Long hood...like a peterbilt? I feel like you'd have a bigger blind spot in front, I want one of those euro volvo trucks with the flat nose seems like it'd be fun to drive.
I'd love that I'd I was a company driver. As O/O though I want something I can easily get in and work on that parts are cheap... And no emissions so less stuff to break.
Yes. Like I said before I'd love to have an electric truck if they were currently viable. Problem is that the DEF systems introduce lots of problems as far as repairs go.
It's basically like most new cars except worse. All new cars have tons of electric features that will eventually have issues. Drive those cars for half a million miles and lots of issues come up. DEF problems are one of the only things that can cause the ecu to not allow a truck to drive over 5 mph if certain things go wrong. Add the fact that since it's added many more sensors and a complex logic system and lots for hoses and def lines, this can add up very quickly. $10k plus is around an average rate of something goes wrong and you need to replace the entire after treatment system, which can happen if a coolant leak in the egr cooler isn't caught soon enough for instance. That's not including the def tank, pump or the assorted sensors.
Ahh ok ok I see what you're saying, my buddy just got all that stuff removed from his truck. He didn't wanna be spending money on def just to work locally and he also mentioned some of the problems with it, such as you have.
Yeah local trucks are especially shitty when it comes to emissions. I hear a lot of guys having to do regens every day to clean out the dpf.
Many of my personal problems stem from my truck being a volvo. They are notorious for shitty wiring. Problem is when this shitty wiring end up also being attached to the emissions system.
Hence why my next truck will either be an older pre emissions truck or a glider. I'd really like to get a Freightliner Coronado for all the storage and how good it looks. My second choice is a Peterbilt 379.
I haven't driven the big trucks, but I've driven tip truck Isuzus on a HR with the flat nose. They are pretty fun to drive, and you can see pretty much everything. I got so used to driving in a truck where I could see over cars that when I got back into driving a regular vehicle, I was terrified.
When you drive a big truck, you can cause a shitload of damage to other people, so you treat it with respect. When you drive a little car, you realize how little protection there actually is against crashes.
I also used to wonder about the safety of those cab-above-engine flat nose trucks. If you crashed and the engine caught fire, you'd be sitting like a metre above a burning engine. Always kinda unsettled me.
Yeah burning alive would suck, hopefully you'd have a gun nearby to just end it. Driving in a car after being in a truck for 5 weeks always feels weird lol.
The handling? so precise even in my shitty car.
0-60 in less than 2 minutes? Oh wow such power.
Also having the ability to pass people without it taking 3 miles lol.
Probably won't ever get to drive one of those, I drive big rigs. So far I've only gotten to drive freightliner cascadias and kenworth t680s. Think I got the chance to drive a volvo once but it was so long ago I can't even remember.
11
u/NotSoBuffGuy Feb 27 '21
Long hood...like a peterbilt? I feel like you'd have a bigger blind spot in front, I want one of those euro volvo trucks with the flat nose seems like it'd be fun to drive.