Schaffers is a boutique oil sold at boutique prices. No matter what buying bulk won’t get you to a price point most large fleets would pay. Why spend money on something with absolutely no return to the company for money spent. It’s wasted profits. Now is there a small guy with a small fleet that’s obsessed with oils and spends the extra money on a boutique oil??? Probably somewhere. You won’t find companies and municipalities with fleets buying overpriced boutique oils.
I live and operate in the real world of business to make a profit. Diesel tow trucks are my livelihood and my full service auto shop. I maintain not only my fleet of vehicles, private customers with fleets but city and county fleets including police, ambulance and school busses. Not a single one of these vehicles has what you would consider a brand name fluid be it oil, trans, brakes, hydraulics or power steering.
For years my bulk oil was Mag1. Recently we changed to mostly Purus oils—cheaper and better deal. We use the cheapest jobber filters And parts meeting OEM spec. The kids in this county ride to school on these fluids and the police drive cars on these fluids. They vehicles idle, get abused, run hard and put away wet and go literally 100s of thousands of miles. In 24 years of business I haven’t had a single engine failure attributed to bulk, no name oils and filters. Not one.
schaffers is a COMPLETE waste of money. There isn’t anything or anyway to prove you actually benefit from high dollar fluids and filters. You won’t find police cars, busses ect ect running Fram Ultras And Mobile 1 filters. Mostly I use whatever jobber filter is cheapest to buy in bulk but more often than not it’s been Fram jobbers and somtimes orange cans...but I’ve used all brands. The manager at a local Autozone Just hooked me up with 150 STP10890 extended life’s for $2.50 each. That’s a good deal. Will be the first “premium” oil filter to ever go on my tow trucks.