Financing a Truck and My Experience

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(09-07-2017 )Longshot Wrote:  ...
I found a Cummins document about how to get the best gas mileage
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You ARE LISTENING TO THE WRONG SOURCE ABOUT EFFICIENCY!!! <-- this Point directly towards someone who has never driven a truck for any length of time and has no clue!.

Here is some better ones...

* Chapter 7 and 8 in my book + ...

* This info: http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?t...0#pid17230

* and : http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?t...3#pid13433

* and to put my money where my mouth is... http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?t...83#pid6383

* there is a LOT of information on this forum about driving for best efficiency and profit. The manufacturers are spewing out cookie-cutter bullshit that the fleets want to hear is all when it comes to that subject.

(09-07-2017 )Longshot Wrote:  We will follow a rigid maintenance regimen that includes routine replacement of parts at manufacturer recommended intervals. Thoughts on that one? What would you'all think of replacing NOX sensors at 200K miles for example?

Read the maintenence chapter in my book and build your own maint. schedule from it based on the example it has in there. The DOT REQUIRES YOU KEEP GOOD MAINTENANCE RECORDS BEYOND JUST RECIEPTS! and filling out printed maint schedule regularly and performing inspections is important. Every truck is different, so you will have to come up with your own, and if you start pricing parts and such based on that schedule, you will get a ballpark of how much to keep towards it.
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low flow air filter
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maybe a Bully Dog
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Use the factory air filter. Those after-market kinds will gain you nothing and the "washable" kind are downright damaging long term!.

I have seen their tuning and have copies of all the programs in that stupid over-priced engine damaging box they sell,.. IT IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE ON THE ENGINE!


STOP LISTENING TO THE IDIOTS ON TTR AND THE XM RADIO AND THOSE WHO FOILLOW THEM!!1--- YOU ARE BEING FLODDED WITH BUSST$IT AND MORE BULLSH$IT!!! -- It is painfully obvious at this point that you really really don't have a good handle on what you are doing and are over-planning everything like some paranoid pot-smoker or something.

My advice --- Jump in that truck and ruin it for about 3 years BEFORE spewing all that stuff onto others about how well your plan is going to work.