Sounds about right. The old Freightshakers were dang good trucks, up until all the emissions BS took effect. I haul chloride with a 2005 Freightliner all summer. It has a 500 HP C15 and a 13 speed, real good combination. It's not pulling real heavy, total of probably around 125,000 lbs. It's a great truck, runs 12-16 hours a day except weekends all summer, no problems. Then we had to buy Freighliner scraper trucks due to them being low bid, this was around 2012, they all had DEF and DPF. 450 HP DD13 engines and Allison autos. Terrible combination, combined with terrible trucks. Always something wrong with the wiring, or the emissions equipment. Constantly. Always being worked on, always letting us down when they need to be used. At least our old bulletproof Sterling's will do a day's worth of work when the Freighliners are down. We unfortunately had bought 5 of them before we learned our lesson and bought Peterbilts. I've never had bad luck with a Pete or ME, or even older Freightliner or IN trucks. Seems the problems we have at work with Freightliners are the same as my brother has at work with the newer IH trucks. It'll be a bittersweet day when our Freightliners get replaced. They'll no longer be frontline trucks we depend on, but we'll still be stuck with then as our spares, and our old reliable Sterlings will be gone.
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