Anybody have a Freightliner?

Saw this and thought it was funny!---Tee

But we all know real men drive Macks!

I have a Freightliner and thin skin and I am offended. I will never be able to show my face at the grain terminal again.

I will take my freightliner and International trucks an go to the bank with the money I am saving by not buying a Peterbilt or Kenworth.

Hmmm, do I detect a recurring theme in some of these posts by some YT'ers?

this is getting political,,,no politics allowed...lol

I could gain two loads a week on the Pete and KW drivers at the grain dump. They would blow the doors on my old V-8 Mack with their big 335 Cummins until settlement time or when we came to a hill. Nobody I hauled grain with had a Fruitjuicer. The fastest truck I was ever around was a 1975 Autocar with a souped-up 335 Cummins. That thing would pull 1250 bushels like a bull up to about 78 mph.

I have a friend that has a 1,000+ HP Pete that he races with up in Quebec. There are a lot of U-Tube videos of these races where they pull two long trailers each with two loads of lumber up a steep hill. He found that he was short of HP.

I am glad I didn't tell you people I had a Volvo and a Sterling!

If you have PDSS we should all chip together and get you a Comfort Dog!--Ha-Ha--=-Tee

Maybe get him a bull dog? As in a mack!!!

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.

Those Mercedes engines that they put in the Freightliners around 2007 was a disaster and severely hurt their reputation around here.

HA HA HA, now that's funny!!

the LTL company I work for is probably 98% freightshakers with mostly DD15 with a 10 speed Eaton. I like them but the one with the Cummins are junk. Low on power and emissions problems regularly.

(quoted from post at 08:03:12 02/25/18) But we all know real men drive Macks!

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I drive a Mack dump truck from time to time. Usually a 2005 which I like. Sometimes a 2013 that I am a little nervous about. Sometimes it won't restart if you shut it off. That is not too bad, because you rarely shut a dump truck off anyway. The other thing though is that sometimes, when you stop in an intersection it won't go again. You have to shut it off, count to 10, start it up again, and then go. That makes me nervous.