Hey now... there's no need to tell everyone that little secret. I bought a '96 IH 9400 a couple years ago; got it for scrap price. N14, 13 speed, air ride... drives like a dream, stops quick and it's got power to burn. IT's heavy and not the perfect spec for a straight truck by any means... but there is no way in he!l I'd go back to running a gas job with hydraulic brakes. This thing costs soooooooooooooo much less to run. Yes, I need a CDL, but this truck costs less on an annual basis to licence and insure than the 1 ton we had before andthe one ton used to cost us half as much a year in repairs as this Eagle cost to buy. There's always nic nacs with headlights on this thing; it is an IH afterall. Gotta put slacks on it now... new set of drives last fall, the off chamber or diaphram... etc. I do all my own work on it though so it doesn't cost much to maintain. The trick is to find one that still has some running left in it rather than one that's all used up. If I can find a heavy front with double steering boxes for this thing and stick a set oif super singles up front then she'll be set up the way I want and scale her full 27,5 legally.... instead of what I'm doing now.
I think in most cases staying with old gas trucks is either nostalgia or a mental block about CDL's. IT's not that big of a deal.
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