Weighting the good and bad?

My 2000 classic xl was an excellent truck. Wish I had the space to keep it. Still going down the road today. *2nd truck* s60.

My 2009 w9 was a boat anchor. Well, the engine was. Almost bankrupted me. *first truck* c15 sdp

My 2016 389 is so far a good unit. Not the best fuel economy, but comfortable, a nice truck to drive. *3rd/current truck* isx cm2350

That help?

 

I don't know. It's red tho...

 

Most of my trucks were bad. It's me who was good with all the workarounds. It's tough to be the idiot newbie handed broken down trucks.

Fast forward many years. There was a T2000 that did excellent. For KW, the quality was in that particular rig, a 2000 model. It was a bit stiff when you tried to do certain slow speed stuff, but eh. Had a 2001 century in which it ran well enough as a team truck most of the year (221,000 miles with three alternators replaced, two bricked Autos needing tow and one failed steer tire sidewall) everything important like clutch, brakes and tires pretty much were original when we turned it back into FFE in pretty good life left on them. That's one claim to fame anyway. We got it at 16 miles on the ODO.

However, there was a Mack dump superliner 500 which is probably in storage on the family farm near the Mason Dixon line to this day that will probably still run well. That would be the one truck I would pick if I had to choose just one truck.

Another was a freightliner COE with a massive 500+ detriot and ungoverned and essentially unlimited until your fuel pump is cut off at 116. You could and did stay at 130+ using momentum in the rolling hills out in the midwest. Mountains were not relevant. Hit em at 121 and still pulling at 80 a few miles later over the top loaded.

Im glad that the truck and company no longer is in business. We were a pretty outlaw bunch. Nothing was acceptable unless it was ontime regardless of what you did on your own time. HOS had no meaning. It's amazing that a vehicle with a areodynamics of a house managed to turn in that kind of performance. It's easier to say that it was always in the shop after being abused and beat on so much. Just as well.