What is the most reliable truck

It all depends what you are running, where you are running it, and the biggest one is WHO IS DRIVING IT. Most experts on here will need more information to help you.

 

Since you are new to industry - there is great news: it really don't matter what trucks you are going to buy because all the other things you also have no idea about will have way bigger impact over you almost unavoidable failure.

 

Well said californiaovernight. This business has more in and outs than you could ever believe and the chances of a newbie making it at what you are saying are slim.

 

Well I am not going to be pessimistic & tell you, you are going to fail. I am going to just try & answer your question. in MY opinion. detroit engines are more reliable. better m.p.g. parts & labor are less expensive & more available. but as far as driver satisfaction. most love the large car's pete's. kw's, e.t.c. A good compromise, if your buying new would be to go with a glider from fitzgerald. then you could have a new pete with the detroit engine.

 

the freightbrokers don't care about you or anyone else for that matter; which is why they dont know about trucks. there job is to move the frieght as cheap as possible. they could care less if your just starting out or if you have been at it for years.


as for a truck, your gonna be pulling reefer through alot of flat open country, so theres gonna be alot of wind resistance...something like a century would probably be good i guess? there are alot of determining factors, i used to run an 03 century with a 430 detroit, my 95 pete with a 550 cat does about 1.5mpg better on fuel and i haul heavier. as for motors for each there own...i personally would go with a cat because of the wide variety or ecm and parts changes you can do to them for a little extra money and get alot more bang for your buck in the mpg department...but those are just a few factors and as stated previously...there are many many many more factors that have to be put into play in making a decision. but it all comes down to personal preference, so people do better with different types of equiptment so an answer here is going to be hard to come by

 

If I was still giving you a slight chance of surviving after you first post it was only because I didn't know much enough about your plan. Now, when you posted again - its clear that you have no chances at all.

If you wanna learn about trucking on some internet forum right when you starting buying equipment you are off a bit. Not trying to discourage you, we all need entrepreneurs who want to work on their own instead of collecting unemployment. What we don't need is another loser who lost everything because was being ignorant little prick who thought he is so ##-king bright just because others are too dumb and don't haul for themselves. Misfits like that end up hauling for peanuts right in the first year of operation and are deceased soon after because there is no freight and there will be even less of it

 

If I were you I would stay away from a Volvo......they are expensive to fix.
I've personally never driven one but have heard they ride nice, but are very expensive when things break down.

Running Iowa to Texas is a cake walk no major hills on anything like that to pull your MPG down. Running a freight liner as long as the engine and everything is set up properly you'll have good MPG.

Another thing that you have to understand about trucks is the driver is important to fuel mileage as well.....if you have a guy that puts his foot into it all the time and runs full bore you mileage is gonna suffer. Also the transmission is important too. Most experienced drivers prefer a 13 but many of today's drivers barely know how to properly shift a 10 speed.