paccar mx13 or x15

[walterk]

"I can always get rear gears and shift points changed but the damage is already done with the lugging." This statement is somewhat misleading and could get a lot of the new guys in trouble. Unless you have your own shop, getting rear gears changed is never easy nor cheap at least in my experience. Sure, you can always do whatever you wish, it is your truck, but how financially sound is that? You could say that if the price is right you can afford to make some adjustments, but can you really?
I looked at Richie Bros Action results yesterday, and the prices on the used iron are indeed very attractive, BUT good luck finding something that I would consider a money making single owner operator truck. Most were just money pits, big fleet spec. junk that I would hesitate to take even if they were free.
Keep this in mind, I have a buddy that was an owner operator and drivers a new company truck now. He has begged his employer to change oil in his brand new freightliner for months now. They don't want to budge though, and the truck has almost 60000 miles and still runs on the original oil!!!
It breaks his heart to see the abuse, but this big fleet has a plan and they stick to it. In 3 year's time, they will turn this truck into a pile of rubble and sell it to an unsuspected buyer at a very attractive price with a warranty still in place.
Like it was said before - be picky and do your homework....