freightliner cascadias, uncomfortable steering and handling? Seems to be the case here

I love mine. Great MPG. Easy fixes. Giant room inside. Quiet.

Mine holds the road just fine. Maybe your company ordered the budget version?

Mine is an old GTI truck.

No problems with steering. Now my 670, when someone would pass me, would jump all over the place.

 

In fact after I eat and feed Dad i'm fixing to jump in mine and do this....................

 

I'm thinking it must have something to do with a short wheelbase single axle day cab because looking back the sleeper cascadias with twin screws I've been in weren't bad at all.

In a day can single it really feels like beefing down the power steering in short wheelbase configurations to get a little more resistance on the steering wheel at highway speeds would help a lot but I'm no engineer I just drive the truck

 

Very good video.
The part about the 7 min "setting" rang a bell with me; i noticed that a lot of Internationals come with the steering stops set very conservatively---so that you can't really make a sharp turn. i suspect this has something to do with the productivity pace of the assembly line. They probably could set it right, but it would cut into probability........supposedly.

 

The only freightliners Ive managed to hold on to with a fingertip (Not wise...) is either the century or the FLD120. I generally keep a left hand on the wheel at the 7 position and it stays there to soak the ride all day.

The only trucks that were absolute sweethearts were the T2000 and Mack CH's back then.

Today's trucks seem overengineered and it would not surprise me. One of our newer cars require constant attention to steering. The much older truck you can put the wheel into a dead space of a few inches inside that power steering and it will maintain it's lane, more or less.

 

I’ve had this same freightliner for a year and half now and about 4 months ago I started having the steering wheel go to shacking at about 50 mph. They put new tires on and that’s when it started the handling problem. Can’t hold it straight if your life depended on it. Last week they sent it to get an alignment and it made it worse. The mechanics said he drove it and can’t find anything wrong with. Making me deal like I was going crazy until I started to do some research. And this was the first article that came up. Sure glad i didn’t. The video is spot on how my truck is doing