major tank lines........ both were driving 2013 Prostars, nothing unusual bout all that........

    Got to talking about the Prostars and BOTh said their respective fleets had turned in, turned back at least 100 each 2011 Prostars because of all the problems. You mean traded them off I asked ? No they said, made Intl. take them back for credit on these 13's....... oh so they did trade them right? NO they said ! They made binder take back the trucks and replace them with these 13's........

    Now I did a year as a fleet manager some years back. Bought iron, enforced warranty issues and leased stuff for a corporation among other things and I never heard of such cooperation. I did accept a lease truck from a major lessor that turned out to be a lemon and after a year of sitting in the shop they let me out of the lease...but that was a fight in itself and I needed El Presidente to make a few verbal threats before the lessor gave in.........

    So to sum it up, these two are telling me that binder took back at least 200 trucks.......and if you expand that nationwide , thousands? And binder just ate these? Where did they go? Certainly not to the junk pile.......

    Whatcha think? Driver tales? Just doesn't sound likely to me.......
     
    chalupa, Oct 23, 2012
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  3. Oct 23, 2012 #2
    wideload

    wideload Heavy Load Member

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    wouldnt you take back 200 trucks in the intrest of saving a 40,000 trk sale?
     
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  4. Oct 23, 2012 #3
    Chinatown

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    I doubt it happened. Many drivers think they know more than anyone about things they really know nothing at all about. One can hear more crap in a drivers waiting room than anywhere. I heard one 0/0 wailing about a dream job he turned down, hauling styrofoam from the East Coast to West Coast for $2.00 a mile loaded to West Coast & $2.00 a mile empty back to East Coast. Listening to the junk talk in a drivers waiting room is probably like listening to conversations in a nursing home for dementia patients.

    If that indeed happened, those trucks probably ended up on used truck lots with limited warranty, so the buyes can eat the cost.
     
    Chinatown, Oct 23, 2012
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  5. Oct 23, 2012 #4
    Driver of the year

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    Those trucks with all that EPA are nothing but trouble! yes i believe they send them back, i used to have an International and everytime i was in the dealer, there was always a prostar late model with clogged filters and regeneration problems. Nothing like the good old E3406 Cat!
     
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    poppapump1332 Thanks this.
  7. Oct 23, 2012 #5
    Rugerfan

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    i drive a 2010 pro star and it is always in the shop for one thing or another. most recently for the regen system
     
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  8. Oct 23, 2012 #6
    poppapump1332

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    These new trucks are ugly and junk give me a ddec 3 or 4,3406e or a n 14 in a peterbilt 379,w900 or a freightliner classic thanks to the government and bfi this is what we got overpriced ugly garbage!!!
     
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  9. Oct 23, 2012 #7
    rusty2222

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    would not suprise me i know someone just got a great deal on 10 2011 prostars with 30 to 70,000 miles only con prostar and in shop more than on road probably the take back trucks if they did that you know they would resell them
     
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  10. Oct 23, 2012 #8
    NavigatorWife

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    Husbands 2012 model was in 2 different international dealers shops for almost 3 weeks being worked on. I wouldn't recommend them to buy anything.
     
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  11. Oct 24, 2012 #9
    RAGE 18

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    we picked up bout 12 2008-9 ints 9400i from a company that went o.o.b and they are all pieces of doo doo except for 3.
     
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  12. Oct 24, 2012 #10
    joseph1135

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    I'd trust that. They are junk, and not in the traditional sense of the word. Those engines are garbage, they were sued because they never complied with EPA regs.
     
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