Cummins X15, what's the word?

[Rawze]

(01-12-2021 )Mav Wrote:  The trucks available all have high gears, 2.79 to 2.47.
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have driven for 2 companies that had dd13s they were junk. Wiring problems and epa problems.
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I was hoping that kind of stuff had been corrected. The X15 is new and I was just hoping cummins had corrected the catastrophic failures and untrained technicians. The truck I buy will be slip seated between myself and a hired driver so if it has problems on the road it will be taken to the dealership. Thank you this site and your time.

Sounds to me like your business plan so far kinda sucks.

If you don't start taking your issues into your won hands and lowering those costs ... and stop listening to the droves of cool-aide drinking fools that blame the equipment for all the failures they encounter at mostly their own faults due to lack of understanding that trucking any more requires a person to regularly turn a wrench and get dirty to keep after the emissions and other systems on their equipment ... then your destined to keep sending half your hard-earned profits down the drain like a lot of other folks. Last i checked, trucking rates does not pay very well for this kind of slack style of management... especially if a person is running used equipment that has more than about 250-300k miles on it. Why you think that those trucks are on the market at that mileage range? -- It is due to exactly this fact.


Having tall rears like you mentioned is the death of an isx's longevity... especially if you have hired drivers who only know how to push the accelerator hard on the bottom end of the torque range. instead of $25,000 in lost revenue and expenses every 800K - 1mil miles, you will be seeing them every 500k or less miles when the truck is geared tall like that, as the engine has to produce a whole lot more torque to push the truck around and torque is the enemy of longevity in any diesel engine.


You seem quick to blame emissions problems on those DD13's ...however I guarantee you the reason they have those issues is because of ignorance and running the equipment off to the OEM network of morons every time the CEL light plagued them... and I can likely safely bet that the company who owned them also did little to no maintenance on the emissions and egr system to go right along with it because they "had a warranty" and this is the creation of such problems for any emissions engine out there, no matter what make or brand.

If you want to own a truck, not work on it regularly and run it off to the stealers%its and have other drivers who treat it like that along side you then you should only lease your equipment,... never own it ... lease only new equipment just like the mega-fleets do, never buy used, and turn them in when they get about 300k miles on them .. the point where the emissions system will start to plague them because of all the neglect and lack of proper maintenance and no one keeping after it. .. because your business model is in for a rude awakening otherwise.

- Nothing wrong with that business model, it pays well .. but not to you unless you want to manage a bunch of trucks, along with all the headaches associated to go with it to make up for the minuscule long term profit that each truck would actually produce in that scenario. Most of the moneys made will go to losses in fuel efficiency by no-give-a s$it-drivers, the OEM networks of shops and idiots from all the CEL lights being on in half the fleet half the time, to the leasing companies your equipment is leased thru and their high interest rates, and to everyone but your own wallet at the end of the day. Get enough trucks together and drivers and maybe you start to make a profit... all while guys like me take your customers out from under you because we can take the same load for far less and keep far higher profit margin out of it because we do everything for ourselves and lower our operating expenses far below those ppl and companies who use the normal channels of thinking strategies seen in trucking.


just my thoughts on it any ways.