How Long Will a New Truck Last?

It all depends on the type of work its been doing, and how they take care of, I drive Alan Richie Trucks and they all have upwards of 950,000 or more never had a problem with them. The last trip out for Pepsi the tractor showed 210,000 and it was a real piece of work, no power, sounded like it was going to take it self apart going down the road.

You have to take them individually and evaluate each one to decide. In the overall it is real common for tractors to run out 750,000 or so without real issues, and I'm not talking about alternators, pumps of any kind belts, clutches, this junk is all maintenance everybody does. I 'm taking about hard repairs, engine majors, trans or diff failures, etc...
So it is reasonable to expect 5, 6, or 700 thousand depending on how its maintained, a freind of mine just turned 1.5 million on his tractor he lease purchased from PRIME, and yes it now needs a little well deserved love, hes been mostly doing USPS loads which are very light.

 

As a temp driver I consider 300K just broke in

 

Is this a trick question?

 

What engine would you go with in it?

 

I bought two trucks, built on the same day, using engines that are built next to one another on the assembly line.

One truck never gave any issues, drove it myself for six months and then over to a driver. The other was given to one of my best drivers who took care of a truck better than I do.

The first one never ever was in the shop outside of routine stuff, the second one was always in the shop from injectors to wiring harness to replacing not one but two defective clutch pressure plates.

 

I did a road test for a Baltimore OTR company, actually twice. They stuck me into this relatively newer Eagle which I thought was cool. Team testers wife and hubby Eagle and mssrs went into the eyeball testing mode.

That particular tractor you take a coffee can, a metal one with a metal lid. Fill it half way with bolts and metal scrap. Rotate it. Sounds like the transmission is trashing itself. Every. Gear. smash smash smash etc. Scary noises. Mssrs and Team eagle sat peaceful as if they hear nothing. I asked them how many miles does this #### thing have as I horsed it off lombard towards 95 thinking the front end is missing half the bolts or something. They shrugged, anywhere between 1.5 million to 3 million. Records were lost years ago. And regenerated. I estimated that thing somewhere in the two million or so. She shifted fine so the trouble is not on the engine end of the box. whew...

I got deep into the office of that particular company and encountered the first generation of dispatch computing. What's dat? Oh a load from here to Norfolk, he has 5 hours and 8 minutes to be there. Running 12 minutes late. Gonna have to bring him up here...

The interview was over at that point.

 

It was broke the day I got it.