Peterbilt vs Freightliner?

I drove/inspected my truck for 2 hours.....and stilled missed a couple of tiny things.

Screw anyone who would give you ANY time limit. Silly.

 

As much as I hate freightliner's I'd have to pick it over the Pete cause paccar motors suck more then freightshaker's and I think detriots are descent motors plus it's new so that would be an easy decision to me.

 

If a sale person only allows you 20 minutes to look over a truck, I'd find a new salesman before worrying about the truck in particular. That's a huge red flag. You need as much time as you need. That's a lot of money you are spending, and 20 minutes isn't enough time to evaluate a truck. 20 minutes is barely enough time to do a good pretrip inspection on a truck you are familiar with.

 

If you think it's bs then why are you even considering this deal?

 

Take the Freightliner. People joke about them. But the DD15 is hard to beat. And stop and think , the Pete is cheap enough to pay off in a year. What do they think of it? Not it a heck of a lot. They are selling it cheap , to get rid of it. Best of luck! Little advice , a DEF system , keep it full! You see that white powder around the pumps? That is what happens when DEF dries. It dries in the top of your tank , then washes off to stop up the system. Dare say 75% of these systems issues starts at.

 

We have some MX motors in our company trucks. I drove one as loaner 2 weeks ago and wasn't impressed. Paired with a 13 spd it was ok, but my Mack pulled better then the Paccar did. They like to be lugged, but I found the turbo really lagged morevthen I liked. Personally, I'd go with the Freightliner. The DD15 is a proven def motor.

I completely disagree with the Carolina vs Mexico built. The day cabs built in Mexico we had in Chicago in Intermodel held up a lot better then the one's built in Carolina.