Freightliner Popularity

For the most part it's a throw away truck. Run it 800k and get rid of it. It's cheep and the old Detroit 60 was cheep to fix. The interior is cheep.

Aside from that that actual truck/ platform isn't that bad other then it's relatively inexpensive.

The big problem is it's affordable to fleet sales. I wouldn't buy a used one as they've been pretty abused buy the time they hit the used market.

 

Many Freightliners are built in Mexico . Daimler hates unions and has shafted thousands of Canadian and American workers. They built plants in Mexico to build Dodge trucks and eliminated the Sterling brand. It's good to see ABF replaced their Sterlings with Macks. Freightliner kept production in NC only because Coca Cola and Duke Energy refused to buy Mexican made Freightliners.

 

very well said by: PayCheck and RickG, IMO that's on the money right there.

 

The mega fleets buy them in bulk and then they are discarded years later so the used truck market is flooded with them so any swinging Richard with a few bucks can buy one a be an owner.

Personally I would never buy used fleet trucks. I didn't even like driving new fleet trucks which is why I bought my own brand new truck. Used fleet truckers have no class.

Volvo fits the megafleet bulk buy program also.

The old Freightliners built in Portland are still considered real trucks.

 

I hate unions also, another plus for Kenworth in Chillicothe!

 

Do not forget with a frightliner, you never need to roll the windows down for fresh. Air, it comes in around the doors.

 

Freightliner the best truck on the market for the money...Any negative replies about Freightliner blowing a lot of hot air & BS..

 

FOR THE MONEY . Right . And a Yugo was probably the best car "for the money ". Cheap price gets low quality , especially on Mexican made trucks made in plants owned by a German corporation . Freightliners are not what they once were . Neither are Western Stars . They run either Mercedes engines or Detroits and Daimler owns Detroit Diesel also . Go ahead and support the German corporation that ruined Chrysler Corp and put thousands of Canadians and Americans out of work .
Freightliner , Schneider , and WalMart work well together earning high profits by dragging American workingmen down .

 

Freightliner is the McDonalds/Wal Mart of the trucking world. They are the biggest manuf. therefore you hear the most about them, good and bad. Generally, bad news will make it around the world. Good news wont make it across the street. Therefore youre always going to hear more about Freightliner.