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9 hours ago, Red Horse said:

Wow- I guess if I was faced with that bill I too would not be too happy.  I'm not a fan of V-8 diesels but how many of these things are on the road now??  Many thousands I would think.  And offering them in 750's up to 37,000 lb GVW with a 250,000 mile warranty is putting it on the line.

What did your dealer tell you? By the way- buddy of mine has a new GMC 2500 on order after dealing with one thing after another on his 2014 and he told me GM has a hold on all duramaxes-no reason given.

out of warranty, so didn't bother with the dealer...but everything i've heard says they will deny warranty repair even on brand new trucks with 10,000 miles and call it "fuel contamination"

3 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

Particularly compared with the problematic 6.0-litre Powerstroke (Navistar VT365 with HEUI fuel injection), the current AVL-designed 6.7 has delivered good service for most operators.

That said, I'd rather have the 6.7L Cummins ISB.

As I said before, if one could order a Ford pickup with the Cummins ISB and Allison 1000 Series transmission, you'd be good to go.

given time, i think most 6.7 fords will fail due to the fuel system. just my 2 cents. the pressure and the tolerances necessary for the emissions bulls&*t might work in a lab with perfectly clean non bio-fuel, but in the real world I don't think it does...And again I am (or was) a ford guy

And I agree 100% about the cummins with an allison in a pickup. Whoever built it would be king of the hill, hands down

ford 6.7 is JUNK. And I'm a Ford guy.  68000 miles on a 2011, needs high pressure fuel pump, and new injectors, to the tune of $9000. GM uses the same junk fuel pump. I guess there is no good choice any more with emissions 

never seen a mack city truck here...fords, sterlings, freightshakers, etc. 

kinda ugly looking

and everyone gets a participation trophy, welcome to the new America

i guess 1 of the rattletrap RDs lost 3rd and 7th gear and then started leaking trans oil faster than they could put it in...so they swapped the plates to the R and went back to work!

16 hours ago, david wild said:

Weatherford truck, slow going out to job sites, are heavy trucks get way more hours than miles, figure it out, when it takes a month to get to CA. and you run every day the hours are out of whack with the miles, that is what happens when you drive 20 miles a hour if lucky.

gotcha. we have 1 with 140k miles and 12000 hrs, and we just drive around town, thats why it seemed strange to me

says 9000 hours on the hr meter?? 83000 miles and 9000 hrs don't make sense.  lots of idle time

if you go with Fitzgeralds you can go 2 routes with the detroit. one is rebuild by Fitzgeralds, and costs a little less i think. The other is a factory detroit rebuilt and has a factory warranty you can take to any detroit dealer like inland/interstate for warrany work.  the mulch guy i haul for has 2 with the factory rebuilt and has had no problems

glider with a 6nz cat will prob run you $25k extra over a detroit

the ones I've seen, you can dig the material out with an excavator, and gently push on the floor with the bucket and it will sit back down. the ones with the draft arms backwards into the suspension of the tractor don't usually "gently" come down

I don't think Nagel ever built another Axle trailer? Did they?

Those Scanias belong to donegal exc. Yep, he's Irish. Bought EF Heil landfill by Boughton too

not many places can say that anymore

4 hours ago, TS7 said:

In 1979 and 1980 I worked on the big I-94 (Edens) rebuilding project. Most dumps were Mack (R and still a lot of B's back then). What I recall best is the everyone made good money. What has happened to the Chicago area? Pure greed did in a lot of contractors (Orange Crush) and others, but why is all this junk on the roads?

all this junk is on the road because all the big guys have figured out that they can charge $125 HR for a truck and find some dummy who thinks he is making good money @ $70 but cant buy the right bumper for his truck. So the big guys sit in the office making all the $$$ not owning any trucks...and the poor saps that run for them make NOTHING

just my 2 cents

look at this custom vision i saw at the dump today...must be a joint venture with navistar...never saw an international bumper on a mack before!

that actually looks pretty well cared for...not normal for around here

i bet that made jimmy trumbull's head explode

Couple i took today, phone works pretty good. The Console lowboy was really far away.

https://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/hvo/6198720722.html

think this one is in here somewhere...r model with the kw looking grill

Saw a AA Conte RD at vulcan in Lake Bluff today...that was pretty strange...long way from home!

if you look at google maps of A.A. Conte it looks like 37 R model tractors! I don't know when the last time they left yard was

i bet that would melt the lighter outlet in about 10 seconds!