Heartland Express new equipment

Maxiforce leaves a lot to be desired in terms of reliability. My former company quit buying Internationals because International was not offering any other engine option but their own maxiforce. They took possession of a limited number of trucks equipped with those engines and after six months they refused to sign the deal on any more. They have switched to Kenworths powered by Cummins.

 

Thats probably the reason why International is offering the cummins engine again as customers were wanting the cummins engine option. I actually like the prostar except the maxxforce engine. A aquaintenece drives one for BarrNunn. Very spacious and driver friendly if you ask me. Out of curiosity, does Heartland still do teams or do they have them??

 

Crete's Maxxforce engines have been a disaster. Most unreliable POS on the road.

 

Heartland has some teams. They are either hired on as a team, or are friends that decide they want to team. Do not have allot of them though, so most of the fleet is single bunk trucks. All the double bunks are team trucks.

International has discontinued the 15L max force totally, after march they will not make anymore, and all 15L trucks will be cummins powered. The 13 they will offer the maxforce with the cummins SCR. So will use the exhaust fluid.

 

Me too, so does Heartland for that matter. That is why they are buying the 15L Cummins trucks and not Maxforce.
I have to say that the maxforce will not need as much EGR as it is using now with the SCR. So should not have as many carbon issues as it has had. But the breakdowns I keeps seeing are for injectors, head issues, EGR coolers (which were bad when installed).
Plus the design was bad, so if you have any issues that need the head to come off, or cooler to come off the truck. They have to take the dashboard off. So it is a multi day job.

 

That dont sound right.Mating a cummins with a cat.

 

Which FL model are they going to? I remember when I had my cuppa coffee there in 2001, I had a Columbia. I have a Cascadia now at Crete, and I like this truck.