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Originally Posted By: Gokhan . Thanks for the informative post. We are doing a UOA on every single truck and we are going to adjust our schedules accordingly. Curious to your thoughts on oil bypass filtration and/or synthetic oil? We were considering testing it out, but given our high level...

Originally Posted By: Ramblejam Originally Posted By: KenO Are you sure these trucks can't be built with an auxiliary engine powering the shredders? It really seems like that would fix this problem entirely. Vecoplan VST-42e, if you have access to three-phase industrial power. Not really...

One other question...given the problems caused by Diesel emissions standards, should we consider gasoline for our small box trucks? We buy diesel Isuzu cab over box trucks. We have so far only bought used, specifically pre-emissions. But at this point, buying pre-emissions is getting tough...

After reading everything, I think we are going to focus more on the cooling aspects. We have been getting oil changes every 3 months, which works out to about 400-500 hours...which is about right. We are going to do analysis on the oil starting with the next oil changes to see if we need to...

Originally Posted By: TiredTrucker This is why I got a pre-egr engine in my 2013 Freightliner I bought last year. I didn't want the hassle of the newer engine, both the additional cost of it and the cost to modify it, nor did I want the hassles from the EPA or dealer. How do you go about...

Originally Posted By: KenO Here's one - do you NEED trucks with diesel engines? Will a gasoline engine perform this task? What about a truck with a separate engine powering the shredding unit, like how reefer units have their own separate diesel engine?? Shredding trucks are very specialized...

Originally Posted By: roadrunner1 The international MaxxForce engines of that vintage were known to have very poor DPF systems, so bad that International has done away with that system entirely and went with a DEF system similar to what everyone else is using. The only thing i can advise at...

Originally Posted By: roadrunner1 At a 40 hr. work-week with 3 month intervals you would be just over the 500 hrs. interval, not really enough to cause catastrophic engine failure. Going out on a limb here I am going to guess the DPF is causing your issue by fuel dilution with the rod through...

Originally Posted By: KD0AXS At my work, we have a fleet of Internationals and KWs, all 26,000 GVWR. Our mechanics try to change the oil at 10K miles, but they usually end up going to around 12K which ends up being around 400 hours. (Average roughly 30 miles per hour) This is on cheap bulk...

Originally Posted By: dnewton3 Yes - these engines have well over the equivilant of one-million miles on them. I'd say you're not getting cheated by any means. Let's just make a moderate assumption that the driving wear is roughly equivilant to the stationary PTO wear; we have to start...

Originally Posted By: satinsilver I would have told them to SHRED the bill. lmao Originally Posted By: Miller88 Are they leased trucks? All owned Originally Posted By: Turk What type of oil are these running on?? Conventional Delo Originally Posted By: zzyzzx You had to rebuild an...

Originally Posted By: millerbl00 12,017 hours is well past the limit for most engines. Here are the exact numbers on the engines we just had to rebuild/replace. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought it was. 2010 International 4400 Maxxforce 285hp 113k miles, 8800 truck hours Threw a rod, full...

Wow, thanks for noticing my error. I had my numbers transposed. We average 11-14 miles per truck hour. Big difference. For instance, my 2008 Sterling Acterra has 131k miles, 12,017 truck hours.

Thanks guys, I'll get all the detailed engine info shortly. Unfortunately, I'm a sales guy who started a trucking company. So while I'm very good at growing a business, my trucks are suffering due to my lack of knowledge. I've learned a lot since I've started, but my knowledge is still a drop...

I run a medium sized shredding company. We have 10 mobile shredding trucks that drive around town shredding paper. They idle and run PTO a LOT. The problem is that the trucks do not seem to last. We do all regular maintenance based on miles...I am starting to think that this is the problem. We...