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Originally Posted by Bigmon
Merrick....there is always the debate of new truck vs older one. Since you have many of the new ones what has been your experience with the EGR/DPF that everyone complains about.
Honestly, I don't pay much attention to it as they aren't my trucks ( I lease them) and we just call the Ryder helpline with breakdowns. With that said, we having a ton of trouble with so many sensors I can't even name them all. I never hear anything about the EGR anymore. That was a huge problem when they first came out. The big problem now is something to do with the regen. Ryder is not being trained properly on these things and they just found out that you have to clean the regen filter or some filter with regard to the regen.
If I were just starting out, I don't think I would buy a new truck. I had a long talk with one of the drivers today. He wants to basically do what I did. I told him I don't think I would redo this. I also told him that that was my opinion and he does have a great attitude and work ethic but a lot in life is timing. I got into this just as everything went downhill. I had freight out of Florida throughout the whole downturn. I could get insurance which I don't think I could do in South Florida today. Then I switched to Ryder when they had so many trucks sitting they had special pricing to entice people to get the trucks off the lot. A lot of this so called success was just due to timing and luck.
This is a brutal business even if you do make money.