Waiting on New Trucks thread.

Was at a Freightliner Davenport, IA a couple of days ago $210 an hour. Seems like "$200 hr" everywhere is the new $100 from several years ago.

 

Truth be told, if it's something you aren't equipped to do yourself, the dealer is a bargain no matter what the rate is, provided they only need to do the job once.

The sting comes when they charge you book time for something stupid like 0.6 hours for changing an air filter element when they are already under the hood doing a PM. Not that I would have first hand knowledge of such a shenanigan that may or may not involve Peach State Freightliner.

 

They're crafty how they try to generate extra revenue that's for sure. Mine could have been fixed at our company shop in a fraction of the time that ended up being wasted but the dealer that services the truck is who messed it up to start with when they serviced it so to another dealer was where it went to be fixed.

 

I like my Mack dealer, even though i've had to pull out a couple act-rites. Last time my usual surly service writer mentioned he seen me running up I-985 last week around 330pm. I said yeah you would, working half days. Hope you didn't get too close, I ain't a good driver.

I'm a vip on the 9th when I drop off a check.

 

Wow . A airline going to trans takes 3 days and 3 weeks wait time. And they charge a fortune for it. That's just legal robbery. I think we ought to start sending these shops an invoice for the downtime and pure incompetence

 

I agree it is pretty big deal if not under warranty. That is what I was seeing before I ordered my new truck. Just not worth owning an old truck unless you do all the work on them.

 

Had an injector replaced yesterday, The guy I use just went up to $135 an hour, he worked at the local kw dealer for ~20 years until they sold out and new management pissed him off so he went across the street to open a shop and took a few guys with him