Has anybody bought a glider from St Catherines Freightliner?

As it stands now, can you still bring gliders into Canada?

Are there problems with it?

Is it a provincial thing?

 

There newer rules that will eliminate you bringing one in. The dif and tranny have to come from the same donor. You must provide proof. No new tran or dif or engine. The ones being sold by Canadian dealers must have a donor vehicle to make it legal. A used US Glider must meet that same restriction.

 

The trick is to buy an old donor for 4 or 5k and use the drive train for the glider. St Catherines Freightliner us doing just that. I just got a quote on one znd it was 158k for s coronado. Big dollars for sure.

 

Elroy: I think they talk about that in their ads. At first I did not understand but after seeing the DOT rules it is clear. Naturally the prices are high. This is Canada! I can sure see the advantage. You could almost pay for part of the truck in fuel and maintenance savings. I wonder where they get their engines. I have been reading about that and some of the Detroits are not getting good mileage due to the setup

 

Ya the Canadian rules are crazy. I have a 2013 volvo and it's been trouble free for the first 500k. I tried to buy a glider from fitzgeralds in late 2012 but they had one that a guy in pei bought that had to go back. Transport canada does not recognise Fitz as a manufacturer and as they assemble it that's the case. They wanted the truvk shipped to Ottawa to be put thru the homologation process to prove it's "safe" to he in canada.......

 

That's hilarious ! This guy from PEI - his last name Duffy ? No, probably not ..... unless he claims the bunk of the truck as a 'residence' ......... ?

 

*Duffy is too fat from all those free meals to get into a bunk!

 

All freightliners are junk period.

 

Statements such as all FL are junk show a lack of real knowledge about any truck. Everyone has their favorites. And yes many of the older FL's were not great vehicles . But this is now 2015 not 1990. Things have changed. FL is the number one selling truck in N.A. The Detroit engines are sure better than any Pacaar MX junk! All the newer trucks are very plastic. The Cascadia is a very comfortable vehicle that handles well.

 

My old boss used to say that all trucks are junk. He had mostly Pete's and nothing but problems (biggest pain the rear was trying to get Pete dealer to do ANYTHING to a warranty truck, they want cash work orders only), Freightliners were falling apart, Western Stars that could only pull out 5.5mpgs... The quality of workmanship wasn't there for any of the mfg in the last 15 years or so. He didn't have any Volvos because of the fear that no one but Volvo will want to touch those. International had burned their bridges by not backing up their warranty by the time I worked there and Kenworth would be "serviced" by the same USELESS techs at Peterbilt.

Ironically Sterlings were the heartiest trucks he had, and they stopped making them.