Waiting on New Trucks thread.

That 389 isn't getting any newer and look at used truck prices crashing. In your shoes I'd have swapped that fuel suck barn door for the newer aero ride about 2 seconds after they gave the option.

Fleets are riding this thing out just fine with plenty of work. I read an article that freight volumes today are way higher than pre-pandemic 2019. Just the explosion of new authorities is still around. Things are not anywhere near as bad as it can get for loadboard freight either. I see 10x the available loads now everywhere I look that I saw during the pandemic in early spring of 2020. Which is still terrible because that's way less than half the volume I see in a normal year. Just my anecdotal from the past 13+ years.

5.3 to 5.5 mpg pulling a reefer is lighting a match to some serious amounts of cash. You can easily get 7 without hardly trying, most people get much better than that. I like old style trucks too but they are way obsolete for typical freight. Fuel isn't ever going to get any cheaper, won't matter who is the president either. Regulations are making sure of that and they're not going away, they're getting worse.

 

I Was thinking it might go down faster in this market. If I was trying to get out of that truck I would make a quick exit at this point and not worry about the 10K.

 

Once past break in the should be doing a little better. Have not heard him complain at all about it though so gonna guess they are doing just fine.

 

Is the only way they get 7-8 mpg with the 455 hp ? What if you put a 585 Cummins in one of them ?

285 mack
455 3406E
600/2050 C-15
those 3 engines take me back 40 years. I’ll not go backwards to a 455 .

 

I feel pretty confident my 389s aren’t going to plummet in value like a Cascadia or Volvo will in this market.

And what the heck on APUs. I called to see if they were available and the price. They are available and I got quoted $15.5K. Last July I paid $13K. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but that ROI for an APU needs to reran to see if it’s worth it at that price.

 

I have a 510 and I’m at 7.19 lifetime on paper.

 

I have D13 500 HP with 12sp and average 7.9 so far on the truck. Will keep going up as now it is broke in, Volvo normally breaks in at around 60K.

 

Just transfer the APU to the other truck. Include that in the trade so you don't eat it.

 

It’s a little ghetto perhaps, but a 300 dollar air conditioner and a 800 dollar generator does just fine. And a webasto heater for the winter.