Originally Posted by George7941
We ended up buying a 2017 Freightliner
https://www.rbauction.com/2017-frei...amp;id=ci&auction=toronto-on-2020188
Online auction and bought sight unseen. Pretty much bought it on price alone, which was right at $11500. A bit of a gamble.
Weird one though, I have not figured it out. A light truck, with a 16' box and 17.5k rear axle, yet it has a large (ISL) engine. Only 6400 hrs (listing does say not verified) and 465k kms, so highway use and not a vocational truck. The inside of the box is clean and unmolested. What kind of use would call for this large an engine? Even the ISC would be a large engine for this light a truck.
We plan on mounting a 20 ft box on it.
Pretty normal for that chassis, lots of engine options. We have two of that body style, one of the older, but we have much larger boxes and much longer frames. The old girl has a non-emissions CAT, the other two, the 2008 has a Mercedes, the 2011 has an ISC. I'm not a big fan of them, they experience a lot of electrical wonkiness, HVAC issues...etc.
When we were shopping for a replacement we looked at Hino, Freighliner, International and Kenworth. A good friend of mine, and HD diesel mechanic who has worked for the last three extensively, implored us to try out the Kenworth indicating that in his experience they were the least maintenance hungry and best constructed. It was by far the nicest truck, and quite cost-competitive, so that's the route we ended up going.
Hopefully you guys have good luck with yours! Ours sit a fair bit, the frames rust like crazy, so for the last several years we've had the local Rust Check guy come by and spray them and that's helped massively.