Why don't more companies buy gliders

Fuel emissions technology

 

FET is Federal Excise Tax. It is applied to every new truck that is bought in the US.

A glider is exempt (supposed to be) from that tax because the drive train is supposed to be moved from an older truck to that new chassis, allowing the owners to continue to use something that works for them.

 

Never thought of the excise tax... ####

 

The Schneider gliders were built in 2013

A glider uses rebuilt drivetrain, including axles, transmission, and engine. Or old used parts if building it yourself to get a new title.

 

No but that wasn't the purpose of the exemption when it was created, it was to use the old engine and drive train because the body wore out before the engine.

Beside at that time no one heard of a truck lasting 1 million miles as the norm.

 

I saw 2 trucks dead on the side of the road early this morning going up the north bound grapevine that blew engines leaving an oil trail. (They both had to roll back into their graves) Both were obviously very old trucks from what one could gather in the dark.

They pushed their luck a bit too long.

 

2013 was the last "model year" schneider "bought" gliders. There are no gliders left in the company fleet.

One of the big reasons Schneider stopped acquiring and then quickly sold off the gliders is they cannot have crash mitigation devices. Say what you will about Onguard and Wingman (and I can say plenty), you can't argue with results. Hard brakes down 50%, rear ends/rollovers down 75%. In 2015, the year it was decided that all equipment would have a CMD, the only rear end accidents we had were in trucks not equipped with Ongaurd.

Even for a mid sized, midwest only fleet, CMD is a good investment from a risk management prospective.

 

That auto braking sucks. Schneider don't even use any more. And they are still selling the 2013 gliders. Even though Clark power built the engines who wants to buy a 2013 glider for $40k or more with 400,000 or more miles that had oil changes every 30,000 miles or more.