Bullheaded

What kind of work do you do? How was yours as far as regens? My 2013 DD15 was plagued with parked regens. It couldn't go 8 hours without a regen. And all kinds of DEF system problems. Only time it was any good was when I was pulling the pony grossing 140,000 pounds on the highway. It did not like dump truck duty....especially hauling light snow loads in the winter. I know they have made changes to these new ones. One thing is they no longer use air to purge the DEF system. It is all electric pumps now. And this one has smaller diameter exhaust piping under the cab and it is all insulated now.

I haven't had time to get real scientific data. And of coarse this one has no miles or hours on it yet either. But as far as trip average I could have got as high as 6.4 MPG on this trip and this time I got 5.4. And it is using 2.5 gallons of DEF per day. The DD15 would light up quicker after a shift with that compound turbo it had, whereas this one has a bit of turbo lag, but it will pull from 900 RPM and pull harder than the 15 once it spools up. And it shows a little over 5 PSI more peak boost on the gauges. I'm usually right in the 5.3 MPG average range. Except when I am pulling the pony. Then it's 2.4 in the winter, LOL. Like I said....I don't track it dead on. For the work I do, it is what it is. Lots of on/off road, lots of low speed work, lots of PTO time. Hard to get good fuel mileage.

There not much of anything better than an R Model, LOL

You can get 16 front and 46 rears for sure. That's what the above truck has. Actually you can get 69,000 tri-drive also. I have pics of that posted in this forum somewhere also.

Had to get her dirty. First week of work, so far so good. The first week with the blue 2013 I could fill a whole book with the issues it had. I do find this DD13 505 louder in the cab and harder on fuel than the DD15 505 and the ISX600 we had. But it will easily outpull the DD15 505 because it has more torque. And the kind of scenery that makes you kinda like trucking. I just wish the Mack Granite 505/M-Drive would have loaded closer behind me so we could have seen how they compared on the 10% grades.

What are you spec'ing the day cab tractor for 41chevy? The Anthem is getting popular around here now for live bottom and wood chip haulers. Here is one I took a pic of last year I have posted in the forum here somewhere.

It was 1993 then. I couldn't remember. My old R Model was built there. I remember going buy the plant when they were still operating and you could see from the highway a line of big M Series off road haulers, CL350 ST loggers and RD800's. What a sight! I wish I had pics of that. I would love to see that again. I only have the vision in my little pea brain, LOL.

Oakville was still going when the CH came out? I didn't realize that.

I posted pics of a brand new DMM tandem steer mixer when they first came out. Well that same local cement company had one of these Construcktors as their block truck for many years. I never did get a picture of it.

Wow, nice job on that dash panel! I like that.

I once read somewhere (I think it was on the ATHS site) someone said the White was more of an assembly line mass produced truck whereas the Autocar was hand built. I didn't know if that was true or not? I'd gladly take either one now! LOL.

Well, I just got another new Star, so they got about 5 years to get it all sorted out, LOL. I am still very interested to see more.

Don't know why my reply never showed from right after you posted this? But anyway, I love these. Was there a big difference between these and their Autocar brother?

Well I don't know how they compare build wise, but Western Star will still build you anything you want. I had a TON of build quality issues with my 2013, but my new 2020 is way better. And I've also talked to KW owners here that had bad ones also. But that's one thing about Star. You want a 6900 with a sheet metal hood, twin steer, all wheel drive with a big high rise sleeper? Sure. Want a Detroit? Yep. Want a Cummins? Yep Want planetary axles? Sure. I've just never been a big Peterbilt fan. Probably just because every owner op with a show truck had one and they all do the same look to them. There's only so many 300 inch wheelbase Pete's with bumpers dragging the ground, huge drop visors and wood stove chimneys for exhaust that I can stand looking at, LOL. I like the small cab KW's....but not the current dash.

Ya, at least the wood grain they used in the old trucks, even up to my 2005 International's was good quality. But the stuff Freightliner and Western Star has been using since 2005......you can't even look at it without it scratching. I use the special soft dust clothes, and a feather duster and my new 2020 dash already has fine scratches you can see when the sun is on it. Pretty sad for what you pay for these things.

Dirtymilkman....I don't have any interior pics of the CL's I drove. Does yours have that kind of console on the roof with the stereo speakers and lights in it? can you post a pic of that some time? I loved that red Elite interior. Especially the nice touches like the bulldogs embroidered in the seats.

I also think it is abuse mostly. Because every used truck and even new company trucks I see have trashed interiors. Every truck I've ever had and got rid of looked like brand new inside. My point is, some people take care of their stuff, like Dirtymilkman, and most just don't care. I've ran a few CL's with that exact interior and I never had anything coming apart in them like that. And I work on and off road.

Not sure if I understand what you mean....but they didn't get back into graders. They bought Champion, kept the name for a bit then changed everything to Volvo, Then 2 or 3 years ago? they sold all grader rights to SDLH (or some letter combination like that....I don't follow that junk) and they didn't even use any of the modern design. The grader that I did see that they came our with looked like something from the 70's. Big square engine hood and crappy visibility. Everyone around here switched to a mix of Cat and Deere graders. But most seem to prefer Deere because Cat is having issues with moldboard flex.

Yep. The truck was awesome. Still one of the quietest, best riding, best steering trucks I ever drove.

Yes, ERB has been a long time International customer and does much of the development work for Navistar in Canada. They were very instrumental in the development of the Prostar.

Volvo sure does some odd moves. Besides ending Mack's heavy haul models and big bore engines, the one I really can't figure out is when they bought Champion Motor Grader. Then they plastered all over their web sit for years that THEY invented everything Champion pioneered. Then one day they just decided, lets get out of the motor grader business and sell it off to a Chinese company. Then keep saying they want to be in the heavy construction equipment business. Meanwhile every municipality and township and highways department around here had multiple Champion/Volvo graders that get updated every couple years. Every logging road you go down has a Champion/Volvo sitting on it. And yet they say there were no sales, so they got out??? So now every construction company has moved to Deere or Cat where they can get a full line of equipment.

I liked the updated version of this dash that came later. It had chrome ringed gauges and they were flush with the wood grain. See how mine are inset? And this truck was bought off the lot so I didn't get the Co-Pilot display which would have been nice. I did add an air filter restriction gauge though by the parking brake valves. I was hauling wood chips at the time.

I liked and drove both style dash. The nice thing about the early original CH/CL dash was it was real wood grain. Not the fake plastic every other truck now is. That original CL Elite red velour interior was one of my favorites. This was what my 2000 CH had.

Yes. That lightning bolt on the dash caused me and the dealer fits. Could never get it resolved. Come to find out only a couple years ago that it was just a bad mass ground. And the casting sand issue. I went through 5 air compressors and air dryers before they got that all cleaned out. But when it ran, it ran awesome.

I agree. Mine never got to that point. I was very careful about cleaning them. And I only had it until 2002 when all the engine issues turned it into a brand new 9900i, LOL. (which had horrible headlight power, but went 1.5 million KM problem free.) Sad part is, I loved these Mack's and now all those ongoing E7 engine problems and electronic malfunctions are now all easy fixes.