Bullheaded

Solved my emissions issues. Just got home from picking up my new ride. I forgot how glorious mechanical motors are to drive! So between this and the 2013 Star, I know which one I'll be using most. Just gotta do a bit of body work where it has been dented in a few spots, some paint and good to go. Plastic wrap is still over all the interior, never been taken off. All the headliner, bunk walls, etc. Only the driver seat bottom cushion and the steering wheel are wore.

Imagine trying to hire drivers today that can even drive a Duplex! LOL.

I feel your pain. I just idled my derated Star into the dealer at 3am the other morning. And as if these new engines aren't bad enough....this time the problem was $1800 worth of wire harnesses that the dealer has been poking a test light into and now they are all rotten and failing. Then I finally find out why this truck has been a lemon all along. It's what they called a "hybrid bastard lemon" It was built with a mix of old and new emission system on this DD15. They had a hell of a time even trying to find the proper replacement harnesses for it.

I had wondered what happened to this company. I wasn't sure if they were still around. I had heard the first announcement, then it went quiet and I haven't seen a finished truck over the last few years. I'd like to see them successful too, but with the government now trying even harder to get rid of gliders again, it's going to be a hard road for them.

Lane Departure Protection. Seems every Volvo and Cascadia I meet on the highway needs this. Along with an arm that comes down and smacks the driver upside the head.

I sure hope the Teamsters succeed. Foreigners are taking over everything here, running businesses into the ground, go bankrupt, then our idiot government gives them more money to buy something else and do it again. And then there's the new breed of truck drivers on the highway. I drove to town the other night to go haul snow and I had to pass 4 transports in 4 different spots on the Trans Canada Highway. It was snowing out but not enough to affect visibility and they were all doing 40 KPH (25 MPH). It was dark out.....such treacherous conditions! LOL. And the highway was heavily salted so you could see all the lines on the road....yet NOT ONE of those transports was on their side of the center line. How do these idiots make it across the country?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's beyond pathetic out there now.

Well my truck is down again with emission system failure. Shut down last night. So again I asked my tech if it's time to delete and he told me don't do it. Apparently (at least here in Canada) he said they have new testing equipment on the way that measures every thing, even the NOX sensors and he told me everyone will be getting caught. So true or scare tactic I don't know? What I can't understand is why everyone in the industry hasn't filed a law suit against the government for forcing all this crap on us that is putting businesses bankrupt. If thye want to force this crap on us, then they should be forced to warranty it for the life of the vehicle.

Another great truck with a horribly failed marketing.

I like them. Both versions. I would buy that before I buy another HD pickup.

WHAAAAAAT!! This is like me and all my friends ending up with each others women, LOL. Let's think about this for a minute. (this is a highly simplified version, so before you nit-pick what I'm saying) Ford and International got together to make medium duty trucks and share engines. Then they had a falling out and split. So along comes VW to buy International, and Chev to team up to build new trucks to compete with Ford. Now Ford is back in the family? I'm confused, LOL. https://www.powernationtv.com/post/a-ford-volkswagen-alliance-could-be-confirmed-as-soon-as-next-week I wonder if this is really true? Anyone have any other details?

https://www.trucknews.com/transportation/historically-large-load-hits-alberta-highways/1003089376/ Another big move by Mammoet.

Ya, Freightliner recently after the Maxxforce scare. But before that it was all International, in the class 8's also. FL was #2 at one point in time. But people are slowly regaining confidence in international, as their annual revenue and profits are starting to gain with each year again. I'm a Ford guy and I think the F650/750 has the nicest interior of all the medium duties, but I'd still buy the international/Chev. Nice interior don't pay the bills.

Don't matter what GM has done in the past, International has OWNED the medium duty market for many years. And this truck is better and has a better engine than the Terrastar it is replacing, so their market share will only get better. This truck is going to be a win-win for both companies.

Nice pics. That last one is something I know....pulling the Morbark horizontal grinder around. Nice truck. Does the shorter wheelbase affect your allowable gross weight like it does here? Where I am here you get punished for not having a stupid long truck.

I'd love to see the winch tractor finished. Nice pics, thanks for posting. You don't get to see those every day.

Wow, that is awesome. Getting restored I hope?

Diesel Spec says they got it figured out but every ISX Cummins they have deleted and programmed around here has blown up. Beware. There are better people out there doing deletes.

You did a big build there Swishy. Nice job! What kind of work do you do with it? I see you have a winch on it.

Volvo Mack has already lost their heavy haul customers. No trucks and no engines. Damage is done. They didn't even want to try and compete with the North American Titan. It was a great truck but way overpriced and no "real" sleeper options.

No? How about all the Rawhides. I see lots of Pinnacle setbacks with them too. https://www.nortrux.com/index.php?area_id=1001&page_id=1098&page_element_id=68&item_id=558&LIMIT68=20#element68

I like the previous version better. Don't like that new dog bone grill and that high rise sleeper looks odd. I guess no more side stacks? Guess they don't want to leave us one classic look truck.

Those are beautiful! I ran a 1988. If I was still in it, I would probably still kinda enjoy trucking. Well, at least I'd enjoy driving the truck, LOL

Nice. Nothing better than old Mack's and farms.

My friend sent me some old dealer adds with Superliners in them. And I commented how you always saw more 6 cylinder Superliners on lots than V8's. I driven many V8's but never owned one. So I'm wondering, how much more was a V8 over an E6 350? Was it like the same kind of jump you pay now to go from 1650 to 1850 to 2050 torque?

So many times I've seen guys come into our local steel mill and load coils without even having coil bunks on the deck. And I'm talking bigger coils than those. Luckily there is always a steel mill employee that catches them and makes them off load. Always enjoy your pics of the week Other Dog. Always entertaining, LOL.