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Message:: [QUOTE="hammerstrap, post: 5403409, member: 98894"]Bibin,We chose to purposely buy two of these trucks in march. We are in Michigan not far from the auto plants. Everyone will tell you their experience and some heresay. I finally gave in to the idea for regional trucks. The trucks came out of M&K Volvo in Indy. They were trucks from Fraley & Schilling out of Rushville, IN. They were both overhauled under warranty by Freightliner and have 300k and 400k on the overhauls. Truck 2424 has the most miles at 950k and lost the water pump in Klamath Falls, OR a few weeks ago. The dealer there had zip for Mercedes parts. Parts came out of Reno, NV. The local dealer here at home had the parts in stock and so did Williams.  The engine parts in the midwest will be better along major highways due to Jack Cooper having a large fleet of Sterling carhaulers with Mercedes. Our Freightliner and Williams dealers do a couple of complete engines every week for Cooper. That right there told me I could survive with a couple of regional trucks if Cooper keeps the large fleet going with them. Is it the best? Of course not. It is an option like any other single source engine. I try to do all the maintenance on these myself in my shop. The parts are in line with the rest. I would suggest making sure the idlers and tensioners are in good shape because to do all of them on one of mine was close to a grand. Everything I do is for uptime not reactive wore out parts changing.[/QUOTE]