Freightliner Pulling Machine- What Can You Tell Me About It?

[Diamondpilot]

Big trucks, big maintenance. Price out things like tires, oil changes, air filters, and batteries alone. Heck, my F350 cost 50% more per mile when compared to my Nissan Titan even though the F350 gets 17 mpg vs 14 mpg for the Titan.

Chris

 

[QRTRHRS]

Big trucks, big maintenance. Price out things like tires, oil changes, air filters, and batteries alone. Heck, my F350 cost 50% more per mile when compared to my Nissan Titan even though the F350 gets 17 mpg vs 14 mpg for the Titan.

Chris

Uh huh. Maybe 20 quarts of oil, filters pricey but less than Ford oem, 30 qts of coolant, double air filter will run 100 bucks. Get stuck on "snot" even with a locking rear, pricey injectors. On the other hand, way up on the cool factor.

Looks like the listing is on horsetrailerworld. Always plenty of Freightliners on there so there are plenty of comparisons for pricing.

 

[powerstroke444e]

Have a friend with a frieght liner that's all tricked out, for his race car hauler and it rides better than my 3500 or f450 and it pulls nice. As a plus he gets 8mpg loaded which seems good for the size of trailer its a double stack with sleeping room.
Just wish I had reason to have they are nice.

 

[daybreak1998]

Howdy,

Frieghtliner's are nice. It has a lot more pulling power Light Duty trucks. I looked at all the other options out there. The best way is to buy something in the medium duty class truck.

FL60
Cat 3126B 275hp 6 speed

 

[tlbuser]

Big trucks, big maintenance. Price out things like tires, oil changes, air filters, and batteries alone. Heck, my F350 cost 50% more per mile when compared to my Nissan Titan even though the F350 gets 17 mpg vs 14 mpg for the Titan.

Chris

And how many PTO options do either one offer?

 

[tlbuser]

Maybe 20 quarts of oil, filters pricey but less than Ford oem, 30 qts of coolant, double air filter will run 100 bucks.

The ambulances we have use 36 qts.of antifreeze and 45 qts. of oil. with the aux. coolers.
A complete fluid and filter change cost less than the 450's that were replaced.

 

[tcartwri]

Howdy,

Frieghtliner's are nice. It has a lot more pulling power Light Duty trucks. I looked at all the other options out there. The best way is to buy something in the medium duty class truck.

FL60
Cat 3126B 275hp 6 speed

Any of the pickup based diesels will kill these things in a timed pulling race. Depending on the ratio in the diff they top out at 70 mph. Fuel economy is pretty comparable too. Visibility is much much better. The one thing they do better at is shielding the trailer from head wind, which is worth some fuel savings in open windy areas.

 

[Diamondpilot]

And how many PTO options do either one offer?

Ford has a pto on the Torque Shift.

Chris

 

[Big Wave D]

2. The combined weight of truck and trailer would have required me to get CDL and i just dont want to mess with that.

Have an acquaintance that has a motorcycle race team. He owns and uses a full sized, conventional semi as his transport. He has no CDL because he was able to get the proper paperwork stating that his semi is classified as an RV. Also, he doesn't go across any scales. I am pretty sure he has "Not for Hire" on the truck cab.

Something maybe you or somebody else might look in to when thinking about a rig that size.

 

[grsthegreat]

The ambulances we have use 36 qts.of antifreeze and 45 qts. of oil. with the aux. coolers.
A complete fluid and filter change cost less than the 450's that were replaced.

Holy crap...i had no idea. Their regular moving toxic waste dumps.