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NW KS/ SC ID | I personally have a soft spot for Peterbilt Cabovers. IMO, they are the best cabover built, the cabs just flat hold up. They are built in an era where quality was #1.
IMO even the new Pete's are kind of a POS compared to the older ones.
I like a classy looking truck, so I would rather drive a older Pete or KW than a newer other brand.
A guy I work for part time has close to 10 older Kenworths. 1967-1979, all but 2 cabovers are all the round headlight W900A. They all haul just as good if not better than the newer ones. Any issues are just minor, this year we had 1 blown tire and one air line let go. the one year we nursed a leaking radiator on the one truck, and had a clogged vent line on the fuel tank that ran the one out of fuel.
We were trucking to town no issue while his BIL had one of his mid to late 90s Peterbilts in the shop for ECM trouble on the Cat. the BIL had to jam gears in his old late 70s early 80s GMC Astro while the Pete was down.
With ours or the guy I work for, I doubt any one truck gets more than 10K per year, so that makes a little difference if you are a 1 truck show.
IMO, if you are after a newer truck that is well built, but cant afford Pete or KW, I would look hard at a Western Star. WS is the premium division of Freightliner, and its pretty well ran with a hands off approach, FL pretty well lets WS do as they please. there are many nice Western Star's out there for some really good prices. | |
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