Another point for buying a OTR/sleeper truck is wheels and brakes.
Even Ford 550 don't have near the quality brakes a semi truck has. Brake
replacement on a semi is the same or even cheaper than a pickup and should
last about 2 or 3 times as long. Axles are much better built.....suspension in
general is a lot more substantial. With the pickup you will find yourself
overloaded time and again.....with the semi truck, pile it on, no worries.
I would put in a huge vote for a sleeper. So often when traveling home from
a job you can just pull over and sleep.....job runs later than you planned, just
lay down and sleep. I once was traveling through Iowa in a service truck and
planned to get a room......what I did not realize is the Iowa State Fair was going
on that week.....no rooms for miles around. That night a sleeper would have
saved me big time. Even if you get a room for the bigger jobs you will use the
sleeper from time to time.
As for spending the money for a shower/toilet etc I would be a little slow
to do that. Now you have to carry water.....keep it from freezing.....stop at RV
parks to dump the used water tank, etc. Put a microwave in the truck......you can
heat water and do the sponge bath routine in a pinch. Not ideal but a lot better
than nothing...….maintenance free and inexpensive.
Medium Duty, or Full size semi
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by pressure_welder, Nov 3, 2018.
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What about something like this?
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This is what I'd love to have but as a high hood. Ultimate rig right there.Farmerbob1 Thanks this. -
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By the way, I think there is another welding forum where they have a section just for welding rigs.
I am not at the house so I can not look for it in my millions of bookmarks.
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I'm on a heavy equipment forum as well and there's a few threads where guys are showing off their service trucks. Some dang nice rigs out there.
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there sure are some nice rigs out there for sure. Any opinions on a kenworth T800 2006 to say 2013 it looks as though you can get them anywhere from 40-60,000$ anywhere from 5 to 700,000KM. At what point does one have to start looking at rebuilding? from what ive learned from my dad/father inlaw.... your looking at around 1.1 million miles...ish? sooo that would be roughly 1.7mil km? I think based on father inlaw and my dads opinions I am pretty stuck on that T800 or western star.
would I be correct in saying purchasing a truck with 5 to even 800,000KM would essentially last me a LONG time because like I say, id be lucky to put on 20-30,000KM a year with it.
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The early emission trucks are a crap shoot when it comes to longevity. Some do fine, but the EGR and the associated issues (soot, mainly), cause some of them to fail very early. The rule of thumb seems to be 800K miles and you had a good one.
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Thinking what cat said it may be at the heavy equipment forum. I just don't remember, it was a section not a thread and there were trucks with sleepers. You can find cheap expediter trucks on expeditersonline.com and truck paper, some are class eight trucks.
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