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Uhm, he said century or columbia. Both have mirror mounted antennas... and the cascadia has a lot of things wrong with it besides sleeper mount antennas.

 

I was referring to the Cascadia, I forgot to specify that in my post. Of course it has a lot of things wrong with it....It's a Freightliner.

 

I would get something that would be good of Fuel mileage. 379 Pete and W900 KW Looks great but to much wind resistance. Kills your Fuel mileage. I got a 378 Pete and wished now I went ahead and gotten one of the Freightliners with the Detroit instead. But I hate Detroit Engines and my Pete has a Cummins.

The Columbia I had I was getting 6.9 to 7.4MPG with a 500HP Cat. The Pete At best I am getting 5.57MPG doing 55 or 75, little load or heavy load with a 430HP Cummins. That is pulling a Van Trailer. I was not able to check my Fuel Mileage pulling the Stepdeck, was never able to fill my truck completely while working with Great Wide.

But if I gotten the truck with the Detroit, I feared like all the rest of trucks I drove with Detroit, spending time in the shop weekly.

 

I don't see why people don't like Detroit's. Personally I like Cummins but my dad's truck isn't in the shop hardly at all then again he has a 99 Freightliner. I never heard of the new emission Detroit's being problems. I've only heard of Cummins and CAT have issues.

 

2005-6 Freightliner CST-120 (Century) with 13 speed tranny 450-500 hp detroit, 3.55 to 3.58 rear. 400k to 500k miles.

Freightliner on EBAY

 

You say you have that much saved just for the truck . Does that mean you have other money put aside for a reserve for operating expenses ?
I agree buying from Ryder is a good idea but you may not have to settle for a standard fleet truck . I worked for a company the bought a Freightliner day cab from Interstate Nationalease that had been spec'ed by Michelin to test tires on their test track . It was one quick truck with the top level interior .

 

I would look for a low milage truck in the 98-05 age range and pay less than 30k find an o/o truck that was well cared for and it would also not be an areo truck
as I want reliability above all and a long service life and ease of maintenance and parts availability are my top criteria
pete.kw,FL matters not cat,cummins or detroit matters not as in truth they will all get the job done fine if cared for

 

Not all aero trucks are crammed under the hood.

 

Detroit Diesel was bought by Daimler so most Detroits made now are in Mexican made trucks with profits going to a German company that put thousands of Americans out of work .
But this is a result of poor management by GM . There is no reason Detroit Diesel and Allison should have been sold as unprofitable .

 

That truck is an ex cr england truck. I would look very closely at it.

KH